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SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Win Next Generation Festival Award Celebrate With SFJAZZ Center Concert April 26
The SFJAZZ High School All-Stars, under the direction of Paul Contos, won the Conglomerate Big Band Division Award for the second time in a row at the 2014 Next Generation Jazz Festival in Monterey, CA. In addition to winning the Conglomerate Big Band Division, four of the All-Stars earned Outstanding Soloist Awards: Matt Wong (piano), Benjamin ...
Kathy Sanborn's Latin Jazz Album Fantasía Releases June 3, 2014
Renowned jazz singer and composer Kathy Sanborn pays homage to her Latin heritage with Fantasía, Sanborn’s latest album comprised of primarily Spanish vocal jazz songs releasing June 3, 2014. Based in northern California, the American velvet-voiced jazz songstress is of Nicaraguan descent. Bilingual and cosmopolitan, the exotic Sanborn combines sensual vocals with artistic originality. Fantasía, the ...
SFJAZZ Announces 2014 Summer Programming
SFJAZZ today announced summer programming for the 32nd Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival running June 12 to June 22, 2014 and the 2014 Summer Sessions running July 17 to August 24, 2014. The Festival will present a nonstop celebration of legendary performers and up-and-coming artists at the SFJAZZ Center’s Robert N. Miner Auditorium, Joe Henderson Lab, ...
Reconnaissance Fly: Flower Futures
by Glenn Astarita
Vocalist, flautist Polly Moller concocted the premise for this album based on collections of Internet-based spam poetry, or as the press release states, “spoetry." It's quite kooky, yet thoroughly engaging. Slight comparisons to small ensemble Frank Zappa, largely from a lyrical standpoint, come to fruition as the band performs with a theatrical flair, and an ideology ...
Fred Hersch at Miner Auditorium
by Harry S. Pariser
Fred Hersch Miner Auditorium, SFJazz Fred Hersch Solo at SF Performances San Francisco March 8, 2014 No stranger to San Francisco, pianist Fred Hersch has been a frequent guest of SF Performances, having last performed here in 2011 when he presented My Coma Dreams, an evening-long work for eleven instruments ...
Singer-Songwriter Sam Morrow To Release Haunting Debut Album On April 29 Via Forty Below Records
10-Song Opus Produced By Eric Corne (John Mayall, DeVotchKa, KaiL Baxley) Record Release Show At Hotel Café In Los Angeles Scheduled For May 1st Los Angeles, CA: On April 29, Forty Below Records, home to albums by John Mayall, Bonson Berner and KaiL Baxley, will issue the extraordinary debut album by singer-songwriter Sam Morrow. Entitled Ephemeral, ...
19th Annual Jazz On Fourth Street Festival, Berkeley, CA Lineup
Presented by Fourth Street Merchants, KCSM/Jazz 91, Avalon Berkeley, and Berkeleyside, the 19th Annual Jazz on Fourth Street Festival will take place Sunday, May 18, from Noon – 5:00pm in Berkeley, CA on Fourth Street between Hearst and Virginia and is free. For more information, visit fourthstreet.com or call the hot line at (510) 526-6294. This ...
A Night At Bricktop's This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actors Topsy Chapman and Vernel Bagneris offer narratives drawn from the memoirs of Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith and Langston Hughes. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and the Hot Club of San Francisco give us a musical tour of Paris in the '30s. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio ...
Trumpeter/Vocalist Ilya Serov Casts Spell On New CD
With a voice as silky as his trumpet playing, Ilya Serov casts a seductive spell on his debut album, September in the Rain. The Los Angeles-based Serov possesses that rare gift of being able to sing as well as utilize the trumpet with graceful precision. Such a talent is not common, and Serov employs both in ...
Terry Waldo - "The Soul Of Ragtime" - Out Today!
Tompkins Square has released music across many genres: Folk, gospel, jazz, blues, old-timey, British pop, American Primitive, Cajun, Greek, singer/songwriters. But this is the first Ragtime album released by the label, from perhaps the most important living artist in the genre, Terry Waldo. Terry's new album The Soul of Ragtime is the culmination of decades of ...
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