2018 | 19 SEASON
SFJAZZ GALA 2018 HONORING PRESERVATION HALL. PHOTO © DON DIXON
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SFJAZZ Center concert photos in this catalog were taken by Drew Altizer, Jay Blakesberg, Scott Chernis, Ronald Davis, Bill Evans, Grason Littles, Irene Young, and Rick Swig. Cover artwork by Mark Ulriksen.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 4
Letter from Chief Executive Officer
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Letter from Executive Artistic Director
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SEASON AT A GLANCE
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SFJAZZ RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
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Feature Article: Answering the “What If?”: The SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director Program by Richard Sheinin
2018-19 SEASON 12–43
ROBERT N. MINER AUDITORIUM CONCERTS
44–53 JOE HENDERSON LAB CONCERTS MEMBERSHIP & SUPPORT 54
About SFJAZZ
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Membership
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Listening Parties
56–57 Leaders Circle 58
Legacy
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SFJAZZ Gala 2019
SFJAZZ EDUCATION 60
Family Matinee
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Ensembles
62–63 Classes 64
Community Outreach
MORE INFORMATION
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SFJAZZ Collective
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Rent the SFJAZZ Center
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Sponsors
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How to Order Tickets 3
A MESSAGE
FROM THE CEO Dear Friends of SFJAZZ, The concerts listed in this catalog represent more than a year of artistic curation, and one of the proudest moments in SFJAZZ history. I’m sure you’ll agree as you peruse page after page of opportunities to see your favorites on stage at the best jazz venue — your home for jazz — the SFJAZZ Center. If you come every week or once or twice a year, we want to remind you to look around, take in the views, the sounds, and the art itself, because the Center was built by you and stands because of your participation and financial support. The windows along Franklin Street were updated recently with hundreds of new Giant Steps members that have joined the program since the Center’s opening in 2013. We’ve also gained a new partner in the restaurant, B-Side, that was reimaged and opened just over a year ago. Thank you for all of your feedback, good wishes, and patronage. It seems more lively each night and pre-show reservations are highly recommended! Once you arrive at SFJAZZ, I hope you sense the welcome and help from our amazing cadre of volunteers and staff. They are working to make your experience better every time you step through our glass doors by improving the services they provide to get you where you want to go in the friendliest manner possible. As you’ve likely noticed, our online services at sfjazz. org have greatly improved too. Every show, every ticket you hold, stories from our pool of professional writers, playlists, and much more are all online 24/7, and you can use any device — including your smartphone or tablet — to access them. We’ll continually upgrade our technology, and part of that effort funnels into a massive expansion of our work to inspire students in the Bay Area to take an interest in the importance and fun of jazz, and potentially build a lifelong affection for the music. We are entering year two of a three-year effort to provide California-curriculum based jazz education for every middle schooler in San Francisco and Oakland public schools. This monumental program is a work of passion for the music and commitment to our “kids” in an era when arts education has been diminished or shuttered by severe cuts in school funding. We are grateful for partners like you who are fueling the next generation of jazz superstars and fans in the Bay Area. I believe in our future together and while I promise to be at as many shows as possible to thank you in person, I and the Staff, Board, and Volunteers are fulfilled by your eagerness to get the most of SFJAZZ and we look forward to hosting you throughout the 2018/19 season.
Donald W. Derheim SFJAZZ Chief Executive Officer GALACTIC PERFORMING AT SFJAZZ GALA 2018
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WELCOME TO 2018-19 SEASON
Dear Music Lovers, Welcome to our 7th Season in the SFJAZZ Center, and the 36th year of SFJAZZ. It is hard to imagine that the 3 concerts we presented in 1983 would grow to our current mix of over 400 concerts, extensive education and outreach programs, a resident/touring ensemble, the SFJAZZ Center, and over 14,000 members that support these endeavors. The support and enthusiasm of our members has been instrumental in building a thriving institution that has become a vital part of the cultural landscape of San Francisco – thank you! The music upcoming over the next nine months represents our broad point of view on jazz, the music that has influenced jazz, and music that jazz has influenced – from new voices to the masters. It is a staggering list of the finest the music has to offer. With this season I am most pleased to announce our new team of SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Directors – Laurie Anderson, Chucho Valdés, Dianne Reeves, Joe Lovano, and Marcus Shelby. Please see page 8 for more about them and the program. Also see Rich Scheinin’s in-depth article about the current and past SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Directors on page 10. This signature program, which was started with the opening of the Center, has always brought surprises. For this season, and next, we are the lucky recipients of this group’s creative will. See you at the Center and I look forward to the deeper dialogue with you all,
Randall Kline SFJAZZ Founder and Executive Artistic Director
“SFJAZZ seems to have done just about everything right in creating a state-of-the art venue for jazz.” — JAZZTIMES 5
SEPTEMBER
CÉCILE McLORIN SALVANT OPENING WEEK 9|6 -9 Cécile McLorin Salvant 9|6 -9
CHICK COREA
10|6
9|13-16 Joshua Redman:
Still Dreaming
T WO SIDE S OF S TE VEN BERNS TEIN 9|13 Sexmob Plays Fellini JHL 9|14 Sexmob Plays Ellington
10|11-14 Vicente Amigo
MTO West JHL
9|20 9|21 9|22
Hutchings JHL
10|14 Perez, Cohen, Potter
9|21 9|22 9|2 3 9|22 9|2 3
12|13–16 Joey Alexander Trio
11|17
SFJAZZ High School All-stars alum Will Magid plays Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters JHL
11|18
JACKNIFE plays Jackie Mclean's It’s Time JHL
Marquis Hill Blacktet JHL
Jane Bunnett & Maqueque JHL Katie Thiroux JHL Ladama JHL Jane Ira Bloom JHL FAMILY MATINEE Chester Thompson & Friends
Harold López-Nussa Trio
11|9 Concentric Circles 11|10 Women on the Rise:
Nikara Warren, Camila Meza, Halie Niswanger
11|23-25 Dorado Schmidt and
11|11
Kenny
11|29 RJAM Presents @SFJAZZ JHL
11|10
FAMILY MATINEE
Carlos Jobim & Original Compositions
KE YED UP I 10|18 H OTPLATE: Kev Choice
Barron, Solo
BROTHERHOOD OF THE DRUM
10|19
C ameron Graves Solo JHL
11|8-9
10|20
Christian Sands Trio JHL
11|10 -11 Sammy Miller & The
10|21
Tigran Hamasyan JHL
TR ADITIONS IN TR ANSITION 10|25 -26 Jazzmeia Horn
the Django All-Stars
11|30
Sammy Miller & The Congregation
plays Sonny Clark’s Sonny Clark Trio JHL
Mark Guiliana Two Horns JHL Congregation JHL
10|3 1
ARTISTS ON THE RISE Pascal Le Boeuf Trio w/ special guests Friction Quartet JHL
SFJAZZ RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR LAURIE ANDERSON 11|28 LISTENING PARTY 11|29 Songs for Women w/ 11|30
JHL
10|27-28 Vernon Reid's Band of
w/ Buster Williams & Lenny White JHL RJAM Presents @SFJAZZ
Duos: Regina Carter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Eddie Henderson Quintet
John Scofield Combo 66
Monday Night Band Showcase Concert
John Brothers Piano Co. plays Charles Mingus' Mingus Plays Piano JHL
10|14
10|21
SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Winter Concert
11|16
Fire in My Head (The Anxiety Suite) JHL
Tammy Hall
onnie Foster Trio R Reuben Wilson Trio
12|9 12|10
Keyon Harrold JHL
10|18-21 Music of Antônio
w/ Guest Vocalists JHL
Smith Dobson plays Thelonious Monk's Underground JHL
10|13
Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles
Brass Music of the World JHL
12|9
11|15
Joey DeFrancesco Trio
SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE
12|8
11|2–3 Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret JHL 11|4 The Ian Carey Quintet+1:
11|8
Chester Thompson Trio
Tribute to the Ladies of Hip Hop JHL
SFJA ZZ HOTPL ATE FE S TIVAL
KENNY BARRON
Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio
12|7
E XPLOR ATORY COMPOSER S
Erik Jekabson
JHL
DORADO SCHMIDT
Diego El Cigala
Adam O'Farrill JHL
9|27-30 Cyrus Chesnut Trio
9|30
11|1-4
10|12
LEADING WOMEN I 9|20
KENNY BARRON
NE W TRUMPET
Howard Wiley & Extra Nappy
9|2 3
Sons of Kemet w/Shabaka
JOEY ALEXANDER JAZZ MAFIA FEST
10|11
B-3 ORGAN FESTIVAL
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Monk's Birthday: Joanne Brackeen, Kris Davis & Helen Sung
10|10
JHL
NOVEMBER CONT.
FAMILY MATINEE Tammy Hall, Matt Clark
9|16 Bokanté
9|15 -16 Steven Bernstein's
NOVEMBER
& Maya Kronfeld
10|10
DECEMBER
AT-A-GLANCE
10|4-7 Chick Corea Trio
Taylor McFerrin feat. Marcus Gilmore JHL
2018 | 19 SEASON
OCTOBER
Gypsies Revisited JHL
12|1
1923 Hunchback of Notre Dame w/ Dorothy Papadakos, organ GR ACE
12|2
Tammy Hall Lou Reed Drones w/ Stewart Hurwood & Eyvind Kang GRACE Songs for Men w/ Scott Amendola Scenes from My Radio Play w/ Fred Frith
12|15
FAMILY MATINEE Clairdee & Friends
12|17
LISTENING PARTY Nate Chinen new book Playing Change: Jazz For The New Century
HOLIDAYS AT SFJAZZ 12|20
Marcus Shelby's Ellington Nutcracker and Holiday show w/ Tiffany Austin & Kenny Washington
12|21–22 A Charlie Brown
Christmas w/Adam Shulman
12|22–23 Blind Boys of Alabama RING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH MACEO PARKER 12|28–30 Maceo Parker 12|3 1
New Year’s Eve Funk Party w/Maceo Parker
FEBRUARY
APRIL
MARCH
MAY
JANUARY BUIKA GALA WEEK WITH CHUCHO VALDÉS 1|3 1 SFJAZZ Gala 2019 honoring
WAYNE SHORTER 1|3– 6 Wayne Shorter
Quartet
1|8–13
Chris Botti
Quartet
2|1–3
Chucho Valdés & Irakere 45
2|6 L ISTENING PARTY 2|7-10
SING , SING , SING I OTPLATE: Terrence H Brewer & Pamela Rose play Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass' Take Love Easy JHL
1|18 Kat Edmondson
SFJAZZ RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CHUCHO VALDÉS
KID KOALA: NUFONIA MUST FALL
1|17-20 Branford Marsalis
1|17
Chucho Valdés
JHL
1|19 Lori Carsillo JHL 1|20 Sheila Jordan duo w/ Cameron Brown JHL
1|24-27 Peter Bernstein, Larry
Goldings, & Bill Stewart Trio JHL
Kid Koala: Nufonia Must Fall
BANJO, BLUE S, & THE BAYOU 2|7 H ubby Jenkins JHL 2|8
Don Vappie JHL
2|9 –10 Leyla McCalla JHL WEEK OF LOVE 2|14-17 Buika 2|14-15 Lilan Kane JHL 2|16 -17 The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol JHL
SFJAZZ RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DIANNE REEVES
ELIANE ELIAS 3|1
Etienne Charles
3|2
FAMILY MATINEE Banda Magda
LE ADING WOMEN II 3|1
Banda Magda JHL
3|2
Lisa Mezzacappa Six JHL
3|3
Cosa Nostra Strings JHL
3|7-10
Eliane Elias
3|12
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester DAVIES
SFJAZZ RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR JOE LOVANO
Nonet: 52nd Street Bop 3|15 Trioism — Double Bill 3|16 w/ Chucho Valdés 3|17 Tenor Summit w/ Joshua Redman & Ravi Coltrane S TRING S AROUND THE WORLD Derek Gripper JHL
2|21-22 Brazilian Project
3|15
Kaki King JHL
2|2 3-24 Music from Bridges
3|16
Germán López JHL
3|17
Book of J JHL
2|24 JHL=JOE HENDERSON L AB
FAMILY MATINEE Linda Tillery & The Cultural Heritage Choir
Habib Koité & Bassekou Kouyaté
3|21
Marsalis JHL
SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Spring Concert
3|30
Red Baraat: Festival of Colors
5|13
Monday Night Band Showcase Concert
3|30
Piaf! The Show HERBST
APRIL 4|4–7
Brad Mehldau Trio
AMERIC AN DRE AM S TATE S 4|3 4|4–7
LISTENING PARTY S FJAZZ POETRY FESTIVAL: w/ Marc Bamuthi Joseph JHL
4|12–14 Mariza 4|12–14 Kurt Rosenwinkel Quintet JHL 4|18–21 Hiromi, solo KE YED UP II 4|18 HOTPLATE: Joe Gilman
plays Bill Evans’ Sunday at the Village Vanguard JHL
4|19 Adam Shulman Sextet JHL 4|20 –21 Gerald Clayton JHL
Spring Quartet: Jack DeJohnette, Joe Lovano, Esperanza Spalding, Leo Genovese
2|21
2|22-24 Jaz Sawyer feat. Jason
5|12
4|24
GRACE=GR ACE CATHEDR AL
All shows in Robert N. Miner Auditroium, unless otherwise noted. All programs are subject to change.
Orchestra JHL
Fatoumata Diawara/ Roberto Fonseca HERBST
SING , SING , SING II
3|22 3|2 3 3|24
H OTPLATE: Masha
Campagne sings Antônio Carlos Jobim & Elis Regina’s Elis & Tom JHL Sofía Rei JHL Sandy Cressman JHL Pascuala Ilabaca JHL
5|2–5 Afro-Cuban All Stars Flor de Toloache JHL
FAMILY MATINEE Gerald Clayton Trio
3|24
LILA DOWNS
5|9 –12
JHL
3|30 –3 1 Ethan Lipton & His
4|20
PERCUS SION DISCUS SION
HERBST=HERBST THEATRE
3|28–29 Davina and the Vagabonds
3|21-24 John Scofield w/Lettuce
DAVIES=DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL
HOTPLATE: Jaz Sawyer feat. Jason Marsalis play Eddie Marshall's Dance of the Sun JHL
MARCH CONT. C AMPY & COOL
3|14
3|14
2|2 3
HIROMI
4|25
RJAM Presents @SFJAZZ JHL
4|25–28 Goran Bregović 4|26
ARTISTS ON THE RISE Sasha Berliner Quartet JHL
5|16–19 Lila Downs 5|19
Anat Cohen Tentet
5|16
H OTPLATE: Anton Schwartz plays Dexter Gordon's Go JHL
SFJAZZ RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MARCUS SHELBY 5|2 3 San Francisco and the 5|24
5|25 5|26 5|25
Blues w/ Daniel Handler Blues & Black Feminisim w/ Angela Davis Black Ball: The Negro Leagues and the Blues Ellington, Blues and Swing FAMILY MATINEE Marcus Shelby Orchestra
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RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
The SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director program was established to give today’s most innovative and influential musicians the chance to curate exclusive programming at the SFJAZZ Center, often featuring world premiere projects and unprecedented collaborations between major artists. Every two years, SFJAZZ selects a new group of forward– thinking musicians to participate in the program. Notable world premieres have included pianist Jason Moran’s pairing of jazz and live skateboarding, guitarist Bill Frisell’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved featuring actor Tim Robbins, drummer Eric Harland’s Voyager band paired with live video gamers, an extensively revised presentation of trumpeter Terence Blanchard’s fullystaged opera Champion: An Opera in Jazz, and Rosanne Cash’s first-ever concerts devoted to Johnny Cash’s music in collaboration with Ry Cooder.
PREVIOUS RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTORS 2013-2014: Regina Carter, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, John Santos, Miguel Zenón 2014-2016: Terence Blanchard, Eric Harland, Zakir Hussain, Esperanza Spalding 2016-2018: Christian McBride, Rosanne Cash, Vijay Iyer, Mary Stallings
“This is not a stage, it’s a playground.” —DIANNE REEVES, RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 2018 8
LAURIE ANDERSON NOV 28–DEC 2
CHUCHO VALDÉS FEB 1–3
ABOUT LAURIE One of America’s most daring creative pioneers, the writer, director, visual artist and musician has created a series of groundbreaking works that span the worlds of art, theater, and experimental music. Introduced to mainstream pop culture through the single “O Superman” from her 1981 debut album Big Science and large-scale theater production United States, Anderson continues to create innovative new work.
ABOUT CHUCHO Winner of six GRAMMY and three Latin GRAMMY Awards, pianist, composer and arranger Chucho Valdés is the most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz.
ABOUT HER RESIDENCY The genre-defying provocateur starts her week with “Songs for Women” and “Songs for Men,” followed by “The Drones,” an electronic trip generated by her late husband Lou Reed’s guitars. She also performs viola duets and scenes from her new radio play – intoned in the dark by the master mood-maker.
ABOUT HIS RESIDENCY The Cuban maestro introduces the latest edition of Irakere, the pioneering band he founded 45 years ago. The original group included legends Paquito D’Rivera and Arturo Sandoval. With Irakere 45, Valdes unleashes a fresh batch of virtuosi to negotiate bebop, dance grooves and Afro-Cuban fusions. Bring dancing shoes.
“I’m basing what I do on John Zorn’s way of working, which is ‘don’t come in and do one thing — come in and do a whole lot of things and see what happens.’”
“It’s a privilege to have this residency. Surprises are bound to happen — which will make it a learning experience for me!”
Son of Cuban music icon Bebo Valdés, Chucho was co-founder of the seminal ensemble Irakere, forging an unprecedented synthesis of bebop, Afro-Cuban jazz, rock and R&B that changed the course of Latin music.
—CHUCHO VALDÉS
—LAURIE ANDERSON
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DIANNE REEVES FEB 21–24
JOE LOVANO MAR 14–17
MARCUS SHELBY MAY 23–26
ABOUT DIANNE GRAMMY winner and 2018 NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves is jazz’s greatest living vocalist. Her string of GRAMMYs includes an unprecedented three consecutive Best Jazz Vocal Performance awards and another for the soundtrack of George Clooney’s film Good Night and Good Luck. Her most recent release, Beautiful Life, won the GRAMMY for Best Jazz Vocal Album, melding jazz with R&B, pop and Latin music.
ABOUT JOE The most acclaimed saxophonist and composer in modern jazz, Lovano won a 2010 triple crown in the DownBeat Critics Poll for Jazz Artist of the Year, Tenor Saxophonist, and Jazz Group. He had long-term collaborations with the late drummer Paul Motian and guitarist John Scofield, performed with innumerable jazz greats, and released nearly 30 albums. He was a member of the SFJAZZ Collective from 2007–2009.
ABOUT MARCUS Bassist, composer, arranger, educator and bandleader Marcus Shelby is a major figure synonymous with Bay Area jazz and the spirit of collaboration. His work focuses on the history, present, and future of the AfricanAmerican experience, with major suites for jazz orchestra devoted to abolitionist hero Harriet Tubman, Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., and the Port Chicago disaster and mutiny of 1944.
ABOUT HER RESIDENCY With a Brazilian band featuring legendary songwriter Ivan Lins, Reeves presents a full night of Brazilian and Brazilian-influenced music for the first time. With her own band she will revisit her 1999 album Bridges which features songs by artists such as Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, along with other songs from the same era.
ABOUT HIS RESIDENCY As grounded in tradition as he is adventuresome, the saxophonist flows through multiple formats: a duo with Chucho Valdes; a pair of trios, including one with guitarist Bill Frisell; a “Tenor Legacy” sextet with saxophonists Joshua Redman and Ravi Coltrane; and a 52nd Street nonet that plays unforgettable bebop anthems.
ABOUT HIS RESIDENCY The bassist-composer spotlights the legacies of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington. He leads small groups and a big band, exploring blues connections to Black feminism and baseball’s Negro Leagues. The week nurtures Shelby’s ongoing partnership with author Daniel Handler and features a historic collaboration with author-activist Angela Davis.
“This kind of situation allows you to bring all kinds of musicians together and make an experience… lets you see music from a whole different perspective.”
“It’s just a rare and beautiful opportunity to present different aspects of my development and my relationships with master musicians.”
“For 20 years, SFJAZZ has supported the work that I have done, and to be able to bring the residency in there over the next two years is the next step. It’s special.”
—JOE LOVANO
—MARCUS SHELBY
—DIANNE REEVES
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ANSWERING THE “What If?”
THE SFJAZZ RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PROGRAM —by Richard Scheinin
T
his is how it works.
Every two years, SFJAZZ anoints a group of Resident Artistic Directors, inviting each to dream up two full weeks of programs over the course of two seasons. It’s a carte blanche invitation, a challenge to do something unexpected — maybe something they’ve always thought about doing, but dismissed out of hand because it seemed too time-consuming, too expensive, too impractical or outlandish. Ever since this exercise in imagination began in 2013, unexpected programs have come to life at the SFJAZZ Center. Trumpeter Terence Blanchard presented his opera, Champion, about the boxer Emile Griffith. Drummer Eric Harland staged a Super Bowl party around Madden NFL Football, the video game, interacting musically with a pair of professional gamers, Mr. Finesse and Panoramic. Pianist Jason Moran – who grew up skateboarding in Houston — convinced SFJAZZ to install a half-pipe in front of the stage and invited nine of San Francisco’s best skaters to collaborate with his group, the Bandwagon. It was a new kind of jam session: You could feel the musicians feeding off the skaters’ energy, their rhythm and flow.
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An unlikely meeting of two subcultures, jazz and skateboarding, the program was so successful that the pianist has since taken it on the road, repeatedly. But without that carte blanche invitation, it may never have happened. For a musician to be handed such freedom is “extremely rare,” Moran says. “And that’s what makes it exciting — when an organization offers so much support to an artist, and when they’re aware that an artist is more kaleidoscopic than monolithic. People forget that artists have many voices, and just because you know someone as a jazz bassist, that doesn’t mean that’s all he wants to be.” The bar has been set for whoever comes next. Not that Laurie Anderson is worried about clearing the creative hurdle; out-of-the-box is who she is. One of five incoming Resident Artistic Directors this season – the others are pianist Chucho Valdés, vocalist Dianne Reeves, saxophonist Joe Lovano and bassist Marcus Shelby — she has begun dreaming up her first week of programs (Nov. 29-Dec. 2), which will include
an evening at Grace Cathedral. There she will stage The Drones, leaning six of her late husband Lou Reed’s guitars against half a dozen amplifiers, filling the church with oscillation and hum, creating a warm sonic bath for listeners who, she predicts, “will become kind of helpless, sliding down the walls and onto the floor with all those beautiful overtones and waves.” A multi-media avant-gardist, composer, violist and filmmaker, Anderson is open to the creative jump-cut: “Maybe because I’m working in a lot of distant disciplines – painting, sculpture – I’m not so afraid of changing forms and formats,” she says. “An aria followed by a guitar solo? That’d be great!” Looking for surprises, she has chosen to collaborate with two of the Bay Area’s best-kept secrets: pianist Tammy Hall and drummer Scott Amendola, musicians who intrigue her but with whom she has never before played one note. With Hall, she will perform a night of Songs for Women, and with Amendola a night of Songs for Men. With her old friend Fred Frith, the guitarist and composer, she will present Scenes from My Radio
“An artist is more kaleidoscopic than monolithic. People forget that artists have many voices” — JASON MORAN
JAZZ & SKATEBOARDING W/ JASON MORAN, 2013-14 SFJAZZ RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Play – to be intoned in the dark, though she doesn’t quite explain why. “I’m just trying to jump in and see what I can stir up,” she offers. “Basically you invite all your friends over to play and try to make the situations that create the most fun.” Marcus Shelby, whose first residency arrives at the tail end of the 2018-19 season (May 23-26), takes a different approach. He is a long-range planner, assiduously assembling a vision ever since he moved to San Francisco in 1996. He teaches in schools and prisons, collaborates with theater companies, filmmakers and poets and has composed a triptych of big band suites drawn from African-American history. His Port Chicago (2006) was inspired by the 1944 explosion at an East
Bay naval yard, where more than 320 men were killed, most of them black American sailors. His Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman suite (2007) evoked the Underground Railroad’s abolitionist hero. His Soul of the Movement (2011) drew on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., while exploring work songs, spirituals, blues, jazz and Curtis Mayfield’s “We’re a Winner.” The blues will beat at the heart of Shelby’s ambitious residency. It will include two shows built around the blues and swing of Duke Ellington, Shelby’s hero. He will collaborate with author Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket) for a blues-infused celebration of San Francisco and its
neighborhoods. Shelby will go deep with a program titled Blues Legacies and Black Feminism, named for the 1999 book by Angela Davis, the activist and academic, who will join the bassist on stage for a night of words and song, putting a special focus on the legacies of “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday. Shelby calls the book “the most articulate treatise on the blues; this book just blew my mind many years ago. And I had no idea I would ever meet Angela Davis, but when SFJAZZ asked me what I’d like to do, I said I’d like to turn her book into a historical piece with a singer and with my band and with Angela Davis herself. She’ll speak, we’ll play, and we’ll take it back and forth, putting blood and flesh to this book, setting it on its feet as a theatrical presentation. I still can’t believe it.” answering the " what if ?"
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OPENING WEEK!
“The finest jazz singer to emerge in the last decade.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
DREAMS AND DAGGERS
CÉCILE McLORIN SALVANT 9|6–9
Two-time GRAMMY Winner Cécile McLorin Salvant is the most celebrated young vocalist in jazz. Possessing a deep, velvety voice, rhythmic poise, and a sublime feel for the blues, she returns following her latest Best Jazz Vocal Album GRAMMY win for her live 2017 Mack Avenue release, Dreams and Daggers — an album Stereophile’s Fred Kaplan calls “the best jazz vocal album in a decade, maybe in longer than that.”
T H U, S E P 6 • 7:30pm $
JOE HENDERSON LAB S E E PA G E 4 6 F O R D E TA I L S 12
45–110
m e m b e r s o n ly
F R I , S E P 7 • 7:30pm $
40–95
T AY L O R M c F E R R I N F E A T. M A R C U S G I L M O R E THU 9|6 • 7 & 8:30pm FR 9|7 • 7 & 8:30pm M E M B E R S O N LY
W E E K 1 : E L E C T R O N I C B E AT J A Z Z
S AT, S E P 8 • 7 : 3 0 p m $
45–110
SA 9|8 • 7 & 8:30pm
S U N , S E P 9 • 7pm $
40–95
SU 9|9 • 6:30 & 8:30pm
STILL DREAMING
JOSHUA REDMAN, RON MILES SCOTT COLLEY, BRIAN BLADE
GROUNDUP GLOBAL GROOVES
BOKANTÉ
9|13–16
9|16
Formed by saxophonist Joshua Redman in tribute to his late father, saxophone giant Dewey Redman, this quartet comprising four of the greatest instrumentalists in modern jazz draws inspiration from Old and New Dreams, the iconic 1980s band featuring the elder Redman and fellow Ornette Coleman collaborators Ed Blackwell, Charlie Haden, and Don Cherry. They return to SFJAZZ in celebration of the release of their new Nonesuch album, Still Dreaming.
“Part of what makes the band so compelling is the rhythmic freedom it embraces in pieces by Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry, a freedom that swings on the axis of Blade and Colley.”
A multicultural octet featuring members of Snarky Puppy that marries the electric blues of Led Zeppelin with Afropop and folkloric Caribbean styles.
“One of the more versatile groups on the planet right now.” —ROLLING STONE
—THE MERCURY NEWS
T H U, S E P 1 3 • 7:30pm $
35–85
m e m b e r s s av e 2 5 %
F R I , S E P 1 4 • 7:30pm $
40 –95
S AT, S E P 1 5 • 7 : 3 0 p m $
40 –95
S UN , S E P 1 6 • 2 p m $
35–85
S E X M O B P L AY S F E L L I N I
S E X M O B P L AY S E L L I N G T O N
STEVEN BERNSTEIN'S MTO WEST
TH 9|13 • 7 & 8:30pm
FR 9|14 • 7 & 8:30pm
SA 9|15 • 7 & 8:30pm
WEEK 2: TWO SIDES OF STEVE BERNSTEIN
SU N , S E P 1 6 • 8 p m $
25–65
da n c e f lo o r s h ow
SU 9|16 • 6 & 7:30pm 13
B-3 ORGAN FESTIVAL 9|20–23
A celebration of the gritty, funky, soulful Hammond B-3 organ. Since its introduction in the early 50s, the B-3 has gone from the church to the cocktail lounge to the concert hall, with an unmistakable sound that’s greasy, gritty, funky, expressive, and deeply soulful. This week is devoted to the B-3, with performers including legendary veterans and young organists insuring the instrument’s place in jazz for generations to come.
SPIRITUAL GROOVES
JOEY DE FRANCESCO TRIO
CHESTER THOMPSON TRIO
The first night of the B-3 Festival week begins, appropriately, with the GRAMMY-nominated phenomenon who began playing at age four, signed his first record deal at age 16, and is largely responsible for the resurgence of the Hammond organ in jazz.
“One of the godfathers of the jazz organ” (NY Times), NEA Jazz Master Smith is a seminal figure in the 1960s soul-jazz movement. A singular musician who has mined the deeply funky potential of the Hammond organ more than anyone else, he plays music from his new release All In My Mind with his longstanding trio. Longtime Santana and Tower of Power organist Thompson opens.
T H U, S E P 2 0 • 7:30pm $
S E E PA G E 4 6 F O R D E TA I L S 14
DR. LONNIE SMITH TRIO
TAMMY HALL TRIO
Opening the show will be the superlative solo artist and bandleader, Bay Area-based pianist, organist, and composer Tammy Hall and her band.
JOE HENDERSON LAB
ORGAN WIZARD
3 0 –7 0
F R I , S E P 2 1 • 7:30pm $
3 0 –7 0
GOSPEL OF GROOVE
CORY HENRY & THE FUNK APOSTLES HOWARD WILEY & EXTRA NAPPY “One of the finest Hammond B-3 organ players of his generation” (All Music Guide), keyboard master Henry is a two-time GRAMMY winner who began on Hammond organ at age two. He has performed with Snarky Puppy, Kenny Garrett, and Robert Glasper and leads his own hard-driving Funk Apostles band, creating an alchemy of gospel-inflected R&B, funk, jazz, and global influences.
S AT, S E P 2 2 • 7 &1 0 p m $
25–85
dancefloor show
SOUL JAZZ GIANTS
RONNIE FOSTER TRIO REUBEN WILSON TRIO The two greatest organists of the soul jazz movement of the 60s and 70s share this double bill for an evening of soulful, funky grooves. Foster is best known for his funk-laced 70s Blue Note sides that have earned devotion from hip-hop artists including A Tribe Called Quest. Wilson’s five grooveheavy Blue Note sessions of the era have been rediscovered by a new generation of fans.
S U N , S E P 2 3 • 7pm $
25–65
JANE BUNNETT
K AT I E T H I R O U X
L A DA M A
JANE IRA BLOOM
TH 9|20 • 7 & 8:30pm
FR 9|21 • 7 & 8:30pm
SA 9|22 • 7:30 & 9pm
SU 9|23 • 6 & 7:30pm
WEEK 3: LEADING WOMEN I
CUBAN PIANO STAR
THE NEXT CHAPTER
HAROLD LÓPEZNUSSA TRIO 9|23 The Cuban pianist is one of the brightest lights on Havana’s jazz scene. “His singlenote grace is akin to Herbie Hancock’s, and his two-fisted attacks are as joyous as Chick Corea’s” (DownBeat)
S U N , S E P 2 3 • 2pm $
25–65
CHICK COREA TRIO W/ CARLITOS DEL PUERTO & MARCUS GILMORE
10|4-7 More than a creative force, 22-time GRAMMY Award winner and NEA Jazz Master Chick Corea is one of the era’s defining artists. While known for zig-zagging between ensembles, Corea always returns to the trio format, with his latest, dubbed Vigilette, featuring Cuban bassist Carlitos Del Puerto and drummer Marcus Gilmore, who powered Corea’s ambitiously orchestral fusion band The Vigil. With Corea, a new trio means a new chapter in jazz.
T H U, O C T 4 • 7:30pm $
40 –100
F R I , O C T 5 • 7:30pm $
45–110
“A luminary, ebullient and eternally youthful” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
S AT, O C T 6 • 7 & 9 : 3 0 p m $
45–120
S U N , O C T 7 • 7pm $
40 –100
C Y R U S C H E S N U T T R I O W/ B U S T E R W I L L I A M S & L E N N Y W H I T E TH 9|27 • 7 & 8:30pm WEEK 4: ART OF THE TRIO
FR 9|28 • 7 & 8:30pm
SA 9|29 • 7 & 8:30pm
SU 9|30 • 6 & 7:30pm 15
FL AMENCO GUITAR VIRTUOSO
VICENTE AMIGO 10|11–14
CELEBR ATING 101 YEARS
THELONIOUS MONK BIRTHDAY CONCERT 10|10 To commemorate Thelonious Monk’s birthday, we present a trio of performances celebrating his legacy.
JOANNE BRACKEEN, KRIS DAVIS, & HELEN SUNG
2018 NEA Jazz Master recipient Brackeen is among the most virtuosic pianists and composers to emerge in the post-bop era. Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition winner Sung has recorded a half-dozen albums and worked with T.S. Monk’s “Monk on Monk” Tentet. Davis was named 2017 Rising Star Pianist in DownBeat and her 2016 album Duopoly made best-of-year lists in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and JazzTimes. These three outstanding pianists will come together to celebrate Monk in solo, duo and trio settings.
Crowned by the late maestro Paco de Lucía as the next great flamenco star and described by jazz guitar hero Pat Metheny as “the greatest guitarist alive,” Amigo has more than lived up to his promise, with pyrotechnic virtuosity, charisma, and that intangible quality of soulful emotion the Spanish call duende. This evening includes music from Amigo’s new Sony Legacy release Memoria de los Sentidos.
W E D, O C T 1 0 • 7:30pm
T H U, O C T 1 1 • 7:30pm
$
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25–45
m e m b e r s s av e 2 5 %
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F R I , O C T 1 2 • 7:30pm $
45–95
S A T, O C T 1 3 • 7 : 3 0 p m $
45–95
SHABAKA HUTCHINGS' SONS OF KEMET
A DA M O ' FA R R I L L
ERIK JEKABSON
K E YO N H A R R O L D
WE 10|10 • 7 & 8:30pm
TH 10|11 • 7 & 8:30pm
FR 10|12 • 7 & 8:30pm
SA 10|13 • 7 & 8:30pm
WEEK 6: NEW TRUMPET
“ He reaches for depth of expression within ultimate precision, and sometimes at frightening speed.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
ALL-STAR QUINTET
PÉREZ, COHEN, POTTER 10|14 The West Coast premiere of a new collaborative project co-led by pianist and Wayne Shorter Quartet member Danilo Pérez, saxophone great Chris Potter, and former SFJAZZ Collective trumpeter Avishai Cohen. Originally performing together as part of the Jazz 100 tour celebrating the centennials of Dizzy, Ella, Mongo and Monk, the trio presents new compositions, backed by a rhythm section including bassist Larry Grenadier and a drummer to be named soon.
S U N , O C T 1 4 • 2pm $
35–85
MARQUIS HILL BLACKTET SU 10|14 • 6 & 7:30pm
DANILO PÉREZ piano
CHRIS POTTER saxophones
AVISHAI COHEN trumpet
LARRY GRENADIER bass
S U N , O C T 1 4 • 8pm $
25–65
JOE HENDERSON LAB S E E PA G E 4 7 F O R D E TA I L S 17
MUSIC OF ANTÔNIO CARLOS JOBIM
SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE 10|18–21
The SFJAZZ Collective is an all star ensemble comprising eight of the finest performers/ composers at work in jazz today. Launched in 2004, the band tours nationally and records new material every season. The SFJAZZ Collective’s mission each year is to perform fresh arrangements of works by a modern master and newly commissioned pieces by each Collective member. Through this pioneering approach, simultaneously honoring music’s greatest figures while championing jazz’s up-to-the-minute directions, the Collective embodies SFJAZZ’s commitment to jazz as a living, ever-relevant art form.
JOE HENDERSON LAB S E E PA G E S 4 7 – 4 8 F O R D E TA I L S 18
For the 2018-2019 season, the SFJAZZ Collective premieres innovative new arrangements of the work of pioneering Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Jobim and freshly minted compositions by the band, in performances marking the debut of two new Collective members, trumpter Etienne Charles and bassist Matt Brewer. Jobim was the primary creator of the bossa nova style, merging Brazilian popular song with jazz to form a wildly popular hybrid. Sunday’s matinee will be a special farewell tribute concert for founding Collective member Miguel Zenón.
“The octet boasts as much or more collective talent, firepower and critical acclaim than any other jazz ensemble going.” —DOWNBEAT MIGUEL ZENÓN alto saxophone
ETIENNE CHARLES trumpet
WARREN WOLF vibes
MATT BREWER bass
DAVID SÁNCHEZ tenor saxophone
ROBIN EUBANKS trombone
EDWARD SIMON piano
OBED CALVAIRE drums
M I G U E L Z E N Ó N FA R E W E L L CO N C E R T
T H U, O C T 1 8 • 7:30pm $
3 0 –7 0
m e m b e r s s av e 2 5 %
F R I , O C T 1 9 • 7:30pm $
3 0 –7 0
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S AT, O C T 2 0 • 7 : 3 0 p m $
3 0 –7 0
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S U N , O C T 2 1 • 2pm $
3 0 –7 0
m e m b e r s s av e 2 5 %
HOTPLATE: KEV CHOICE PLAYS SONNY CLARK’S SONNY CLARK TRIO
C A M E R O N G R AV E S
CHRISTIAN SANDS TRIO
T I G R A N H A M A S YA N
TH 10|18 • 7 & 8:30pm
FR 10|19 • 7 & 8:30pm
SA 10|20 • 7 & 8:30pm
SU 10|21 • 6 & 8pm
WEEK 7: KEYED UP I
1923 SILENT FILM CL A SSIC
JOHN SCOFIELD’S COMBO 66
HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
10|21
10|31
ALBUM RELEA SE CELEBR ATION
w/ Dorothy Papadakos, organ
w/ Gerald Clayton, Vicente Archer, Bill Stewart
“The modern messiah of ‘Terminator jazz’” (DownBeat), GRAMMY-winning guitar giant Scofield celebrates the release of his new album, Combo 66, with his new quartet. Titled in reference to Scofield’s age, the album (and performance) features a superlative group of bandleaders in their own right whose ages span four decades. Comprising all new material, Combo 66 represents the next thrilling chapter in Scofield’s continuous musical reinvention.
“A modern-jazz avatar of the electric guitar” —THE NEW YORKER
W E D , O C T 3 1 • 8pm
S U N , O C T 2 1 • 8pm $
The sacred space of Grace Cathedral will transform into a grand 1920s movie palace for a special Halloween screening of director Wallace Worsley’s immortal 1923 silent film adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney as Quasimodo and featuring a live score performed on Grace’s historic pipe organ. Spend Halloween in the hallowed halls of Grace Cathedral for this unforgettable event.
3 5 –7 5
$
JAZZMEIA HORN TH 10|25 • 7 & 8:30pm
20 –35
g r a c e c at h e d r a l
VERNON REID'S BAND OF GYPSIES REVISITED FR 10|26 • 7 & 8:30pm
WEEK 8: TRADITIONS IN TRANSITION
SA 10|27 • 7 & 8:30pm
SU 10|28 • 7 & 8:30pm 19
VOICE OF SPAIN
DIEGO EL CIGALA 11|1–4 “ He radiates a magnetic mix of winking charm and unpredictable vitriol reminiscent of a singer from an entirely different milieu, Frank Sinatra.”
With a voice the late Spanish guitar icon Paco de Lucía called “one of the most beautiful flamenco voices of our time,” El Cigala is an innovator and three-time GRAMMY winner. He rose to international fame in 2003 after the release of his collaboration with Cuban piano giant Bebo Valdés, Lagrimas Negras, “one of the great new cross-pollinating documents of Latin music” (The New York Times). He celebrates the 15 anniversary of his breakout album with his signature mix of flamenco, boleros and tangos.
T H U, N OV 1 • 7:30pm $
20
35–95
F R I , N OV 2 • 7:30pm $
35–95
—THE NEW YORK TIMES
S AT, N O V 3 • 7 : 3 0 p m $
45–105
S U N , N OV 4 • 7pm $
35–95
JOE HENDERSON LAB
MYRA MELFORD SNOWY EGRET
THE IAN CAREY QUINTET+1
S E E PA G E 4 8 F O R D E TA I L S
FR 11|2 • 7 & 8:30pm
SU 11|4 • 6 & 7:30pm
W E E K 9 : E X P L O R AT O R Y C O M P O S E R S
SA 11|3 • 7 & 8:30pm
JAZZ LEGEND
KENNY BARRON 11|8–11
“The pinnacle of the jazz-piano tradition” — JAZZTIMES
Barron is an NEA Jazz Master and eleven-time GRAMMY nominee who helped define and extend the jazz tradition since his work with Dizzy Gillespie in the early ‘60s catapulted him into the spotlight. He’s recorded nearly 50 albums as a bandleader over his five-decade career, and this week brings a wide range of his projects from solo to duo to his latest quintet, and a night devoted to rising women in jazz.
DUOS
W/ REGINA CARTER, TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON, EDDIE HENDERSON For this night of duos, the pianist is joined by three artists with whom he has had a long history. First recording together in the early 70s, Barron and Henderson share a deep, telepathic connection. Carrington has known the pianist since her teenage years, working with him on her debut album, recorded when she was 16. Carter and Barron have developed a special connection, recording the exquisite 2001 duet release, Freefall.
T H U, N OV 8 • 7:30pm SPONSORED BY:
$
3 0 –7 0
m e m b e r s o n ly
CONCENTRIC CIRCLES QUINTET
W/ DAYNA STEPHENS, MIKE RODRIGUEZ, KIYOSHI KITAGAWA, JOHNATHAN BLAKE
W/ CAMILA MEZA, HAILEY NISWANGER, NIKARA WARREN
album Concentric Circles.
In an evening titled “Women on the Rise,” piano giant Kenny Barron is joined by a selection of superlative instrumentalists including rising saxophonist Hailey Niswanger, Chilean guitarist and vocalist Camila Meza, and the masterful vibraphonist Nikara Warren, who is also Barron’s granddaughter. They are backed by Barron’s superb working trio featuring bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and drummer Johnathan Blake.
F R I , N OV 9 • 7:30pm
S AT, N O V 1 0 • 7 : 3 0 p m
“One of the top jazz pianists in the world,” (The Los Angeles Times) Kenny Barron is an NEA Jazz Master and eleventime GRAMMY nominee who helped define and extend the jazz tradition. Expanding his working trio to a quintet with the addition of trumpeter Mike Rodriguez and Bay Arearaised saxophone great Dayna Stephens, Barron celebrates the release of his new Impulse!
$
35–95
MARK GUILIANA TWO HORNS TH 11|8 • 7 & 8:30pm
WOMEN ON THE RISE
$
30–80
m e m b e r s s av e 2 5 %
SOLO PIANO
KENNY BARRON A solo recital by Kenny Barron is a rare opportunity to witness the unadorned creative process of one of jazz’s greatest living artists — a musician who leads a peerless career as a bandleader, sideman, composer, arranger, educator, and NEA Jazz Master recipient. Though he is often heard in a trio setting, as a soloist, he creates an entire orchestra by himself.
S U N , N OV 1 1 • 7pm $
35–90
S A M M Y M I L L E R & T H E C O N G R E G AT I O N FR 11|9 • 7 & 8:30pm
W E E K 1 0 : B R OT H E R H O O D O F T H E D R U M
SA 11|10 • 7 & 8:30pm
SU 11|11 • 6 & 7:30pm 21
GYPSY JAZZ GENIUS
DORADO SCHMITT & DJANGO ALL-STARS 11|23–25
“Clearly born to the style,”(NY Times ) no one has done more to ignite interest in the legacy of gypsy jazz guitar pioneer Django Reinhardt than dazzling French guitarist and violinist Dorado Schmitt. The leading figure on the international Gypsy jazz scene, he represents the art form at its highest level. Schmitt is joined by a cast of superb musicians including his son, Amati Schmitt, a young virtuoso who represents the future of the Gypsy tradition, as well as the brilliant jazz accordionist Ludovic Beier, and violinist Pierre Blanchard, who was tapped by longtime Reinhardt collaborator Stéphane Grappelli as a worthy successor. F R I , N OV 2 3 • 7:30pm $
JOE HENDERSON LAB S E E PA G E 4 8 F O R D E TA I L S 22
3 0 –7 0
m e m b e r s s av e 2 5 %
“ ... lightning-fast finger work, powerful strumming, wild sweeps across the fingerboard and astonishingly fast tempos.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES
S AT, N O V 2 4 • 3 &7 : 3 0 p m $
30–90
S U N , N OV 2 5 • 3pm $
3 0 –7 0
S M I T H D O B S O N P L AY S THELONIOUS MONK'S UNDERGROUND
JOHN B R OTHER S PIA N O CO. PLAYS CHA R LES MIN GU S’ MINGUS PLAYS PIANO
SFJAZZ HIGH SCHOOL ALL-STARS ALUM WILL MAGID PLAYS HERBIE HANCOCK’S HEAD HUNTERS
STEVEN LUGERNER'S J A C K N I F E P L AY S J A C K I E MCLEAN'S IT'S TIME
TH 11|1 • 7 & 8:30pm
FR 11|16 • 7 & 8:30pm
SA 11|17 • 7 & 8:30pm
SU 11|18 • 6 & 7:30pm
W E E K 1 1 : H O T P L A T E F E S T I VA L
R ESID ENT ARTISTIC D I R E C TO R
R ESID ENT ARTISTIC D I R E C TO R
LAURIE ANDERSON 11|28–12|2 “Laurie Anderson (has) made some of the most interesting art of the late 20th century."— WIRED “The brilliant polymath” (NPR), influential vocalist, composer, and visual artist Anderson presents a wildly diverse range of world premieres and West Coast premieres including collaborations with pianist Tammy Hall, violist Eyvind Kang, and drummer Scott Amendola, an incredible drone-based Grace Cathedral installation utilizing her late husband Lou Reed’s collection of guitars and amplifiers, and material from her radio play in duet with maverick guitarist Fred Frith.
PHOTO: JASON STERN
SONGS FOR WOMEN W/ TAMMY HALL
LOU REED DRONES W/ STEWART HURWOOD
“Inspired by pianist Tammy Hall’s beautiful piece ‘For Miss Jones,’ I thought it would be interesting to do a collection of pieces we’ve both written for women and make it into a celebration that crosses back and forth from jazz to stories to electronics.”
“I’m really looking forward to presenting Lou Reed’s powerful drone piece. Something between an installation and performance this piece features the hypnotic overtones and harmonics of guitar feedback.” Featuring Reed’s guitar technician Hurwood.
W E D, N OV 2 8 • 7:30pm
T H U, N OV 2 9 • 7:30pm
F R I , N OV 3 0 • 7:30pm
FREE FOR MEMBERS|
$
SONGS FOR MEN W/ SCOTT AMENDOLA & EYVIND KANG “I realized I’ve also written a lot of things for and about men and I asked the amazing drummer Scott Amendola and violist Eyvind Kang to join me. Some of the greatest experts on women are men and of course vice versa, so I’m hoping for some lively mash ups.”
SCENES FROM MY RADIO PLAY W/ FRED FRITH “The last night will feature Scenes from My Radio Play which will be themes and variations on the characters and situations in the play. Fred Frith will join me in invoking hypnosis, memory, old juke joints, canoe trips and love.”
L I S T E N I N G PA R T Y
$
15
PUBLIC
35–90
$
40
g r a c e c at h e d r a l
S AT, D E C 1 • 7 : 3 0 p m $
45–95
S U N , D E C 2 • 7pm $
35–90
23
“Mini Mozart is striking all the right chords” —PEOPLE
PIANO SENSATION
JOEY ALEXANDER TRIO 12|13–16 “If the word “genius” still means anything, it applies to this prodigy.” (DownBeat) Championed by jazz giants Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, and Wynton Marsalis, 14-year-old Joey Alexander is the brightest light in jazz piano, with three GRAMMY nominations and performances ranging from 60 Minutes and the Today Show to the White House. He performs music from his new Motéma Music album, Eclipse, with a superb trio including bassist Kris Funn and drummer Kendrick Scott. T H U, D E C 1 3 • 7:30pm $
35–95
JOE HENDERSON
$
LAB
S E E PA G E 4 9 F O R D E TA I L S 24
F R I , D E C 1 4 • 7:30pm 35–95
S AT, D E C 1 5 • 7 : 3 0 p m $
45-105
S U N , D E C 1 6 • 2 &7 p m $
35–105
TRIBUTE: THE LADIES OF HIP HOP
BRASS MUSIC OF THE WORLD
FEATURING GUEST VOCALISTS
FR 12|7 • 7 & 8:30pm
SA 12|8 • 7 & 8:30pm
SU 12|9 • 6 & 7:30pm
WEEK 14: JAZZ MAFIA FEST
HOLIDAY WEEK 12|20–23
Our annual week of holiday performances is an SFJAZZ tradition. We celebrate the spirit of the season with shows that cross generations and genres from classical to jazz to gospel. yo u t h s av e 50% o n a l l s h ow s
DUKE ELLINGTON’S NUTCRACKER SUITE
MARCUS SHELBY ORCHESTRA w/ Tiffany Austin & Kenny Washington Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s Nutcracker Suite arrangements offer an ideal vehicle for Shelby’s jazz orchestra. His band and guest singers Austin and Washington breathe new life into the singular cultural fusion of Tchaikovsky with the orchestral language of Ellington.
VINCE GUARALDI'S HOLIDAY CLASSIC
ADAM SHULMAN: A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS Best known as part of Marcus Shelby’s Jazz Orchestra and a creative force on the San Francisco jazz scene for the past decade, pianist Shulman reprises his tribute to Bay Area jazz legend Vince Guaraldi and his beloved soundtrack to Charles Schulz’s 1965 holiday classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Last year’s shows were our fastest selling holiday concerts, so get your tickets early!
HOLIDAY GOSPEL SHOW
BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA More than a gospel institution, the Blind Boys of Alabama are a cultural force. The five-time GRAMMY winners have become known worldwide with celebrated albums including the star-studded 2003 Christmas release, Go Tell It on the Mountain, which they revisit for this special holiday program. Holiday performances by the Blind Boys have become a yearly tradition at SFJAZZ and we promise an evening of truly sanctified spirit!
“There’s righteousness behind the jovial voices and seasoned harmonies of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the venerable gospel group.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
L I S T E N I N G PA R T Y W / N AT E C H I N E N
M O N , D E C 1 7 • 7:30pm
T H U, D E C 2 0 • 7:30pm
FREE FOR MEMBERS|
$
$
15
PUBLIC
3 0 –7 5
F R I , D E C 2 1 • 7:30pm $
3 0 –7 0
S AT, D E C 2 2 • 7 : 3 0 p m $
35–95
S U N , D E C 2 3 • 3pm $
35–95
S AT, D E C 2 2 • 1 1 a m $
SFJAZZ MEMBERSHIP S E E PA G E 5 5 F O R D E TA I L S
3 0 –7 0
m e m e b r s s av e 2 5 %
TAKE 10 FOR 10
S FJ A Z Z M E M B E R S S A V E 1 0 % O F F A N Y S I N G L E O R D E R O F 1 0 T I C K E T S O R M O R E 25
RT Y A P S ’ R A E Y NEW R E K R A P O E C W/ M A
FUNK Y NEW YEAR
MACEO PARKER
“Funk aficionados don’t even have to think about what they are doing on Dec. 31... All they have to do is head straight to the SFJAZZ Center”
12|28–31
—THE MERCURY NEWS
Countdown to the end of 2018 with the king of the funky saxophone and one of the primary architects of modern R&B, Maceo Parker. Parker is a funk legend and an essential voice in the powerhouse horns backing James Brown, Prince, and Parliament/Funkadelic. He returns with his super-powered band for an exciting week culminating in a New Years dance party.
“ A consummate entertainer whose band shares his single-minded mission to get audiences on their feet and leave them moved and grooved” —SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE F R I , D E C 2 8 • 7:30pm $
26
25–65
m e m b e r s s av e 2 5 %
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3 0 –70
m e m b e r s s av e 2 5 %
S U N , D E C 3 0 • 7:30pm $
25–65
m e m b e r s s av e 2 5 %
Ring in the new year with the best party in the Bay Area with funk legend Maceo Parker. With two shows on this special evening, you have the choice to either start your New Year’s Eve off right while avoiding the crowds, or Members can celebrate together through midnight as we countdown to 2019! M O N , D E C 3 1 • 8& 10:30pm $
5 0 –1 0 5
m e m b e r s o n ly 10:30 p m
4 Balloon Drop (10:30 p m m e m b e r s
s h ow o n ly )
4 Complimentary Champagne 4 Giant Disco Ball 4 NYE Party Favors 4 Countdown to 2019 in NYC and SF
“The greatest living composer in jazz, and one of its greatest saxophonists.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
WITHOUT A NET
WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET
“The greatest living composer in jazz” (The New York Times), legendary saxophonist, composer, NEA Jazz Master, and 2015 GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Wayne Shorter returns with his masterful quartet including pianist Danilo Pérez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade. Shorter’s career spans more than half a century, with monumental memberships in Miles Davis’ iconic 1960s quintet and the fusion superband Weather Report in addition to his incomparable path as a leader.
1|3–6 T H U, JA N 3 • 7:30pm $
40 –1 0 0
F R I , JA N 4 • 7:30pm $
40 –1 0 0
S AT, J A N 5 • 7 : 3 0 p m $
50 –11 0
S U N , JA N 6 • 7pm $
40 –1 0 0 27
TRUMPET SUPERSTAR
CHRIS BOTTI 1|8–13
Chris Botti, the world’s biggest-selling jazz instrumentalist, was never the same after hearing Miles Davis’ version of “My Funny Valentine” when he was 12. A subtle trumpeter with a uniquely expressive sound, fluent phrasing and sense of space, Botti became a masterly musician equally at home in the realms of jazz and pop. He honed his craft performing and recording with stars like Sting, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and Frank Sinatra and his newest album, Impressions, was a GRAMMY winner for Best Instrumental Pop Album.
TUE, JAN 8 • 7:30 p m $
28
55 –125
WED, JAN 9 • 7:30 pm $
55 –125
THU, JAN 10 • 7:30 p m $
70 –125
“ Mr. Botti’s work functions both on the level of flickering intimacy and thundering grandiosity. He’s adept at exuding human warmth on a sweeping scale.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
FRI, JAN 11 • 7& 9:30pm $
55 –150
SAT, JAN 12 • 7& 9:30pm $
55–150
SUN, JAN 13 • 3 & 7pm $
55–150
AN EVENING WITH
BRANFORD MARSALIS QUARTET 1|17–20
"The highest echelon of jazz tenor saxophonists,” (LA Times) the NEA Jazz Master and three-time GRAMMY winner is the eldest musical sibling in jazz’s most famous contemporary clan. An artist with an insatiable desire to expand horizons, he has worked extensively in classical, funk, and pop settings, and performs with his quartet including pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Reevis and drummer Justin Falkner.
T H U, JA N 1 7 • 7:30pm $
JOE HENDERSON LAB S E E PA G E 4 9 F O R D E TA I L S
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“ A knockout: hard nosed and hyperacute, tradition minded but modern, defined by the high-wire grace of his working band.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
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HOTPLATE: TERRENCE BREWER & PAMELA ROSE PLAY ELLA FITZGERALD & JOE PASS TAKE LOVE EASY
K AT E D M O N D S O N
LORI CARSILLO
S H E I L A J O R DA N D U O W/ C A M E R O N B R O W N
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CHUCHO VALDÉS & IRAKERE 45
2|1–3 “One of the world’s great virtuosic pianists.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
S AV E T H E DAT E
SFJAZZ
GALA 2 0 1 9 HONORING
C H U C H O VA L D É S
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Winner of six GRAMMY and three Latin GRAMMY Awards, the Cuban pianist, composer and arranger Chucho Valdés is the most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz. Son of Cuban music icon Bebo Valdés, Chucho has spent much of his career in the vanguard of the Latin music. A co-founder of the seminal ensemble Irakere, he forged an unprecedented synthesis of bebop, Afro-Cuban jazz, rock and R&B.
F R I , F E B 1 • 7:30pm $
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The greatest living Cuban pianist and a singular force in Cuban music for more than half a century, piano virtuoso Chucho Valdés celebrates his week as 2018 SFJAZZ Gala honoree and Resident Artistic Director with Irakere 45, the new iteration of the legendary band that changed the course of Latin music in the 1970s and 80s. Valdés was already recognized as the most formidable pianist of his generation when he launched Irakere in 1973 with a phenomenal cast that included saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera and trumpeter Arturo Sandoval. Discovered and introduced internationally by Dizzy Gillespie, the band’s unprecedented synthesis of folkloric Afro-Cuban rhythms, sacred drums, rock, funk, and jazz opened up vast new frontiers, and helped pave the way for the pervasively popular dance music known as timba. A springboard from Valdes’ GRAMMY-winning Afro-Cuban Messengers band, Irakare 45 showcases a blazing new generation of Cuban talent.
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W E E K 2 1 : B E R N S T E I N , G O L D I N G S A N D S T E WA R T
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“Part of the enjoyment is glancing from the screen to the dimly lighted stage, seeing the puppeteers move from backdrop to backdrop and watching the ingenuity of the perspective and the minuscule gestures that translate into big-screen drama.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
GR APHIC NOVEL LIVE
KID KOALA NUFONIA MUST FALL
The audience becomes part of a live movie made before their eyes, in a happening combining live puppeteering filmed and edited in real time on over a dozen miniature sets and projected on video screens, backed by an ensemble of strings, piano, and electronic instruments. Montreal-based DJ, composer, and producer Kid Koala brings back this enchanting adaptation of his graphic novel Nufonia Must Fall about a lonely robot looking for love.
2|7-10 L I S T E N I N G PA R T Y W/ K I D K O A L A
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HUBBY JENKINS
D O N VA P P I E
LEYLA McCALLA
LEYLA McCALLA
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FL AMENCO SOUL JAZZ
BUIKA
2|14-17 “The outspoken queen of flamenco fusion,” (The Guardian) Buika has forged a soul-drenched vocal style combining traditional Spanish coplas with the Gypsy laments of flamenco and jazz improvisation. National Public Radio voted her one of the world’s “50 Great Voices,” and she has collaborated with Chucho Valdés, Chick Corea, Me’shell Ndegeocello, and Nelly Furtado. Her latest release, Para Mí, was nominated for a GRAMMY.
“Though compared to Nina Simone, Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf, Buika sounds like no one but herself.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES
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JOE HENDERSON LAB
LILAN KANE: CLASSIC LOVE SONGS
LILAN KANE: A TRIBUTE TO ETTA JAMES THE DYN AMIC MISS FAY E CA ROL
S E E PA G E S 5 0 - 5 1 F O R D E TA I L S
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WEEK 24: WEEK OF LOVE
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R ESID ENT ARTISTIC D I R E C TO R
R ESID ENT ARTISTIC D I R E C TO R
DIANNE REEVES 2|21–24
“The most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.” — NEW YORK TIMES 2018 NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves is jazz’s greatest living vocalist — an artist who embodies the music’s enduring values of elegance, class and improvisational poise. Her string of GRAMMYs includes an unprecedented three consecutive Best Jazz Vocal Performance awards, another for her contributions to George Clooney’s film Good Night and Good Luck, and a Best Jazz Vocal Album nod for her most recent Concord release Beautiful Life.
BOSSA NOVA & BEYOND
20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Reeves and her masterful band including Brazilian guitar genius Romero Lubambo present the World Premiere of her new project devoted to the music of Brazil, accompanied by legendary pianist and composer Ivan Lins. Though Reeves has touched on the work of Dori Caymmi, Vinícius de Moraes, and Jobim over the years, this is her first evening-length sojourn into Brazilian popular song.
“One of our generation’s definitive jazz masters” (Huffington Post), The GRAMMY-winning vocalist celebrates the 20th Anniversary of her 1999 Blue Note release Bridges, a standout session produced by her late uncle, George Duke, and featuring a selection of lovingly re-imagined pop songs by the likes of Peter Gabriel, Joni Mitchell, and Leonard Cohen. Reeves honors the legacy of Duke with these special performances.
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HOTPLATE: JAZ SAWYER PLAYS EDDIE MARSHALL'S DANCE OF THE SUN
J A Z S A W Y E R F E A T. J A S O N M A R S A L I S
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WEEK 25: PERCUSSION DISCUSSION
SA 2|23 • 7 & 8:30pm
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MALIAN STRING MA STERS
HABIB KOITÉ & BASSEKOU KOUYATÉ
CARNIVAL: THE SOUND OF A PEOPLE
ETIENNE CHARLES 3|1
2|24 The two greatest figures in Malian string music come together for this collaboration, in its US premiere. “The biggest pop star of the West African nation of Mali” (Rolling Stone), guitarist and singer Koité is a pioneer of Afropop. Malian lute virtuoso Kouyate has collaborated with Youssou NDOUR, Carlos Santana and U2.
“One of jazz’s more ambitious soloists and composers” (NY Times), the remarkable young Julliard-educated trumpeter and newest member of the SFJAZZ Collective meshes a profound knowledge of the jazz tradition with the bone-deep Creole influence of his Trinidad upbringing. He performs his suite dedicated to the sounds and traditions of his homeland’s Carnival celebration.
“A genius, and living proof that the blues comes from the region of Segu.” — TAJ MAHAL ON BASSKOU KOUYATÉ S U N , F E B 24 • 8 p m $
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B A N DA M AG DA
L I S A M E Z Z AC A P PA
COSA NOSTRA STRINGS
FR 3|1 • 7 & 8:30pm
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WEEK 26: LEADING WOMEN II
BOSSA & BEYOND
ELIANE ELIAS 3|7–10 “Pianist-composer Eliane Elias does more for hemispheric unity than the Organization of American States…” —PEOPLE
ONE NIGHT IN BERLIN
BROADWAY MUSICAL RE-IMAGINED
MUSIC FROM MAN OF LA MANCHA
Elias’ latest album is a previously unreleased 1995 session devoted to songs from composer Mitch Leigh’s Tony-winning score to the 1964 Broadway hit Man of La Mancha — a musical inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th century masterpiece Don Quixote. Elias and her band perform music from the album in fresh arrangements that blend Leigh’s melodies with the sultry samba influences that are Elias’ trademark. T H U , M A R 7 • 7:30 p m $
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SFJAZZ MEMBERSHIP S E E PA G E 5 5 F O R D E TA I L S
A RETROSPECTIVE CELEBRATION
BOSSA & BEYOND
ELIANE ELIAS: MY SONGS
More than a masterful instrumentalist and vocalist, Elias is a well-established composer, with over 100 songs to her credit including the GRAMMY-nominated “What About the Heart.” This night focuses on her work as a writer, with a set list of originals handpicked for the performance.
ELIANE ELIAS: SONGS FROM BRAZIL “Ms. Elias is never more sumptuously at home than when she turns to bossa nova” (NY Times). The São Paulo-born pianist and singer plays a selection of her favorite Brazilian music from the likes of Jobim, Dorival Caymmi, Gilberto Gil, Ivan Lins, and more. Her recent Concord Jazz release chronicling the music of her home country, Made In Brazil, won the 2016 GRAMMY for Best Latin Jazz Album.
“With her quietly alluring vocals and shimmering, Bill Evans-inspired touch on the piano, Eliane Elias has reigned as Brazil’s most successful jazz transplant.” —THE MERCURY NEWS
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MAX RAABE & PALAST ORCHESTER 3|12 “Max Raabe likes to party like it's 1929” (NY Times). Performing gems from German cabaret and American songs that made the European hit parade in the 1920s and 30s, Raabe and his 12-piece orchestra bring the madcap fun and musical sophistication of Germany’s Weimar era to life. T U E , M A R 1 2 • 8pm $
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RESIDE N T A R T I S TN IC RESIDE T D R A IRRTEICSTO TIC
“...Joe Lovano is more than a dominant figure in jazz. He’s jazz’s answer to George Clooney or Jeff Bridges, a vibrant player who delivers an award-worthy performance every time out.”
D I R E C TO R
JOE LOVANO
—THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
3|14–17 “When I present an ensemble, whether it’s two pieces or nine pieces, it’s all the same. It’s all one. I look forward to creating some music within the music, with the people and for the people, every night.” — JOE LOVANO
“The titan among us” (DownBeat), GRAMMY Award-winning saxophonist Joe Lovano is one of the era’s definitive improvisers and bandleaders. The performances this week both build on Lovano’s legacy and explore new directions.
TRIBUTE TO 52ND STREET
JOE LOVANO NONET Lovano brings his superb nonet featured on his 2000 GRAMMY-winning Blue Note Records release, 52nd Street Themes, playing inventive arrangements of music by Tadd Dameron, Billy Strayhorn, Monk, Miles, and Gershwin — tunes with deep personal meaning to the saxophonist.
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TRIOISM — DOUBLE BILL
TRIO W/ BILL FRISELL, TYSHAWN SOREY TRIO W/ MARILYN CRISPELL, CARMEN CASTALDI This double bill features a trio with Bill Frisell and Tyshawn Sorey, taking inspiration from Paul Motian’s iconic trio with Lovano and Frisell. Trio Fascination band pairs the saxophonist with piano maverick Marilyn Crispell and drummer Carmen Castaldi. F R I , M A R 1 5 • 7:30pm $
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RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DUO
JOE LOVANO & CHUCHO VALDÉS
The GRAMMY-winning tenor saxophonist joins the reigning Cuban piano genius and key figure in the evolution of AfroCuban jazz in this first-time collaboration that bridges musical and cultural borders. Each is a musician considered the pinnacle of their art with long ties to the history of SFJAZZ.
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TENOR SUMMIT
JOE LOVANO: TENOR SUMMIT W/ JOSHUA REDMAN & RAVI COLTRANE Reuniting Lovano with Redman, whose explosive duo performance was a highlight of our historic 2013 opening night concert, this is an unprecedented gathering of tenor saxophone masters, backed by the rhythm section of Gerald Clayton, Scott Colley, and Lewis Nash. S U N , M A R 1 7 • 7pm $
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DEREK GRIPPER
KAKI KING
GERMÁN LÓPEZ
BOOK OF J
TH 3|14 • 7 & 8:30pm
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WEEK 28: STRINGS AROUND THE WORLD
AFRO-CUBAN ROOTS
FATOUMATA DIAWARA/ ROBERTO FONSECA 3|24
BRINGING THE FUNK
JOHN SCOFIELD W/ LETTUCE 3|21–24 The long-running relationship between guitar icon John Scofield and the all-star jam band Lettuce is built on a deep and abiding love of funk. After Scofield appeared on the band’s 2002 debut Outta Here, Lettuce drummer Adam Deitch returned the favor, contributing his monstrous grooves to the guitarist’s Verve albums Überjam and Up All Night. They reunite after appearing together at NY’s Brooklyn Bowl last New Year’s Eve.
“The best of a new breed of African poet-chanteuse, and the most beguiling talent to hit the world music scene in some time” (The Telegraph), young vocal star Diawara shares this double bill with “The rightful heir to the Buena Vista Social Club legacy” (Time Out NY ), pianist and composer Fonseca.
“Stuttering bass-and-drum interplay, furious guitars and organs — and nary a note to be found outside the pocket.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
T H U, M A R 2 1 • 7:30pm $
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HOTPLATE: MASHA CAMPAGNE SINGS ANTÔNIO CARLOS JOBIM & ELIS REGINA’S ELIS & TOM
TH 3|21 • 7 & 8:30pm
WEEK 29: SING SING SING II
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SOFIA REI
S A N DY C R E S S M A N
PA S C U A L A I L A B AC A S
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CELEBR ATION OF HOLI
RED BARAAT: FESTIVAL OF COLORS 3|30 TRIBUTE TO EDITH PIAF
ART OF THE TRIO
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PIAF! THE SHOW “New-breed marching-band music that’s part Punjabi wedding, part New Orleans second line, and all New York.” (Boston Globe) The Brooklyn octet whips up a raucous mix of Indian bhangra rhythms, go-go music, jazz, hip-hop and Crescent City funk, and return with Festival of Colors, celebrating the Hindu holiday of Holi. Come party with the band the Wall Street Journal calls “a big band for the world.” S A T, M A R 3 0 • 7 : 3 0 p m $
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BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO
Tracing the rags-to-riches life of the great Edith Piaf through her timeless songs, French vocalist Anne Carrere embodies the spirit of the “Little Sparrow” in a multimedia theatrical production that combines photo projections with a pitch-perfect ensemble. The show makes its Bay Area debut with this exclusive performance.
“Carrere's soaring voice clinches this slow-burn tribute to the French star.”
“One of the most consistently fascinating voices in current jazz,” Mehldau has done more to extend the piano trio’s possibilities than any artist in the 21st Century. His longstanding trio with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard is the most influential working trio in modern jazz, and for these dates they perform a diverse range of material including songs from their new Nonesuch album Seymour Reads The Constitution.
—THE GUARDIAN T H U, A P R 4 • 7:30pm $
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D A V I N A A N D T H E VA G A B O N D S
S E E PA G E S 5 2 - 5 3 F O R D E TA I L S
TH 3|28 • 7 & 8:30pm WEEK 30: CAMPY & COOL
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ETHAN LIPTON & HIS ORCHESTRA FR 3|29 • 7 & 8:30pm
SA 3|30 • 7 & 9pm
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THE QUEEN OF FADO
MARIZA 4|12-14
“The Sade of fado.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Mehldau achieves an almost spiritual resonance, chords echoing like amens.”
“Reviving and reinventing the traditional fado style” (Washington Post), Mariza is the music’s greatest star, embracing the Portuguese traditional song form with more passion and charisma than any living artist. Regularly filling stadiums in her homeland, she performed in duet with Sting at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and received two GRAMMY nominations for her multi-platinum selling albums that blend Portuguese folk poetry, Arabic cadences and African and Brazilian rhythms. In performance Mariza is a captivating presence, infusing the timeless melodies of her homeland with a singular style.
—TIME
“Mariza is a huge star in Portugal singing fado…when she sings in her luscious voice, we can acknowledge our mortality and still find happiness in the beauty of the song.” —KQED F R I , A P R 1 2 • 7:30pm
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KURT ROSENWINKEL QUINTET SU 4|7 • 6 & 7:30pm
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SOLO PIANO
THE SPRING QUARTET
HIROMI
JACK DEJOHNETTE, JOE LOVANO, ESPERANZA SPALDING, LEO GENOVESE
4|18-21 “One of jazz piano’s most brazenly virtuosic players,” (JazzTimes), Hiromi presents a series of rare solo sets. Blending a foundation in classical repertoire with a deep feeling for the jazz tradition, the GRAMMY winner has led a dozen albums with bands of various configurations including her celebrated Trio Project. But it is the solo recital that allows Hiromi to follow her creative muse unadorned and to explore without restriction.
“Playing unaccompanied is perfect for Hiromi; the acoustic solo-piano format gives her plenty of room to explore her creative impulses.” —ALL MUSIC GUIDE
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4|24 NEA Jazz Master DeJohnette is among the most influential drummers in history, and GRAMMY-winning saxophonist Lovano is one of the era’s definitive improvisers. Virtuosic bassist, vocalist and Best New Artist GRAMMY winner Spalding remains the brightest star in jazz, and the formidable Argentine pianist Leo Genovese rounds out the band.
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HOTPLATE: JOE GILMAN PLAYS BILL EVANS' SUNDAY AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD
A DA M S H U L M A N S E X T E T
G E R A L D C L AY T O N T R I O
TH 4|18 • 7 & 8:30pm
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WEEK 33: KEYED UP II
SU 4|21 • 6 & 7:30pm
BALK AN CELEBR ATION
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB REVISITED
GORAN BREGOVIĆ
AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS
& his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra
4|25–28
5|2-5
“A musical spectacle unlike anything else on North American stages” (SF Chronicle), the sublime madness of composer/guitarist Bregović’s trans-Balkan musical feast returns, featuring Gypsy brass players, Bulgarian vocalists and Serbian string players in a kaleidoscope of action, color and intoxicating beats. A multi-night run for Bregović is a rarity, so each night will be different, while focusing on material from his new album Three Letters from Sarajevo.
“Serbian Gypsy brass bands are party generators, and Mr. Bregovic’s compositions let them do their job.”
“A thrillingly autentico survey of the colorful panorama of Cuban music, from religious batumbata beats through contemporary timba jams.”—VILLAGE VOICE
—THE NEW YORK TIMES
T H U – F R I, AP R 2 5–2 6 • 7 : 3 0 p m $
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S UN , A P R 28 • 7 p m $
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Led by Juan de Marcos, founding member of the Buena Vista Social Club and Son revival band Sierra Maestra, Afro-Cuban All Stars are a sensational showcase for Cuba’s most prodigious young musicians and established veterans. The band not only features a multi-generational cast, but also draws on both classic Cuban styles like son and danzón as well as contemporary timba dance rhythms.
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FLOR DE TOLOACHE TH 5|9 • 7 & 8:30pm
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WEEK 36: MARIACHI FEMININA
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SWINGING GROOVE MACHINE
“Lila Downs mixes traditional Mexican genres with a strong feminist pulse.”
TEARS AND DESIRE
LILA DOWNS
—NPR
5|16–19 With "a stunning voice, a confident multicultural vision grounded in her Mixtec Indian roots" (LA Times) Mexican-American vocalist Lila Downs is a multiple GRAMMY winner and one of the most celebrated singers of her generation. Recognized worldwide as a global ambassador for Mexico's folkloric traditions, her tremendous voice and original compositions create a musical concept that is innovative, unique, and always powerful.
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ANAT COHEN TENTET
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5|19 “The sense of fun is contagious and swing is seriously the thing,” (DownBeat) as Cohen returns with her tentet under the direction of Oded LevAri, blending Brazilian music, klezmer and gypsy jazz. The leading edge of a wave of brilliant Israeli improvisers who have energized the New York jazz scene, Anat Cohen is the most acclaimed clarinetist of her generation and an artist The Wall Street Journal says “does it all brilliantly.” S U N , M AY 1 9 • 8 p m $
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HOTPLATE: ANTON SCHWARTZ PLAYS DEXTER GORDON'S GO
JOE HENDERSON LAB
TH 5|16 • 7 & 8:30pm
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R ESID ENT ARTISTIC D I R E C TO R
MARCUS SHELBY 5|23–26
“Marcus Shelby illuminates history through jazz.” — SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Bassist, composer, arranger, educator and bandleader Marcus Shelby is a figure synonymous with Bay Area jazz and the spirit of collaboration. His work focuses on the history, present, and future of the African-American experience, and this week of performances, in settings from small group to orchestra, include nights devoted to San Francisco’s historic neighborhoods, pioneering blues singers as seen by a Civil Rights icon, a large-scale work looking back at the Negro Leagues, and the music of jazz’s greatest composer.
SAN FRANCISCO BLUES
W/ DANIEL HANDLER
BLUES LEGACIES AND BLACK FEMINISM
W/ANGELA DAVIS
Author Daniel Handler of Lemony Snicket fame joins Shelby and his septet for an evening tracing the blues tradition and the neighborhoods of San Francisco from the time of the Barbary Coast in the late 19th century to the present day.
Author, activist, and educator Angela Davis joins Shelby’s all-star quintet for this evening of spoken word and music that illuminates the legacies of “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, featuring Terri Lyne Carrington, Tia Fuller, Tammy Hall, Paula West, Tiffany Austin, and Kim Nalley.
T H U , M AY 2 3 • 7 : 3 0 p m
F R I , M AY 2 4 • 7 : 3 0 p m
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BLACKBALL: THE NEGRO LEAGUES AND THE BLUES
MARCUS SHELBY ORCHESTRA
The premiere of an extended piece for big band, drawing connections between the barnstorming teams of the early 20th century Negro Leagues and the territory bands of the swing era. The show re-creates the comedic aspect of the games, complete with clowns and physical comedy. S A T , M AY 2 5 • 7 : 3 0 p m $
3 0 –7 0
ELLINGTON: BLUES AND SWING
MARCUS SHELBY ORCHESTRA
Shelby’s superlative orchestra honors the swinging, bluesheavy legacy of jazz’s greatest composer, Duke Ellington, with this night of music featuring vocalists Kenny Washington and the Dynamic Miss Faye Carol in addition to GRAMMY winner and former Turtle Island Quartet violinist Mads Tolling.
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JOE HENDERSON LAB
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amed for the late, legendary saxophonist and San Francisco resident Joe Henderson who had a long and memorable history with SFJAZZ, performing over a dozen times in various settings including a 1993 tribute night entitled “We Love Joe.” The 120-seat Joe Henderson Lab is a flexible and energetic performance space where the audience can get up-close and experience live music from some of the most exciting and cutting-edge artists in an intimate setting. From dance floor shows to seated concerts, the Lab features Bay Area’s best musicians, internationally renowned artists, and today’s rising stars. Joe Henderson was a major proponent for jazz education during his time in the Bay Area, and therefore the room rightfully is host to many education classes, as well as the rehearsal space for both the awardwinning SFJAZZ High School All-Stars, and the Monday Night Band community ensemble.
“As open as the genre it celebrates.” — NATE CHINEN, THE NEW YORK TIMES PAINTING OF JOE HENDERSON BY MARK ULRIKSEN 44
INTIMATE
OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
The 100-plus seat venue allows audience members to feel a direct connection to the music and the performers, only a few feet away.
Located on the corner of Franklin and Linden streets, the Lab is a transparent, welcoming, and open space built with glass walls that help break down barriers between performers, the audience, and the neighborhood.
The room is a music laboratory for learning, exploration, and experimentation. SFJAZZ Education offers interactive masterclasses, lectures, workshops, and the Lab serves as a rehearsal space for both the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars and Monday Night Band.
“It was almost as if I could have touched the sound. That's the genius of this building...unlike so many other venues, its design concept is all about openness and welcoming.” — DAVID WIEGAND, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
THROUGH THE GLASS: PASSERBY'S LOOK INTO THE TRANSPARENT LAB AT SCHEHERAZADE STONE WITH THE REFLECTION OF THE JIM MARSHALL JAZZ PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT ACROSS THE STREET
EMERGING ARTIST KANDACE SPRING GIVES AN INTIMATE PERFORMANCE IN THE 2016-17 SEASON
OAKLAND'S BRASS MAGIC GETS PEOPLE MOVING ON THE OPEN DANCE FLOOR
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ELECTRONIC BEAT JAZZ
TAYLOR MCFERRIN
FEAT. MARCUS GILMORE
JOE HENDERSON LAB
9| 6–9
Eldest son of singer Bobby McFerrin, Taylor McFerrin is a cutting edge DJ, producer, keyboardist, and composer whose music was lauded by Pitchfork for its “undeniable beauty.” Influenced by 70s soul, jazz and electronic music, McFerrin released his debut album, Early Riser, on superstar producer Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label. He performs with the masterful jazz drummer Marcus Gilmore (Vijay Iyer, Chick Corea). T H , 9 | 6 • 6:30 & 8:30 pm $ 30–35
FR, 9|7 • 7& 8:30pm
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STEVEN BERNSTEIN FEST
STEVEN BERNSTEIN FEST
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“A sliver of intricate, sun-dappled, jazz-soaked electronica.” —THE TIMES $
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SU, 9|9 • 6 & 7:30 pm $ 30 –35 da n c ef lo o r
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TWO SI DES O F STEV E B ERN STE IN “A trumpeter so constantly in-demand the word prolific would only make him sound lazy” —JAZZTIMES A master of the previously obscure slide trumpet, Steven Bernstein is a fearless improviser, composer and arranger. For this four-night residency presents two of his most explosive ensembles.
SEXMOB PLAYS FELLINI Trumpeter Bernstein’s week begins with his rollicking quartet, playing music from their 2013 Nino Rota focused album. TH, 9|13 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
$
25
STEVEN BERNSTEIN FEST
STEVEN BERNSTEIN’S MTO WEST
SEXMOB PLAYS ELLINGTON “Steven Bernstein's Sexmob have given themselves one task: to make modern jazz fun." FR, 9|14 • 7& 8:30pm
$
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The West Coast version of Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra augments the core Sexmob lineup with a cadre of superlative Bay Area musicians.
SA, 9|15 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
$
30
SU, 9|16 • 6 & 7 : 3 0 p m
$
25
LE A D I N G WO ME N I Spanning genres, approaches, instruments, and generations, women are in charge.
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Exploratory veteran leaders Jane Bunnett and Jane Ira Bloom bring their inclusive ensembles, while rising young stars Katie Thiroux and LADAMA bring fresh perspectives to jazz and Latin music.
THE FACE OF CUBAN MUSIC
JANE BUNNETT & MAQUEQUE Juno-winning saxophonist Bunnett performs with her band made up of the greatest female musicians in Cuba including. TH, 9|20 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
$
30
sponsored by the selvage fund
BASSIST AND VOCALIST
KATIE THIROUX
“The skyrocketing young star is an enchanting singer, a poised and polished acoustic bassist, and an accomplished composer” — Boston Globe FR, 9|21 • 7& 8:30pm $2 5
PAN-LATIN CELEBRATION
IMPROVISING EMILY DICKINSON
LADAMA
JANE IRA BLOOM
A collective quartet that brings together women from across the Americas, LADAMA creates joyous pan-Latin music.
Jazz’s greatest living soprano saxophonist performs with her spectacular quartet including pianist Dawn Clement.
SA, 9|22 • 7 : 3 0 & 9 p m
SU, 9|23 • 6 & 7 : 3 0 p m
$
30
$
30
SWEET SPIRIT
AR T OF THE TRIO
CYRUS CHESNUT TRIO
“There is something inspired and kinetic about Chestnut’s playing with Williams and White” — ALL MUSIC GUIDE
“The best pianist of his generation” (TIME), Chestnut spent his formative years with Jon Hendricks, Betty Carter, Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison, and Wynton Marsalis before establishing a sterling career as a leader. He performs with his all-star trio with bassist Buster Williams and drummer Lenny White, playing music from their newest HighNote album There’s a Sweet, Sweet Spirit. TH, 9|27 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
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FR, 9|28 • 7& 8:30pm
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35
“a highly intelligent improviser with one of the surest senses of swing in jazz.”—THE NEW YORK TIMES
SA, 9|29 • 7 : 3 0 & 9 p m
$
35
SU, 9|30 • 6 & 7 : 3 0 p m
$
30
SE P T E MBE R
Chestnut’s trio features bassist Williams, known for his work with Herbie Hancock’s early 70s Mwandishi sextet, and drummer White, veteran of Chick Corea’s Return to Forever and Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew.
W/ BUSTER WILLIAMS & LENNY WHITE 9| 27–30
NEW TRUMPE T
BRITISH JAZZ EXPLOSION
JAZZ LEGACY
SONS OF KEMET
BAY AREA TRUMPET GREAT
ADAM O'FARRILL
FEAT. SHABAKA HUTCHINGS “Kinetic and thrilling” (Spin), British scene superstar Hutchings brings his saxophone, tuba, and double drums quartet.
The trumpeter and grandson of Latin Jazz pioneer Chico O’Farrill makes his West Coast debut with his cinematically inspired Stranger Days quartet.
WE, 10|10 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
TH, 10|11 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
$
35
THE MUGICIAN
ERIK JEKABSON
$
25
“A cutting-edge jazz player and writer” (JazzTimes), the trumpeter performs with his new sextet featuring percussion master John Santos. FR, 10|12 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
$
25
NEW CHI-TOWN SOUND
KEYON HARROLD
MARQUIS HILL BLACKTET
One of Rolling Stone’s “10 New Artists You Need to Know,” Harrold plays music from his new politically-charged album, The Mugician.
Winner of the Thelonious Monk International Trumpet Competition, the Chicagoborn artist brings his brilliant Blacktet project featuring drummer Makaya McCraven.
SA, 10|13 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
SU, 10|14 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
$
35
$
30
KE Y E D UP I These ascendent artists showcase the range of piano expression in modern jazz.
SFJAZZ HOTPLATE
KEV CHOICE
PLAYS SONNY CLARK TRIO The pianist, producer, and MC brings a hip-hop and soul-influenced perspective to pianist Clark’s classic 1958 Blue Note album. T H, 10 | 18 • 7 & 8 : 30 p m members save 25%
$
1 5 –2 0
PLANETARY PRINCE
REACH
CAMERON GRAVES
CHRISTIAN SANDS TRIO
The pianist known for his work on Kamasi Washington’s The Epic brings music from his debut, Planetary Prince.
Best known for his work with Christian McBride, the GRAMMY-nominated virtuoso presents material from his Mack Avenue debut, Reach.
FR, 10|19 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
SA, 10|20 • 7 & :308 p m
$
25
$
35
SOLO PIANO
TIGRAN HAMASYAN
“A mature and great and rich and deep artist” (Chick Corea), the Thelonious Monk Competition winner performs solo. S U, 1 0 | 2 1 • 6 & 8 p m
$
35
OCTOBER
A Bay Area piano phenom salutes the great Sonny Clark, an amalgam of West Coast funk, jazz and math rock, the latest music from a dazzling jazz virtuoso, and a solo turn by a young Armenian genius.
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T R ADI T I O N S I N T R AN SI TI O N A passing of the torch from legendary influences to contemporary masters.
O C TO BE R
This week, a gifted heiress to the jazz vocal tradition performs, along with a musician who represents the living legacy of the electric guitar’s greatest icon.
CELEBRATING HENDRIX’S 75 TH
A SOCIAL CALL
VERNON REID'S BAND OF GYPSIES REVISITED
JAZZMEIA HORN “A fully realized stylist and a first-rate scatter whose vivacity, imagination, gutsiness and sociopolitical savvy echo the likes of Betty Carter and Abbey Lincoln. As exciting a discovery as Cécile McLorin Salvant or Gregory Porter.” (JazzTimes) TH, 10|25 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
$
35
FR, 10|26 • 7& 8:30pm
$
35
Ranked #66 on Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Guitarists, Living Colour bandleader and Ornette Coleman collaborator Reid pays tribute to Jimi Hendrix’s funkiest ensemble in celebration of the late guitar icon’s 75th birthday. SA, 10|27 • 7 & 8:30 p m $ 3 0 -3 5 dancefloor show
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limited seating
10|25 7PM: PRE-CONCERT TALK
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SU, 10|28 • 7 & 8:30 p m $ 3 0 -3 5 dancefloor show
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limited seating
GARY GIDDENS — LEADERS CIRCLE ONLY
EX P LO RATO RY CO M P OSERS Two boundary-pushing Bay Area-based musicians and composers present new work. Pianist and Guggenheim fellow Melford’s nights feature music written specifically for this stunning cast of top-shelf improvisers, while Carey premieres a new suite commissioned by Chamber Music America.
WORLD PREMIERE
ALL-STAR QUINTET
IAN CAREY QUINTET +1
MYRA MELFORD'S SNOWY EGRET
“One of the most interesting and underrated pianists in jazz today” (Wall Street Journal), Melford presents the SFJAZZ debut of her quintet with cornetist Ron Miles, guitarist Liberty Ellman, bassist Stomu Takeishi, and drummer Tyshawn Sorey. FR, 11|2 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
2
25
SA, 11|3 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
$
30
Fire in My Head (The Anxiety Suite) “A musician pursuing his own poised, painterly vision” (KQED), trumpeter Carey presents the World Premiere of his multimovement work Fire in My Head (The Anxiety Suite) with his quintet +1 featuring saxophonist Kasey Knudsen. SU, 11|4 • 6 & 7:30 p m $ 2 0
B ROT HERHO O D O F T H E DRUM Sharing a passion for rhythm, the range of musical diversity in today’s drummer-led bands.
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The virtuosic, electronicainformed modern jazz of Guiliana is balanced this week by Miller’s joyful, oldschool ragtime folk songs and spirituals of the early 20th century.
JOYFUL JAZZ
BLACKSTAR DRUMMER
SAMMY MILLER AND THE CONGREGATION
MARK GUILIANA TWO HORNS “A drummer around whom a cult of admiration has formed” (NY Times), Guiliana gained fame through work with Brad Mehldau and on David Bowie’s Blackstar. After his acclaimed release Jersey, Guiliana unveils his latest group featuring a “two horn” front line. TH, 11|8 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
2
35
FR, 11|9 • 7& 8:30pm
$
35
“This is feel-good party jazz, harking back to the '20s and '30s. It's brassy, stomp your feet and dance music, and it's got the raw, uplifting vibe of a New Orleans street parade.” — SF Weekly
SA, 11|10 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
$
30
SU, 11|11 • 6 & 7 : 3 0 p m
$
25
1 0 0 G R E AT E S T J A Z Z A L B U M S
H OT P L ATE F EST I VA L
members save 25%
SFJAZZ HOTPLATE
JOHN BROTHERS PIANO CO.
The saxophonist and band perform material from Monk’s 1968 quartet album. T H, 11| 15 • 7 & 8 : 30 p m
PLAYS THELONIOUS MONK’S UNDERGROUND
$
1 5 -2 0
JAZZ M A FI A FEST
SFJAZZ HOTPLATE
SFJAZZ HOTPLATE
SFJAZZ HIGH SCHOOL ALLSTARS ALUM WILL MAGID
STEVEN LUGERNER’S JACKNIFE
The Bay Area band plays rollicking versions of tunes from Mingus’ 1963 solo piano album.
PLAYS HERBIE HANCOCK’S HEAD HUNTERS
PLAYS JACKIE McLEAN’S IT’S TIME
Music from Herbie Hancock’s landmark 1973 fusion album.
The band plays material from McLean’s long-shelved masterpiece from 1965-66.
FR, 11|16 • 7& 8:30pm
SA , 1 1 | 1 7 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
S U , 1 1 | 1 8 • 6 & 7:30 p m
PLAYS CHARLES MINGUS’ MINGUS PLAYS PIANO
$
1 5 -2 0
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NOV E MBE R
A week-long mini-festival devoted to our series celebrating the 100 greatest albums of the jazz canon, interpreted by the best Bay Area jazz artists.
SFJAZZ HOTPLATE
SMITH DOBSON
JAZZ MAFIA 12| 7–9
A sampling of current projects from bassist, trombonist, composer, and arranger Adam Theis’ wildly eclectic collective.
LADIES OF HIP-HOP
JAZZ MAFIA’S HEAVIEST FEATHER
WITH GUEST VOCALISTS
JAZZ MAFIA ACCOMPLICES
Jazz Mafia’s newest band honors iconic women of hiphop with the Bay Area’s best women MCs as special guests.
Inspired by the Balkan, Afrobeat, and New Orleans traditions, Theis’ brass ensemble performs surprising covers and funky originals.
Blending hip-hop, electroswing, and early jazz with the bawdy spirit of the Barbary Coast, the group performs with special guests.
FR, 12|7 • 7& 8:30pm
SA , 1 2 | 8 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
S U , 1 2 | 9 • 6 & 7:30 p m
$
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D E C E M B E R
An electro-acoustic salute to the women of hip-hop, a brass band informed by traditions from the Balkans and New Orleans, and a group formed for the spectacular “Soiled Dove” burlesque circus.
BRASS MUSIC OF THE WORLD
BRASS MAFIA
S I NG S I N G SI N G I A week of vocalists exemplifying the recurring theme of “Traditions in Transition”
SFJAZZ HOTPLATE
TERRENCE BREWER & PAMELA ROSE
PLAY ELLA FITZGERALD & JOE PASS TAKE LOVE EASY Vocalist Rose and guitarist Brewer revisit the music of Ella and Joe’s 1973 duet release. T H, 1| 17 • 7 & 8 : 30 p m members save 25%
$
1 5 –2 0
OLD FASHIONED GAL
KAT EDMONDSON
“The most promising American jazz singer to come along since Cassandra Wilson” (Boston Globe) performs from her new album. FR, 1|18 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m $2 5
A DREAM OR TWO
LORI CARSILLO
“A lovely voice, superb phrasing, an impressive range” (JazzTimes), Carsillo brings music from her new album A Dream or Two. SA, 1|19 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m $ 3 5
VOCAL LEGEND
SHEILA JORDAN DUO W/ CAMERON BROWN One of the great living jazz legends, NEA Jazz Master Jordan performs in duet with bassist Brown. S U, 1 | 2 0 • 6 & 7 : 3 0 p m
$
35
JAN UA RY
Led by a pair Bay Area greats honoring the sublime collaboration of Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass, the week includes a true bebop legend and a pair of young singers who have followed her lead, forging new paths.
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30 TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
PETER BERNSTEIN, LARRY GOLDINGS, BILL STEWART TRIO 1| 24–27
JOE HENDERSON LAB
JAN UA RY
“One of current jazz’s finest small groups” (JazzTimes), the trio of guitarist Peter Bernstein, organist Larry Goldings and drummer Bill Stewart is the longest-lived and most virtuosic organ trio in existence. Celebrating three decades as a band, they have taken the tradition popularized by Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff and Larry Young in the 1960s into fresh territory, and for this four-night run, perform material from their new Pirouet album Toy Tunes and material from their deep repertoire. TH, 1|24 • 7& 8:30pm
$
35
FR, 1|25 • 7& 8:30pm
$
35
“The best organ trio of the last decade.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
SA, 1|26 • 7& 8:30pm
$
35
SU, 1|27 • 6 & 7:30 pm $ 40
B A NJ OS, B LUES, & T H E B AYO U String music of the rural South and Creole traditions from Haiti to New Orleans. Current and former members of Carolina Chocolate Drops bring new music, and a New Orleans banjo legend whose collaborators have included Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton makes his SFJAZZ debut.
AMERICAN FOLK & BLUES
DON VAPPIE
A member of Carolina Chocolate Drops, the banjoist and guitarist plays old time blues and gospel from his upcoming album. TH, 2|7 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
HAITIAN-AMERICAN ROOTS
CONTEMPORARY CREOLE JAZZ
HUBBY JENKINS
$
25
“Banjo picker, singer, and purveyor of Creole Culture” (NPR), the Creole Jazz Serenaders leader performs from his new album. FR, 2|8 • 7& 8:30pm
$
25
LEYLA McCALLA
“It's an exhilarating thing, hearing a musical virtuoso explore her voice's unanticipated potential in all of the ways that Leyla McCalla does” (NPR). Formerly of Carolina Chocolate Drops, the singer and multi-instrumentalist returns with music from her new album. SA, 2|9 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
$
35
SU, 2|10 • 6 & 7 : 3 0 p m
$
30
W E E K O F LOVE An SFJAZZ tradition. Four nights of romance and love songs for Valentine’s Day week.
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Two generations of Bay Area vocalists celebrate Valentine’s Day, as singer Lilan Kane focuses on classic love songs and the music of Etta James, followed by The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol’s take on the standards songbook.
CLASSIC LOVE SONGS
LILAN KANE
BAY AREA LEGEND
Bay Area soul belter Kane returns with an evening of music made famous by one of her greatest influences, soul icon Etta James.
“Steeped in jazz, blues and R&B, Carol turns every performance into a triumph” (San Francisco Chronicle). The living legend of Bay Area jazz performs a pair of intimate duo shows with pianist Joe Warner.
FR, 2|15 • 7& 8:30pm
SA, 2|16 • 7 & 8 : 3 0
THE DYNAMIC MISS FAYE CAROL
LILAN KANE
“A sweetly soulful voice” (Mercury News). The Oakland soul singer returns with an evening of classic love songs for Valentines Day. TH, 2|14 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
TRIBUTE TO ETTA JAMES
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35
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SU, 2|17 • 6 & 7:30 p m $ 2 0
P E R CUSSI O N DI S CUSSI O N Honoring the decades-long partnership Bobby Hutcherson and Eddie Marshall.
JAZ SAWYER
1 0 0 G R E AT E S T J A Z Z A L B U M S
FEAT. JASON MARSALIS
SFJAZZ HOTPLATE
JAZ SAWYER
FEAT JASON MARSALIS
PLAY EDDIE MARSHALL'S DANCE OF THE SUN Drummer Sawyer and his band perform music from Marshall’s 1978 Timeless album featuring Bobby Hutcherson. T H , 2 | 2 1 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m $ 1 5 –2 0
“Jaz Sawyer takes his mission seriously.” —SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE FR, 2|22 • 7& 8:30pm
$
30
2| 21–24
Celebrating a pair of late Bay Area-based jazz giants, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and drummer Eddie Marshall. Sawyer’s group including Marsalis on vibes and SFJAZZ Collective pianist Edward Simon performs music from across Hutcherson’s career, from his classic 60s Blue Note sessions to the Columbia and Landmark albums of the 70s featuring Marshall, featuring surprise guests. SA, 2|23 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
$
35
SU, 2|24 • 6 & 7 : 3 0 p m
$
30
members save 25%
FE BRUARY
The Bay Area-raised drumming luminary pays tribute to the magical 40-year chemistry of vibraphone legend Hutcherson and the drummer Marshall, with a band featuring NEA Jazz Master Jason Marsalis and SFJAZZ Collective pianist Edward Simon.
CELEBRATING BOBBY HUTCHERSON & EDDIE MARSHALL
L E ADI NG WO MEN II In celebration of Women’s History Month Singer and composer Magda Giannikou leads her ebullient Snarky Puppy affiliated band, bassist Mezzacappa presents new material based on the work of author Italo Calvino, and a string-based offshoot of Jazz Mafia features violinist Shaina Evoniuk.
CONTINENTAL POP
COSMICOMICS
BANDA MAGDA
LISA MEZZACAPPA SIX
Playing an effervescent blend of global pop, the band brings music from their latest GroundUP release, Tigre. FR, 3|1 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m dancefloor show
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“A Bay Area treasure.” (KQED) The bassist’s sextet plays material inspired by Italo Calvino’s fantasy story collection Cosmicomics. SA, 3|2 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m $ 2 5
BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND: MUSIC OF THE 1960S
COSA NOSTRA STRINGS
The string-based offshoot of Adam Theis’ omnivorous Jazz Mafia collective premieres reimagined takes on the range of 1960s music. SU, 3|3 • 6 & 7 : 3 0 p m $ 2 0
limited seating
ST RI NG S A RO UND T H E WO RL D Global masters of the guitar and its offshoots. SOUTH AFRICAN GUITAR VIRTUOSO
DEREK GRIPPER
“A master musician” (Rolling Stone), performing remarkable transcriptions of Malian lute music and Bach on a custom eight-string guitar. TH, 3|14 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
$
30
INNOVATIVE SOLO GUITARIST
CANARY ISLAND SOUNDS
KAKI KING
GERMÁN LÓPEZ
“Simply one of the best guitarists that the world may have ever come to know, (and) one of the most ingenious innovators of music at large.” — PopMatters FR, 3|15 • 7& 8:30pm
CANTORIAL BLUES
$
30
BOOK OF J
The greatest living master of the five-string Spanish timple, López brings music from his new album Canela y Limón.
SA, 3|16 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
$
25
The collaboration of singerguitarist Jeremiah Lockwood and Charming Hostess vocalist Jewlia Eisenberg “encompasses Yiddish songs, Piedmont blues, and queer politics.” (The New Yorker) SU, 3|17 • 6 & 7 : 3 0 p m
$
25
MA RCH
A South African guitarist reimagining the music of Mali, a visionary listed among Rolling Stone’s “New Guitar Gods,” the greatest living master of Spain’s diminutive timple, and the inspired collaboration of a blues innovator and a Bay Area vocalist.
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S I NG SI N G SI N G II Soulful singers from the Bay Area to South America. A Hotplate tribute to the collaboration of legendary Brazilian vocalist Elis Regina and Antônio Carlos Jobim starts the week that features a Bay Area great and inspiring artists from Argentina and Chile.
1 0 0 G R E AT E S T J A Z Z A L B U M S
SFJAZZ HOTPLATE
MASHA CAMPAGNE
SINGS ANTÔNIO CARLOS JOBIM & ELIS REGINA’S ELIS & TOM Moscow-born, Bay Area-based vocalist Campagne revisits the timeless bossa nova sounds of Jobim and iconic singer Regina’s collaborative 1974 album. T H, 3 | 2 1 • 7 & 8 : 30 p m
$
1 5 –2 0
members save 25%
ARGENTINE VOCALIST
SOFÍA REI
ENTRE AMIGOS
CHILEAN JAZZ & FOLK
The Bay Area vocalist and her band perform classic and contemporary Brazilian music, including songs from her latest album Entre Amigos.
The Chilean vocalist and accordionist brings the mix of jazz and global pop from her newest release, El Mito de la Pergola.
SA, 3|23 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
S U, 3 | 24 • 6 & 7 : 3 0 p m
SANDY CRESSMAN
“A leading light of Latin Jazz” (Village Voice), the Argentine singer and composer ties together musical traditions from across Latin America. FR, 3|22 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
$
30
PASCUELA ILABACA Y FAUNA
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25
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CA M PY & CO O L At the crossroads of music and theater, beguiling and sophisticated, campy and cool.
M A R C H
The irrepressible boogiewoogie and jump blues of Davina and the Vagabonds balances harmoniously with the wickedly satirical lounge lizardry of singer/playwright Ethan Lipton and his band.
BOOGIE & BLUES
CABARET CROONER
Bluesy, blustery, bawdy and irresistibly fun, the band has carved their own niche in the blues world with their high-energy live performances and compositions marked by “a vintage sound that draws from a century of American music including jazz, soul, blues, R&B and gospel.” (Chicago Tribune)
“A man who has willed himself into a mongrel showbiz alter ego — part lounge crooner, part folk balladeer — to connect with and heighten his own worldly (and often universal) woes” (NY Times), Lipton presents his theatrical cabaret style in a Bay Area debut.
TH, 3|28 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
SA, 3|30 • 7 & 9 p m
$
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AM ERI C A N DREAM STAT E S
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SU, 3|31 • 6 & 8 p m
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SFJAZZ POETRY FESTIVAL
AMERICAN DREAM STATES
From the new SFJAZZ Poet Laureate: “American Dream States challenges writers of different genres to respond to a key piece of writing on the American Dream, and perform these new creative responses in collaboration with an all star band.”
ETHAN LIPTON & HIS ORCHESTRA
DAVINA AND THE VAGABONDS
W/ MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH, SFJAZZ POET LAUREATE 4| 4–7 Founding Program Director of the non-profit Youth Speaks, new SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph is one of America’s vital voices in performance, arts education, and artistic curation. He was the artistic director of the HBO documentary series Russell Simmons presents Brave New Voices and an inaugural recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. He was named to the inaugural class of Doris Duke Artists in 2012. T H, 4 | 4 • 7 & 8 : 30 p m
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“One of the most widely applauded guitarists of the under-50 generation” (Chicago Tribune) brings his new quintet including saxophonist Mark Turner, pianist Nitai Hershkovitz, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Marcus Gilmore for their West Coast debut. Rosenwinkel launched his career in the band of vibraphone icon Gary Burton, and has collaborated with artists including Paul Motian and the Brian Blade Fellowship, releasing 12 albums as a leader. TH, 4|11 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m
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K EY ED UP I I Keynotes from two generations of piano artistry, pushing the tradition forward. Pianists with deep West Coast ties are the focus this week, with Bay Area residents Gilman and Shulman first up, followed by a weekend with the Los Angeles-raised Clayton.
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PLAYS BILL EVANS' SUNDAY AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD
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ADAM SHULMAN SEXTET Pianist Shulman and his all-star sextet perform stimulating original compositions from his new album, Full Tilt.
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“Top-notch musicianship, mariachi swagger for days, and a performance style that captures all the power and emotion you'd hope for” (NPR Music). The 2017 Latin GRAMMY winning band is the finest all-female mariachi working today, performing music from their newest album, Las Caras Lindas. a l l s h ows : da n c ef lo o r
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GERALD CLAYTON TRIO
“A remarkable player, he seems to understand what our ear wants — blooming harmony, melodic improvisations, firm landings — and how to deliver it” (The New York Times). Son of bass legend John Clayton and a GRAMMY-nominated bandleader, Clayton brings his superlative trio.
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The masterful pianist and longtime Bobby Hutcherson collaborator performs tunes from Evans’ legendary 1961 Riverside trio recordings from the Village Vanguard.
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SFJAZZ EDUCATION Our mission is to reach, develop, and nurture current and future musicians and audiences by providing rich, innovative, interactive, and informative programming within our diverse communities. We accomplish this through a range of programs including:
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SFJAZZ EDUCATION Inspiring, Informative, Interactive. The mission of SFJAZZ Education is to reach, develop, and nurture current and future musicians and audiences by providing rich, innovative, interactive, and informative programming in jazz appreciation, creation, and performance within our diverse communities.
FAMILY MATINEES Concerts For All Ages FAMILY MATINEE W/ CLAIRDEE
Both fun and educational, Family Matinees provide a window into the exciting world of live jazz. Each one-hour matinee features live performance, audience participation, Q&A, and amazing music. Our interactive Family Workshops follow select performances and are FREE to matinee ticket-holders, led by musician, educator, and Orff music expert Doug Goodkin. Enjoyed individually or as a series, these Family Matinees and Workshops will change the way you hear jazz and get families playing together. 4 Watch all Family Matinee concerts live online at SFJAZZ.org/live, or via Facebook Live or YouTube Live.
FUNKY GROOVES
“ This is an institution that understands where jazz comes from, and it will be a pleasure to see where it goes.” —DOWNBEAT
CHESTER THOMPSON & FRIENDS
THE KID IN ALL OF US
LINDA TILLERY & THE CULTURAL HERITAGE CHOIR
PIANO POWERHOUSE
GERALD CLAYTON TRIO
Black History Month Celebration
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TAMMY HALL, MATT CLARK & MAYA KRONFELD
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Women’s History Month Celebration
MARCUS SHELBY ORCHESTRA
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ARTISTS ON THE RISE SFJAZZ HIGH SCHOOL ALL-STARS Big Band & Combo The skilled young musicians comprising our awardwinning Big Band and Combo continue to earn accolades wherever they appear, including six consecutive wins at the Next Generation Jazz Festival in Monterey, numerous DownBeat Awards, first place in The Savannah Swing Central, Portland Jazz Forward, and Charles Mingus festivals, and more. Under the expert direction of Paul Contos (Big Band) and Dann Zinn (Combo), the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars display a technical brilliance and musical maturity rarely seen in the youth ensemble arena. Don’t miss the All-Stars in concert and support the next generation of jazz ambassadors! 4 For information on how to audition for the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars, visit SFJAZZ.org/auditions.
SFJAZZ Education proudly launches an exciting program to showcase a new generation of cutting-edge talent, from undiscovered Bay Area treasures to young artists on the national scene.
MONDAY NIGHT BAND SFJAZZ Community Ensemble Now into its 12th season, the SFJAZZ Monday Night Band has become one of the most in-demand community groups in the Bay Area, attracting a range of talented musicians - from retired pros to emerging young artists — with a 12-week program that culminates in a thrilling free showcase in the SFJAZZ Center’s gorgeous Miner Auditorium. Directed by acclaimed Bay Area musician and bandleader Adam Theis, the Monday Night Band is open to intermediate and advanced level instrumentalists and vocalists, and provides band members with exciting opportunities to perform, compose, and create new works. Want to play with us? Sign up to audition and join our amazing community of Bay Area jazz musicians!
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Pascal Le Boeuf's trio, joined by the Friction Quartet, present Ritual Being—a musical diptych that explores the different manifestations of human behavior and how these "rituals" can be either propitious... or disastrous.
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As a versatile drummer and gifted vibraphone player, San Francisco native Sasha Berliner wields a technique and musical sense that portend a thrilling career. This spring, the New School percussionist presents her quartet, playing originals from both her breakout album as well as her sophomore release, Azalea, released fall 2018. 61
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DISCOVER JAZZ DISCOVER JAZZ CLASSES
Jazz history, live performance, classic audio, and exciting video make Discover Jazz the most distinctive jazz appreciation course available for adults. Each series offers an in-depth look at the life and work of some of jazz music’s most enduring legends, and includes stellar live performances by critically-acclaimed guest artists, rich multimedia presentations featuring historic recordings, and engaging Q&A.
THE MUSIC OF JOBIM OCT 17–NOV 7
BRASIL FEMENINA MAR 13–APR 3
A legend of Brazilian music and a prime architect of the bossa nova revolution of the 1960s, Antônio Carlos Jobim is undoubtedly one of the most enduring composers in modern music. SFJAZZ Education shines a light on the extraordinarily timeless work of a true genius with the guidance of our most treasured experts and artists, including vocalist Claudia Villela, drummer/producer Celso Alberti, pianist Marcos Silva, guitarist Ricardo Peixoto, and many others! Cory Combs Instructor
The music of Brazil encompasses a broad tapestry of deep roots African folklore, sultry and sophisticated melodies, and sambadriven grooves that simultaneously soothe and inspire. At the helm of these traditions are incredible women, singer-songwriters, instrumentalists, activists, and trendsetters, many of whom are seldom acknowledged. Get to know these remarkable artists and icons of Brazilian music, featuring performances by Tammy Hall, Claudia Villela, and many more! Rebeca Mauleón Instructor
THE MUSIC OF JOBIM COMPLETE SERIES
BRASIL FEMENINA COMPLETE SERIES
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PRE-CONCERT TALKS Free to ticket holders, Pre-Concert Talks provide deep insight into the performer’s music and creative process. They begin one hour before show time in Miner Auditorium. 4 S AT, NOV 10:
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MASTER CLASSES
For Older Teens & Adults
& Workshops Exciting educational programs designed for teens and adults, aspiring musicians, and experienced singers and instrumentalists. GYPSY JAZZ JAM
MASTERCLASS W/ DORADO SCHMITT & THE DJANGO ALL-STARS S AT, N OV 2 4 • 1 p m $
Workshops exploring the ways digital music is created and performed today, with an emphasis on live performance and improvisation, recording, mixing, remixing and mastering, and exploration of the latest in state-of-the art music production techniques in a digital setting.
INTRO TO DIGITAL AUDIO PRODUCTION
JAZZ & HIP-HOP IN THE MIX
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WED, OCT 17 & WED, FEB 13 • 7–9 p m
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DJING & LIVE PERFORMANCE WITH ABLETON Jef Stott Instructor
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Michael Aaberg Instructor
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MUSIC FOR PICTURE
Heidi Trefethen Instructor
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ART AND SCIENCE OF MASTERING Michael Romanowski Instructor
Heidi Trefethen Instructor
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A leading figure on the international Gypsy jazz scene, Dorado Schmitt is joined by a cast of fiercely swinging compatriots who lead participants in the ultimate expression of the Gypsy jazz jam. Ideal for experienced musicians, especially string players ages 15 and older.
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5 TH ANNUAL
SFJAZZ GIRLS DAY S AT, M A R 9 • 1 1 a m – 3 p m
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SFJAZZ SCHOOL PROGRAMS Award-winning programs making music education accessible to all. SCHOOL DAY CONCERT WITH MARCUS SHELBY & TIFFANY AUSTIN
“ What makes SFJAZZ so special? It brings jazz into the schools so young people can discover the beauty and proud history of the music.” —SONNY ROLLINS
SCHOOL DAY CONCERTS These free performances are tailored to students in grades K-12 with leading jazz artists and educators at the SFJAZZ Center's beautiful Miner Auditorium, as well as direct to public and charter middle schools across San Francisco and Oakland. Students experience jazz in all its forms, explore how the African Diaspora shaped our musical landscape,
participate in a highly interactive environment, and learn how jazz is alive, relevant and continuing to grow today! JAZZ IN THE MIDDLE (JIM) Sends Jazz musicians and poets into public middle school humanities classrooms to unlock the history of jazz from a social, historical, and creative perspective.
JAZZ IN SESSION (JIS) Collaborates with schools in strengthening existing music instruction programs by making jazz education accessible to the Bay Area public school community. For more information please contact: School Programs Manager Vanessa Varela vvarela@sfjazz.org
SFJAZZ SCHOOL PROGRAMS… 4 Serve all San Francisco and Oakland public and charter middle schools 4 Provide over 25,000 hours of instruction each year 4 Donate over 3,000 SFJAZZ Center concert tickets to schools and community groups each year 4 Provide students and educators special access to select interactive soundchecks, rehearsals, concerts and professional development workshops For more information: SFJAZZ.org/education/school-programs
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SFCM’S ROOTS, JAZZ, AND AMERICAN MUSIC PROGRAM A first-of-its-kind program that links a world-class conservatory, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM), to the awardwinning SFJAZZ Center and its resident all-star ensemble, the SFJAZZ Collective. SFCM PRESENTS
RJAM SIDE-BY-SIDE SUN, SEP 30 • 7pm
SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE MIGUEL ZENÓN alto saxophone DAVID SÁNCHEZ tenor saxophone ETIENNE CHARLES trumpet ROBIN EUBANKS trombone WARREN WOLF vibes
An all-star ensemble comprising eight of the finest performer/composers at work in jazz today, the SFJAZZ Collective’s mission each year is to perform fresh arrangements of works by a modern master and newly commissioned pieces by each Collective member. Through this pioneering approach, simultaneously honoring music’s greatest figures while championing jazz’s up-to-the-minute directions, the Collective embodies SFJAZZ’s commitment to jazz as a living, everrelevant art form. As soloists, composers, and bandleaders, the SFJAZZ Collective is a leaderless group representing what’s happening now in jazz. In 2018-19, the band premieres innovative new arrangements of the work of pioneering Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Jobim and freshly minted compositions by the band.
EDWARD SIMON piano MATT BREWER bass
MUSIC OF ANTÔNIO CARLOS JOBIM & ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
OBED CALVAIRE drums
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RJAM Side-By Side concert with SFCM’s Roots, Jazz and American Music (RJAM) students alongside members of the SFJAZZ Collective and RJAM faculty members, performing originals and jazz standards developed during a three-day residency. SFCM PRESENTS
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 You may not believe what else Shelby is preparing for his residency: an extended composition for big band titled “Black Ball: The Negro Leagues and the Blues.” Shelby is a baseball freak, an over-the-top fan of the San Francisco Giants, and he intends to combine his love of the game with his passion for history. He draws connections between the barnstorming teams of the old Negro Leagues and the barnstorming territory bands of the swing era. He notes that Negro League games were entertainments, replete with clowns and comedic outbursts of “shadow ball,” where an invisible baseball would be whipped around a fictitious diamond. All this showmanship, mediated by the blues, will play out onstage, Shelby promises. He adds this: “When people are asked, ‘What is the authentic American invention,’ they tend to say it’s the Constitution. But I really think it’s baseball and the blues.” As you can tell, when an artist is awarded a Resident Artistic Directorship, it tends to uncork a lot of pentup energy and ideas. It’s been only five years since the directorships were first handed out, but they are the logical outcome of programming experimentation that goes back decades.
TWO SFJAZZ RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOS: JOE LOVANO (2018-19) PERFORMING WITH BILL FRISELL (2013-14), SEASON 5
“I look forward to creating some music within the music, with the people and for the people, every night” — JOE LOVANO
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In 1983, when SFJAZZ – then known as Jazz in the City – presented its first shows, it suffered a few hiccups. Randall Kline, the organization’s founder and executive artistic director, recalls putting on festival-style concerts that would bring together, say, an Afro-Cuban band, a Brazilian drum troupe and a screaming group of free-jazz saxophonists. Ticket sales for one-off shows with that kind of stylistic spread didn’t necessarily take off. “So in our second year, we started to focus the programs in more specific stylistic areas,” he explains. “We’d do an avant-garde show. We did a great Afro-Cuban show. And we found that adding this little bit of context helps everybody. It helps the people who are already into that niche, and it helps the people who are outside of it to understand it a little bit. It became this evolutionary thing for us, where we kept building on this idea of having thematic ideas as the basis of what we do.”
When SFJAZZ instituted its first Spring Season in 2000, Kline hired saxophonist Joshua Redman as Artistic Director. The idea that Redman, a Bay Area-bred jazz star, was on board, fashioning programs that reflected his own perspective on jazz – this proved attractive to audiences. Redman stayed in the job through 2007, and his influence was considerable; it made the programs feel personal. When the SFJAZZ Center opened in 2013, the decision was made to expand on this sensibility: Why have one artist’s perspective when you could have five? And so the Resident Artistic Director program was born: “It made sense,” Kline reflects. “You can get all these different points of view, which is what we’ve always been about — having this broad interpretation of what jazz is or what jazz can be. So you call Jason Moran and he says, ‘What about skateboarding?’ Perfect! Or you call Bill Frisell and you say to him, ‘Are you game for this?’ And he doesn’t have four ideas, he has twenty.” Like Moran, guitarist Frisell was a member of the first class of Resident Artistic Directors. So was John Santos, the San Francisco-based percussionist, who has made a career of dreaming up projects that connect musicians from across the African diaspora. Santos is a scholar of Afro-Caribbean music. He is also a working musician on a mission, looking to create synergies between players and to expose audiences to the hidden corners of the tradition. When Santos thinks back to his two-year residency, his voice pulses with excitement. From Spain, he was able to bring Pavel Urkiza, not particularly well known in the United States, though he is an “incredible songwriter, a composer, arranger, guitarist, vocalist and producer and a force of nature, an orchestra by himself.” From New York he recruited the great trombonist Papo Vazquez — and Paquito D’Rivera, the legendary saxophonist and clarinetist, which was a dream for Santos. “Because normally, I could never just call Paquito. I couldn’t just pick up the phone and say, ‘Hey, how’d you like to come out for a show next month?’ But Randall knew his manager. Doors were opened. It gives you an open palette, and you can paint whatever musical picture you want. It allows you to do more.”
Chucho Valdés – among the leading Cuban musicians of the past half-century – will bring more than his regular band to his upcoming residency (Jan. 31-Feb. 3). He will introduce a new edition of Irakere, the groundbreaking ensemble he founded in 1973; D’Rivera and trumpeter Arturo Sandoval were among its original members. Much as Ellington composed for Johnny Hodges and Cat Anderson, pianist Valdés composed for his own singular soloists. There was nothing like it: The group was a laboratory where traditional Yoruban and deep-African folk forms merged with jazz, fusion and pop – driven by a tsunami of percussion. To mark the 45th anniversary of the group’s founding, Valdés will lead Irakere 45 – that’s what he calls the band — for four nights. They will play classic numbers and new compositions, perhaps including a tango he’s written for his wife Lorena. What’s more, Valdés is entertaining the notion of holding competitions for high school and conservatory musicians in Havana and San Francisco. The two winners – one in each city – just might sit in for a few numbers with the 10-piece band, already stocked with virtuosi half their leader’s age. “Surprises are bound to happen,” Valdés predicts, speaking through a translator. “This makes it a learning
experience for me… and it becomes a kind of master class for the audience – the information they receive will be very different from the message they expected.” “When you jump into a new situation, you find parts of yourself that you didn’t even know existed,” says vocalist Dianne Reeves, whose residency (Feb. 21-24) will nurture her love of Brazilian music. She sounds thrilled: singer-songwriter Ivan Lins will be among her guests. His melodies are uncontainable; that’s what audiences latch onto. He is a master of harmony; musicians love that about his tunes. Reeves reflects on the possibilities: “You come into contact with a person’s harmonic vocabulary or rhythmic vocabulary or their melodic sense – suddenly you’re hearing the way they hear things, and they’re hearing the way you hear things. Anything can happen. That’s why I call my stage a playground.” Such sophisticated play is what Joe Lovano is about. The saxophonist’s residency (March 14-17) feels like a summation of his free-roaming creative tendencies: He will play in a duo with Chucho Valdés; in a trio with Bill Frisell; in a Tenor Legacy sextet with Joshua Redman and Ravi Coltrane; and in a bebop nonet – his 52nd
Street Themes band – with saxophonists Gary Smulyan and Ralph Lalama. Aside from the fact that Lovano enjoys juggling projects, there is an underlying theme here: All these musicians are his friends. Example: For 30 years, Frisell was Lovano’s bandmate in drummer Paul Motian’s trio, where they learned “to share the space and create the music within the music.” He has known Redman for a couple of decades – and also knew his dad, Dewey Redman, whose earthy sound got into the marrow of Lovano’s own playing long ago. Likewise, Lovano has known Ravi Coltrane for 20 years or more — since the younger saxophonist arrived in New York and began playing with drummer Rashied Ali, who had played with John Coltrane, Ravi’s father. Coincidentally, Lovano was in Ali’s band, too. It all comes full circle. “I live in the world of music,” Lovano concludes, “and what I’ve come to realize is that when I present an ensemble, whether it’s two pieces or nine pieces, it’s all the same. It’s all one. I look forward to creating some music within the music, with the people and for the people, every night.”
“When you jump into a new situation, you find parts of yourself that you didn’t even know existed” — DIANNE REEVES
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