Thu, Mar 31 2022 | 7:30 PM
Miner Auditorium
In-person ticket reservations for this event are currently filled. Tonight's free online broadcast of the live concert will begin at 7:30PM PT (10:30PM PT).
ABOUT THIS CONCERT
The National Endowment for the Arts, in collaboration with SFJAZZ, will honor the 2022 NEA Jazz Masters—Stanley Clarke, Donald Harrison, Jr., Billy Hart, and Cassandra Wilson—and kick off a year-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of the program with a free concert at the SFJAZZ Center.
2018 NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves will host the concert, which will include performances, video tributes, and remarks. The concert will also feature performances by 2022 honorees Stanley Clarke, Billy Hart, and Donald Harrison, Jr. Additional performers include Jeremiah Collier, Joe Dyson, Ethan Iverson, Dan Kaufman, Salar Nader, Nori Naraoka, Ruslan Sirota, Ben Street, and Mark Turner, as well as the SFJAZZ Collective—Matt Brewer, Etienne Charles, Martin Luther McCoy, Gretchen Parlato, Chris Potter, David Sanchez, Kendrick Scott, Edward Simon, and Warren Wolf—and Skylar Tang, a 16-year-old trumpeter and a member of the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars.
HOW TO WATCH
The live webcast of the 2022 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert will begin at 7:30PM PT/ 10:30PM ET at arts.gov and sfjazz.org. In addition, the following websites will also share the live webcast: All About Jazz and Jazz Near You, Blues Alley, BMI, DownBeat, Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, JazzTimes, KQED, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Museum of African American History and Culture, National Museum of American History, NPR Music, WBGO, WRTI, WZUM, and Voice of America’s Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian, Creole, English to Africa, French to Africa, Georgian, Macedonian, Ndebele, Persian, Russian, Serbian, Shona, Spanish, and Ukrainianservices.
The following radio stations will share the radio broadcast of the event: KCSM 91.1FM (San Mateo, CA), KKJZ (Los Angeles, CA), SiriusXM Channel 67, Real Jazz, WDCB 90.9 FM (Chicago, IL), WPFW 89.3 FM (Washington, DC); WZUM 88.1 FM (Pittsburgh, PA); WGMC 90.1 FM (Rochester, NY); WJSU 88.5 FM (Jackson, MS); and KFSR 90.7 FM (Fresno, CA). Subject to change; contact the radio station for specific day/time of broadcast.
SETLIST
What's Going on? Renaldo Benson, Alfred Cleveland, Marvin Gaye; arr. Etienne Charles
I’m All Smiles music Michael Leonard, lyrics Herbert Martin
The Sandcastle Headhunter/One For Bird/Maple Leaf Rag/Temporal/Free To Be/The Magic Touch (medley) Donald Harrison, Jr.
Duchess Billy Hart
Another Country Cassandra Wilson & Fabrizio Sotti
No Mystery Chick Corea
Take the Coltrane Duke Elllington
St. James Infirmary trad.
An archive of the webcast will be available following the event at arts.gov.
HONORING
Stanley Clarke bassist, composer, arranger, producer
Billy Hart drummer, educator
Cassandra Wilson vocalist, composer, guitarist
Donald Harrison, Jr. cultural activist, saxophonist, composer, educator, recipient of the 2022 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz Advocacy
ABOUT THE NEA JAZZ MASTERS
Since 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded 165 fellowships to great figures in jazz, including Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Rollins, Dianne Reeves, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, and George Wein. The Arts Endowment’s website features resources and content about them, including video biographies, and tribute concert videos, podcasts, and more than 350 NEA Jazz Moments audio clips.
For more information about the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters, visit arts.gov/honors/jazz.
MEET THE JAZZ MASTERS
VIRTUAL CONVERSATION
Watch this fascinating hour-long 'Meet the NEA Jazz Masters' conversation with the 2022 honorees, hosted by SFJAZZ Founder and Executive Artistic Director Randall Kline. They discuss their influences, careers, and the importance of jazz.
ABOUT THE 2022 JAZZ MASTERS
Stanley Clarke
Clarke’s bass playing, introducing both melody and harmony as the basis for his soloing and rhythmic accompaniment—as well as his skill on both acoustic and electric bass—has made him one of the most influential players in modern jazz history.
Read BioStanley Clarke
Clarke’s bass playing, introducing both melody and harmony as the basis for his soloing and rhythmic accompaniment—as well as his skill on both acoustic and electric bass—has made him one of the most influential players in modern jazz history.
Read BioDonald Harrison, Jr.
Recipient of the 2022 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz Advocacy, Donald Harrison, Jr. is known for his hard-swinging improvisational style on the saxophone and the creation of “Nouveau Swing,” a blend of jazz with R&B, hip-hop, rock, and soul. His dedication to preserving the music and culture of New Orleans, however, has been crucial to helping its important legacy survive.
Read BioDonald Harrison, Jr.
Recipient of the 2022 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz Advocacy, Donald Harrison, Jr. is known for his hard-swinging improvisational style on the saxophone and the creation of “Nouveau Swing,” a blend of jazz with R&B, hip-hop, rock, and soul. His dedication to preserving the music and culture of New Orleans, however, has been crucial to helping its important legacy survive.
Read BioBilly Hart
Hart is one of the most sought-after jazz drummers of his generation, able to perform in the straight-ahead style of Wes Montgomery as well as the avant-garde leanings of Pharoah Sanders. Hart also teaches widely—nationally and internationally—and has authored the book Jazz Drumming.
Read BioBilly Hart
Hart is one of the most sought-after jazz drummers of his generation, able to perform in the straight-ahead style of Wes Montgomery as well as the avant-garde leanings of Pharoah Sanders. Hart also teaches widely—nationally and internationally—and has authored the book Jazz Drumming.
Read BioCassandra Wilson
Wilson has used her distinctive voice and fascinating arrangements of standards in not just jazz, but blues, country, and folk as well, to create a body of work that has expanded the definition of jazz.
Read BioCassandra Wilson
Wilson has used her distinctive voice and fascinating arrangements of standards in not just jazz, but blues, country, and folk as well, to create a body of work that has expanded the definition of jazz.
Read Bio