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Over 25 years, the San Francisco Jazz Festival has grown from a three-day event called “Jazz in the City” to a four-week, citywide celebration of jazz praised as  “one of America’s premier cultural events” (Los Angeles Times). With over 30 world-class jazz concerts at San Francisco’s most revered venues and a kaleidoscopic array of artists from every corner of the globe, this fall will be a delight for music fans of every stripe. Read article

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Cesaria Evora (THIS SAT, 6/9) / Carlinhos Brown (6/23)		Paula West performs 6/15
Home-Brewed World Music: Cesaria Evora and Carlinhos Brown Grammy-nominated Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora has sold over five million albums worldwide. Carlinhos Brown is one of his native Brazil’s best-known performers, renowned as a songwriter, percussionist, dancer, and humanitarian. Yet, for all their international fame, this pair of artists retains deep ties to the distinct musical cultures that inspired them.  Read article		Go West In a recent article for JazzWest Magazine, Andrew Gilbert described singer Paula West’s approach: “She prefers to lavish attention on a song, sneaking around the edge of a melody, stretching a word here or clipping a phrase there so that each piece sounds as if it was written with her voice in mind.” Read Gilbert’s Profile

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Butch Thompson, stride pianist		SFJAZZ Collective on their spring tour.
Taking It In Stride The Roots of Harlem “Stride” Piano Describing Harlem “Stride” Piano is almost as tricky as playing it. The style, which originated in New York City—more specifically, Harlem—in the 1920’s, requires a virtuosic level of technique, with a left hand leaping between bass notes and chords—the “striding” sound that gives the music its name—and a right hand unfurling dizzying arrays of riffs and melodies. Read article		SFJAZZ Collective Update SFJAZZ is preparing to release Live 2007, the definitive record of this all-star ensemble’s fourth year. This limited-edition two-disc set features the Collective’s entire 2007 repertoire, including the music of Thelonious Monk and Collective-members’ own original compositions. Pre-order before June 30 and save 15%. Read article

On June 5th, the Tord Gustavsen Trio released their third album on ECM - Being There. The new record finds the trio continually opening up the music in new and lyrical ways. Along with Gustavsen's infectious music, drummer Jarle Vespestad and bassist Harald Johnsen make
considerable contributions to the new album. Johnsen lends his compositional skills and Vespestad is often as much a front-line voice
in the music as Gustavsen himself. Click here to order the album
from Amazon.com.

We're pleased to welcome Tord Gustavsen back for this fall's 25th Anniversary San Francisco Jazz Festival, and this month's trivia question draws on the trumpeter's acclaimed discography:

In an All About Jazz review, what seminal jazz album was Gustavsen's first album, Changing Places, compared to?

The eighth correct answer recieves a free copy of Gustavsen's latest album, Being There.

E-mail Your Answer (include "Tord" in the subject line)

Congratulations to Jennifer Chandler who pegged Brokeback Mountain as the inspiration for Mark Ulriksen's award-winning New Yorker cover featuring George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. She won dinner for two at San Francisco's Frisson Restaurant

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.