A smaller but enthusiastic crowd of jazz music fans gathered to hear the locally popular 2nd Hand Jazz Band playing at the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve’s outdoor Pavilion Stage Saturday, July 20.It was the first time jazz music echoed through the rare Engelmann oak trees and woodlands on the 9,000 acre reserve, with the event’s proceeds benefiting The Nature Education Foundation’s educational youth programs centered around the preservation of nature around them.The evening was delightful from sunset to the rising of the full moon seen through the pines on the reserve. 2nd Hand Jazz vocalist Rosalie Porter mesmerized the audience with her amazing renditions of the famous Ella Fitzgerald to Cole Porter music hits and more. The band made up of Paula Arlich on piano, Dav
