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Eddie Scher
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Parlor Tricks is the world’s first and foremost industrial ragtime band. Sultry vocals, resonator guitar, and upright bass, Parlor Tricks brings a roaring '20s feel to any event. Parlor Tricks captures the immediacy and infectiousness fun of early jazz. What we offer is original and creative, we’re a band that’s together for the love and exploration of music. We will surprise and delight your guests and bring the authenticity and originality that you demand and deserve. Parlor Tricks does for syncopation and stomp what Led Zeppelin did for Thermin, what Lady Gaga did for bubbles.
Take Five with Clemens Grassmann
by AAJ Staff
Meet Clemens Grassmann Berlin-born, Brooklyn-based drummer, percussionist, composer and educator Clemens Grassmann has collaborated across the U.S. and internationally, releasing multiple recordings as a leader, including Grass Machine (self released, 2022). Recipient of the 2015 Armand Zildjian Percussion Award, Grassmann's genre-defiant aesthetic stretches across generations and unites listeners of every sonic prerogative. Grassmann's compositions ...
Jésus Diáz Y Su Afro-Cuban Ensamble at Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade
by Roy Strassman
Jesus Diaz Yerba Buena Gardens Espanade Summer Kickoff Concert San Francisco, CA May 7, 2022 Yerba Buena Gardens enlists and supports many musical artists on its Esplanade. It is a beautiful and spacious urban oasis where everyone can boogie and enjoy the sunshine. Jesús Díaz is a Havana-born Bay Area ...
Miguel Zenon at SFJAZZ Center
by Roy Strassman
Miguel Zenon SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA May 5, 2022 With its fabulous acoustics and visual projection capabilities, the SF Jazz Center is the ideal venue for Miguel Zenon's performances of his recent Golden City Suite project. Zenon conducted interviews in several of San Francisco's ethnic communities—Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, African American, ...
Ravi Coltrane at SFJAZZ Center
by Harry S. Pariser
Ravi Coltrane SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, California April 29, 2022 When you have a famous father, whether you are Seun Kuti, Miley Cyrus, or one of the innumerable talented offspring of other celebrated musicians, expectations can be enormous. That especially holds true when one is the second son of the ...
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 ...
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Marlina Teich
San Francisco based Marlina Teich is a vocalist and guitarist specializing in swing, show tunes and jazz standards. Originally from New York, Marlina sings and plays the music of Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, to name a few.
Marlina has performed internationally at Sandals resorts in Jamaica; wineries in Sonoma County, California; hotels, such as Ben Swig’s Penthouse Suite at the Fairmont Hotel for the Italian Consulate; various clubs, private parties and restaurants. She did a California prison tour in the 1980s with a jazz band and was a music instructor at San Quentin prison
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 ...
Groove Town: Buffalo Jazz And Its Legacy - Historical Insights
by Barbara Ina Frenz
From early on, Buffalo attracted musicians as a place to live and pursue their artistic endeavors—and they were excellent ones: Lil Hardin Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford, Pete Johnson, and Stuff Smith. Dodo Greene, two masters of polyrhythm, Frankie Dunlop and Clarence Becton, as well as pianist and bassist Wade Legge grew up here. Two distinctive voices on ...
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 ...
