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Naturally 7 at Miner Auditorium
by Steven Roby
Naturally 7 Miner Auditorium San Francisco, CAAugust 10, 2025 Seven voices filled Miner Auditorium with the weight and punch of a full band--no guitars, no drum kit, no horns in sight. It was a packed house, and from the opening moments, the crowd responded to each reveal with whoops and standing ...
Bassist/Producer Frank Swart's 'Mischief In The Musitorium' Features Vernon Reid, Lenny White, Donald Harrison And More!
A new record bringing together some of the most fearless voices in modern music: Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Nduduzo Makhathini, Jason Marsalis, Lenny White (Miles Davis and Return to Forever), G Calvin Weston (Ornette Coleman), Donald Harrison and Bill Summers (The Headhunters). This album is a collision of alt-jazz, progressive blues, and improvisational fusion- equal parts ...
Barbara Brighton: A Quarter Century Of Blazing Trails For Female Jazz Producers
Reflecting upon her extraordinary 25-year career as one of Los Angeles’ premiere and most respected jazz producers, Barbara Brighton connects powerfully with—and continues to wholeheartedly embody—an insightful quote from four-time Grammy winner Orrin Keepnews, a transcendent figure in 20th century jazz who set standards as as producer, label owner and journalist/liner notes writer. “One of the ...
David Binney Action Trio At Joe Henderson Lab
by Steven Roby
David Binney Action Trio Joe Henderson Lab San Francisco, CA August 9, 2025 With its two glass walls--one facing busy Franklin Street--the Joe Henderson Lab at the SFJAZZ Center feels like an open studio. At 7 p.m., the sold-out David Binney Action Trio made the most of that intimacy: all 100 ...
Sun Ra Arkestra At Miner Auditorium
by Steven Roby
Sun Ra Arkestra Miner Auditorium San Francisco, California July 31, 2025 Under the kaleidoscopic lights of Miner Auditorium, the Sun Ra Arkestra landed the first of their four-night residency. Fifteen musicians--adorned in sequined robes, ornate headdresses, and Egyptian motifs--assembled amid drifting fog. With a single stomp, bandleader Knoel ...
Bassist And Composer Wink Winkelmann - Debut Release - Be It Known
Be It Known marks the long-anticipated debut of bassist and composer Wink Winkelmann—a bold and genre-defying statement from an artist whose musical path has been anything but conventional. After a 15-year hiatus spent studying medicine and practicing dermatologic surgery, the Venice, California–based Winkelmann quietly cultivated his sound as a self-taught composer. His breakthrough moment came with ...
Mary Gauthier at The Freight and Salvage
by Harry S. Pariser
Mary Gauthier The Freight and Salvage Berkeley, California June 12, 2025 “A song can change a heart by creating empathy. A changed heart has the power to change a mind. And when a mind changes, a person changes. When people change, the world changes. One song, one heart, one mind, one ...
San Francisco Jazz Festival 2025
by Harry S. Pariser
San Francisco Jazz Festival SFJAZZ San Francisco, CA June 13-15, 2025 For decades now, SFJAZZ has held the San Francisco Jazz Festival as a series of concerts spread over weeks. The festivities gained a permanent home when the new building opened in January 2013. This year, new Executive Artistic Director Terence ...
SFJAZZ Gala 2025 Honoring Don Was
by Ronald Davis
A collection of photos from the SFJAZZ Gala 2025 Honoring Don Was concert at SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco on June 12, 2025 featuring SFJAZZ Collective, Terence Blanchard, Don Was, Ambrose Akinmusire, Melissa Aldana, Gabrielle Cavassa, Kurt Elling, Lisa Fischer, Bill Frisell, Charles Lloyd, Jason Moran, Larry Grenadier, Eric Harland, Salar Nader and Alam Kahn. With ...
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