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SFJAZZ Collective At Miner Auditorium
by Steven Roby
SFJAZZ Collective Miner Auditorium San Francisco, CA November 2, 2025 San Francisco experienced a heartfelt, generous homage to Wayne Shorter on Sunday afternoon when the SFJAZZ Collective presented its second of three shows, the Native Dancer project, at Miner Auditorium. Led by music director and multi-reedist Chris Potter, the seven musicians approached Shorter's 1975 collaboration with Milton Nascimento as an open exploration rather than a fixed document, and the packed audience sensed that ...
Continue ReadingSFJAZZ Spring Festival 2025
by Ronald Davis
A collection of photos from the SFJAZZ Spring Festival in San Francisco from June 13, 2025 to June 15, 2025 featuring SFJAZZ Collective, Don Was, Charles Lloyd, Eric Harland, Larry Grenadier, Sachal Vasandani, Dayna Stephens, Braxton Cook, Salami Rose Joe Louis, Mark Lettieri, Kassa Overall, Lakecia Benjamin, Somi, Nicholas Payton, Lisa Fischer, Grand Baton, Stanley Clarke, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Jahari Stampley, New Jazz Underground, SML, Theo Croker, Vernon Reid, Melvin Gibbs, William Calhoun, The Soul Rebels, Orrin Evans, Sullivan Fortner, Ambrose ...
Continue ReadingSFJAZZ Collective at SFJAZZ Center
by Harry S. Pariser
The SFJAZZ Collective The SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, California November 4, 2023 Taking the stage at the commencement of a four-night run at San Francisco's SFJAZZ Center The SFJAZZ Collective launched into vibraphonist Warren Wolf's arrangement of three amalgamated Miles Davis compositions: “In a Silent Way," “Directions," and “Nardis." Then, trumpeter Mike Rodriguez took the microphone to introduce their new suite, tentatively titled “Golden Gate Suite." The group was founded in 2004 by ...
Continue ReadingSFJAZZ Collective at SFJAZZ
by Harry S. Pariser
SFJAZZ Collective SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA October 31, 2021 Established by SFJAZZ, the San Francisco music-presentation nonprofit which hosts most events at its own San Francisco edifice, the SFJAZZ Collective, a group of established jazz musicians, has been making annual tours including material from one modern jazz great (such as Miles Davis or Herbie Hancock) as well as individual compositions penned by band members, all of whom are composers and arrangers. Every tour ...
Continue ReadingSFJAZZ Collective: Live: SFJAZZ Center 2016 - Music of Miles Davis & Original Compositions
by John Kelman
In the thirteen years since the SFJAZZ Collective first came together in February 2004, this revolving door octet (septet, in 2009) of “cream of the crop" US-based jazz musicians has, most years, followed a consistent modus operandi: select a well-known jazz (and, in two cases, beyond jazz) musician and pay tribute through innovative arrangements of his/her music, alongside a set of new original compositions--in almost every case, one each contributed by every member of the Collective. In the ...
Continue ReadingSFJAZZ Collective: Remembering Miles
by R.J. DeLuke
The SFJAZZ Collective has been operating since 2004. In the beginning, it may have seemed to some as just another all-star collection of musicians who strut their stuff for a while, then go about their own business. It has shown over time it is much different. The format--eight outstanding musicians banding together to play the music of jazz icons, works hard at what the band was designed for: a leaderless, democratic group where musicians write arrangements that re-imagine ...
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