The Fiesta Jazz Band Festival attracts junior and senior high school jazz ensembles from Texas and neighboring states. Participants perform for criticism before a panel of renowned jazz clinicians. Trophies and awards are given for outstanding performances in various categories.

Attention, San Antonio Familia!

The 61st Annual Fiesta Jazz Festival, a St. Mary's University staple since the 1960s, kicks off on Friday, April 26, beginning at 11:00 AM. In addition to the St. Mary’s Jazz Combo and Jazz Orchestra, we will have FOUR additional area colleges and universities on the performance bill for the University Invitational. The Fiesta World Class Jazz Concert will feature the St. Mary’s Alumni Jazz Orchestra at 6:00 PM, followed by our Guest Artist, the Alyssa Allgood Quartet, at 7:15 PM.

Start planning your visit! We have dining options available throughout the day at the St. Mary's University Diamondback Cafe, Subway, and Chick-fil-A, and a cash bar becomes available at the Gold & Blue Note Jazz Club (University Center, Conference Room A) from 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM. Admission to the Fiesta Jazz Festival is FREE and open to the public. See you on Friday, April 26!

I have the distinct honor of serving as an adjudicator at the Winston Churchill High School Jazz Festival. Please come and support this festival, which will feature high school groups from the San Antonio area.

The partnership between the Jazz Standard & River Sun continues in striving to bring a new, unique, and fresh approach to the modern Jazz Club experience. On Saturday, April, 12, The Adrian Ruiz Quintet will be in action, featuring:

Adrian Ruiz: Trumpet, Flugelhorn

Gene Centeno: Soprano and Tenor Saxophones

Chris Villanueva: Keyboard

Juan Acosta: Acoustic and Electric Basses

Mike Gomez: Drums

Come and enjoy craft cocktails, craft beer, and all natural wine with live jazz at River Sun!

No cover! 21 and over.

I have the distinct honor of adjudicating at the 2024 Temple College Jazz Festival.

An entertaining and educational weekend of outstanding jazz that will bring together top professional artists, clinicians and hundreds of college, high school, and junior high musicians for clinics, competitions and great performances.

Come to the finest performing venue in Central Texas, the Mary Alice Marshall Performing Arts Center, on the campus of Temple College, and catch the excitement!

I have the distinct honor of serving as an adjudicator at the John Paul Stevens Jazz Festival. Please come and support this festival, which will feature high school groups from the San Antonio area. This year’s guest artist will be vocalist/trombonist Aubrey Logan.

Please make plans to attend the Wind Ensemble Concert in Treadaway Recital Hall on the campus of St. Mary's University on Friday, March 1, featuring members of the Unites States Air Force Band of the West, vocalist Eva Alpar, and flutist Savannah Palmer, under the direction of Dr. Matt Mireles. The concert begins at 7:30 PM and it is free and open to the public. Join us!

Please make plans to attend the Spring Jazz Concert in Treadaway Recital Hall on the campus of St. Mary's University on Thursday, February 29, featuring the Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Adrian Ruiz, and the Jazz Combo, under the direction of Mr. Bill King. We will perform selections made famous by jazz luminaries Nat Adderley, Count Basie, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, John Klenner, Henry Mayer, Jimmy McHugh, and Lee Morgan. The concert begins at 7:30 PM and it is free and open to the public. Join us!

I have the distinct honor of performing as a guest soloist with the Sandra Day O’Connor High School Jazz Ensemble on Friday, February 9, at the TMEA Convention.

It’s going to be a special night! Come on out and hear some great charts, which will feature music from the libraries of Buddy Rich, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Doc Severinsen, et al. I was commissioned to write a composition to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of O’Connor High School, and pay tribute to Wallace Dierolf, who served as the inaugural band director.

Please make plans to attend. The students have been working hard, and will put on a great show for those in attendance. The show starts at 6:30 PM, in the Henry B. González Convention Center, CC Hemisfair Ballroom 1-2.

Join us for a fantastic night of music! This performance will serve as a send-off concert (the O’Connor Jazz Ensemble is the invited high school jazz group for the 2024 Texas Music Educators Association Convention).

I will be a guest soloist this evening, and will also be premiering an original composition with the band to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of O’Connor High School.

Please join KRTU for a taping of the South Texas Jazz Project featuring The Adrian Ruiz Quintet.

RSVP REQUIRED by Thursday, January 18th!

Carver Community Cultural Center

Jo Long Theatre

January 23, 2024 at 7:00 PM

Doors open at 6:30 PM

Join KRTU, The Carver Community Cultural Center, and KLRN-PBS to celebrate a milestone in KRTU's programming - a live taping of the South Texas Jazz Project to be televised on KLRN-PBS. You and a guest can enjoy this exclusive, invitation-only performance featuring Dr. Adrian Ruiz and his quintet.

The doors to the Jo Long Theatre will open at 6:30 PM. The concert/taping will begin at 7:00 PM.

Suggested attire is Business Casual, but we invite you to express your style as you feel comfortable while appropriate for public media television.

Please RSVP by January 18th to this special occasion, as space is limited, and we'd love to have you in attendance.

Thank you for your commitment to community radio and for being an important part of KRTU's history!

I'm thrilled and honored to conduct the Region 13 Jazz Ensemble at their concert on Saturday, January 20, 2024!

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Adrian Ruiz Quintet!

Adrian Ruiz - Trumpet, Flugelhorn

Gil Del Bosque - Tenor and Soprano Saxophones

Collin Shook - Piano

Sam Pankey - Double Bass

Aaron Easley - Drums

Dr. Adrian Ruiz is active as a freelance trumpeter, performing regularly throughout the state of Texas and the Midwest. He has performed internationally at the Guatemala, Montreux, North Sea, and Taichung Jazz Festivals. He has shared the stage with many acts, including: Benny Benack III, John Clayton, Kirk Covington, Andre Hayward, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, Jason Marsalis, Butch Miles, James Moody, Joshua Redman, Maria Schneider, Clark Terry, et al. Ruiz serves as the Director of Jazz Studies at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. Ruiz received his Bachelor of Music Studies from the University of Texas at San Antonio, Master of Music from Texas State University, and Doctor of Musical Arts in Jazz Trumpet Performance from the University of Texas at Austin.

Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9 oz. cups provided! 22 free parking spaces onsite are first-come-first-serve. Doors at 7:45 P.M. Show at 8:00 P.M.

Trumpeter Adrian Ruiz has strongly established himself over the years as one of the most effective bandleaders and exciting soloists in the San Antonio and Austin scenes. His quintet, which boasts some of the area’s well-established and fastest rising talents, features Gil Del Bosque on saxophone, Chris Villanueva on piano, Sam Pankey on bass and Aaron Easley on drums. Each of these gentlemen is a creative force in his own right, but they really click as a unit, so that the music comes off as the Adrian Ruiz Quintet, rather than merely a collection of great sidemen. His most recent album features original material by the group members, ranging from the fiery and bluesy to more introspective and unexpected material.

This is a call to all jazz vocalists, horn players, guitarists, pianists, bassists and drummers. Come share your talent!

No cover! 21 and over.

Día De Los Muertos Celebration for the WHOLE family! 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Only $10.00 General Admission; $20.00 Front of Hall. Traditional food, music, dance and activity booths such as face painting, henna tattoos, flash tats and an 11-piece Mariachi Band with Grand Ole Opry performer Stephanie Urbina Jones!!!!!