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JOHN McLAUGHLIN "PLUGS IN" FOR FEST PREVIEW CONCERT

John McLaughlin’s guitar exploded into the late ‘60s jazz world. His recordings with Miles Davis (In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew) and Tony Willams’ Lifetime (Emergency!) were landmarks in the early jazz-rock era. (On hearing Lifetime, Herbie Hancock said, “It was exciting and very arresting. It snatched you. It yanked you out of your seat.”) McLaughlin brings that same incendiary electric guitar virtuosity to the Masonic Center September 22 in a special 25th Anniversary San Francisco Jazz Festival preview concert. Read article

Kronos Quartet (10/25-26)		Stefon Harris, Andre Hayward, Joe Lovano in Perugia, Italy
NEW WORKS & ARTISTS From the Gold Rush to “Web 2.0,” San Francisco has long been on the forward end of the cutting edge. Each year, the San Francisco Jazz Festival embraces the city’s zeitgeist by presenting a thrilling mix of trend-setting sounds from brand-new national and international artists to premiere performances of new works by world-renowned artists.  Read article		SFJAZZ CollectivE update A workshop band unlike any other in jazz, the SFJAZZ Collective recently returned from their first European summer festival tour, released a new double-CD set, and are already looking forward to 2008 with a new lineup featuring saxophonist Joe Lovano and vibraphonist Stefon Harris. Read article

Issac Delgado (10/20)		Ben Flocks performs with the All-Stars in 2006
Poll Winners and More The 55th Annual DownBeat Critics Poll has been released and a number of San Francisco Jazz Festival artists are singled out for praise including Ornette Coleman and Anat Cohen. Also, read recent press about Issac Delgado, Caetano Veloso, and more. Read article		SFJAZZ High school All-Star On THE RISE The first jazz concert Ben Flocks experienced was a performance by Joshua Redman’s Elastic Band in Flocks’ hometown of Santa Cruz, CA. At the time Flocks, a student at Pacific Collegiate School, was still getting his feet wet with the saxophone, and says he didn’t even know what jazz was. “Once I heard [Redman], I knew that jazz was my music.” Read article

// IN MEMORIAM - MAX ROACH (1924-2007)

Legendary jazz drummer Max Roach passed away on August 15 at the age of 83. The New York Times obitiuary notes, Roach "rewrote the rules of drumming in the 1940’s and spent the rest of his career breaking musical barriers and defying listeners’ expectations." Roach was also a longtime civil rights activist whose music often reflected his work towards racial equality. Read the complete obituary

On John McLaughlin's new album Industrial Zen, the guitarist reunites with a saxophonist from the ‘80s era Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Who is the saxophonist?

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