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3 Presented on August 26, 2020

Wolff Clark Dorsey play Sgt. Pepper

Leon Lee Dorsey
Duration: 1:15

It was 53 years ago today, May 26, 1967, when the Beatles released the seminal Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It has been hailed a milestone ("a joyful revelation," “the definitive Beatles album"), considered one of their best at the time of its release, and ranked “the greatest album of all time by Rolling Stone's list of the top 500 rock and roll recordings."

So, when bassist extraordinaire Leon Lee Dorsey and drum legend Mike Clark were tossing it back and forth one night, they got to musing about that incredible time period and what recordings represented the essence of the time and place, and the Beatles’ place in that time. It was the summer of love and Sgt. Pepper exhibited a profound optimism. “It's getting better all the time,” while recognizing the gravity, present and coming, “it can't get much worse." Continue...

2 Presented on August 22, 2020

2020 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert

Bobby McFerrin
Duration: 72:52

On Thursday, August 20, 2020, the National Endowment for the Arts, in collaboration with SFJAZZ, honored the 2020 NEA Jazz Masters—Dorthaan Kirk (A.B. Spellman Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz Advocacy), Bobby McFerrin, Roscoe Mitchell, and Reggie Workman—in a virtual tribute concert. Hosted by 2017 NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater, the online concert included performances by honorees McFerrin, Mitchell, and Workman, Music Director Terri Lyne Carrington, Ambrose Akinmusire, Dee Dee Bridgewater, James Carter, Gerald Clayton, Vincent Davis, Lisa Fischer, Morgan Guerin, Oliver Lake, Christian McBride, Jevon McFerrin, Madison McFerrin, Taylor McFerrin, Kanoa Mendenhall, Junius Paul, and Steve Turre, as well as the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars. The evening also included remarks by the 2020 NEA Jazz Masters, as well as Mary Anne Carter, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and Randall Kline, founder and executive artistic director of SFJAZZ.

1 Presented on August 15, 2020

All About Jazz

Kojato and the Afro Latin Cougaritas
Duration: 5:12

All About Jazz turned 25 today and what better way to celebrate than by cranking up KOJATO & The Afro Latin Cougaritas' “All About Jazz." You could not have asked for a better theme song!

Recommended by Michael Ricci.

1 Presented on August 3, 2020

Point Of Light

Jo Kaiat
Duration: 5:48

"Le Pianiste globe-trotter" went to Tel Aviv to record his new album with a long-time friend, bassist AVISHAI COHEN and three Israeli musicians: NOAM DAVID (drums), GILAD ABRO (double bass) and ILAN KATCHKA (percussion). In this project, JO KAIAT draws on the wealth of Hebrew music from the Middle East, West Africa and Arab-Andalusia. This hybrid jazz with multiple influences, makes it a mixed album that reflects with sensitivity the sum of the experiences of the pianist throughout the world.

1 Presented on July 21, 2020