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Kronos Festival at SFJAZZ Center
by Harry S. Pariser
Kronos Quartet SFJAZZ Center Kronos Festival 2022 San Francisco, CA April 7-9, 2022 Founded in 1973, Kronos Quartet has long been one of San Francisco's musical treasures. Yet, because the quartet tours internationally, a performance in its home city is an event to take note of. The three-day Kronos Festival ...
Jazz Journalist / Historian Scott Yanow Reviews 'Better Than Picasso At Midnite' By Tony Adamo
Better Than Picasso At Midnite An inventive spoken word artist who also sings well, Tony Adamo loves jazz and always goes out of his way to champion the music in his lyrics. One can link him to Jack Kerouac and the hipsters of the 1950s, yet his approach is contemporary and usually utilizes a funky background. ...
Helen Sung Quartet + 1 at SFJAZZ Center
by Harry S. Pariser
Helen Sung Quartet+1 Joe Henderson lab at SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA March 18, 2022 Raised by immigrants from Taiwan in Houston, Texas, Helen Sung does not fit the traditional stereotype of a jazz musician. Sung was set to be a classical pianist, earning her bachelor's and master's degrees in classical ...
Chris Potter Big Band and Quartet at SFJAZZ Center
by Harry S. Pariser
Chris Potter Big Band and Quartet CenterSFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA March 17-19, 2022 Widely acclaimed saxophonist Chris Potter needs no introduction. His fans know him as someone who is always expanding and growing. In addition to his recent role as leader of the SFJAZZ Collective, Potter has formed trios and ...
Lisa Hilton Celebrates Optimism In 'Life Is Beautiful' With Luques Curtis & Rudy Royston
Lisa Hilton and her trio, manifest a memorable experience on Life Is Beautiful, her third recording of the pandemic era, and the acclaimed pianist, composer, and producer’s twenty-fifth album as a leader. On it, Hilton indulges her love of the piano with ten original tracks and the cover gem, “Ernie’s Blues," (written by Ernie Wilkins). Backed ...
Helen Sung Quartet with guest Jenny Scheinman at SFJAZZ
by Roy Strassman
Helen Sung Quartet with guest artist Jenny Scheinman Joe Henderson Lab at SFJazz San Francisco, CA March 18, 2022 Last night the Helen Sung Quartet plus violinist Jenny Scheinman graced the stage of the Joe Henderson Lab at San Francisco's premier jazz venue, SFJazz. Ms. Sung, a Guggenheim ...
Jazz Weekly Reviews Tony Adamo's 'Better Than Picasso At Midnite'
Well, the blue-jeaned, floppy hat-wearing singing street preacher Tony Adamo is back with a new upcoming album. Here’s the first single from it, Better Than Picasso At Midnite, which is essentially polishing, refurbishing, new engine adding remake of the classic “Better Than Anything” and machine shopped, chopped, and hopped by Tony A. The original lyrics are ...
Pianist/Composer Jesse Fischer Announces West Coast And London Dates
Brooklyn-based pianist to follow up successful Jazz Road tour of the Midwest in 2021 with three West Coast dates and a London headline debut, performing music from Resilience (2020) and Flipped II (2018). Performance dates will coincide with the release of em>Resilience (Recharged), a newly remixed and reimagined version of the title track of Resilience, with ...
Recording Artist And Songwriter Sylvia Brooks' anticipated Release 'Signature' On May 30th!
Since her captivating debut in 2009, jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks has displayed a gift for inhabiting different personas, with a subspecialty in film-noir inspired femmes fatale. On this—Signature (Rhombus Records)—her fourth album, she embraces the most challenging role of all, defining herself with a set of beautifully crafted original songs. Her evocative lyrics and emotionally direct ...
Bebop, Beats, and the Drive of Beat Literature
by Arthur R George
"Mulberry-eyed girls in black stockings, Smelling vaguely of mint jelly and last night's bongo drummer... fling their arrow legs / To the heavens / Losing their doubts in the beat" of San Francisco nights, announced poet Bob Kaufman's “Bagel Shop Jazz." (Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness, New Directions Publishing, 1965; Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman, City Lights, ...
