Lifetime Achievement Awards winner Joe Marillo lived and performed in Las Vegas for ten years, before choosing to come to San Diego in 1973. Since then, he's performed and taught and collaborated with others so often, the tenor saxophonist has become known as the Godfather of San Diego Jazz. The list of fellow performing musicians includes Dizzy Gillespie, Art Pepper and Sonny Rollins; while his local admirers include Peter Sprague and Buddy Blue. His list of styles have run the gamut from mainstream to bebop to ballads to pop, while he also excels on the alto sax and flute. Now, of course, the San Diego Music Awards are making it official: Joe Marillo is a name synonymous with great San Diego jazz, period.

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