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SFJAZZ Announces Release of "SFJAZZ Collective: Music of Stevie Wonder and New Compositions, Live in New York 2011" - Season 8

August 31, 2011

SFJAZZ today announced the release of the SFJAZZ Collective's eight limited-edition set, SFJAZZ Collective: Music of Stevie Wonder and New Compositions, Live in New York 2011 — Season 8, of which a maximum of 5,000 copies will be produced. Available exclusively from SFJAZZ—presenter of this year's 29th San Francisco Jazz Festival, running September 15 through December ...

2nd Annual Chinatown Music Festival

August 5, 2011

The 2nd Annual Chinatown Music Festival in San Francisco's Chinatown on Sunday, September 25, 2011. The Festival will feature free performances by Jest Jammin,' Genryu Arts, Sherlin Chan & The Star Valley Children's Choir, Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco led by John Calloway, Charlie Chin, San Francisco Guzheng Society and the world-premiere of “Portrait ...

Willie "The Lion" Smith - "Ain't Misbehavin'/St. Louis Blues" (1966)

May 14, 2011

Billie and the Blessed Child

May 10, 2011

Billie Holiday recorded what was almost her last hit song, “God Bless the Child," on this date in 1941,with the Eddie Heywood Orchestra featuring Roy Eldridge on trumpet. Shortly before this session, she had co-written this tune with Arthur Herzog, Jr., asongwriter with whom she sometimes collaborated. In her autobiography, LadySings the Blues, Holiday claims that ...

Dizzy Gillespie - "And then She Stopped" (1966)

May 6, 2011

A Treasure Trove of Jazz from Norman Granz

May 4, 2011

Norman Granz was the producer of the famous Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series, a constantly changing all-star jazz band that toured the United States and Europe from 1945 to 1959 and at one time or another included just about every significant jazz artist of the day. He was also a record producer and founder of ...

Happy Birthday, Ella Fitzgerald!

April 26, 2011

Ellis Marsalis Live in San Francisco

April 20, 2011

Ellis Marsalis is the patriarch of one of the most prominent jazz families in America. He has played piano and taught jazz in his native New Orleans for decades, but it is only since his more famous sons, particularly Wynton and Branford, have come to prominence that he has started to gain some well-deserved recognition. (Marsalis ...

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - "Theme for Stacy" (1966)

April 18, 2011

Record Store Day at Amoeba San Francisco

April 15, 2011

Tomorrow 10:30am—San Francisco Amoeba Records 1855 Haight St San Francisco, CA 94117 Celebrate Record Store Day at independent record stores all across the nation! Check out all three Amoeba Music locations for special guest artists, live shows, and DJ sets! Plus...Record Store Day gift bags (with purchase, while supplies last), a TON ...