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 SFJAZZ
Members turned out in person, online and over the phone lines
to make the opening weekend of San Francisco Jazz Festival
ticket sales a rousing success. Great seats are still available,
but going fast. Now’s the time to join
SFJAZZ and take advantage of Member benefits like advance
ticket sales and no service charges. (Note: Only SFJAZZ
Members are eligible to purchase Festival tickets at this
time. Sales to the general public begin Sunday, July
23.)
Four
of the most in demand shows this first week of Members’
advance sales are:
Planet
Drum (Sept. 23, Masonic Center) Grateful Dead
drummer Mickey Hart heads up this border-busting percussion
showcase featuring Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, talking
drum master Sikuru Adepoju, and conga king and Dizzy Gillespie
alum Giovanni Hidalgo.
Sonny
Rollins (Oct. 20, Masonic Center). In the Boston
Globe’s words: “Any concert by Sonny Rollins
stands as living history.” The “Saxophone Colossus”
returns to the festival in the wake of his first studio CD
in five years, Sonny, Please.
Alice
Coltrane (Nov. 4, Masonic Center). The piano
legend returns to the concert stage in one of a very few U.S.
appearances with an all-star quartet: her son Ravi (saxophone)
and a rhythm section featuring jazz legends Charlie Haden
(bass) and Roy Haynes (drums).
Marisa
Monte (Nov. 4-5, Palace of Fine Arts Theatre).
On her first U.S. tour in six years, Brazilian susperstar
Monte will be performing songs from two new CDs— one
rooted in classic and modern samba and the other in her renowned
pop style.
Be
sure to order
today to get the best tickets!
Though
Les Bleus didn’t cap their run to the World
Cup final with a championship, Gallic pride will be on display
throughout San Francisco this Friday for Bastille Day. Surely
somewhere down Belden Place or Claude Lane the sounds of gypsy-jazz
guitar legend Django Reinhardt will set the raucous crowds
a-swingin’.
Lovers
of Le Jazz Hot will have a chance to celebrate Django’s
enduring legacy at this fall’s San Francisco Jazz Festival.
Guitarist Dorado
Schmitt brings his festival band to the Herbst
Theatre on November 5 to spread the swing gospel according
to Django.
 Presented
in partnership with San Francisco’s Alliance
Française, the show is sure to capture the “upbeat,
joyous approach to jazz that is at the core of the Reinhardt
style” (Los Angeles Times). Members can order
tickets today.
View
a video
of Dorado’s fretboard magic.
In honor
of Bastille Day, the trivia contest takes a Gallic turn this
week:
In
what French city did John Coltrane give the only public performance
of his famed suite A Love Supreme?
The
fourth person to respond with the correct answer will receive
a free Stanford Summer Jazz sampler CD featuring tracks by
Bay Area jazz luminaries Lavay Smith, Kim Nalley, Dave Ellis,
and Taylor Eigsti.
 E-mail
Your Answer (include "Vive la France" in the
subject line)
The
fine print: Our contest winner will be notified directly
by email, and both the winner’s name and the correct
answer to the question will be published in next week’s
e-News. The following are not eligible to enter: employees
and current contractors of SFJAZZ and its seasonal sponsors;
past e-News Jazz Trivia Contest winners.
Last
week’s question was:
Which headlining artist playing at this fall’s Festival
also performed at 1983’s inaugural Jazz in the City
Festival (the precursor to the San Francisco Jazz Festival)?
Answer: John
Santos appeared at 1983’s
Jazz in the City Festival, playing with his Orquesta Batachanga
(the predecessor of his Machete
Ensemble, which performs at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre,
Nov. 12).
Congratulations to winner Jon Harwayne of
San Francisco for being the third person
to send in the correct answer!
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