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Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble at Miner Auditorium
by Steven Roby
Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble Miner Auditorium San Francisco, CA September 28, 2025 What you noticed first was the circle. Not a literal one--the chairs sat in standard rows--but a social circle that materialized as soon as Arturo O'Farrill addressed the room. He joked, testified, and conducted--in short ...
Paquito D’Rivera Quintet at Miner Auditorium
by Steven Roby
Paquito D'Rivera Quintet Miner Auditorium San Francisco, CA September 26, 2025 On Friday night at SFJAZZ's Miner Auditorium, Paquito D'Rivera walked out smiling, a clarinet at his side and seven decades of stagecraft in his pocket. The Cuban-born NEA Jazz Master had long argued that the hallway between the conservatory ...
Threading Folk and Jazz: Becca Stevens’ Quiet Fire
by Steven Roby
Episode summary GRAMMY-nominated songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Becca Stevens joins us to explore the craft of writing and arranging for intimate settings, how open tunings and guitar shapes influence her harmony, and the emotional core behind Maple to Paper--a voice-and-guitar project that values vulnerability, presence, and truth. She also speaks openly about motherhood on the road ...
Idris Ackamoor’s Afrofuturist Theater of Sound
by Steven Roby
The plan is not a recital. It is a happening--part theater, part ritual, part dance-floor communion--led by a saxophonist who has spent five decades making music that refuses to sit still. “I call myself an artistic being," Idris Ackamoor says, describing the continuum that stretches from his horn and piano to the page and back again. ...
Sarah Hanahan Quartet At Joe Henderson Lab
by Steven Roby
Sarah Hanahan Quartet Joe Henderson Lab / SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA September 20, 2025 A knockout. No hedging, no warmup lap--impact from the first bar and the room knew it. Sold-out first set at the Joe Henderson Lab--Sarah Hanahan's SFJAZZ debut. Outside, faces pressed close to the glass, ...
Ron Carter's Foursight Quartet at Miner Auditorium
by Steven Roby
Ron Carter's Foursight Quartet Miner Auditorium / SFJAZZ CenterSan Francisco, CA September 19, 2025 After a 50-minute opener with no introductions, Ron Carter took the microphone, smiled, and deadpanned, “Thank you and goodnight." A beat later: “I am boss of the microphone." He waved his cuffs toward the band to take ...
Freedom, Not Formula: Yilian Cañizares’ Living Ritual
by Steven Roby
Yilian Cañizares's chapter unfolds in steps: singles leading into an EP and the full-length Vitamina Y (Planeta Y), written for the trio she has toured with for years. “It's my first album with a trio," she says. “They are not only my colleagues but also my friends... the backbone of the music I'm creating right now." ...
Cindy Blackman Santana Band at Miner Auditorium
by Steven Roby
Cindy Blackman Santana BandMiner AuditoriumSFJAZZ CenterSan Franciso, CASeptember 14, 2025 On the second of two sold-out nights at Miner Auditorium, Cindy Blackman Santana opened with a brief welcome--"Blue Whale"--and nothing more. The band turned toward the center, eyes on her for the first cue, as if to agree that rhythm would set the terms. ...
LABRATS at Joe Henderson Lab
by Steven Roby
LABRATS Joe Henderson Lab Hotplate Series season opener (early set) San Francisco, CA September 12, 2025 This show hit like a voltage spike to the sternum--disciplined chaos, loud purpose, no hedging. The room was already on edge before a note. Three fans who had driven down from Sacramento ...
Bach, Bebop & Bay Area: Paquito D'Rivera’s Jazz Odyssey
by Steven Roby
Paquito D'Rivera arrived in San Francisco for an upcoming concert at SFJAZZ with a mission and a grin--one that views borders as mere suggestions. Two nights on the Miner Auditorium stage with his seasoned quintet will celebrate years of practice and spontaneous creativity, tracing a career that started with prodigy recitals in Havana and has spanned ...
