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Kurt Elling With Christian Sands at Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
October 8, 2025

Kurt Elling With Christian Sands Miner Auditorium (SFJAZZ Center) San Francisco, California October 04, 2025 A spare duo becomes an engine--voice and piano reworking Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, theater, and rock into a present-tense argument for hope, empathy and the living tradition of jazz. They walked on together, and ...

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids at Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
October 7, 2025

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids Miner Auditorium Night Of The Exotictress San Francisco, CA October 2, 2025 This show burned hot and without apology--no coasting, no filler, no easy out. The room hinted at it before the first note: Miner's seats pulled back for a dance floor, a ...

Two Voices, One Room: Hervey & Mason Reframe Monk

by Steven Roby
October 7, 2025

Trumpeter Anthony Hervey and pianist Sean Mason unpacked the soul-and-blues core behind their duo chemistry--why a Monk program belongs in an intimate room, how Hervey's “Du-Rag" reframed ragtime language for now, and why Mason's “Open Your Heart" asked players and listeners to lead with emotion. We talked repertoire choices for a Joe Henderson Lab show, the ...

SFJAZZ Fall Season Kickoff 2025

by Ronald Davis
October 5, 2025

Mohini Dey Plays Yoshi's

by Ronald Davis
October 4, 2025

Ruthie Foster Fall 2025 at the Freight

by Ronald Davis
October 4, 2025

Cindy Blackman Santana SFJAZZ 2025 Fall Season

by Ronald Davis
October 3, 2025

Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble at Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
October 2, 2025

Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble Miner Auditorium San Francisco, CA September 28, 2025 What you noticed first was the circle. Not a literal one--the chairs sat in standard rows--but a social circle that materialized as soon as Arturo O'Farrill addressed the room. He joked, testified, and conducted--in short ...

Paquito D’Rivera Quintet at Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
September 30, 2025

Paquito D'Rivera Quintet Miner Auditorium San Francisco, CA September 26, 2025 On Friday night at SFJAZZ's Miner Auditorium, Paquito D'Rivera walked out smiling, a clarinet at his side and seven decades of stagecraft in his pocket. The Cuban-born NEA Jazz Master had long argued that the hallway between the conservatory ...

Sarah Hanahan Quartet At Joe Henderson Lab

by Steven Roby
September 24, 2025

Sarah Hanahan Quartet Joe Henderson Lab / SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA September 20, 2025 A knockout. No hedging, no warmup lap--impact from the first bar and the room knew it. Sold-out first set at the Joe Henderson Lab--Sarah Hanahan's SFJAZZ debut. Outside, faces pressed close to the glass, ...