MAR 6-9 | Resident Artistic Director: Brandee Younger
Mar 06, 2025
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
SFJAZZ Open Soundchecks are an exclusive, behind-the-scenes opportunity to experience our concert hall during the artist’s sound check, revealing the critical preparation that goes into making the performance a success.
Thursday, March 6, 2025, 4:30-6pm
Lobby doors open at 4:15pm
SFJAZZ Miner Auditorium (201 Franklin Street, SF, CA)
Cost: FREE
For her second season as Resident Artistic Director, Brandee Younger honors the life and music of the late harpist and jazz legend Alice Coltrane accompanied by the 19-piece New Century Chamber Orchestra.
ABOUT BRANDEE YOUNGER
Carrying on and expanding the tradition of pioneering jazz harpists Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane, Brandee Younger made her public debut in 2007 as a grad student at NYU, when saxophonist Ravi Coltrane enlisted the then-23-year-old to participate in the memorial service for his mother Alice. A student of jazz great Jackie McLean, Younger has collaborated with artists from the worlds of jazz and hip hop, including Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Pharoah Sanders, Lauren Hill, and Common. In 2021 she released her Impulse! Records debut, Somewhere Else, which earned Younger a Best Instrumental Composition GRAMMY nomination for the track “Beautiful is Black.” Her 2023 Impulse! release, Brand New Life, honors Dorothy Ashby’s legacy through songs the late harpist wrote and/or performed.
Younger has almost single-handedly made a persuasive argument for the harp’s role in contemporary jazz
The New York Times