Thursday
7:30PM
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Friday
8PM
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Saturday
8PM
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Sunday
3PM / 7PM
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Final weeks of Festival feature legends from near and far
Midway
through its four week run, the San Francisco Jazz Festival
grooves forward with two more weeks of excellent music. Fresh
off a stellar Sunday night performance by Andrew
Hill and Nels Cline (see San
Francisco Chronicle review)the
third week ups the musical ante with the inspired revelry of
the Kamikaze
Ground Crew (8PM tonight! 11/1) at the historic Great American
Music Hall. (Don’t
be scared off by the name. The New Yorker noted “kamikaze” means “divine
wind”—an appropriate name for this six-horn ensemble featuring
some of the greatest “downtown” reed and brass musicans.)
Perhaps
the most highly anticipated show of the season is Alice
Coltrane
this Saturday, 11/4, at the Masonic Center. Live shows
by this keyboard legend are rare enough on their own (her current
tour featured only three dates, of which San Francisco is the
sole West Coast appearance), Saturday’s
show is an even rarer happening thanks to her all-star band:
her son with John Coltrane, saxophonist
and bandleader Ravi, plus a rhythm section
of two towering jazz figures in Charlie Haden, a Grammy-winning
bassist and composer, and NEA Jazz Master Roy Haynes,
a frequent collaborator with the late John Coltrane.
Another
jazz legend—this one with Bay Area roots—gets
the royal treatment next Friday night (11/10) at Herbst
Theatre. Mary
Stallings is the recipient of the 2006
SFJAZZ Beacon Award for lifetime service to the Bay Area jazz scene,
and this commemorative show sees the thrilling vocalist backed
by the sublime Marcus
Shelby Jazz Orchestra and pianist Geri Allen.
The
Bay Area vibe continues on the following Sunday
(11/12) as Afro-Carribbean jazz powerhouse John Santos
bids farewell to his Machete Ensemble after 21 incendiary
years. Those looking for a more romantic evening should mark
their calendars for Ana Moura, that same night at
Herbst. The young fadista brings
her modern take on the lovelorn folk music of Portugal, accompanied
by fado guitarist Jorge
Fernando longtime accompanist of the late, great "Queen of Fado"
Amalia Rodrigues.
Of
course, there are many more shows on the later bill, including
local luminaries
Myra
Melford (11/4), the Montclair
Women’s Big Band (11/8), and
guitarist Mimi Fox (11/11), as well as jazz legend Charles
Lloyd, Hot
Jazz guitar virtuoso Dorado
Schmitt (11/5) and the ninth house-rockin' edition
of the SFJAZZ “B-3
Summit” featuring organist Dr.
Lonnie Smith with James Brown brassman Fred
Wesley. (The Good Doctor's 8PM show is sold out, but tickets
are still available for the 10:30PM show.) Be sure to check the full
schedule online.
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Lloyd, a Member favorite |
Speaking of Charles Lloyd, one SFJAZZ Member, Penny
Wiles, is making an
extraordinarily special effort to catch the legendary saxophonist and his
Sangam Trio featuring tabla master Zakir Hussain and SFJAZZ Collective drummer
Eric Harland.
One
of my favorite tunes is "Forest Flower". I first heard it in
2005 when my son, who is a jazz student at the University of
Toronto, played it at one of his gigs. I fell in love with this
piece...“When I discovered
that Charles Lloyd was playing in North America at the San Francisco
Jazz Festival I booked my flight from Toronto to California and can hardly
wait to hear Charles play in person…”
Kudos
Penny! We can’t
wait to greet you at the Festival!
SFJAZZ
Members: If there's a show you're looking forward to, or a particular
recording by a Festival artist that you want let others know about, send
your thoughts to the Members Corner at members@sfjazz.org.
 Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Friday, January 26
Herbst Theatre, 8PM
South
Africa’s groundbreaking 10-man a cappella group makes a rare
SF appearance! Renowned worldwide for their spellbinding vocals
on Paul Simon’s Grammy-winning, quintuple-platinum album Graceland—soon
followed by a series of whimsical 7UP TV commercials—“LSMB”are
famed for “melding a tradition of Zulu harmony with imported gospel
and soul” (The New York Times). Two-time Grammy-winners in
their own right, LSMB are revered cultural and humanitarian ambassadors
for their homeland,” using their majestic voices, and nothing else
[to produce] a full orchestra of sound” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Tickets
on sale now to SFJAZZ
Members only. Call 415-788-7353
today or order online using the Member Web Order form.
Tickets
go on sale to the general public on Sunday, November 5, at 12PM.
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The
San Francisco Conservatory of Music invites
SFJAZZ Members to visit their brand new home
in the heart of San Francisco’s
Civic Center district by attending a performance
by The
Guarneri Jazz Quartet on November 27, at 8PM,
as well as a preconcert reception at 7PM.
The first five
SFJAZZ Members who send an email to members@sfjazz.org with “Guarneri
Jazz Quartet” in
the subject line will receive a FREE pair of tickets to this
show! You must be a current SFJAZZ Member to
qualify (Join SFJAZZ today). Winners will be contacted
directly via email.
Note: this event is a production of the San
Francisco Conservatory of Music, not of SFJAZZ. |
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 A very special prize this week courtesy of renowned
jazz photographer Lee Tanner and his publisher, Harry
N. Abrams. Lee’s
new book, The Jazz Image: Masters of Jazz Photography,is
a remarkable collection of nearly 150 duotone
photographs that capture the jazz world both
onstage and behind the scenes. With luminaries
from Louis Armstrong to John Coltrane, and an
introduction by revered jazz writer Nat Hentoff,
this is a must-have stocking stuffer for jazzophiles.
Not only did
Lee kindly provide the prize—he also is the
author of this week’s trivia question:
Which
legendary pianist often recorded under the pseudonym
of Shorty Nadine?
E-mail
Your Answer (include "Tanner"
in the subject line)
The third correct
respondent will receive a Lee Tanner autographed copy of The
Jazz Image.
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 winner:
Congratulations to last week’s winner, Marcy Brown of
Berkeley, who named Steven Bernstein and Peter Apfelbaum
as fellow Berkeley High Yellowjackets. She won two tickets to see Kamikaze
Ground Crew tonight at the Great American Music Hall.
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Just Released:
2006 SFJAZZ Collective CDs |
We are glad to announce that the SFJAZZ Store
has received the third SFJAZZ Collective CD
set, Live
2006: 3rd Annual Concert Tour. Pre-ordered copies are currently
being shipped.
If you
didn’t pre-order the limited edition, multi-disc set,
you can still order
it now through the SFJAZZ Store. |
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