SFJAZZ 2021-22 Season Catalog

2021 | 22 SEASON SEP 2021 – MAY 2022

TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

Letter from the Chief Executive Officer

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Letter from the Executive Artistic Director

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Season At-A-Glance

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SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Directors

10 Feeding the Soul by Richard Scheinin

2021-22 SEASON 12–43 Robert N. Miner Auditorium Concerts 44–51 Joe Henderson Lab Concerts

MEMBERSHIP & SUPPORT 52

About SFJAZZ

54 Membership 55

Digital Membership

56

Leaders Circle

57

Legacy Circle

S FJ A Z Z E D U C AT I O N 60

Family Matinees

61 Ensembles 62 Classes 65

Community Outreach

M O R E I N F O R M AT I O N 68

Rent the SFJAZZ Center

69

Health & Safety

70 Sponsors 71

How to Order Tickets

Gregory Porter performing in Miner Auditorium by Ian Young.

SFJAZZ Center concert photos in this catalog were taken by Drew Altizer, Jay Blakesberg, Scott Chernis, Michael Darius, Ronald Davis, Bill Evans, Grason Littles, Rick Swig, and Ian Young.

Cover photograph: Ambrose Akinmusire by Adrien H. Tillmann.

A MESSAGE FROM THE CEO Dear SFJAZZ Community: We are thrilled to welcome you back to the SFJAZZ Center for our 2021-22 season. After 18 months with almost no live concerts, we look forward to sharing incredible performances with you once again.

I arrived as CEO in June 2020, and for the past year and a half, my focus has been on making sure we are ready for your safe return. You’ll find yourself in a safer facility, with a significant HVAC upgrade, providing improved air quality, as well as other hygiene and safety features throughout the Center. We are committed to minimizing risk for our patrons, artists, staff, and volunteers who are visiting or working.

During this time, we have found new ways to engage our members and support our artists.

During the Center’s closure, we continued to extend resources, know-how and creativity to the communities we engage with the launch of the SFJAZZ Digital platform; the quick pivot to virtual education programs, and significant artist support from our members.

As we look ahead, we remember how much we depend on the arts to connect and heal. SFJAZZ is committed to our mission of exploring the full spectrum of jazz and continuing to develop new jazz audiences, now across the globe.

All of this is possible because of our supporters who donated to our Call & Response Campaign (the Center’s lifeline during the closure) and who helped support SFJAZZ and the artists through the 50/50 Fund. As we emerge from our stages being dark for 18 months, we still need your help.

We are thrilled to gather our community together again. We are grateful for the joy that live performance brings and we embrace our role in providing that to the broader Bay Area and beyond.

Once again, we thank you, our supporters, whose loyalty and generosity have allowed SFJAZZ to emerge from this period, a stronger, more focused and intentional organization.

Sincerely,

Greg Stern • SFJAZZ Chief Executive Officer

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WELCOME TO THE 2021–2022 SEASON Dear Music Lovers, The past 18 months have been a time of upheaval beyond anything we could have imagined prior to March of 2020. More than ever, we need the spiritual comfort and inspiration of music, and being with others in a community, seeking connection.

With the SFJAZZ 2021–22 Season, the artists, staff, and board are looking forward to joining with you around joyful live music that can move us to heal.

We have sought to stay connected with you all throughout the crisis. We launched Fridays at Five in late March 2020, which featured previously recorded highlight shows from the Center. All SFJAZZ Members had free access to the weekly shows, and we added SFJAZZ Digital Membership for those outside of the Bay Area. Fridays at Five will become Fridays Live when we open the Season in September. Please see more on SFJAZZ Membership on page 54.

Thank you to everyone who maintained their membership, and those who joined us from around the country and the world. Your support has helped us and our musicians get through this tough time.

We hope that you will find some of the treasures and discoveries that are part of the SFJAZZ Center’s 2021-2022 Season in the pages to follow, including our hosting of the NEA Jazz Masters Awards in March — the first time they have been presented live outside of New York or Washington D.C. The SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director (RAD) program and the SFJAZZ Collective are two resident artist initiatives we will be expanding thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

Our RADs — Ambrose Akinmusire, Anat Cohen, Chris Potter, Soweto Kinch and Terri Lyne Carrington — the Collective, as well as our Poet Laureate, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, are all creating new work and much of it will be speaking to the times.

The staff, board, and volunteers of SFJAZZ are constantly looking to strengthen our community and looking for ways to serve you and our artists better. Please tell us how we might improve your experience. Write to me at rkline@sfjazz.org or feel free to introduce yourself when you see me here at the Center.

We are grateful to you all for your support and encouragement. It is a joy to sit in the audience with you all. See you at the Center!

Warmly,

Randall Kline • SFJAZZ Founder & Executive Artistic Director Sons of Kemet performing in Miner Auditorium by Ian Young.

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OCTOBER

DECEMBER

SEPTEMBER

NOVEMBER JANUARY SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE

PAT METHENY OPENING WEEK 9|23 Kris Bowers 9|24 Zakir Hussain w/Eric Harland & Abbos Kosimov 9|25–26 Pat Metheny Side-Eye 9|23–24 Kat Edmonson J H L 9|25 Christian Sands J H L 9|26 Kassa Overall J H L

10|1–3

Joshua Redman

10|1–3

Claudia Villela

MACEO PARKER RAVI COLTRANE

JHL

10|7 Monk’s Birthday Celebration w/Gerald Clayton, Edward Simon, Tammy L. Hall & Justin Kauflin 10|7 Artists on the Rise:

Ben Flocks Quartet

JHL

BAY AREA SOUNDS 10|14 San Francisco String Trio | House of Faern 10|15 Jesús Díaz y Su QBA 10|16 Meklit 10|17 Martin Luther McCoy plays Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On

VIBES & PIANO DUOS 10|14 H otplate: Kyle Athayde

& Nate Sparks play Chick Corea & Gary Burton J H L

10|15 Warren Wolf

& Edward Simon

JHL

10|16 S asha Berliner & Matt Wong JHL

10|17 Roger Glenn & Marcos Silva JHL

10|21–24 Branford Marsalis 10|28–31 SFJAZZ Collective: New Works Reflecting The Moment 10|30 The Phantom of the Opera & Nosferatu w/Dorothy Papadakos, organ G R A C E

11|4–7 Ravi Coltrane: The Music of John & Alice Coltrane 11|8–9 Snarky Puppy PA R A M O U N T

SAXOPHONISTS & COMPOSERS 11|11

Mike Clark & Michael Zilber

11|12

Rova Saxophone Quartet

11|13

MAE.SUN w/Mark de Clive-

11|14

Michael O’Neill Quintet w/

11|18–21

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

11|20

Family Matinee w/Left

11|20

Artists on the Rise:

JHL

JHL

Lowe

JHL

Tony Lindsay

JHL

Coast Chamber Ensemble Sal’s Greenhouse

JHL

THANKSGIVING WEEK Chester Thompson: Gravy Train 11|27–28 Merry Christmas From José James 11|26

11|26–28 Jacqui Naylor J H L

12|2–5

Pink Martini

BAY AREA SOUL 12|11 Nicolas Bearde J H L 12|12 Destani Wolf J H L

CHRIS BOTTI 1|4–9

SPEND THE HOLIDAYS WITH SFJAZZ 12|16 The Klezmatics 12|17–18 A Charlie Brown Christmas w/Adam Shulman 12|19 Marcus Shelby Orchestra plays Ellington’s Nutcracker 12|16 H otplate: George Cole plays Nat King Cole

JHL

12|17–19 Erik Jekabson

New Orleans Sextet w/Kenny Washington

JHL

12|18 Family Matinee

w/Tifany Austin

12|19 S FJAZZ High School

All-Stars Winter Concert

Chris Botti

SFJAZZ HOTPLATE FESTIVAL 1|21 H otplate: Amy D plays Sarah Vaughan

JHL

1|22 H otplate: Caroline Chung plays Nina Simone

JHL

1|23 H otplate: Rick Vandivier & Adam Shulman play Jimmy Smith J H L

2022 SFJAZZ GALA WEEK 1|26 SFJAZZ Gala 2022 honoring Wynton Marsalis 1|27–30 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra w/Wynton Marsalis

RING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH MACEO PARKER 12|30, 1|1–2 Maceo Parker 12|31 New Year’s Eve Funk Party w/Maceo Parker

S FJA Z Z . O R G MEMBERS 41 5 . 7 8 8 . 7 3 5 3 PUBLIC 8 6 6 . 9 2 0 . 5 2 9 9 F O L L OW @ S FJA Z Z      JHL | JOE HENDERSON LAB PA R A M O U N T | PA R A M O U N T T H E AT R E G R A C E | G R A C E C AT H E D R A L All shows in Robert N. Miner Auditroium, unless otherwise noted. All programs are subject to change.

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MARCH

APRIL

FEBRUARY

MAY

AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE CÉCILE McLORIN SALVANT JAZZ & SOCIAL JUSTICE 2|3 Destiny Muhammad J H L 2|4 Diana Gameros J H L 2|5 Jaz Sawyer Quartet ft. Tongo Eisen-Martin

JHL

2|6 J on Jangtet w/Paul Flores JHL

WEEK OF LOVE 2|10–13 Cécile McLorin Salvant Quintet w/Sullivan Fortner 2|14–15 Brad Mehldau, solo 2|10–13 M arc Ribot, solo J H L 2|12 Family Matinee w/Marcus Shelby & Friends

SFJAZZ RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON 2|17 Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science 2|18 New Standards 2|19 Musing Emanon: Wayne Shorter’s Orbit 2|20 Geri Allen’s Genius, Grace & Fire

SFJAZZ RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE 3|3–4 Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet: Porter w/SF Conservatory of Music Orchestra & Special Guests 3|5–6 Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet w/Bill Frisell & Herlin Riley

GUITAR WEEK 3|3 B en Monder J H L 3|4 Hristo Vitchev Quartet J H L 3|5 Oscar Peñas Quartet J H L 3|6 Mimi Fox Trio J H L

LEADING WOMEN 3|10 Nikara Warren & Black Wall Street J H L

3|11 S arah Wilson’s Brass Tonic JHL

3|12 3|13

Katie Thiroux J H L Jenn Johns

JHL

DIANNE REEVES ANAT COHEN

NEA JAZZ MASTERS WEEK

SFJAZZ RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CHRIS POTTER 3|17–18 Chris Potter Big Band 3|19–20 Chris Potter & Special Guests

PIANO WEEK 3|17 H otplate: Peter Horvath plays Herbie Hancock

3|18 3|19 3|20

JHL

Helen Sung Quartet J H L Michael Wolff Trio J H L Aaron Parks

JHL

Giveton Gelin Sitka Sun

3|24 Anat Cohen & Marcello Gonçalves 3|25–26 Anat Cohen Tentet 3|26 Family Matinee

4|21–24

w/Anat Cohen & Friends

3|27

The 3 Cohens

3|24–27 Peter Bernstein, Larry

Student Showcase

Keb’ Mo’

JOE HENDERSON FESTIVAL

ARTEMIS HEWLETT 50 5|5–6 Miguel Zenón Golden City Suite 5|7–8 Kronos Quartet At War With Ourselves 5|7 Family Matinee

w/Miguel Zenón

JAZZ MANOUCHE 5|12 5|13 5|14 5|15

Barrio Manouche J H L Beso Negro

JHL

Gaucho J H L Rez Abbasi Quartet J H L

4|21 H otplate: Matt Renzi plays

5|14 Marc Bamuthi Joseph: Race, Violence and the Sacred

4|22 4|23

Kristen Strom

5|22 S FJAZZ High School

4|24

RJAM Side-By-Side

4|27

DakhaBrakha

Joe Henderson

Goldings, Bill Stewart J H L

JHL

JHL

All-Stars Spring Concert w/Soweto Kinch

rtists on the Rise: A Hitomi Oba J H L JHL

SFJAZZ RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR SOWETO KINCH Black Peril White Juju

4|28–5|1 Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya

5|19–20 5|21–22

4|30

5|26–29 ARTEMIS

rtists on the Rise: A Sam Reider and the Human Hands J H L

BLUES WEEK 5|26 H otplate: Jules Leyhe plays

JHL

Taj Mahal

JHL

5|27–29 M ark Hummel & The Blues

JHL

RJAM Side-By-Side

4|14 John Scofield, Solo 4|15 John Scofield & Dave Holland 4|16 John Scofield’s Combo 66 4|17 Yankee Go Home 4|16 SFJAZZ Poetry Festival

JHL

Immanuel Wilkins

JOHN SCOFIELD: SOLO, DUO, QUARTETS

SFJAZZ RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ANAT COHEN

THE NEXT WAVE 2|17 2|18 2|19 2|20

3|31 2022 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert 4|1–3 2018 NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves

Survivors

JHL

2|24–27 Rosanne Cash & John Leventhal 2|24–27 N oise Pop at SFJAZZ J H L

JHL

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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 world–renowned 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 fully-staged 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 A R TI S TI C D I R E C TO R S : 2 01 3 -2 014 Regina Carter Bill Frisell Jason Moran

John Santos Miguel Zenón

2 014 -2 01 6 Terence Blanchard Zakir Hussain Eric Harland Esperanza Spalding

2 01 6 -2 01 8 Christian McBride Rosanne Cash

Vijay Iyer Mary Stallings

2 01 8 -2 02 0 Laurie Anderson Dianne Reeves Marcus Shelby 8

Chucho Valdés Joe Lovano

TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON 2 | 17–20

AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE

3 | 3–6

“MUSIC CAN TELL YOU WHAT IT WANTS TO BE.”

“I AIM TO BRING MY OWN MUSICAL VISION TO LIFE.” A B O U T T E R R I LY N E

ABOUT AMBROSE

The master drummer is a musical bridge builder, bandleader and activist. Over a 40-year career, she has collaborated with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Nancy Wilson, John Scofield, Stan Getz, Esperanza Spalding, Lester Bowie, Dianne Reeves, Pharoah Sanders and countless others. A champion of gender rights in jazz, she is the only woman ever to win a GRAMMY for best jazz instrumental album.

The most distinctive trumpeter of our era, Oaklandreared Akinmusire plays with a dark-hued and gleaming tone. He merges straight ahead jazz with rappers and string quartets, “throwing out all the cliches to arrive at a fresh conception” (San Jose Mercury News). A Blue Note recording artist, Akinmusire pushes fearlessly forward – and is sought out by such legends as Jack DeJohnette and Kendrick Lamar.

ABOUT HER RESIDENCY

ABOUT HIS RESIDENCY

Carrington offers a night of “new standards” composed by women. She leads her grooving Social Science group, “a perfect synthesis of jazz, indie rock and hip-hop influences” (NPR). She “muses” on Wayne Shorter’s sci-fi fantasy Emanon and pays tribute to a departed friend, pianist-composer Geri Allen.

Think of his four nights as a single musical canvas.

Akinmusire applies his ruby-red sound to create performances that oscillate between white hot and red hot – elusive and riveting, intimate and visionary.

He’s always looking to discover the “new kinds of song straight-ahead jazz can hold” (The New York Times).

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CHRIS POTTER

3 | 17–20

ANAT COHEN

3 | 24–27

“THE CLARINET CAN WHISPER AND THE CLARINET CAN WAIL. IT HAS POWER. IT SHINES.”

SOWETO KINCH 5 | 19–22

“YOU HAVE TO MAKE MUSIC WHERE YOU’RE LED BY YOUR OWN CONVICTION, AND THAT’S INCREASINGLY WHAT I AIM TO DO.”

“I LIKE THE HALL AT SFJAZZ. I LIKE THE VIBE FROM THE AUDIENCE. IT’S A GROOVE IN EVERY WAY.” ABOUT CHRIS

A B O U T A N AT

A B O U T S OW E TO

A monster saxophonist, Potter is one of the premier improvisers of recent decades and a ubiquitous influence among younger players. Since emerging as a sideman 30 years ago with bebop trumpeter Red Rodney, he has played with everybody, from Pat Metheny to Steely Dan. A path-finding musician, he joins the SFJAZZ Collective this fall.

Raised in Israel, the GRAMMY-nominated multi-reedist has been a force on the New York jazz scene for nearly two decades. Her talents keep growing, as she absorbs swing, samba, Middle Eastern and classical influences into her organic and inviting concept.

Her clarinet evokes “infectious joy,” says The New York Times, calling her “an improviser with gusto.”

The London-born saxophonist and rapper is seamlessly aligned with jazz and hip-hop. A progenitor and leader of the burgeoning British jazz scene, he is equal parts John Coltrane and Public Enemy. Kinch has “a commanding way of looking at jazz, at hip-hop, and at the whole performance situation.” (The New York Times).

ABOUT HIS RESIDENCY

ABOUT HER RESIDENCY

ABOUT HIS RESIDENCY

As a Resident Artistic Director at SFJAZZ, Potter feels like “a kid in a candy store. I have the sense that whatever I propose that I’m excited about, they’d go, ‘Yeah!’ It’s an opportunity to do things you’ve always wanted to do.”

The week begins with her intimate duo featuring Brazilian master guitarist Marcello Gonçalves. Next: her turn-on-a-dime Tentet ranges through jazz, funk and even a concerto for clarinet. Finally, Anat and brothers Avishai (trumpet) and Yuval (saxophone) reconvene their rollicking Three Cohens sextet.

An experienced producer of music-and-arts festivals, Kinch knows how to curate a series of cutting-edge shows. They should feel welcoming to his audience, while offering plenty of “left turns and surprises. The people enjoy themselves – and expect to have their minds blown.”

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FEEDING THE SOUL

THE 2021-22 SFJAZZ RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTORS

BY RICHARD SCHEININ

W

e’re back — the artists and the audience, together.

As the pandemic begins to fade, opportunity emerges — and live music is our tonic.

For 18 months, saxophonist Chris Potter has had time to think about the what and why of music — what its mysterious powers are and why he became a musician to begin with.

During the pandemic, he thought back 20 years to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. They occurred “ten days before I was supposed to play out in California with my band, and I was like, ‘I don’t know if this is the time for this. I don’t know if people are even going to come.’ But we went, and people did come. And my experience was that they reacted in an even more intense way than usual.

It was like, ‘Feed us. We need some help.’”

As we announce the 2021-22 season, Potter is “super-elated” about his upcoming programs at our San Francisco concert hall — and SFJAZZ is elated to return to its most basic function: feeding people with live music. The new season has an abundance of it: 300 shows across 36 weeks, including a week of programs curated and led by Potter, one of five new Resident Artistic Directors. The season’s scope — from Pat Metheny to Wynton Marsalis, Rosanne Cash

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and Ravi Coltrane, paying tribute to his parents, John and Alice Coltrane — would make it an ambitious endeavor in any year. Only this year feels fundamentally different from any other in the organization’s 38-year history. When our concert hall went dark in March 2020, SFJAZZ was forced into full improvisation mode: “We shifted gears, fast. The survival instinct kicked in,” says Randall Kline, the founder and Executive Artistic Director of SFJAZZ. In a flash — faster than you can make a vaccine — the organization developed a new line of digital programming. It took off: 15,000 patrons subscribed to the archival Fridays at Five streaming concert series, which will remain an important part of SFJAZZ programming. That’s good news: Your opportunities for hearing music have now effectively doubled. Tune in online (SFJAZZ.org/watch), and by all means come out to the concert hall: “The temple is reopening,” Kline says. “Hearing live music again is going to be like the greatest thing ever.”

Much of the excitement will be generated by the five new Resident Artistic Directors, informally known as RADs: saxophonist Potter, among the most influential improvisers of recent decades (and the new music director of the SFJAZZ Collective); drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, who has played with everyone, from Wayne Shorter to Chaka Khan; trumpet

innovator Ambrose Akinmusire, who merges modern jazz with string quartets and rappers; clarinetist Anat Cohen, whose performances span swing, samba, Middle Eastern music and classical influences; and saxophonistrapper Soweto Kinch, a progenitor of the exploding London jazz scene. These are five of the most distinguished instrumentalists in jazz. Each is a bandleader, a composer, and a free thinker who likes to both challenge and entertain audiences: “I like to slip some broccoli in with the French fries,” Kinch says with a laugh. And each will curate a week of special shows this season — new commissions, multi-media works, and other out-of-the-box projects — while upholding an SFJAZZ tradition. This organization has always been about the curatorial spirit, coaxing audiences toward new experiences.

We spoke to each of the five RADs: Carrington in Boston; Akinmusire in Oakland; Potter in Brooklyn; Cohen in Rio de Janeiro; and Kinch in Birmingham, England. For over a year, time had ground to a halt. But now, each was getting back on the road, or preparing to do so. How had their creative processes evolved during this time of isolation and change?

What new projects had emerged? And why had they become artists in the first place?

One of her programs is a collaboration with Wayne Shorter, the saxophonist and composer.

He hired her when she was in her early 20s, and he remains a friend and mentor, a model for living an exemplary life. So… what can she say about Wayne? “Other than that he’s a genius?

To be around and just pick up information from people like Wayne is important. They talk to you about how to be an artist, how to be an artist citizen, how to be a teacher. They teach you how to commit to something, to not stray or become distracted — to be mission-oriented.

TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON

RESIDENCY: FEBRUARY 17–20, 2022

The drummer sat in with Rahsaan Roland Kirk when she was five. For decades, she lived on tour buses and in airports, always in a rush.

The pandemic changed it all. She began to linger on the phone with old friends; a strange concept, lingering. She found time for “thank you” notes — sending one to Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind & Fire, telling him that his music had enriched her life. Working at home, she burrowed into large-scale projects: a multimedia work on the theme of racial justice for M.I.T.; a “Visualizing Abolition” project for the University of California, Santa Cruz.

“By observing somebody being their highest self, it inspires and encourages you to be your highest self. Wayne’s just one of the most amazing human beings I’ve ever been around. He definitely changed my life. Really, he’s just the greatest. Like Muhammad Ali’s the greatest? Wayne’s the greatest.”

AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE RESIDENCY: MARCH 3–6, 2022

At age 39, the Oakland-reared trumpet innovator keeps moving ahead — the pandemic gave him time to “say yes” to ambitious projects, like scoring his first TV show, Blindspotting, a series set in Oakland.

He also has been looking back, considering his formative influences, like Robert Porter, his first jazz trumpet teacher. “He was always sharp, man,” Akinmusire recalls. “He always had a suit. And he walked with a lean. You know those images of Prez (Lester Young), when he played? That’s kind of the way Mr. Porter was.

He’d pick us up — me and my friends — and say, ‘Hey, you’re coming to my gig today.’ And we’d drive up to Sonoma and he would play a Bar Mitzvah or whatever and we would just watch. Very old school. And we’d see how it worked, being a musician. And the other thing, he was a Black Panther years before, so he was teaching us about Oakland history. And when (ex-Panther) Geronimo Pratt was released from prison, we went to De Fremery Park and we met him. So it was about how to play, and it was about how to present yourself, and it was about how to be in your community.”

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And now, as life normalizes, she promises, “I’m going to pick the things that I do more wisely. I’m just trying to create value with everything I do.”

As a Resident Artistic Director at SFJAZZ, she gets to paint on a blank canvas — “to curate something that feels like an experience, a broad expression.” It’s a chance for the audience “to look into the creative brain of the artist — into the core of your artistry, to know more about your instincts and inspirations, and just what makes you tick.” And it’s an opportunity for Carrington “to bring my own vision to life. If I had my own theater, I’d do this all the time!”

Above: Terri Lyne Carrington in Miner Auditorium by Grason Littles; right: Ambrose Akinmusire.

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Rhythmic Connections

ZAKIR HUSSAIN W/ ERIC HARLAND & ABBOS KOSIMOV 9| 24 Cinematic Jazz

KRIS BOWERS 9 | 23

OPENING NIGHT C E L E B R ATI O N A brilliant young pianist, Thelonious Monk Competition winner, and soundtrack composer for Bridgerton and Green Book, Bowers is rapidly building his own identity as a bandleader, forging a strikingly original 21st century sound.

In a performance echoing the drum invocation that opened the SFJAZZ Center in January 2013 and the crosscultural evening of percussion virtuosity he presented during his March 2013 week of residency, tabla genius Zakir Hussain signals the official re-opening of the SFJAZZ Center with two of the greatest percussionists on earth — drumset phenomenon Eric Harland and Uzbek dorya master Abbos Kosimov.

THU, SEP 23 • 7:30pm

FRI, SEP 24 • 7:30pm

$25–65

$ 4 0 – 9 5 M E M B E R S O N LY

M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

“HUSSAIN HAS BEEN PUSHING THE LIMITS OF HIS INSTRUMENT...

AND HIS VIRTUOSITY IS BARELY TO BE BELIEVED.” – T H E WA S H I N G TO N P O S T

OPENING WEEK

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KAT EDMONSON

THU, SEP 23 • 7&8:30 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

FRI, SEP 24 • 7&8:30

CHRISTIAN SANDS

S AT, S E P 2 5 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

KASSA OVERALL

SUN, SEP 26 • 6&7:30

New Vistas

PAT METHENY SIDE-EYE

W/ JAMES FRANCIES & JOE DYSON

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Far more than a guitar legend, the 20-time GRAMMY-winner is a brilliant builder of bands, and with these performances, he presents the Bay Area debut of his new trio project Side-Eye, featuring virtuoso keyboardist Francies and drummer Dyson. As a teenage prodigy coming up on the Kansas City and Boston scenes, Metheny made creative strides by keeping company with older musicians, learning the particular demands of playing their music. He created the payback project SideEye as a vehicle to offer younger players a similar kind of experience, reinterpreting some of his classic compositions while also exploring recently composed tunes inspired by his Side-Eye collaborators. This first incarnation has all the makings of an unforgettable encounter.

S AT , S E P 2 5 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN, SEP 26 • 3&7pm

$65 –140

$65 –140

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Thelonius Monk’s Birthday Celebration

Tenor Titan

GERALD CLAYTON, EDWARD SIMON, TAMMY L. HALL, & JUSTIN KAUFLIN

JOSHUA REDMAN 10 | 1–3

10 | 7

“One of the 21st century’s finest jazz improvisers” (The Guardian), saxophonist and composer Redman had led a series of stimulating ensembles since his debut in 1993. Co-founder of the SFJAZZ Collective and collaborator with Charlie Haden, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, the Rolling Stones, Brad Mehldau, and The Bad Plus, Redman made his most recent appearances at SFJAZZ with the all-star ensemble Still Dreaming, his GRAMMYnominated tribute project to his father Dewey Redman and his Ornette Coleman alumni band Old and New Dreams. Redman returns with his latest project.

“MR. REDMAN IS A SUPREMELY AFFABLE AND FLOWING IMPROVISER, A BRILLIANT ONE, WORKING IN A GLOW OF CLARITY.” – TH E N E W YO R K TI M E S

A brilliantly diverse cast from jazz’s top pianistic ranks comes together for a celebration of the legendary Thelonious Monk’s 104th birthday, an event that’s a longstanding SFJAZZ tradition. Artists include Clark Terry protégé Justin Kauflin, Gerald Clayton, SFJAZZ Collective’s Edward Simon, and Tammy L. Hall.

FRI, OCT 1 • 7:30pm

S AT , O C T 2 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN, OCT 3 • 3&7pm

THU, OCT 7 • 7:30pm

$35–85

$40–95

$35–85

$25–65

M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

B R A Z I L B Y T H E B AY

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CLAUDIA VILLELA

FRI, OCT 1 • 7&8:30

S AT, O C T 2 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

SUN, OCT 3 • 6&7:30

ARTISTS ON THE RISE BEN FLOCKS QUARTET

THU, OCT 7 • 7&8:30

B AY A R E A SOUNDS OCTOBER 14 –17

The multi-cultural width and breadth of the diverse Bay Area music scene is represented in this special week, showcasing music for strings, classic soul, and the intersection of American song forms with the traditions of Cuba and Ethiopia.

String Theory

SAN FRANCISCO STRING TRIO | HOUSE OF FAERN

10 | 14 The jazz violin tradition is showcased in this double bill, including violinist Mads Tolling and the San Francisco String Trio performing a tribute to the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s, along with NorCal violinist, bandleader and Bill Frisell collaborator Jenny Scheinman’s new project House Of Faern.

The Sound of Cuba

New Album Release

JESÚS DÍAZ MEKLIT Y SU QBA 10 | 16 10 | 15

The Cuban born, Bay Area based percussionist and singer is among the most versatile and accomplished artists on the world music scene, performing with his danceheavy, dynamic ensemble, “one of the few groups in the United States playing timba, a new-millennium musical idea from Cuba ...” (SF Chronicle).

An Ethio-American singer, Bay Area resident, and TED Senior Fellow, Meklit writes music steeped in traditional Ethiopian rhythms blended with her singer-songwriter’s poetic core, with floating melodies and dancing grooves that draw on sources as varied as East African music, Nina Simone and Joni Mitchell. She celebrates the release of her new album with this exclusive performance.

50th Anniversary Celebration

MARTIN LUTHER McCOY PLAYS

MARVIN GAYE’S WHAT’S GOING ON

10 | 17 Bay Area vocalist and former SFJAZZ Collective member Martin Luther McCoy honors the legacy of soul singing legend Marvin Gaye for the 50th anniversary of his landmark 1971 album What’s Going On.

THU, OCT 14 • 7:30pm

FRI, OCT 15 • 7:30pm

S AT , O C T 1 6 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN, OCT 17 • 7pm

$ 2 5 – 4 5 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

$ 2 5 – 4 5 DA N C E F L O O R

$ 2 5 – 4 5 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

$ 2 5 – 4 5 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

SASHA BERLINER & MATT WONG

ROGER GLENN & MARCOS SILVA

M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 % VIBES & PIANO DUOS

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HOTPLATE KYLE ATHAYDE & NATE SPARKS PLAY CHICK COREA & GARY BURTON

THU, OCT 14 • 7&8:30

WARREN WOLF & EDWARD SIMON

FRI, OCT 15 • 7&8:30

S AT, O C T 1 6 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

SUN, OCT 17 • 6&7:30

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An Evening With

BRANFORD MARSALIS 10 | 21–24

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“The highest echelon of jazz tenor saxophonists,” (LA Times) the 2011 NEA Jazz Master and three-time GRAMMY winner is the eldest musical sibling in jazz’s most famous contemporary clan. Gaining formative experience in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and his brother Wynton’s band, Marsalis leads simultaneous careers as a performer, composer, and bandleader with nearly 30 albums to his name. He has worked extensively in classical and pop settings, and composed the score to the Oscar-winning 2020 film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Marsalis performs music from across his expansive career and his latest Marsalis Music album,The Secret between the Shadow and the Soul, with his quartet including pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Reevis and drummer Justin Faulkner.

“SAXOPHONIST MARSALIS LEADS ONE OF THE MOST COHESIVE, INTENSE SMALL JAZZ ENSEMBLES ON THE SCENE TODAY.” –

A S S O C I AT E D P R E S S

THU, OCT 21 • 7:30pm

FRI, OCT 22 • 7:30pm

S AT , O C T 2 3 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN, OCT 24 • 7pm

$45 –110

$45 –110

$50 –115

$45 –110

NO TICKET SERVICES FEES Members save on every ticket

Halloween Night at Grace Cathedral

SILENT FILM CLASSICS

New Works Reflecting The Moment

W/ DOROTHY PAPADAKOS, ORGAN

SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE

10 | 30

10 | 28–31

The Phantom of the Opera: 7pm

An all-star ensemble comprising the finest performer/composers at work in jazz today. As a reflection of this tumultuous time in our lives, the Collective has decided to forego a specific tribute artist this season to compose, arrange, and perform original compositions dedicated to who we are as a country and a people in light of the fight for racial justice, the global pandemic, and the unprecedented political polarization and upheaval we have been facing in our daily lives.

The season also marks the addition of three exciting new additions to the band with vocalist Lizz Wright, drummer Kendrick Scott, and saxophonist Chris Potter, who will also assume the role of Music Director.

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David Sánchez t e n o r

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Etienne Charles t r u m p e t Warren Wolf v i b r a p h o n e Edward Simon p i a n o Matt Brewer b a s s Kendrick Scott d r u m s Lizz Wright v o c a l s

A special Halloween-time screening of Rupert Julian’s immortal 1925 silent horror classic, with a live score performed on Grace’s pipe organ by Dorothy Papadakos.

Nosferatu: 9:30pm

For the late show, Papadakos accompanies a screening of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 vampire classic starring the unforgettable Max Schreck as Count Orlok.

THU, OCT 28 • 7:30pm

FRI, OCT 29 • 7:30pm

S AT , O C T 3 0 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN, OCT 31 • 7pm

S AT , O C T 3 0 • 7 & 9 : 3 0 p m

$ 3 0 – 9 0 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

$ 3 0 – 9 0 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

$ 3 5 – 9 5 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

$ 3 0 – 9 0 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

$20 –35

BE FIRST IN LINE

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G R AC E C AT H E D R A L

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Cosmic Music

RAVI COLTRANE THE MUSIC OF JOHN & ALICE COLTRANE

11| 4–7 For this exclusive four-night run, saxophonist and composer Ravi Coltrane explores the music of his legendary parents John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane, joined by a masterful band. An artist whose career occupies a singular niche in modern jazz, Ravi Coltrane has established a sound and group concept that stands undeniably on its own, extending far beyond the shadow of his iconic name.

Although Coltrane has delved into his father’s work on occasion, including serving as artistic director for SFJAZZ’s weeklong celebration of the 50th Anniversary of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme in 2014, this historic week of music will be the first time he has seriously re-examined the singular work of both his parents.

– TH E N E W YO R K TI M E S

TH U, NOV 4 • 7:30 pm

FRI , NOV 5 • 7:30 pm

S AT , N O V 6 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SU N , NOV 7 • 3&7pm

$40 –105

$45 –115

$45 –115

$40 –105

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“POWERFUL MUSIC. IT RESISTED PREMADE FRAMES AND MADE ITS OWN.”

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INSIDER EVENTS

Members enjoy access to special Members-Only concerts, plus free listening parties throughout the year

GroundUP Grooves

SNARKY PUPPY 11 | 8–9

After a decade of relentless touring and recording in all but complete obscurity, the Texas-bred/New York-based quasicollective suddenly found itself held up by the press and public as one of the major figures in the jazz world. But as the category names for all four of the band’s GRAMMY awards would indicate (Best R&B Performance in 2014, Best Contemporary Instrumental Album in 2016, 2017, and 2021), Snarky Puppy isn’t exactly a jazz band. It’s not a fusion band, and it’s definitely not a jam band. It’s probably best to take Nate Chinen of the New York Times’ advice, as stated in an online discussion about the group, to “take them for what they are, rather than judge them for what they’re not.

MON , NOV 8 • 8 pm

TU E , NOV 9 • 8 pm

$ 35 – 95 PA R A M O U NT TH E ATR E

$ 35 – 95 PA R A M O U NT TH E ATR E

“BOUNCING BETWEEN NEW YORK, TEXAS, AND EVERYWHERE IN BETWEEN, THE JAZZ COLLECTIVE SNARKY PUPPY HAS BEEN STEADILY GAINING ACCLAIM OVER THE LAST DECADE.” – TH E N E W YO R K TI M E S

SAXOPHONISTS & COMPOSERS

JOE HENDERSON LAB 4S E E P A G E 4 7

MIKE CLARK & MICHAEL ZILBER

T H U, N OV 1 1 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET F R I , N OV 1 2 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

MAE.SUN

MICHAEL O’NEILL QUINTET

S AT, N O V 1 3 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

S U N , N OV 1 4 • 6 & 7 : 3 0

W/ MARK DE CLIVE-LOWE

W/ TONY LINDSAY

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60th Anniversary Tour

PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND 11| 18–21 The past and promise of American music” (Rolling Stone), Preservation Hall Jazz Band is a true New Orleans institution that defines the tradition of Crescent City music. They return with this historic celebration of their 60th Anniversary.

Founded in 1961 by tuba player Allan Jaffe, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band was formed to preserve the city’s priceless musical heritage and attracted players linked to the glory days of the 1920s. Now run by Jaffe’s son, tuba player Ben Jaffe, the group features a multigenerational wealth of New Orleans talent, recording and sharing the stage with the likes of Allen Toussaint, the Foo Fighters, Tom Waits, Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), Dr. John, My Morning Jacket, Beck, and others.

“AMERICA’S BEST TRADITIONAL JAZZ BAND...”

– ALL ABOUT JAZZ

TH U, NOV 1 8 • 7:30 pm

FRI , NOV 19 • 7:30 pm

S AT , N O V 2 0 • 7 & 9 : 3 0 p m

SU N , NOV 21 • 7pm

$ 6 0 – 1 1 0 DA N C E F L O O R

$ 6 0 – 1 1 0 DA N C E F L O O R

$ 7 0 – 1 2 0 DA N C E F L O O R

$ 6 0 – 1 1 0 DA N C E F L O O R

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25% OFF SELECT CONCERTS

Members enjoy discounts on concerts throughout the year

FAMILY MATINEE

ARTISTS ON THE RISE

S AT, N O V 2 0 • 1 1 a m

S AT, N O V 2 0 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

W/ LEFT COAST CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

SAL’S GREENHOUSE

Holiday Concert

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM JOSÉ JAMES 11| 27–28 Gravy Train

CHESTER THOMPSON

W/ SPECIAL GUESTS

11| 26

“Ferociously swinging” (San Francisco Chronicle), the GRAMMY-winning Santana and Tower of Power veteran makes his Miner Auditorium debut with a Thanksgiving themed groove-fest featuring music from saxophone great Lou Donaldson’s 1962 Blue Note soul-jazz classic Gravy Train, with special guests.

An R&B-steeped singer who’s as effective evoking Billie Holiday as Bill Withers, José James returns with his first holiday project that imbues classic songs of the season with the warmth of a roaring fireplace in winter, captured on his new album Merry Christmas from José James. Working in collaboration with master bassist and arranger Ben Williams and surrounded by an array of brilliant players including James Farm pianist Aaron Parks, James opted for the immediacy of sharing the same space with his collaborators like a 1950s jazz session — together in a single room without isolation. He brings all that heat and light to an evening of songs inextricably linked to the holidays.

FRI , NOV 26 • 7:30 pm

S AT , N O V 2 7 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SU N , NOV 2 8 • 7pm

$ 2 5 – 6 5 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

$30–85

$30–85

S AT, N O V 2 7 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

S U N , N OV 2 8 • 6 & 7 : 3 0

“A WINNINGLY SINGULAR PRESENCE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN MUSIC. NOT JUST SINGULAR, BUT MAGNETIC.” – NPR

THE LONG GAME

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JACQUI NAYLOR

F R I , N OV 2 6 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

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Cosmopolitan Holiday Music

PINK MARTINI

Winter Concert

SFJAZZ HIGH SCHOOL ALL-STARS 12 | 19

12| 2–5 With the combined power of a dozen musicians, the self-described “little orchestra” performs a rollicking cross-genre mix of classical, jazz, and oldfashioned pop The Washington Post called “rich, hugely approachable, utterly cosmopolitan yet utterly unpretentious... it seems to speak to just about everybody.” The return with their infectiously joyous, dancefriendly takes on classic holiday music to make your season swing, as captured on their 2010 release Joy to the World. Formed in 1994 by pianist Thomas Lauderdale in Portland, Oregon, the group has performed in settings ranging from the Cannes Film Festival to late night television with David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, and Jay Leno — even a video greeting to the astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

“IMPRESSIVE AT EVERY MUSICIAN’S STATION, THIS ENSEMBLE PRODUCES MUSIC THAT’S CHARMING AND ELEGANT.”

THU, DEC 2 • 7:30pm

FRI, DEC 3 • 7:30pm

S AT , D E C 4 • 2 & 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN, DEC 5 • 2&7pm

SUN, DEC 19 • 1pm

$65 –165

$65 –165

$75 –175

$75 –175

$10 –20

B AY A R E A S O U L

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Under the expert direction of Paul Contos & Dann Zinn, 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!

4S E E P A G E 4 7

NICOLAS BEARDE

S AT, D E C 1 1 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

DESTANI WOLF

SUN, DEC 12 • 6&7:30

S FJ A Z Z H O L I D AY CONCE RTS DECEMBER 16 –19

Holiday shows are an SFJAZZ tradition.

This season we bring back several audience favorites including the music of A Charlie Brown Christmas, original Hanukkah songs with lyrics by Woody Guthrie, and The Nutcracker by way of Duke Ellington.

Happy Joyous Hanukkah

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite

ADAM THE KLEZMATICS SHULMAN 12| 17–18 12| 16 “Among the greatest bands on the planet” (Time Out New York), The GRAMMY-winning Jewish klezmer superstars return to celebrate the Festival of Light, performing seasonal music from their 2006 album Happy Joyous Hanukkah that set lyrics by Woody Guthrie to their delightful original compositions.

MARCUS SHELBY ORCHESTRA

W/ TIFFANY AUSTIN

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, backed by his trio.

“SHULMAN SWINGS HARD, EXUDES CONFIDENCE AND TAKES CHANCES, WHILE NEVER VEERING TOO FAR OFF COURSE.”

THU, DEC 16 • 7:30pm

FRI, DEC 17 • 7:30pm

S AT, D E C 1 8 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN, DEC 19 • 7pm

$25–65

$30–85

$30–85

$40–95

HOTPLATE GEORGE COLE

FAMILY MATINEE

THU, DEC 16 • 7&8:30

S AT, D E C 1 8 • 1 1 a m

ERIK JEKABSON NEW ORLEANS SEXTET W/ KENNY WASHINGTON

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12 | 19 Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s Nutcracker Suite arrangements offer an ideal vehicle for Shelby’s jazz orchestra, an ensemble he modeled after Ellington’s.

S FJ A Z Z H O L I DAY C O N C E R T S

JOE HENDERSON LAB 4S E E P A G E 4 8

PLAYS NAT KING COLE

W/ TIFFANY AUSTIN

FR-SA, DEC 17-18 • 7&8:30

SUN, DEC 19 • 6&7:30

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Funky New Year

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Ring in the New Year with the king of the funky saxophone and one of the primary architects of modern R&B, Maceo Parker. The altoist made his mark as an essential voice in the powerhouse horns backing James Brown, contributing classic funk solos on some of the Godfather’s iconic hits. He went on to join George Clinton’s moveable funk feast in Parliament/Funkadelic during the ensemble’s most creative era, and has contributed to albums and tours with artists including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Matthews Band and most extensively, Prince. Parker brings his band back to SFJAZZ for an explosive New Year’s celebration and three more nights of dance-inspiring funk with special guests.

“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

THU, DEC 30 • 7:30pm

FRI, DEC 31 • 8&10:30pm

S AT , J A N 1 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN , JAN 2 • 7pm

$ 2 5 – 6 5 DA N C E F L O O R

$ 5 0 – 1 1 5 DA N C E F L O O R

$ 2 5 – 6 5 DA N C E F L O O R

$ 2 5 – 6 5 DA N C E F L O O R

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M E M B E R S - O N LY, 1 0 : 3 0 p m

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Trumpet Superstar

CHRIS BOTTI 1 | 4–9

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 master 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, as well as Frank Sinatra, and his newest album, Impressions, was a GRAMMY winner for Best Instrumental Pop Album, featuring guests including Herbie Hancock and Vince Gill. Our multi-night runs with Botti have become an earlyyear tradition, and always sell out, so get your tickets early!

“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.” – TH E N E W YO R K TI M E S

T U –T H , JA N 4 – 6 • 7 : 3 0 p m

FRI , JAN 7 • 7&9 :30 pm

S AT , J A N 8 • 7 & 9 : 3 0 p m

SUN , JAN 9 • 3&7pm

$55 –125

$55 –150

$55 –150

$55 –150

HOTPLATE AMY D PLAYS

HOTPLATE CAROLINE CHUNG

HOTPLATE RICK VANDIVIER &

FRI, JAN 21 • 7&8:30

S AT, J A N 2 2 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

SUN, JAN 23 • 6&7:30

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JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA W/ WYNTON MARSALIS

1 | 27–30

A 2011 NEA Jazz Master and an iconic figure in the evolution of the art form, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis returns for four nights with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, on the heels of his Lifetime Achievement Award presented at SFJAZZ Gala 2022.

From his New Orleans beginnings and fiery debut with legendary Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers to his string of acclaimed albums and current role as Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Marsalis has received nine GRAMMYs and the Pulitzer Prize for Music, the first ever awarded to a jazz artist. Since 1988, he has led the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, a 15-piece assemblage of virtuosos that is arguably the finest large group in jazz.

“THE GREATEST LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE WORKING TODAY.” – CHICAGO TRIBUNE

TH U, JAN 27 • 7:30 pm

FRI , JAN 2 8 • 7:30 pm

S AT , J A N 2 9 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN , JAN 30 • 3&7pm

$50 –115

$60 –125

$60 –125

$50 –115

DIANA GAMEROS

JAZ SAWYER QUARTET

JON JANGTET W/ PAUL FLORES

JAZZ & SOCIAL JUSTICE

JOE HENDERSON LAB 4S E E P A G E 4 8

DESTINY MUHAMMAD THU, FEB 3 • 7&8:30

FRI, FEB 4 • 7&8:30

FEATURING TONGO EISEN-MARTIN S AT, F E B 5 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

SUN, FEB 6 • 6&7:30

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WEEK O F LOV E FE B RUARY 10 –15

The week surrounding Valentine’s Day can be summed up by the word “intimacy.” Cécile McLorin Salvant’s voice draws listeners in like no other, and piano great Brad Mehldau performs a pair of intimate solo piano concerts.

GRAMMY-Winning Vocalist

CÉCILE McLORIN SALVANT QUINTET W/ SULLIVAN FORTNER

2 | 10–13

Cécile McLorin Salvant Quintet with Sullivan Fortner is brought to you in part by the generosity of The Bernard Osher Foundation.

Three-time GRAMMY-winner Cécile McLorin Salvant is the “finest jazz singer to emerge in the last decade” (The New York Times).

She returns following her latest Best Jazz Vocal Album win for her live 2018 Mack Avenue release, The Window. Possessing a deep, velvety voice, rhythmic poise, and a sublime feel for the blues, Salvant combines conservatory-honed technique with a beguiling gift for lyrical interpretation—a singular talent that won her the 2010 Thelonious Monk International Vocals Competition and universal accolades in the major press. She performs with a unique quintet lineup including pianist Sullivan Fortner and saxophonist Alexa Tarantino.

Solo Piano

TH –SA , FE B 10 –12 • 7:30pm

SUN, FEB 13 • 7pm

MON, FEB 14 • 7:30pm

TUE , FEB 15 • 7:30pm

$40 –125

$40 –110

$75 –135

$70 –125

BRAD MEHLDAU 2| 14–15

S O L O G U I TA R

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MARC RIBOT

TH–SA, FEB 10–12 • 7&8:30

SUN, FEB 13 • 6&7:30

FAMILY MATINEE

W/ MARCUS SHELBY & FRIENDS S AT, F E B 1 2 • 1 1 a m

Described by DownBeat as “the most influential jazz artist of his generation,” Mehldau is at his most expansive in solo recitals where he gives free rein to his imagination.

The 2020 GRAMMY-winner returns for this intimate solo performance with music from his latest, Suite: April 2020.

RESIDEN T ARTISTIC D I R E C TO R

Resident Artistic Director

TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON 2 | 17–20 The master drummer is a musical bridge builder, bandleader and activist.

Over a 40-year career, she has collaborated with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Nancy Wilson, John Scofield, Stan Getz, Esperanza Spalding, Lester Bowie, Dianne Reeves, Pharoah Sanders and countless others. A champion of gender rights in jazz, she is the only woman ever to win a GRAMMY for best jazz instrumental album.

TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON + SOCIAL SCIENCE

NEW STANDARDS

W/ MATTHEW STEVENS, AARON PARKS, MORGAN GUERIN, KOKAYI & DEBO RAY

W/ LINDA MAY HAN OH, KRIS DAVIS, AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE, ELENA PINDERHUGHES & MATTHEW STEVENS

Waiting Game is Carrington’s most politically charged project, tackling subjects of racism, homophobia, gender equality, mass incarceration, and police brutality.

This all-star sextet explores a songbook of great women composers featuring the work of Carla Bley, Cassandra Wilson, and Lil Hardin Armstrong, among others.

THU, FEB 17 • 7:30pm $ 2 5 – 8 0 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

MUSING EMANON: WAYNE SHORTER’S ORBIT

GERI ALLEN’S GENIUS, GRACE & FIRE

W/ DANILO PÉREZ, BRANDON ROSS, VAL JEANTY & NICOLE MITCHELL

W/ DAVE HOLLAND, JASON MORAN & RAVI COLTRANE

This exploratory ensemble will “muse” on the futuristic ideas from Wayne Shorter’s expansive 2018 album Emanon, with Shorter himself appearing on film to recite the story.

The drummer pays tribute to the legacy of the late pianist and composer Geri Allen, with a stunning band of masters including Ravi Coltrane, Jason Moran, and Dave Holland.

FRI, FEB 18 • 7:30pm

S AT , F E B 1 9 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN, FEB 20 • 7pm

$25–80

$ 3 0 – 9 0 M E M B E R S O N LY

$30–90

IMMANUEL WILKINS

SITKA SUN

RJAM SIDE-BY-SIDE

T H E N E X T WAV E

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GIVETON GELIN

THU, FEB 17 • 7&8:30

FRI, FEB 18 • 7&8:30

S AT, F E B 1 9 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

SUN, FEB 20 • 7

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She Remembers Everything

ROSANNE CASH & JOHN LEVENTHAL 2 | 24–27 “One of the most ambitious and literary songwriters of her generation” (Rolling Stone), Rosanne Cash is America’s foremost musical woman of letters, a singularly literate and incisive artist whose poignant vocals turn every song into a revelatory tale. She returns following her performances with Ry Cooder in tribute to her legendary father with music from across her career including songs from her latest Blue Note release, She Remembers Everything, joined by her husband and musical collaborator John Leventhal. The GRAMMY-nominated She Remembers Everything is a vibrant document of American life steeped in love, longing, dreams unrealized, the realities of gun violence, and the price of experience.

“MS. CASH HAS A VOICE BOTH DARK AND SWEET, WITH A GENTLE BUT RELIABLE VIBRATO, AND SHE KNOWS HOW TO CONVEY THE QUIET STING OF HEARTACHE.” – TH E N E W YO R K TI M E S

THU, FEB 24 • 7:30pm

FRI, FEB 25 • 7:30pm

S AT , F E B 2 6 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN, FEB 27 • 7pm

$50 –115

$60 –125

$60 –125

$50 –115

NOISE POP AT SFJAZZ • 2 | 24–27

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AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE 3 | 3–6 The most distinctive trumpeter of our era, Oakland-reared Akinmusire plays with a dark-hued and gleaming tone. He merges straight ahead jazz with rappers and string quartets, “throwing out all the cliches to arrive at AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE: PORTER a fresh conception” (San W/ SF CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ORCHESTRA & SPECIAL GUESTS Jose Mercury News). A PORTER explores the rich history of intergenerational Blue Note recording mentorship and oral tradition in the Bay Area, through artist, Akinmusire pushes interviews and archival footage of jazz greats and local fearlessly forward – and is legends. Featuring the Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet backed sought out by such legends by a 30-piece orchestra, PORTER will premiere a new jazz as Jack DeJohnette and orchestral composition, set to the voices, images, and stories of jazz mentors. and Kendrick Lamar.

AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE

W/ GUESTS BILL FRISELL & HERLIN RILEY The trumpeter’s new all-star ensemble includes downtown guitar pioneer Bill Frisell and the grooving New Orleans drummer Herlin Riley, with other guests to be named soon! As with all of Akinmusire’s projects, this ensemble reaches for new horizons, building an organic vision that can draw on straight-ahead jazz, the avant-garde, classical chamber music, or hip-hop.

THU, MAR 3 • 7:30pm

FRI, MAR 4 • 7:30pm

S AT , M A R 5 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN, MAR 6 • 7pm

$ 2 5 – 8 5 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

$25–85

$30–90

$25–85

HRISTO VITCHEV QUARTET

OSCAR PEÑAS QUARTET

MIMI FOX TRIO

G U I TA R W E E K

JOE HENDERSON LAB 4S E E P A G E 4 9

BEN MONDER

THU, MAR 3 • 7&8:30

FRI, MAR 4 • 7&8:30

S AT, M A R 5 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

SUN, MAR 6 • 6&7:30

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CHRIS POTTER 3 | 17–20

A monster saxophonist, Potter is one of the premier improvisers of recent decades and a ubiquitous influence among younger players.

Since emerging as a sideman 30 years ago with bebop trumpeter Red Rodney, he has played with everybody, from Pat Metheny to Steely Dan.

CHRIS POTTER BIG BAND: SING TO ME

W/ GRETCHEN PARLATO, ADAM ROGERS, CRAIG TABORN REUBEN ROGERS & ERIC HARLAND

ALL-STAR TRIO PLUS ONE

W/ CRAIG TABORN & ERIC HARLAND AND SPECIAL GUEST DAVE HOLLAND

The most commanding saxophonist of his generation, Chris Potter premieres an evening-length song cycle for his 19-piece big band featuring the sublime vocalist Gretchen Parlato – and Potter himself as soloist. In addition to his own lyrics for these new compositions, Potter employs texts by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Kabir Das, the 15th-century Indian mystic poet.

Potter possesses an unfailing knack for assembling and performing with the most dynamic and expressive units in jazz, and these exclusive nights will mark the U.S. introduction of a new quartet for the ages. Based around Potter’s electroacoustic Circuits trio with virtuoso drummer Eric Harland, this decidedly new lineup includes maverick keyboard genius Craig Taborn, who has been a collaborator since the saxophonist’s funk-heavy Underground quartet.

THU, MAR 17 • 7:30pm

FRI, MAR 18 • 7:30pm

S AT , M A R 1 9 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN, MAR 20 • 7pm

$30–85

$30–85

$35–95

$30–85

SARAH WILSON’S BRASS TONIC

KATIE THIROUX

JENN JOHNS

LEADING WOMEN

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NIKARA WARREN & BLACK WALL STREET THU, MAR 10 • 7&8:30

FRI, MAR 11 • 7&8:30

S AT, M A R 1 2 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

SUN, MAR 13 • 6&7:30

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ANAT COHEN 3 | 24–27

Raised in Israel, the GRAMMY-nominated multi-reedist has been a force on the New York jazz scene for nearly two decades. Her talents keep growing, as she absorbs swing, samba, Middle Eastern and classical influences into her organic and inviting concept. Her clarinet evokes “infectious joy,” says the New York Times, calling her “an improviser with gusto.”

ANAT COHEN & MARCELLO GONÇALVES Cohen and 7-string guitarist Marcello Gonçalves honor Brazilian legend Moacir Santos with music from their 2017 Anzic release Outra Coisa and previews music from their upcoming album Reconvexo dedicated to other Brazilian masters.

ANAT COHEN TENTET

THE 3 COHENS

“The sense of fun is contagious and swing is seriously the thing,” (DownBeat) as Cohen returns with her GRAMMY-nominated Tentet, blending Brazilian music, klezmer, and Romani jazz. The group features some of the most exciting young players in New York and is another synergistic collaboration between Cohen and co-producer/co-arranger Oded Lev-Ari, who is her partner in Anzic Records and a protégé of the legendary FAMILY MATINEE arranger Bob Brookmeyer.

W/ ANAT COHEN & FRIENDS

The clarinetist and her siblings, soprano saxophonist Yuval Cohen and trumpeter (and former SFJAZZ Collective member) Avishai Cohen, have established a remarkable ensemble dynamic built from decades of collective and individual experience as leaders and collaborators.

S AT, M A R 2 6 • 1 1 a m

THU, MAR 24 • 7:30pm

FRI, MAR 25 • 7:30pm

S AT , M A R 2 6 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN, MAR 27 • 7pm

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PIANO WEEK

HOTPLATE PETER HORVATH PLAYS HERBIE HANCOCK

THU, MAR 17 • 7&8:30

ORGAN GROOVES

HELEN SUNG QUARTET FRI, MAR 18 • 7&8:30

MICHAEL WOLFF TRIO

S AT, M A R 1 9 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

AARON PARKS

SUN, MAR 20 • 6&7:30

PETER BERNSTEIN, LARRY GOLDINGS, BILL STEWART TH–SU, MAR 24–27

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2022 JAZZ MASTERS TRIBUTE CONCERT

STANLEY CLARKE

DONALD HARRISON, JR.

T H U R S DAY M A R C H 3 1 , 2 02 2 S FJA Z Z C E N T E R R O B E R T N . M I N E R AU D ITO R I U M F R E E A D M I S S I O N | TI M E T B D

BILLY HART

For 40 years, the National Endowment for the Arts has honored individuals for their lifetime contributions to jazz, an art form that continues to expand and find new audiences through the contributions of individuals such as the 2022 NEA Jazz Masters honorees—Stanley honorees—Stanley Clarke, Clarke, Billy Hart, Hart , Cassandra Wilson, Wilson , and Donald Harrison, Jr., Jr. , recipient of the 2022 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz Advocacy. The 2022 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert will take place at the SFJAZZ Center on Thursday, March 31st, 2022. More details will be announced in early 2022.

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CASSANDRA WILSON

Photos courtesy of Toshi Sakurai, Donald Harrison, Desmond White & Mark Seliger.

2018 NEA Jazz Master

DIANNE REEVES 4 | 1–3

“The most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday,” (NY Times) GRAMMY winner and 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. With a string of GRAMMYs, including an unprecedented three consecutive Best Jazz Vocal Performance awards and another for her contributions to George Clooney’s film Good Night and Good Luck, she’s a performer with a gift for imbuing any performance space with the intimacy of a living room. Her Concord Records debut, Beautiful Life, won the 2015 GRAMMY for Best Jazz Vocal Album, melding jazz with elements of R&B, pop and Latin music.

FRI, APR 1 • 7:30pm

S AT , A P R 2 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN, APR 3 • 7pm

$50 –115

$50 –115

$50 –115

“DIANNE REEVES IS ONE OF OUR GENERATION’S DEFINITIVE JAZZ MASTERS, A VOCAL STYLIST OF EXTRAORDINARY SKILL AND VIVACITY.” – THE HUFFINGTON POST

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JOHN SCOFIE LD: SOLO, DUO, Q UARTE TS APRIL 14 –17

“One of the most prolific and admired jazz musicians of his generation” (NPR), the guitar giant presents four concerts that showcase his mastery in a progressive array of settings, from solo guitar to quartet.

Guitar Giant

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Telepathic Quartet

Back to the Source

4| 15

& BILL STEWART

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JOHN SCOFIELD JOHN SCOFIELD JOHN SCOFIELD’S JOHN SCOFIELD COMBO 66 SOLO & DAVE YANKEE W/ GERALD CLAYTON, GO HOME HOLLAND VICENTE ARCHER

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Art of the Duo

The guitar great begins his week with a solo performance, echoing the magical Sacred Space solo concert he gave at Grace Cathedral during the 2011 SFJAZZ Spring Season.

Though he has proven a master of range, Scofield has never recorded a solo guitar album, and almost never plays solo recitals, making this concert an all too rare opportunity to experience a jazz master in this most distilled setting, turning his time alone on stage into an enthralling journey.

With a shared legacy of innovation and musicality, two of the most influential instrumentalists in modern jazz come together for this evening of duos. Though they both rose to prominence in the bands of Miles Davis and worked together with Joe Henderson and in the all-star band ScoLoHoFo, this duo is a first.

THU, APR 14 • 7:30pm

FRI, APR 15 • 7:30pm

S AT , A P R 1 6 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN, APR 17 • 3&7pm

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4| 16 “Combo 66 may be named for Scofield’s age, but it sounds as timeless as he does ageless” (JazzTimes).

The GRAMMY-winning guitar giant returns with his multi-generational quartet featuring a group of masters who infuse the leader’s originals with grit, fire, and telepathic interplay.

Joined by Brian Blade Fellowship pianist and arranger Jon Cowherd, ace bassist Vicente Archer, and drummer Josh Dion in their Bay Area debut, Scofield plunges back into the music that colored his adolescent world, reinterpreting tunes by everyone from Leonard Bernstein, Neil Young and Buddy Holly to Stevie Wonder and the Grateful Dead.

SFJAZZ POETRY FESTIVAL STUDENT SHOWCASE S AT– S U N , A P R 2 3 – 2 4

Electric Blues Giant

KEB’ MO’ 4| 21–24

An iconic artist who helped re-introduce electric blues into the pop music mainstream, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and four-time GRAMMY winner Keb’ Mo’ gained worldwide fame with his GRAMMY-winning 1996 album Just Like You, embracing the country-blues style of Robert Johnson and combining it with modern blues, R&B, and soul. He’s collaborated with Bonnie Raitt, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Jackson Browne, Natalie Cole, Lyle Lovett, India.Arie, James Cotton, and Bobby Rush, while recording fourteen records as a leader, racking up three more GRAMMYs and eleven nominations. His latest Concord Records release, 2019’s Oklahoma, includes appearances by pedal steel virtuoso Robert Randolph and former SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director Rosanne Cash.

“KEB’ MO’ PLAYS OLD-FASHIONED ACOUSTIC BLUES AND HAS THE SORT OF RICH, ROUGH-HEWN BARITONE THAT WAS ONCE A POP STAPLE. – PEOPLE

THU, APR 21 • 7:30pm

FRI, APR 22 • 7:30pm

S AT , A P R 2 3 • 7 : 3 0 p m

SUN, APR 24 • 7pm

$45 –105

$65 –125

$65 –125

$45 –105

KRISTEN STROM

ARTISTS ON THE RISE

RJAM SIDE-BY-SIDE

J O E H E N D E R S O N F E S T I VA L

JOE HENDERSON LAB 4S E E P A G E 5 1

HOTPLATE MATT RENZI PLAYS JOE HENDERSON THU, APR 21 • 7&8:30

FRI, APR 22 • 7&8:30

HITOMI OBA

S AT, A P R 2 3 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

SUN, APR 24 • 7

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South African Jazz Legend Ukrainian Roots

DAKHA BRAKHA 4 | 27 “Visually striking and sonically mesmerizing,” (Broadway World), the Kiev-based trio blends ancient Ukrainian folk melodies with pop, hiphop, and the avant-garde.

DakhaBrakha has taken on the mission of cultural ambassador, celebrating national pride in uncertain times through the limitless power of music.

4| 28 – 5| 1 The great Nelson Mandela described Cape Town-born piano legend and 2019 NEA Jazz Master Abdullah Ibrahim as “South Africa’s Mozart,” and he returns with the current incarnation of his superb Ekaya ensemble.

A performer, composer, and outspoken chronicler of South Africa’s struggle with apartheid, Ibrahim is at truly global figure in jazz, whose music has always been a mixture of influences from jazz and classical to gospel and traditional African music. Since his auspicious beginning as a protégé of the great Duke Ellington, a staggering 50-album career followed, finding Ibrahim recording in settings ranging from solo to orchestral music and soundtrack work.

“A LIFETIME OF DREAMS AND RESISTANCE AT THE PIANO.” – TH E N E W YO R K TI M E S

WED, APR 27 • 7:30pm

THU, APR 28 • 7:30pm

FRI, APR 29 • 7:30pm

S AT , A P R 3 0 • 7 : 3 0 p m

S U N , M AY 1 • 7 p m

$ 3 0 –70

$30–90

$30–90

$35–95

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ARTISTS ON THE RISE

SAM REIDER AND THE HUMAN HANDS S AT, A P R 3 0 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

Created with funding from Hewlett 50 Arts Commisions from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Golden City Suite

At War With Ourselves

MIGUEL ZENÓN

KRONOS QUARTET

5| 5–6

5 | 7–8

The founding SFJAZZ Collective alto saxophonist presents the world premiere of Golden City Suite, his tribute to the immigrant communities of San Francisco, commissioned by the Hewlett Foundation and SFJAZZ. In 2018, the Guggenheim Fellow and MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient has conducted interviews in the city’s Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, African-American and other ethnic communities, composing this large-scale work based on those perspectives.

FAMILY MATINEE W/ MIGUEL ZENÓN

S AT, M AY 7 • 1 1 a m

Michael Abels CO M P O S E R Nikky Finney L I B R E T T I S T At War With Ourselves is an evening-length work for string quartet, chorus, and spoken word co-commissioned by the Hewlett 50 initiative and SFJAZZ, performed by the Kronos Quartet with a choir directed by Valérie Sainte-Agathe. The work is composed by Michael Abels, known for his scores for Jordan Peele’s films Get Out and Us. With a libretto by award-winning poet Nikky Finney, the piece explores the ongoing conundrum of race relations and movements for social justice, civil rights, and resistance.

T H U , M AY 5 • 7 : 3 0 p m

F R I , M AY 6 • 7 : 3 0 p m

S AT , M AY 7 • 7 : 3 0 p m

S U N , M AY 8 • 7 p m

$ 2 5 – 4 5 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

$25–45

$25–65

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SFJAZZ Poet Laureate

MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH

RACE, VIOLENCE AND THE SACRED

5| 14

The SFJAZZ Poet Laureate and Rockefeller Fellow Marc Bamuthi Joseph presents an exclusive look into his upcoming opera Race, Violence and the Sacred, written in collaboration with celebrated composer Tamar-kali, and featuring dramaturgy by legendary dancer, director, and choreographer Bill T. Jones.

Based around the mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 and the 2015 massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, Race, Violence and the Sacred imagines the two houses of worship sharing a common alley, with a journalist there to investigate the crimes. This night will share excerpts from the new work, and Bamuthi will lead a broader conversation around race, violence, and the sacred.

“A COMMANDING PRESENCE.” – KQED ON MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH

S AT , M AY 1 4 • 7 : 3 0 p m $25–45

JAZZ MANOUCHE

JOE HENDERSON LAB 40

4S E E P A G E 5 1

BARRIO MANOUCHE

T H U , M AY 1 2 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

BESO NEGRO

F R I , M AY 1 3 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

GAUCHO

S AT, M AY 1 4 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

REZ ABBASI QUARTET

S U N , M AY 1 5 • 6 & 7 : 3 0

Spring Concert

SFJAZZ HIGH SCHOOL ALL-STARS W/ SOWETO KINCH 5 | 22

The award-winning SFJAZZ High School All-Stars continue to earn accolades wherever they appear. 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!

“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

S U N , M AY 2 2 • 1 p m $10 –20

INSIDER EVENTS

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SOWETO KINCH 5 | 19–22

The London-born saxophonist and rapper is seamlessly aligned with jazz and hip-hop. A progenitor and leader of the burgeoning British jazz scene, he is equal parts John Coltrane and Public Enemy. Kinch has “a commanding way of looking at jazz, at hiphop, and at the whole performance situation.”

(The New York Times)

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BLACK PERIL

WHITE JUJU

Soweto Kinch is a seeker – a wide-open musician, finding inspiration in the spoken word, theater, dance, and history.

The Black Peril, first performed in London in 2019, is an ambitious work, a musical portrait of the fractured world of a century ago, when the Spanish flu raged. From 1919-1921, anti-Black race riots broke out on both sides of the Atlantic, from Glascow to Chicago, and Kingston, Jamaica. Kinch is inspired here by Black classical composers of the early 20th century, by ragtime, and early jazz.

Named for the spell cast across the centuries by systemic racism, White JuJu is the title of Kinch’s new extended work, premiering this week at SFJAZZ. It charts a musical pathway through the recent culture wars and racial upheavals, blending electronic hip-hop, West Indian folk music, and jazz. The subject matter is sobering, but the music is “healing. It’s a tonic.

It’s danceable,” he says. “We’re spending so much time on our phones and our screens, disconnected from our hips – and we really want to dance.

T H U , M AY 1 9 • 7 : 3 0 p m

F R I , M AY 2 0 • 7 : 3 0 p m

S AT , M AY 2 1 • 7 : 3 0 p m

S U N , M AY 2 2 • 7 p m

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Jazz Supergroup

ARTEMIS FT. RENEE ROSNES, INGRID JENSEN, ANAT COHEN, NICOLE GLOVER, NORIKO UEDA & ALLISON MILLER

5| 26–29

Assembled by pianist, composer, and founding SFJAZZ Collective member Renee Rosnes, ARTEMIS is an international all-star super band of modern jazz masters including trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, clarinetist Anat Cohen, saxophonist Nicole Glover, bassist Noriko Ueda, and drummer Allison Miller. Named for the Olympian goddess of the hunt and the wild, this superlative sextet released their self-titled Blue Note debut last year, featuring with new compositions written expressly for the ensemble along with a Lee Morgan classic and an arrangement of a Beatles song.

“THE MUSIC AND THESE COMPOSER/PLAYERS—VARIED AND PROMINENT, AND BRILLIANTLY TALENTED, EACH—ARE ELITE BY ANY MEASURE.” – P O P M AT T E R S

T H U , M AY 2 6 • 7 : 3 0 p m

F R I , M AY 2 7 • 7 : 3 0 p m

S AT, M AY 2 8 • 7 : 3 0 p m

S U N , M AY 2 9 • 7 p m

$ 2 5 – 7 5 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

$30–80

$30–80

$ 2 5 –75

BLUES WEEK

JOE HENDERSON LAB 4S E E P A G E 5 1

HOTPLATE JULES LEYHE PLAYS TAJ MAHAL

T H U , M AY 2 6 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

MARK HUMMEL & THE BLUES SURVIVORS

F R I , M AY 2 7 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

S AT, M AY 2 8 • 7 & 8 : 3 0

S U N , M AY 2 9 • 6 & 7 : 3 0

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JOE HE N DE R SON L AB “AS OPEN AS THE GENRE IT CELEBRATES.” - N AT E C H I N E N

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Named for the late, legendary saxophonist and San Francisco resident Joe Henderson, who had a long & memorable history with SFJAZZ.

TH E N E W YO R K TI M E S

Veronica Swift performing in the Joe Henderson Lab by Richard Gelfand.

Henderson performed over a dozen times at SFJAZZ 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 award-winning SFJAZZ High School All-Stars and the Monday Night Band community ensemble.

I N TI M AT E The 100-plus seat venue allows audience members to feel a direct connection to the music and the performers, only a few feet away.

OPEN 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.

E D U C ATI O N A L 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.

Clockwise from left: SFJAZZ Center from Linden Street by Henrik Kam, New Breed Brass Band

by Scott Chernis, John Brothers Piano Company by Don Dixon.

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SEPTEMBER

OPENING WEEK Our first JHL shows of the season are focused on a pianist of rare soulfulness and a drummer combining organic rhythms with cutting-edge technology.

Dreamers Do

KAT EDMONSON

OCTOBER

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Taking inspiration from Chick Corea and Gary Burton’s landmark duo recordings, this week is devoted to the unique pairing of piano and vibraphone.

Visionary Drummer & Producer

Best known for his work with Christian McBride, the GRAMMYnominated piano virtuoso performs from his newest Mack Avenue album, Be Water, with his quartet.

Blending a deep grasp of the tradition with cutting-edge technology, the drummer and producer makes his SFJAZZ debut as a leader.

CHRISTIAN SANDS

“The most promising American jazz singer to come along since Cassandra Wilson” (Boston Globe), the Houston-born vocalist possesses a sweetly mellifluous soprano echoing Blossom Dearie’s lighter-than-air approach as well as her gift for evocative songwriting. She returns in an intimate voice and piano duo, performing music from her 2020 Spinnerette Records album Dreamers Do.

KASSA OVERALL

TH U, SE P 23 • 7&8 :30pm

FRI , SE P 24 • 7&8 :30pm

S AT , S E P 2 5 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

SUN, SEP 26 • 6&7:30pm

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$30

$35

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C L AU D I A VILLELA The Bay Area-based vocalist honors the bossa nova tradition and creates fresh, original music born of her Brazilian upbringing and passion for jazz.

Be Water

“REMARKABLE, BEAUTIFUL, TOWERING VOICE...”

Brazil by the Bay

- TH E N EW YORK TIM ES

CLAUDIA VILLELA

Artists on the Rise

BEN FLOCKS QUARTET

Tenor saxophonist Ben Flocks and his west coast quartet project present original works, including pieces from Flocks’s latest release, Mask of the Muse.

“A Brazilian-born genius with a blistering voice" (JazzTimes), Rio-born Villela has developed a reputation as a singularly unique singer, pianist and composer, lending her five-octave voice to work with jazz luminaries including Kenny Werner and Michael Brecker. She blends the samba of her native Brazil with jazz, blues, and songs from around the globe.

FRI , OC T 1 • 7&8 :30pm

S AT , O C T 2 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

SUN, OCT 3 • 6&7:30pm

TH U, OC T 7 • 7&8 :30pm

$30

$35

$30

$10 –20

SFJAZZ Collective Duo

SFJAZZ Legacy

Afro-European Connections

SFJAZZ Collective members Warren Wolf and Edward Simon team up for a special performance of standards and originals.

This sublime duo represents a homecoming of world-class artists whose careers have roots in SFJAZZ’s Education programs.

Veteran multi-instrumentalist Glenn and Brazilian piano master Silva present a program of music from the U.S., Cuba, and Brazil.

TH U, OC T 14 • 7&8 :30pm

FRI , OC T 15 • 7&8 :30pm

S AT , O C T 1 6 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

SUN, OCT 17 • 6&7:30pm

$ 2 0 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

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KYLE ATHAYDE & NATE SPARKS PLAY CHICK COREA & GARY BURTON’S CRYSTAL SILENCE Pianist and composer Nate Sparks and Kyle Athayde, a gifted Orinda-born vibraphonist, perform music from Chick Corea and Gary Burton’s classic 1973 ECM duo album.

WARREN WOLF & EDWARD SIMON

SASHA BERLINER & MATT WONG

ROGER GLENN & MARCOS SILVA

NOVE M B E R

SA XO P H O N I S T S & CO M P O S E R S Highlighting the range of expression and innovation by today’s woodwind masters, from modern jazz and the avant-garde to standards and electronica.

ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET

Into The Flow

Pacific Standard Time

W/ MARK DE CLIVE-LOWE

W/ TONY LINDSAY

Saxophonist Zilber and drummer Clark, known for his legendary work with Herbie Hancock, perform music from their new album Mike Drop.

Since their inception in 1978, the Bay Area-based Rova has explored the fertile territory at the edges of composition and improvisation.

Also known as saxophonist Hailey Niswanger, MAE.SUN mixes modern jazz, fusion, funk, electronica, and neo-soul.

An artist who “has carved out a distinctive niche on the San Francisco Bay Area jazz scene” (JazzTimes).

TH U, NOV 11 • 7&8 :30 pm

FRI , NOV 12 • 7&8 :30 pm

S AT , N O V 1 3 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

SU N , NOV 14 • 6&7:30 pm

$25

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$30

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Mike Drop

MIKE CLARK & MICHAEL ZILBER

Exploratory Ensemble

MAE.SUN

MICHAEL O’NEILL QUINTET

“NAYLOR EXCELS AS A SENSITIVE SONG INTERPRETER WITH UNERRING INTONATION.”

Artists on the Rise

The Long Game

Sal’s Greenhouse is a funk-driven powerhouse collective led by vocalist/baritone saxophonist Sally Green out of Oakland, CA.

Vocalist and composer Naylor returns in celebration of her eleventh and long-awaited album, The Long Game. The album and concerts highlight the singer’s soulful voice on material selected in advance by her fans.

Naylor and long-time pianist and arranger Art Khu will be joined by bassist Geoff Brennan and drummer Josh Jones.

- D O W N B E AT

S AT , N O V 2 0 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

FRI , NOV 26 • 7&8 :30 pm

S AT , N O V 2 7 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

SU N , NOV 2 8 • 6&7:30 pm

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SAL’S GREENHOUSE

JACQUI NAYLOR

DECEMBER

B AY A R E A S O U L Two of the Bay Area’s great soulful voices perform over this weekend, each bringing a holiday themed program of beloved classics and festive originals.

Celebrating the Season

Holiday Soul

“A richly impressive amalgam of Bill Withers and Billy Eckstine" (JazzTimes), vocalist Nicolas Bearde celebrates the season with the timeless songs of the holidays. Bearde, who made his mark in jazz as part of Bobby McFerrin’s revolutionary a cappella group Voicestra, breathes new life into these beloved classics.

After touring the world as the lead singer of Cirque du Soleil’s BAZZAR, vocalist Destani Wolf comes home to the Bay Area to share a night of celebratory original music with warmth and joy to get you into the holiday spirit, featuring her original holiday song “Share your Peace.”

NICOLAS BEARDE

DESTANI WOLF

S AT , D E C 1 1 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

SUN, DEC 12 • 6&7:30pm

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DECEMBER

S FJA Z Z H O LI DAY CO N C E R T S Holiday performances in the Joe Henderson Lab include a tribute to an iconic Christmas album and a rollicking Yuletide celebration, New Orleans style.

1 0 0 G R E AT E S T J A Z Z A L B U M S

GEORGE COLE PLAYS NAT KING COLE’S THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS A “virtuosic marvel,” (SJ Mercury) the renowned guitarist, vocalist, and Bay Area native performs the timeless songs from the 1960 holiday classic by Nat “King” Cole, accompanied by a superb trio.

Celebrate the Holidays

ERIK JEKABSON NEW ORLEANS SEXTET FT. KENNY WASHINGTON

“ONE OF THE LEADING LIGHTS OF POST-BOP JAZZ IN THE SAN FRANCISCO AREA.” - ALL MUSIC GUIDE

“A cutting-edge jazz player and writer” (JazzTimes) and an essential creative catalyst on the Bay Area jazz scene, the trumpeter brings a joyous taste of Bourbon Street to these evenings of holiday favorites.

He is joined by his all-star sextet and guest vocalist Kenny Washington.

TH U, DEC 16 • 7&8 :30pm

FRI , DEC 17 • 7&8 :30pm

S AT , D E C 1 8 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

SUN, DEC 19 • 6&7:30pm

$ 2 0 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

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AMY D PERFORMS SARAH VAUGHAN’S AFTER HOURS

CAROLINE CHUNG PLAYS NINA SIMONE’S SILK & SOUL

RICK VANDIVIER & ADAM SHULMAN PLAY JIMMY SMITH’S BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK

JANUARY

1 0 0 G R E AT E S T J A Z Z A L B U M S

Our yearly Hotplate festival brings new artists and old friends to the JHL, this year saluting two 1960s vocal treasures and a soul-jazz masterwork.

The supremely soulful vocalist and Bay Area native performs music from the great Sarah Vaughan’s classic 1961 Roulette album After Hours.

Oakland-based bassist, composer, and bandleader Caroline Chung honors Nina Simone with music from her 1967 album Silk & Soul.

FRI , JAN 21 • 7&8 :30pm

S AT , J A N 2 2 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

SUN, JAN 23 • 6&7:30pm

$ 2 0 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

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Textures, Colors, Tones

Dear Homeland

Jazz & Spoken Word

JAZ SAWYER QUARTET

The harpist returns with Textures, Colors, Tones: Sketches in Jazz inspired by Rosie Lee Tompkins, dedicated to the late quiltmaker and fabric artist.

The Juárez-born singer and guitarist returns to perform music from the new documentary Dear Homeland that traces her experience as an undocumented immigrant.

FT. TONGO EISEN-MARTIN

JON JANGTET W/ PAUL FLORES

Drummer Jaz Sawyer joins forces with SF Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin for a project inspired

by MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

SF pianist/composer Jon Jang and poet Paul Flores examine immigration policies and the parallel to Japanese-American internment.

TH U, FE B 3 • 7&8 :30pm

FRI , FE B 4 • 7&8 :30pm

S AT , F E B 5 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

SUN, FEB 6 • 6&7:30pm

$25

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The guitarist and organist honor organ genius Jimmy Smith and his 1963 Blue Note masterpiece Back at the Chicken Shack.

FEBRUARY

JA Z Z & S O C I A L J U S TI C E

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A group of visionary Bay Area artists bring themes of immigration, incarceration, and racial inequality into focus during this inspiring week of new works.

DESTINY MUHAMMAD

DIANA GAMEROS

Never Again, Now!

MARC RIBOT

M A R C R I B OT While often associated with the avant-garde, the guitarist thrives in any musical context, from Cuban music to free jazz, noise rock, blues, and country music.

No guitarist has traveled a more circuitous creative path than Marc Ribot, a major force on the New York jazz scene since the mid-1980s and collaborator with Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and Diana Krall. He returns with a week of solo performances blending standards, free improvisation, and original material.

FEBRUARY

Solo Guitar

“HE CAN SIT DOWN WITH JUST HIS GUITAR AND SIMULTANEOUSLY CONFOUND YOU WITH TECHNIQUE, BEAUTY, AND SURPRISE. THE RESULT IS SOLO GUITAR AT ITS FINEST.” - P O P M AT T E R S

TH U, FE B 10 • 7&8 :30pm

FRI , FE B 11 • 7&8 :30pm

S AT , F E B 1 2 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

SUN, FEB 13 • 6&7:30pm

$30

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RISING STARS Recipient

RISING STARS Recipient

Psychedelic Jazz

Rising Stars

The 22-year-old Bahamian trumpeter and Julliard student was mentored by Eddie Henderson and Wynton Marsalis, and released his debut True Design in 2020.

The young saxophonist and composer is one of the vital voices of jazz today. He brings his quartet to perform music from his new album The 7th Hand.

A vehicle for the psychedelic jazz compositions of bassist Patrick Murphy, the Oakland-based Sitka Sun makes their SFJAZZ debut with this performance.

Side-by-Side concerts pair select faculty from the Roots, Jazz and American Music (RJAM) program at The SF Conservatory of Music with their young artist proteges.

T H E N E X T WAV E This week features a pair of winners of the prestigious LetterOne RISING STARS award, and a Bay Area band who combines jazz and psychedelic grooves.

GIVETON GELIN

IMMANUEL WILKINS

SITKA SUN

RJAM SIDE-BY-SIDE

FRI , FE B 18 • 7&8 :30pm

S AT , F E B 1 9 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

SUN, FEB 20 • 7:30pm

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New Directions

Of Light and Shadows

Spanish Jazz Guitarist

An Acoustic Evening

A visionary guitarist with virtuoso technique and dreamy lyricism known widely for his work on David Bowie’s Blackstar, Monder performs with his trio.

“Vitchev’s sophisticated and adventurous work is imbued with shimmering harmonies and lyrical improvisations” (JazzTimes). The guitarist performs with his quartet.

The Barcelona-born guitarist and composer has created a singular body of work that weaves together jazz, Spanish folk music, and the European classical tradition.

“Beyond her passion and technical virtuosity, Fox plays with a profundity that only results from a lifetime of commitment and total immersion.” — Guitar Player

MARCH

TH U, FE B 17 • 7&8 :30pm

G U ITA R W E E K Four adventurous local and New Yorkbased jazz guitarists, whose work breaks boundaries of approach, genre, and tradition, perform during this week.

BEN MONDER

HRISTO VITCHEV QUARTET

OSCAR PEÑAS QUARTET

MIMI FOX TRIO

TH U, MAR 3 • 7&8 :30pm

FRI , MAR 4 • 7&8 :30pm

S AT , M A R 5 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

SUN, MAR 6 • 6&7:30pm

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L E A D I N G WO M E N Four superb instrumentalists, vocalists, and bandleaders are in the spotlight, performing a range of music from jazz and brass band to hip-hip and soul.

PIANO WEEK The jazz piano tradition is in good hands with this lineup of superb keyboardists, beginning with a Hotplate show celebrating a landmark album.

Jazz Legacies

NIKARA WARREN & BLACK WALL STREET

The vibraphonist, granddaughter to Kenny Barron, brings her Black Wall Street project devoted to dance-inducing, feel-good music.

Power Brass for the Masses

SARAH WILSON’S BRASS TONIC

“One of the most intriguing and promising composers and trumpeters on the contemporary music scene.” (SF Chronicle)

MARCH

KATIE THIROUX

“The skyrocketing young star is an enchanting singer, a poised and polished acoustic bassist, and an accomplished composer.”

(Boston Globe)

East Bay Soul

JENN JOHNS “Oakland based soul sister Jenn Johns will no doubt move you to raise your fist in the air in solidarity and peace.” (7×7 Magazine)

TH U, MAR 10 • 7&8 :30pm

FRI , MAR 11 • 7&8 :30pm

S AT , M A R 1 2 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

SUN, MAR 13 • 6&7:30pm

$25

$25

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Modern Virtuoso

Bounce

Visionary Pianist

1 0 0 G R E AT E S T J A Z Z A L B U M S

PETER HORVATH PLAYS HERBIE HANCOCK’S MAIDEN VOYAGE A native of Budapest and part of the Bay Area scene since the 1980s, the pianist, composer, and bandleader pays tribute to Herbie Hancock’s 1965 Blue Note masterwork.

HELEN SUNG QUARTET

“A pianist and composer with a taste for crisp modernity” (The New York Times), the 2021 Guggenheim fellow returns with her working quartet.

MICHAEL WOLFF TRIO

“One of the most engaging allaround performers in the jazz game” (Oakland Tribune), the pianist performs music from his Sunnyside trio album Bounce.

AARON PARKS, SOLO

The visionary pianist, known for his work as a bandleader and with Terence Blanchard, returns with an evening of solo piano.

TH U, MAR 17 • 7&8 :30pm

FRI , MAR 18 • 7&8 :30pm

S AT , M A R 1 9 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

SUN, MAR 20 • 6&7:30pm

$ 2 0 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

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Premier Organ Trio

O R G A N G R O OV E S

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Bassist and Vocalist

PETER BERNSTEIN, LARRY GOLDINGS, BILL STEWART

Born in smoky lounges in the late 40s, the organ trio has an illustrious history, and this week features the best example working today.

“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.

Each member a respected bandleader, they have taken the tradition of Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff and Larry Young into fresh territory.

“THE BEST ORGAN TRIO OF THE LAST DECADE.” - TH E N EW YORK TIM ES

TH U, MAR 24 • 7&8 :30pm

FRI , MAR 25 • 7&8 :30pm

S AT , M A R 2 6 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

SUN, MAR 27 • 6&7:30pm

$35

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Anchored by a pair of artists who were mentored by the jazz icon, this week kicks off with a Hotplate tribute to Henderson’s late period classic.

APRIL

JOE HENDERSON F E S TI VA L

1 0 0 G R E AT E S T J A Z Z A L B U M S

MATT RENZI PLAYS JOE HENDERSON’S STATE OF THE TENOR

Tribute to Joe Henderson

Artists on the Rise

Joe Henderson Festival

The Multi-reed player, composer and bandleader honors the memory of his former teacher with music from the saxophone legend’s 1986 live Blue Note recording.

The Bay Area-based saxophonist returns with a performance dedicated to her former teacher Joe Henderson featuring his tunes and Strom’s own compositions.

As part of this weekend-long Joe Henderson Festival, LA-based tenor saxophonist Oba revisits and interprets some of Henderson’s iconic pieces and lasting influences.

Side-by-Side concerts pair select faculty from the Roots, Jazz and American Music (RJAM) program at The SF Conservatory of Music with their young artist proteges.

TH U, APR 21 • 7&8 :30pm

FRI , APR 22 • 7&8 :30pm

S AT , A P R 2 3 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

SUN, APR 24 • 7:30pm

$ 2 0 M E M B E R S S AV E 2 5 %

$20

$10 –20

$10 –20

Roma Americana

Bay Area Jazz Manouche

Cross-Cultures

The exciting Bay Area band updates the French jazz manouche tradition of Django Reinhardt with a fresh, danceable modern rock energy.

A masterful Bay Area all-star sextet that combines the influence of Django Reinhardt with New Orleans swing, ragtime, and gutbucket blues.

A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow for composition, Karachi-born jazz guitarist Rez Abbasi returns with a new collaboration with Americanborn sitarist Joshua Feinberg.

KRISTEN STROM

HITOMI OBA

RJAM SIDE-BY-SIDE

Artists on the Rise

SAM REIDER AND THE HUMAN HANDS

The Human Hands is an ensemble of acoustic musicians led by composer, accordionist, and pianist Sam Reider.

Flamenco Romani Jazz

BARRIO MANOUCHE

“A beautiful new take (on the jazz manouche tradition), infusing Django Reinhardt’s sound with a bracing dose of flamenco.”

— San Francisco Classical Voice

M AY

JA Z Z M A N O U C H E

BESO NEGRO

GAUCHO

REZ ABBASI QUARTET

S AT , A P R 3 0 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

T H U , M AY 1 2 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

F R I , M AY 1 3 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

S AT , M AY 1 4 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

S U N , M AY 1 5 • 6 & 7 : 3 0 p m

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B LU E S W E E K

1 0 0 G R E AT E S T J A Z Z A L B U M S

The backbone of jazz, the blues take center stage this week with a Hotplate salute to a modern master and a Bay Area harmonica virtuoso.

JULES LEYHE PLAYS TAJ MAHAL’S NATCH’L BLUES The masterful young blues guitarist honors his mentor and friend, blues icon Taj Mahal, with music from the legend’s hugely influential 1968 Columbia album The Natch’l Blues, accompanied by his Family Jules Band.

Award-Winning Electric Blues

MARK HUMMEL & THE BLUES SURVIVORS

“One of the top harmonica players in the U.S.,” (All Music Guide) the East Bay music luminary, GRAMMY nominee and Blues Music Award winner leads his all-star Blues Survivors with a night of burning electric blues focused on material from his recent albums including his latest, Wayback Machine.

“MARK HUMMEL IS AMONG THE MOST TALENTED—AND CONSISTENTLY INNOVATIVE— BLUES HARMONICA PLAYERS TO FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE GIANTS OF THE POSTWAR ERA.” - LIVING BLUES

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F R I , M AY 2 7 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

S AT , M AY 2 8 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

S U N , M AY 2 9 • 6 & 7 : 3 0 p m

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S U P P O R T S FJ A Z Z

O P F ABOUT SFJAZZ SFJAZZ is the largest non-profit jazz presenter in the world.

From its beginnings in 1983 as a two-day festival under the name Jazz in the City to the historic opening of its 36,000-squarefoot, $64 million SFJAZZ Center in January 2013 and its innovative SFJAZZ Digital initiative launched in 2020, SFJAZZ is the largest non-profit presenter of jazz and related music in the United States, serving over 250,000 people annually through concert presentation & education.

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“THE MUSICIANS LOOK INTO THE AUDIENCE’S EYES.” J O E L OVA N O ON MIN ER AU DITORI U M

S FJA Z Z C E N T E R Opened in 2013, the SFJAZZ Center is located on the corner of Franklin and Fell Streets in the heart of San Francisco’s arts district, and includes two performance spaces, a state-of-the-art production video suite, multiple music practice rooms, a digital lab, and the B-Side restaurant and bar.

R O B E R T N . M I N E R AU D ITO R I U M With flexible seating for 350 to 700 people, this venue is a scalable performance space with the acoustic quality of a great concert hall and the relaxed intimacy of a jazz club. Featuring “in the round” seating, the auditorium was designed to allow close proximity to the musicians with superb sightlines and pristine acoustics tailored perfectly for jazz.

JOE HENDERSON LAB Named for the late, legendary saxophonist and San Francisco resident who had a long and memorable history with SFJAZZ, 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 cutting-edge artists in an intimate setting.

A N N UA L S E A S O N Over 350 concerts from September through May, curated weekly themes featuring musicians from around the world, and exclusive programming by a changing cast of Resident Artistic Directors.

SA N F R A N C I S CO JA Z Z F E S TI VA L Two weeks every June, presenting over 40 concerts across multiple venues in the Hayes Valley neighborhood.

“THAT HALL...IT’S A JEWEL. IT’S A MONUMENTAL TRIBUTE TO THE POWER OF THIS MUSIC.” AHMAD JAMAL

LI S T E N I N G PA R TI E S

S FJA Z Z H OT P L AT E S E R I E S

Step into the SFJAZZ “living room” and hear artists and tastemakers spinning their favorite recordings while in conversation with SFJAZZ Founder and Executive Artistic Director Randall Kline.

A monthly concert event in the Joe Henderson Lab that honors the greatest albums in jazz history with tribute performances by the best Bay Area musicians.

S FJA Z Z CO L L E C TI V E SUMMER SESSIONS July through August, a six-week concert series celebrating musical traditions across North, Central, and South America.

S FJA Z Z D I G ITA L

With 110 new arrangements and 95 original compositions over 17 years, the all-star octet salutes music’s greatest composers, premieres new music, and tours internationally every year.

S FJA Z Z M E M B E R S Helping to make all of this possible is a dynamic community of over 14,000 SFJAZZ Members and SFJAZZ Digital Members. Learn more about how you can join SFJAZZ on the next page.

E D U C ATI O N NEW!

From the greatest jazz hall in the world straight to your living room, SFJAZZ Digital membership provides exclusive online access to the most memorable moments and new performances from the SFJAZZ Center.

Serving more than 23,000 public school students across the Bay Area through dynamic programs in the concert hall, classroom, and community.

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S U P P O R T S FJ A Z Z

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CHESTER THOMPSON: GRAVY TRAIN

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SFJAZZ DIGITAL SFJAZZ concerts at home, anytime.

From the greatest jazz hall in the world straight to your living room, SFJAZZ Digital Membership provides exclusive online access to groundbreaking new performances from the SFJAZZ Center, while providing direct support for artists and SFJAZZ. Featuring SFJAZZ’s signature multicam HD video and state-of-the-art audio, each fully immersive digital offering connects you to the music, to the musicians, and to the feeling of experiencing live music at SFJAZZ. 4 S FJA Z Z .O R G/ D I G ITA L

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Available free to SFJAZZ Members, we’ll premiere a new, never-before-seen concert every Friday — either a livestream of that evening’s concert at the SFJAZZ Center, or a performance from SFJAZZ’s rich archive.

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LEADERS CIRCLE Our premier donor group.

Connect with a dynamic group of individuals who believe in the transformative power of the arts, and deepen your connection to the music and artists you love.

Leaders Circle Members support educational programs, bring others close to SFJAZZ, sponsor concerts, and most of all, ensure continued access to the arts. Annual membership for Leaders Circle begins at $1,500.

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A DVA N C E SA L E S O F P R E M I U M S E ATI N G Prime seats reserved just for Leaders Circle members and advance sales of those seats throughout the season

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“SFJAZZ IS DOING SOMETHING REALLY UNIQUE HERE—WE WANT TO SUPPORT IT STRONGLY...AND IT’S A BONUS TO HAVE THAT EARLY ACCESS TO TICKETS SO WE DON’T MISS ANYTHING.” D R . M I C H E L L E S H I O TA LEADERS CIRCLE MEMBER

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NAME SFJAZZ AS A BENEFICIARY IN YOUR WILL TRUST D O N O R - A DV I S E D F U N D R E TI R E M E N T P L A N

Legacy Circle Members are donors who have committed to support SFJAZZ in the future. Some have named SFJAZZ as beneficiaries of their will or trust, while others have pledged a portion of their IRA or 401(k).

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We honor legacy donors with invitations to special events and recognition in SFJAZZ materials. By stepping forward you encourage others to do the same—though you may choose to remain anonymous.

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Thank you to our supporters.

SFJAZZ shares the joy of music thanks to the generosity of our Members and Donors. In a year like no other, we send sincere appreciation to the Leaders Circle Members whose support enables us to resume live performance, bringing us back stronger and more resilient than ever.

LEGENDS $100,000+

Bannus & Cecily Hudson

Anonymous (2)

Nion McEvoy & Leslie Berriman

Lori Lerner & Terry Berkemeier John & Heather Botti William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation Bruce & Hala Kurdi Cozadd Bill & Margie Holodnak Lisa Hook & Peter Gillon

Carla Emil & Rich Silverstein Laura & Greg Spivy ARTISTS $10,000 –$24,999

Anonymous (3)

Chris Larsen & Lyna Lam

Renata D. Anderson & Raj Singh

Divesh & Diksha Makan

Brian Ashe & Cindy Rigatti

Alison & Michael Mauzé

Steve & Susan Bell

Ms. Diana Nelson & Mr. John Atwater

Jeffrey A. Bluestone & Leah Rosenkrantz Bluestone

Jay Pritzker Foundation

Rex Cardinale

Gerald B. Rosenstein Trust

Rafael Costas

VISIONARIES $50,000 –99,999+

Michael Covarrubias & Kathleen McIntosh Molly Joel Coye

Sam & Susie Britton

Peter & Quin Curran

Crankstart

Steve Doberstein & Elizabeth Letcher

Angela & David Filo Randi & Bob Fisher Rishi Garg & Shaifali Prakash Jimmy Hormel Alexander Leff SenSpa Joseph Sherman Susan & Sanjay Vaswani Denise Young

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Laura & Michael Lazarus

Concepcion & Irwin Federman HS & LC Fung David & Trudi Gartley John & Marcia Goldman Foundation Corey Goodman & Marcia Barinaga John Gordon & Margo Goodwin-Gordon Grace Griffin Fund

MASTERS $25,000 –$49,999

Brian & Rene Hollins

Anonymous

Barbara Z & Barry X Lynn

Anonymous Fund of MCF

Alec & Gail Merriam

Shawn & Brook Byers

Ed & Sumaya Miner

The Dattels Family

Karen & Alfred Pace

The Dolby Family

Mr. John Pritzker

Bill & Kate Duhamel

Lisa S. Pritzker Family Fund

Byron & Rika Gill

Nancy & Richard Robbins

Diane Jonte-Pace

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Verkuil Family Trust Harvey & Leslie Wagner Tom Wandless Johnny S. Weekly, Jr. Bart & Nancy Westcott Dennis Yarak & Margaret Becker Mark Zitter & Jessica Nutik Zitter DIRECTORS $3,000 -$4,999 Anonymous (3) James S. Bays Ellen & Andrew Bradley Marion Peters & Eric Brown Robert & Susan Buckley Kathleen J Burke & Ralph Davis Jeanne & Bill Cahill Mr. Jeffrey Chanin David & Maggie Cooke Jayita Bhojwani & Aaron D’Souza Tim & Angela Danison Susan & Lee David Warren & Kim DeSouza James Dilley & Jorge Morales Al & Joyce Dixon Joyce Dostale & Michael McMahon Mr. & Mrs. Matias Duarte Mary & Tom Field Nanette Gordon Deborah L. Gould, MD Joseph Gratz & Dinah Sanders Beth & Brian Grossman Ted & Laddie Hall Ryan Harlow-Nakano Tony & Angela Harris Monica Heredia & Robert Nelson Michael & Bari Howard Lindsey Humphrey Kenneth & Lisa Jackson Sy Kaufman David Kremer & Marla Miller Dr. Susan & Mark R. Kroll Betty J. Louie Anne Garden & Len Mastromonaco Mr. Scott Mauvais The McElwee Family Robert L. McKague Vera & Ken Meislin Erwin D. Mieger

Tara Mohr & Eric Ries Hanna & Greg Ostroff Peter Park Mark Perelman Regina Phelps Anne & Martin Roher Aric, Danielle, Alijah & Saul Rubin Toby & Robert Rubin Mark Schlesinger & Christine Russell Jack & Judy Sherman Sheri & Paul Siegel Susan Sillins Mark Slee Chauncey Smith Claude Steele Hal & Kelly Stober Priscilla Stoyanof & David Roche Mr. & Mrs. Claudio Tarchi Steven Tucker Eduardo Vergara & Monica Ruiz-Noriega Mark Wasserman & Judy Freeman Mr. Paul Wolf Mitchell & Kristen Yawitz PRESENTERS $1,500 -$2,999 Anonymous (8) Lauren & Steve Adams Alka & Ravin Agrawal Mark & Linda Allen Juergen & Carola Allgayer Helen Anawalt David Arrick Judith D. Auerbach Kevin Babcock Kurt Bales Beth Barker Al Bedecarré & Claire Ernst Mr. & Mrs. William Belanger Sharon Dworkin Bell & Peter Bell Robert Berger & Lori Kaplan Helen Berggruen & Hilary Rand Medea Isphording Bern & Bruce H. Bern Steven & Andrew Birnbaum Jason Bland & Kristen Friend Ms. Carol Block Michele Gerus & Jeff Block Rick & Vicki Block, Block Builders, Inc.

Murray G Bodine Jeffrey Bokor Bernard Boudreaux Margarita Bratkova & Solomon Boulos Ben Bowen, Renee Kosslak, & Roxy Jones Mr. Mark Howard Boxer Michael & Alex Boyd Ed Brakeman & Barbara Carlisle Paul Branch & Scott Smith Sophie Breall Germaine Brennan Gordon C. Brooks & Emilie Talbot Joe & Doris Brown Mimi & Peter Buckley Anna & Amer Budayr Scott G. Bullock Gisell Cabrera Sheryl & Greg Cahill Andre Campbell, MD & Gillian Otway Clay & Nancy Campbell Dr. Venetta Campbell Samuel Cantin Elaine C. Cardinale John & Ann Carroll Tiia Carswell Ana Isabel & Antonio Casal Mr. & Mrs. Lyman Casey Jim & Robin Cassidy Mr. Michael Castleman & Ms. Anne Simons David & Michele Cavander John Cawley & Christine Marshall Charles & Margaret Charnas Philip E. Chenette, MD Jacky Chow, Ph.D. Ms. Karen Chreston Dr. Jaime Cintado Kirk Citron Adam & Pam Clingerman Michele Cobble & Michelle Echenique Josh Cohen Matt Cohler Diana Cohn & Craig Merrilees Christine Coleman Dr. F. Craig Conrath Valerie M. Crane Dorfman Carla & David Crane Dory Culver & Walter Nirenberg

Wilson Curle & Linda Carpenter Philip & Beverly Davis Usha Dawn Quinn Delaney & Wayne Jordan Robert & Ruth Dell Julio Cesar Garay Garcia & Curtis Dennison Mr. Anthony Devencenzi & Ms. Cathy Jefferson Dave Dickson & Marla Wong Keenan Rice & Sarah Dodge Simon Donovan Wanetta & Kent Doty Robin Herfort & Wendy Downing Cecily Drucker Ms. Marilyn Dunn Michael & Jessica Eisler Dave Elfving Brian Elliott & Maureen McAvoy Allison Johnson & Ron Espeseth Damian Fagan & Heather Morra Ira Fateman & JoBeth Walt Dr. Paul Feigenbaum & Dr. Judy Kemeny Edward G Fernandez Jay & Sue Field Byrne Finkle Dr. Michael & Sandra Fischman Jason M. Fish & Courtney Benoist David & Cynthia Fleig Michael & Vicky Flora Hugh & Ceseli Foster Stacey Anderson & Mike Fottrell Paul Fouts John Fox Ms. Andrea Freedman & Mr. Boris Khersonski Dr. Tom Frey David Friedman & Paulette Meyer Raj & John Fry Mr. Kevin Gahagan Eval & Shaul Gal-Oz Mr. & Mrs. Brad Gallien Jennifer Galvin Nancy & Sid Ganis Sergio Garcia & Amelia Gonzalez-Garcia Michelina Gauthier Linda Gebroe Jay Georgianna Hinda Gilbert Mr. Edward Gillen

Janice Glenn & James Blake Andrew Goldfarb Ms. Meredith Goldsmith Donna & Keith Goldstein Robert Goodman & John Bankston Enid & Ron Goodman Steve & Mary Gorski Gower-McKean Family Craig & Shoshana Grammer Ken Grant Andrew Grant Mr. Thomas Gregory Dr. Catherine Kennedy & Mr. Daniel Grossman Bob & Anne Gunderson Christian Halaby Larry Halff & Randy Windham Lisa Brown & Daniel Handler Evans Hankey & Brook Lane Bill & Margie Hart John Hayes & Robin Levi Margaret & Will Hearst John Heisse & Karin Grace Pat & Owen Henery Dan Joraanstad & Bob Hermann Faith in the Future Fund Stephanie Hill & Che Rudko Mary Hohenberg Drs. Julie Hambleton & Harry Hollander Bob Hopper Mr. Richard S. Hsu Donna Franklin Hunter Judy and Bob Huret Paula-Jo Husack Alex Ingersoll & Martin Tannenbaum Bob Ippolito Gary M. Jaffe Valerie & Thierry Jahan Steve Jang & Margaret Des Gaines Robin Jaquith Kay & William Jeppeson Steve Kahl & Karen Williams Mr. Robert Kapkin Barbara & Ron Kaufman Chris Kelley Arthur Gleckler & Kristine Kelly Patrick Kenealy Gail Kennedy & Timothy Barabe Barbara Slotnik & Steve Kerns Teresa Pantaleo & Randall Kline

Ms. Cathy Kornblith Keith Kowalczykowski & Alexa Engelman Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer Steve & Arlene Krieger Michal Krupa Mark Lacey Donald & Maria Larkin Susan Leal & Susan Hirsch Hollis Lenderking Robert Levenson & Michelle Shiota Zahavah Levine Moses and Susan Libitzky Sylvia & David Lichtenger Marie & Barry Lipman Marguerite Longtin Juanita Tamayo Lott Tom Loughlin Janet & Curtis Louie Crista Lucey & Paul Arrighi Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lurie Jay & Jan Luxenberg Kevin & Margaret Lynch Stephen & Elizabeth Mangum Sharon Marks & Stan Kurz Alita Marshall Mr. & Mrs. James D. Mayol Jennifer E. McClure McCracken Jazz Messengers Drs. Mike McCune & Karen Kaye Smith-McCune Shakeya A. McDow Michael & John Mensik Mr. Burton Meyer Carol & Ron Miller Ms. Lesley Milovich Ms. Linda Minor Scott & Ange Mirer Anne & Lynn Monthaven Mr. Kevin King & Ms. Meridee Moore Ms. Kathleen Moran & Mr. John Young David & Carol Moyer Nick Munson & Danny Walinsky Dave Nagel & Marcia de Lima Maryam & Chris Neil Jay Newberry Tamara Lightfoot & Marvin Norman Lyle & Karen Norton Kathryn Nyrop & Stephen Koch Chris & Maureen Oakes Mr. Brent Ogden

Dean & Anne Ornish John & Coralie Otoshi LaDene Otsuki Chris Palmer John & Amy Palmer Scott Patterson Dr. Deborah Payne-Kelley Dr. Christopher Payne & Dr. Jeannette Potts Daniel Pelsinger & Daniel Matarozzi David I. Perper & Rosemary Cameron Russell H. Miller & Kirk Alan Pessner Mr. Robert Peterson Patricia Peper & Roger Phillips Noelle & Jim Pillsbury Debra Plousha-Moore Alan Pomerantz Tony & Carolyn Porter Mr. D.A. Powell Laureen & Wayne Pryor Louis Ptácek & Ying-Hui Fu Alice & Tom Pulliam Linda & Ewan Purkiss Magan Pritam Ray & Jerome Jackson Ellen Johnston & Michael Reading E. Reginald Rector, MD Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Mark Renneker Dr. & Mrs. Enrique H. Rios Rising Tide Scholars Mack & Deborah Roach Edward & Jeanette Roach Karin L. Roache Deborah Robbins & Henry Navas Kay & Ray Roberts Carl & Leslie Rodd Mark & Sarah Roos Jeffrey & Lesah Ross Yassen Roussev Susan Rubenstein Ann Martha Rubin Aileen & Michael Rubin Stacey Thoyre & Timothy Runde Alison Chubb & Stephen Ruoss Sally Sample & Claire Finne David Samson Lindsy & Jason Sanders Mr. John Sanger Ross Sappenfield

Mr. Rob Saunders Patricia Unterman & Tim Savinar William B. Schaefer IV Elizabeth D. Schenk Taylor & Kimberly Schollmaier Kelly Lake & Lisa Schoonerman Sam Schuchat & Ilana DeBare Darren Schulte & Stefani Wedl Anne Kenner & James Scopa John Searle James Sederberg & Tracy Calk Mr. & Mrs. Jim Shapiro Garrett Shelton Leslie Sing & Ernie Crosson Martin Skea & Christopher Mondini Mr. Howard Slayen Ms. Carra Sleight H. Marcia Smolens Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Smyser Kevin & Amy Solliday Linda Sonntag, Ph.D. Ileana Soto & Steven Katz John Spallone Mr. David Steele Deborah Stegman & Jan Leschly Ms. Marlene W. Stein Mr. & Mrs. Gregory T. Stern John Stern & Susan Anderes Susanne Stevens Dr. H. Delight Stone & Clifford B. Curry Jerry & Mary Street Fran A. Streets & Heather M. Streets Evan Susser Phyllis R. Sutton D. Sweeney & D. Thomas Esta Swig Mr. Alan Tabor Steven Tadelis Jake Rickard Ragesh Tangri & Daralyn Durie James Thommes & Martin Majchrowicz Dr. László Tökés Richard Torretto Robin & Norman Traub Trezise & Reynolds Maga & David Jackson-Triche William Tucker & Deborah Romer

The Van Dyck & Van Vliet Family Sandrijn Van Schaik & Gary Hennemuth José Varela Katharine Neubauer Veni & Joseph Veni Cathi Vogel Gerald Vurek-Martyn, in memory of Lynda Vurek-Martyn Sydney Lagier & Doug Wachtel Peter A. Wald & Christina Hall Martin P. Wall Ms. Karen Wandvik Nicole Kyner & Daniel Weinberg Patricia Skala & Corey Weinstein Robert & Jodi Weis Dan Weiss & Dr. Carl Herbert Mr. Sanford Weitzner & Ms. Judy Weil Thurman & Eileen White Janine Guillot & Shannon Wilson Drs. Warner & Greta Wims Mary Ann Wloszek Barbara & Howard Wollner Ran Xiao & Hua Tang Mr. Abraham Yang & Ms. Felice Roe Dale Young David Yu Dr. Robert & Mrs. Charley Zeches Gary & Linda Zellerbach IN M E MORY OF K I T H A LVO R S E N

Phil & Wendy Atkins-Pattenson Emanuel Berk Crystal Springs Uplands School Sarah & James Darby Susan Earl Roxanne Gleason Christopher Ireland & Davis Masten Sophie Perisic Patti Price Sallilyn Schwartz Patricia Stone Beau Takahara Lois Wang Maureen F. & Thomas S. Withgott

The gifts above were received in support of programs and operations in the 2020-21 Season. If we’ve made an error in your name, we apologize; please contact lcmanager@SFJAZZ.org so we can correct the listing next time.

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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.

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“THE COOLEST KIDDIE SHOW.” R E D TR ICYCLE

FAMILY MATINEES Both fun and educational, Family Matinees provide a window into the exciting world of live jazz. Each onehour matinee features live performance, audience participation, Q&A, and amazing music. Enjoyed individually or as a series, these Family Matinees will change the way you hear jazz and get families playing together.

4 Watch all Family Matinee concerts live online at

S FJA Z Z . O R G / L I V E , Facebook Live, or YouTube Live Y O U T H $ 5 | S E N I O R S $ 1 0 | A D U LT S $ 2 3 MINER AUDITORIUM

Fairytale Pieces

LEFT COAST CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

S AT, N O V 2 0 • 1 1 a m

Holiday Soul

TIFFANY AUSTIN S AT, D E C 1 8 • 1 1 a m

Celebrating Black History Month

MARCUS SHELBY & FRIENDS

S AT, F E B 1 2 • 1 1 a m

Women’s History Month

ANAT COHEN & FRIENDS S AT, M A R 2 6 • 1 1 a m

Golden City Suite

MIGUEL ZENÓN

S AT, M AY 7 • 1 1 a m

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HIGH SCHOOL ALL-STARS

Winter Concert

BIG BAND & COMBO

B I G - B A N D & CO M B O

SUN, DEC 19 • 1pm

The award-winning SFJAZZ High School All-Stars continue to earn accolades wherever they appear.

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.

Spring Concert

BIG BAND & COMBO W/ SPECIAL GUEST SOWETO KINCH S U N , M AY 2 2 • 1 p m

ARTISTS ON THE RISE

BEN FLOCKS QUARTET

SFJAZZ Education proudly showcases a new generation of cutting-edge talent, from undiscovered Bay Area treasures to young artists on the national scene.

Experience some of the most talented and creative musicians working today.

THU, OCT 7 • 7&8:30pm

STUDENTS $10 | GENERAL $20

S AT, A P R 2 3 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

JOE HENDERSON LAB

SAM REIDER AND THE HUMAN HANDS

SAL’S GREENHOUSE S AT, N O V 2 0 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

Joe Henderson Festival

HITOMI OBA

S AT, A P R 3 0 • 7 & 8 : 3 0 p m

4 S FJA Z Z . O R G /AU D I T I O N S STUDENTS $10 | GENERAL $20 MINER AUDITORIUM

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MASTERCLASSES & WORKSHOPS Exciting educational programs designed for teens and adults, aspiring musicians and experienced educators, vocalists and instrumentalists.

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8 th Annual SFJAZZ Girls Day

ON STAGE & IN THE MIX

Join celebrated women faculty in this very special session for female jazz instrumentalists, vocalists, and budding sound engineers, ages 13-18. In addition to ensemble techniques and musicianship, the focus of this program will highlight the intricate work that goes into engineering a live sound mix. Respected faculty from San Francisco-based Women’s Audio Mission and Bay Area performing/ teaching artists join together in sharing the techniques of presenting a live jazz performance.

This special workshop will take place in the SFJAZZ Center’s stunning Miner Auditorium, one

of the world’s best venues for live music, and will cover some of the basics of live performance and audio mixing techniques. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn from leading professional engineers and performing artists!

Ideal for intermediate to advanced level musicians; ability to read music is a plus; no live sound mixing experience is necessary. In partnership with Women’s Audio Mission

4 S FJA Z Z . O R G /JA Z Z G I R L S DAY S AT, M A R 5 • 1 1 a m – 3 p m • F R E E !

MINER AUDITORIUM

DIGITAL LAB PROGRAM In-person workshops at SFJAZZ for older teens and adults.

MEMBERS $60 | PUBLIC $70 JOE HENDERSON LAB

INTRO TO MUSIC PRODUCTION J E F S TOT T I N S T R U C TO R S AT, N O V 2 0 • 1 1 a m – 2 p m

INTRO TO RECORDING, MIXING & MASTERING H E I D I T R E F E T H E N I N S T R U C TO R S AT, D E C 1 8 • 1 1 a m – 2 p m

DIGITAL LAB ONLINE The SFJAZZ Digital Lab program continues in our online virtual format!

Insightful and informative workshops exploring how digital music is created and performed today, with an emphasis on live performance and improvisation, DJing, recording, mixing and mastering.

Learn the latest in music production techniques in semi private small online classes with top shelf instructors.

Each online session is limited to 25 students to maximize engagement and learning.

S T U D E N T/A R T I S T/ E D U C AT O R $ 2 0 MEMBERS $40 | PUBLIC $50

H OW IT WO R K S Are these online classes? Yes, these classes are held online in the Zoom meeting platform.

INTRO TO AUDIO PRODUCTION

INTRO TO ABLETON LIVE

J E F S TOT T I N S T R U C TO R W E D , O C T 6 • 6 – 8 : 3 0 p m PT

J E F S TOT T I N S T R U C TO R W E D , N O V 1 0 • 6 – 8 : 3 0 p m PT

Why different prices? We want these classes to be available to everyone.

Please consider paying the amount you are comfortable with. The lowest tier of $20 is limited to 10 seats.

RECORDING CONCEPTS

INTRO TO MULTI TRACK MIXING

H E I D I T R E F E T H E N I N S T R U C TO R W E D , O C T 1 3 • 6 – 8 : 3 0 p m PT

H E I D I T R E F E T H E N I N S T R U C TO R W E D , N O V 1 7 • 6 – 8 : 3 0 p m PT

INTRO TO AUDIO PRODUCTION

INTRO TO PRO TOOLS

J E F S TOT T I N S T R U C TO R W E D , O C T 2 0 • 6 – 8 : 3 0 p m PT

F E R N A N D O A R R U DA I N S T R U C T O R W E D , D E C 1 • 6 – 8 : 3 0 p m PT

MUSIC THEORY & ARRANGEMENT FOR BEATMAKERS

THE ART & SCIENCE OF MASTERING

F E R N A N D O A R R U DA I N S T R U C T O R W E D , O C T 2 7 • 6 – 8 : 3 0 p m PT

H E I D I T R E F E T H E N I N S T R U C TO R W E D , D E C 8 • 6 – 8 : 3 0 p m PT

INTRO TO LOGIC PRO

LIVE LOOPING

DA N I E L B E R K M A N I N S T R U C T O R W E D , N O V 3 • 6 – 8 : 3 0 p m PT

DA N I E L B E R K M A N I N S T R U C T O R W E D , D E C 1 5 • 6 – 8 : 3 0 p m PT

Do I need the audio software to take the class? No, you can take the class without purchasing any software, and no experience is required.

Will there be recordings of the classes? Yes, enrolled students will have access to the recordings of the classes for 30 days after the class has met.

How will I get access to the class?

Students will receive an email from SFJAZZ Education prior to the class with login information.

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DISCOVER JAZZ Jazz history, live performance, and lively conversation make Discover Jazz the most distinctive jazz appreciation course available for adults. Each series includes stellar live performances by criticallyacclaimed guest artists, curated examples of historically significant recordings, and engaging Q&A. 4 Save when you purchase the entire series!

TE R R E N CE B R E WE R I N S TR U C TO R PER CLASS: MEMBERS $25 | PUBLIC $30 JOE HENDERSON LAB

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Icons From an Image

Women of Soul

In 1958, Art Kane assembled an unforgettable cast of jazz legends for one of the most indelible images of all time, A Great Day in Harlem (1958). Join Terrence Brewer and an amazing cast of musicians as we explore many of the key figures of Black American Music—from stride piano giant Willie “The Lion” Smith to some of the greatest improvisers of all time.

Women’s stories in popular music have told us plenty about struggles and triumphs, joys and heartaches, and the nuances of coming of age in an era where equity remains elusive. In this series, we feature some of the celebrated (as well as underappreciated) female troubadours in American popular music from the blues to soul, jazz and R&B.

3 C L A S S E S • W E D N E S D AY S OC T 27– NOV 17 • 7– 8 :30 pm

4 C L A S S E S • W E D N E S D AY S MAR 9 –30 • 7– 8:30pm

SERIES: MEMBERS $60 | PUBLIC $75

SERIES: MEMBERS $80 | PUBLIC $100

A GREAT DAY IN HARLEM REVISITED

POWERHOUSES IN AMERICAN MUSIC

“THIS IS AN INSTITUTION THAT UNDERSTANDS WHERE JAZZ COMES FROM, AND IT WILL BE A PLEASURE TO SEE WHERE IT GOES.” D O W N B E AT

OUR SCHOOL PROGRAMS

SFJAZZ & SFCM

Reach thousands of students across the Bay Area.

IN PARTNERSHIP

Donate thousands of SFJAZZ Center concert tickets to schools and community groups each year.

Provide students and educators special access to select interactive soundchecks, rehearsals, concerts and professional development workshops.

SFJAZZ is proud to partner with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and its Roots, Jazz & American Music (RJAM) program, linking a world-class conservatory to the SFJAZZ Center and its resident all-star ensemble, the SFJAZZ Collective.

STUDENTS $10 | GENERAL $20 JOE HENDERSON LAB

SFJAZZ SCHOOL PROGRAMS

landscape, participate in a highly interactive environment, and learn how jazz is alive, relevant and continuing to grow today!

From field trips to the SFJAZZ Center Auditorium, to hands-on learning in their very own classrooms with jazz professionals, our School Programs give students access to jazz’s critical history.

JAZZ IN THE MIDDLE

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SCHOOL DAY CONCERTS Free performances tailored to students in grades K-12 with leading jazz artists and educators at the SFJAZZ Center’s beautiful Miner Auditorium and direct to public schools (when assemblies resume). Students experience jazz in all its forms, explore how the African Diaspora shaped our musical

Sends jazz musicians and poets into public middle school classrooms to unlock the history of jazz from a social, historical, and creative perspective.

JAZZ IN SESSION Collaborates with schools in strengthening existing music instruction programs by making jazz education accessible to the Bay Area public school community.

SFJAZZ POETRY FESTIVAL STUDENT SHOWCASE SFJAZZ Education welcomes renowned spoken word poets and jazz musicians to celebrate our 3rd annual showcase, celebrating the power of our stories. This program features students from San Francisco and Oakland public middle schools along with a starstudded cadre of teaching artists and professional musicians, for an afternoon of poetry, jazz and community.

S AT – S U N , A P R 2 3 – 2 4 • F R E E !

JOE HENDERSON LAB

RJAM SIDE-BY-SIDE Side-by-Side concerts pair select faculty from the Roots, Jazz and American Music (RJAM) program at The San Francisco Conservatory of Music with their young artist proteges. The stellar faculty cast includes the SFJAZZ Collective’s Warren Wolf, David Sánchez, Edward Simon, and Matt Brewer, along with luminaries Joshua Redman, Carmen Bradford, Julian Lage, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, Matt Wilson and many others.

SUN, FEB 20 • 7:30pm SUN, APR 24 • 7:30pm

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During his residency at SFJAZZ, Akinmusire will premiere Porter, composed for orchestra and a quartet of young musicians. It’s a tribute to his teacher and other early mentors, including drummer Donald Bailey — the same Donald Bailey who played with organist Jimmy Smith.

“Because Mr. Bailey used to have jam sessions every week at the library in North Oakland, and so I’d go and play with him when I was like 15, 16. So many incredible musicians helped me.

I mean, I sounded horrible! But they were all about nurturing, about community. And that’s something I’m thinking a lot about this season — about just representing my community. I live in Oakland, so I’m both local and not local.

I’m trying to be Ambrose the guy who wins awards and records for Blue Note, but I’m also trying to be just ‘Ambrose from the Bay.’” When Akinmusire presents Porter at SFJAZZ, he says, the musical spirits of his teachers will be “activated” by the musicians on stage. The community lives, and it grows.

CHRIS POTTER

RESIDENCY: MARCH 17–20, 2022 Reflecting on these past 18 months, the saxophonist describes the “sense of relief” that music gives him. “It always got me — the Beatles when I was six or seven,” he says, thinking about his parents’ record collection in Columbia, S. Carolina. “I memorized every note.

And then there was this album my parents had of Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, and I did the same thing with that. And then when I started to play” — at age 10 — “I just had that need to communicate, to express something that I couldn’t maybe express in words.”

He remembers recording albums off the radio with his cassette player: “One day they played the whole Queen’s Suite by Duke Ellington, and there was just the richness of the colors, you know, from all the members of the band. And the way it was orchestrated was amazing — the compositional clarity, but also just the jazzness

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of it, the looseness. It was completely new to me. Each piece had its own feeling, and each member of Duke’s big band had his own sound.

And when I heard that, I just fell in love with it.”

“I’M GOING TO PICK THE THINGS THAT I DO MORE WISELY. I’M JUST TRYING TO CREATE VALUE WITH EVERYTHING I DO.” – TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON

Spin forward a few decades. Potter has now composed an evening’s worth of original music for big band — a project that was on his drawing board for several years. “I was always fighting for time to do things,” he explains.

“But during the pandemic, I got to slow down and really focus. Because even thinking about getting some large-ensemble music played — that’s a real challenge. And now with this residency, I can actually do it.” While dreaming up projects for his week at SFJAZZ, he says, “I had the feeling that whatever I’d like to propose that I’m excited about, they’d go, ‘Yeah! Great!’ It’s a bit of a ‘kid in a candy store’ feeling. And it’s such a great place to play. I like the sound. I like the people. I like the vibe from the audience. It’s a groove in every way.”

ANAT COHEN

RESIDENCY: MARCH 24–27, 2022

In March 2020, as the coronavirus spread, the clarinetist left New York and flew to Rio where she could look out her window and see the rocky peak of Corcovado in the distance. “I can hear the birds. It’s very quiet and very lovely,” she said back then. “I just go into the room and close the door and practice the clarinet… But you wonder, how are things ever going to go back to what they were, and what does the future look like?”

Fifteen months later, in June 2021, Cohen visited New York and got her answer. Her friend David Ostwald, the tuba player and leader of the Louis Armstrong Eternity Band, was playing in Riverside Park, and Cohen, who has often played with the group, decided to go. She brought her clarinet. “And I joined the band and I have to tell you, it felt totally normal.

Jazz is a conversation, and as musicians, we’d been missing that for a long time. But when

Above: Chris Potter by Dave Stapleton; left: Anat Cohen Tentet in Miner Auditorium by Ronald Davis.

I played with David, it wasn’t like, ‘Oh, I don’t remember how to play with my friends, or how to communicate.’ No, it was a sunny day and we were just playing and delivering positive energy.

It felt so obvious — that’s where we belong.”

During the pandemic, she had time to reflect: “What is my message, what is my legacy, what do I want to deliver? How have I been inspired and how do I want to inspire others?” She still worries that the virus might throw another curveball and disrupt what seems to be a return to normalcy.

Still, she has been making plans for several of the bands she leads: new repertoire, new albums.

Playing in Riverside Park was reassuring: “It felt lovely. And then I was sitting in this beautiful restaurant with friends, and we were drinking caipirinhas and eating Brazilian food, and there were musicians playing, and it just felt so normal.”

SOWETO KINCH

RESIDENCY: MAY 19–22, 2022

In the most natural way, Kinch has always been a musical bridge builder. His 2003 debut album sounds something like Bird and Diz meeting Pharcyde. A Life in the Day of B 19: Tales of the Tower Block, from 2006, inter-weaves the stories of three inner-city men with the British saxophonist’s raw fusion of hip-hop and jazz. (B 19 is the zip code of an impoverished neighborhood in Birmingham, Kinch’s hometown.)

Over the years, his projects have grown more expansive, expressive, ambitious. On the cusp of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kinch — who also raps — premiered The Black Peril, drawing a parallel between the outbreak of the Spanish flu in 1918 and another “virus” that broke out the year after — a wave of anti-Black race riots in Scotland, England, Italy, the United States, and Jamaica. Kinch seemed prescient: Within months of the premiere, the coronavirus emerged, and soon there was a wave of police attacks on Black men and women, setting off international protests. When society faces a crisis — say, a pandemic — it lashes out, finds a scapegoat, Kinch says, “and usually it’s Black people, Asian people, Jewish people, Muslim people.”

His new project is White JuJu, a danceable meditation on a sobering subject: systemic racism, the spell it casts across the centuries, and the way it prevents us “from recognizing our common bonds.” Once again, Kinch — who crafted the piece while quarantined in Birmingham — is building symbolic bridges: between European concert music and jazz, electronica, rap, ragtime, and reggae.

“We’ve been living in a Hollywood action movie, post-apocalyptic,” he says. Enough already.

Now it’s time to find “a common thread.”

A staff writer at SFJAZZ, Richard Scheinin is a lifelong journalist.

He was the San Jose Mercury News’ classical music and jazz critic for more than a decade and has profiled scores of public figures, from Ike Turner to Tony La Russa and the Dalai Lama.

Tasty, approachable, and simple.

Located in the heart of Hayes Valley next to the SFJAZZ Center. B-Side provides a warm and comfortable atmosphere, with a menu designed to be enjoyed in a lounge setting.

Curated craft cocktails, focused wine list & modern American food served in a music-focused environment.

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Soweto Kinch in the Joe Henderson Lab by Scott Chernis.

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Perfect Location.

Unforgettable Events.

The SFJAZZ Center, located in the heart of Hayes Valley, is one of San Francisco’s most unique and modern event venues.

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Our flexible, technologically advanced auditorium and elegant multi-use lobbies make us the perfect venue for conferences, broadcast and streaming presentations, receptions, client entertainment, and performances.

For more information or to schedule a site tour, contact: Rachel Smith Rental Sales & Hospitality Manager 415.283.0335 | rsmith@sfjazz.org

R O B E R T N . M I N E R AU D ITO R I U M • Modern, intimate, and scalable from 200-700.

• Features a custom Meyer sound system, worldclass lighting, hi-definition video projection, and an expandable stage.

• Combine with lobbies and Joe Henderson Lab for conferences and larger events.

JOE HENDERSON LAB • Dramatic and memorable with glass walls. Open floor plan accommodates up to 100 seated.

• Custom Meyer sound system, stage lighting, and video projection.

WELCOME BACK TO THE SFJAZZ CENTER Important health & safety guidelines.

After more than a year with no live audiences, we are thrilled to welcome SFJAZZ Members and patrons back to the SFJAZZ Center.

As we open our doors to in-person live events again, be assured that we are taking every precaution to protect the well-being of our visitors and staff.

For more information about our COVID-19 preventive safety procedures and SFJAZZ Center guidelines, please visit S FJA Z Z .O R G/SA F E T Y

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W H AT TO E X P E C T F R O M U S

W H AT W E A S K O F YO U

SFJAZZ has established the following cleaning and sanitizing procedures:

•A ll audience members, staff and artists must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Ticket holders will be required to provide proof of vaccination prior to entering the SFJAZZ Center.

Box Office credit or refunds will be provided for those unable to show proof at entry.

•A ll disinfecting products used are EPA approved for COVID-19.

•O ccupied areas are cleaned and sanitized nightly.

•D isinfecting wipes are available for use on high touch surfaces.

•M asks are required for both vaccinated and unvaccinated patrons at all times in the SFJAZZ Center. Mask protocols subject to change based on recommendations from health officials.

•S FJAZZ currently provides the following PPE as needed: gloves, masks, and hand sanitizer.

•P lease follow all posted guidelines and on-site signage, as well as verbal instructions from ushers.

SFJAZZ has recently upgraded and installed a state-of-the-art Heating, Ventilation, and Air conditioning system (HVAC) to ensure good ventilation in occupied areas. Public restrooms have also been equipped with touchless fixtures.

• We encourage patrons to use paperless tickets in either of the following two ways: 1. C reate E-Tickets through the ‘My Account’ section of the SFJAZZ Website. Visit: SFJAZZ.ORG/REOPENING for instructions.

2. Pull up your Print-At-Home tickets that were sent to your email on your mobile device.

Most importantly, sit back, relax, & enjoy the show!

Ahmad Jamal performing in Miner Auditorium by Scott Chernis.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS & PARTNERS

Presenting high-quality jazz concerts and events year-round, along with educational programs that reach thousands of students each year, doesn’t happen without a lot of Denise Young hard work guided by a B OA R D C H A I R strong vision. At SFJAZZ, we are fortunate to have a world-class Board of Trustees and a diverse and dedicated staff. Together, we’re building an organization that will inspire jazz audiences for decades to come.

I N S TIT U TI O N A L S U P P O R T

Bruce Cozadd

The Aaron Copland Fund for Music

Gerbode Foundation

Arthur and Charlotte Zitron Foundation

Google

Zakir Hussain

Bill Graham Memorial Foundation

Randall Kline

Crescent Porter Hale Foundation

TREASURER

Michael Lazarus

Dolby Laboratories

Dr. Molly Joel Coye

Divesh Makan

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Loring Sagan

Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation

VICE CHAIR

John Botti

S E C R E TA R Y

TRUSTEES Brian Ashe Michael Bell

John Santos

Craviotto Drums

Angela Davis

H O N O R A RY MEMBERS

Rishi Garg

Clinton Gilbert

Mick Hellman Lisa Hook

The Hut Foundation Kimball Foundation

Walter & Elise Haas Fund Willard L. Marmelzat Foundation

Koret Foundation Quest Foundation

CO -FOUNDER

Shirley Read-Jahn

Firefly

iZotope

CO R P O R AT E PA R T N E R S H I P S • S P O N S O R S H I P & M E M B E R S H I P Partnering with SFJAZZ positions your brand alongside the nation’s largest and most influential presenter of jazz while connecting you to a curious, diverse, and engaged audience. Engage new customers, reward employees, or fulfill your corporate social responsibility or wellness program initiatives. We would like to hear from you. For more information, please contact: Duygu Gun Corporate Partnerships Manager 415.283.0334 | partnerships@SFJAZZ.org

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Stupski Foundation

Claude Steele

IN KIND SPONSORS

Jeffrey Bluestone

Heising-Simons Foundation

Silver Giving Foundation

Joseph L. Sherman Greg Stern

Shelton Berg

Hearst Foundations

San Francisco Venue Recovery Fund

HOW TO ORDER

GETTING TO SFJAZZ

WEB

TI C K E T H A N D LI N G F E E S

PA R K I N G

SFJAZZ.ORG

Members: no charge

Performing Arts Garage

Please make sure to log in first.

Public: $9.50/ticket

Civic Center Garage

Print-at-home: $5/ticket

California Parking

PHONE 866.920.5299

M E M B E R S – O N LY

Place 2 Park

GROUPS Groups of 10 or more save 10–20%.

For more information, please call 415.283.0314

415.788.7353

B OX O F F I C E

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Douglas Parking

P U B LI C T R A N S IT Muni Lines: 5, 5R, 6, 7X, 21, 47, 49, 7, 7R, 90

201 Franklin Street (at Fell) San Francisco, CA 94102

Muni Metro: Van Ness Station or Civic Center Station

Open Tue–Sat 11am–5:30 pm and 90 minutes prior to show time

BART: Civic Center Station

All purchases at our Box Office are exempt from ticket service fees.

For detailed directions, visit 511.org.

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SFJA ZZ OR G A N I Z AT I ON 201 Franklin Street San Francisco, CA 94102

PAT METHENY • CÉCILE McLORIN SALVANT • JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA • WYNTON MARSALIS • SNARKY PUPPY DIANNE REEVES • ZAKIR HUSSAIN • CHRIS BOTTI • PINK MARTINI • JOSHUA REDMAN • PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND ROSANNE CASH • TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON • BRAD MEHLDAU • SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE • CHRIS POTTER • ANAT COHEN BRANFORD MARSALIS • RAVI COLTRANE • AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE • JOHN SCOFIELD • ABDULLAH IBRAHIM • KEB’ MO’ MACEO PARKER • KRIS BOWERS • JOSÉ JAMES • MARC RIBOT • SOWETO KINCH • MIGUEL ZENÓN • KRONOS QUARTET DAVE HOLLAND • NICOLE MITCHELL • JASON MORAN • ARTEMIS • MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH + MANY MORE S FJA Z Z .O R G

MEMBERS 41 5 . 7 8 8 . 7 3 5 3

| PUBLIC 8 6 6 . 9 2 0 . 5 2 9 9

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