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Dave Douglas & Keystone at SFJAZZ
by Forrest Dylan Bryant
Dave Douglas & KeystoneThursday, October 26, 2005Palace of Fine Arts, SFDave Douglas and his electrified Keystone band merged past and future on the last stop of their brief American tour, playing for an enthusiastic crowd of hipsters at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts as part of the 23rd annual San Francisco Jazz ...
Monterey Notebook 2005, Part 3: Saturday Night
by Forrest Dylan Bryant
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3As the 48th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival presented by MCI passes its halfway mark, the traditionally blues-oriented program of Saturday afternoon gives way to an eclectic mix of modern-jazz and international sounds, along with a wave of vocalists led by first-time performer Tony Bennett. I continue my venue-hopping, ...
Monterey Notebook 2005, Part 2: Saturday Afternoon
by Forrest Dylan Bryant
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 12:30pm - The FairgroundsThe Monterey County Fairgrounds are quietly busy as festivalgoers amble along the seemingly endless stretch of vendors, sampling the greasy foods of five continents. Out behind the Fairgrounds, the back nineholes of a local golf course have been converted into a massive parking ...
Monterey Notebook 2005, Part 1: Friday Night
by Forrest Dylan Bryant
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 The Monterey Jazz Festival, presented by MCI, is off to a flying start. Now in its 48th year, the festival draws some 40,000 people annually to the Central California coast for three days of concerts at the sprawling Monterey County Fairgrounds. It is not possible to hear everything, ...
Stephanie Ozer: O Começo
by Forrest Dylan Bryant
Stephanie Ozer sure knows how to seize an opportunity. While on a ten-day vacation in Brazil, the California-based pianist chanced into a meeting with the great bossa nova vocalist Leny Andrade. Andrade agreed to record with Ozer on the spot, and within a week the two were laying down an after-midnight session at a Rio studio. ...
John Santos & The Machete Ensemble: 20th Anniversary
by Forrest Dylan Bryant
John Santos & The Machete Ensemble 20th Anniversary Machete Records 2005 When percussionist John Santos founded the Machete Ensemble in 1985--back then it was called the Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble--he probably had no idea that he was creating an institution. With a difficult mission of blending jazz, folkloric, and dance idioms ...
SFJAZZ Collective in Mountain View, CA
by Forrest Dylan Bryant
SFJAZZ, the presenting organization behind the San Francisco Jazz Festival, likes to think big. Perhaps no project exemplifies that thinking better than the SFJAZZ Collective, a jazz super group led by local residents Joshua Redman and Bobby Hutcherson. In their last Bay Area appearance before embarking on a national tour, the Collective dazzled a full house ...
Bay Boppin': March 2005
by Forrest Dylan Bryant
News and views from around the San Francisco Bay Area... LIVE PERFORMANCE March has been an exciting month for live jazz in the Bay Area. Fred Hersch launched his Leaves of Grass tour in San Francisco, Pat Metheny's The Way Up tour stopped in Oakland and Santa Cruz, and SFJAZZ kicked off its 6th annual Spring ...
Roy Haynes' 80th Birthday Party at SFJAZZ
by Forrest Dylan Bryant
March 13, 2005Masonic Center AuditoriumSan Francisco, CAIt was officially “Roy Haynes Day" in his native Boston, but the master drummer himself was in San Francisco, celebrating his 80th birthday on the stage with an all-star band and 2,000 well-wishers in attendance. The party was among the signature events of this year's SFJAZZ Spring ...
Omar Sosa at Yoshi's
by Forrest Dylan Bryant
“Another world is possible."When those four words bubbled to the surface of Omar Sosa's modern jazz stew at Yoshi's on March 2, they summed up the career of a musician who has spent years opening new vistas in Latin jazz. Weaving a magic circle of rhythm and invention around the packed club in a 90-minute ...
