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THEATRE, FEB 2-12: Pueblo Revolt at Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA • ArtsEarth | |
AlterTheater presents the rolling world-premiere of Pueblo Revolt by Dillon Chitto and directed by Reed Flores. A gay Pueblo teen prepares for the Uprising with his older brother, while dealing with a really pesky (and totally inconvenient) crush on the Spanish baker’s son. When history is in the making, what do ordinary people do? The Rella Lossy Award winning comedy runs FEB 2-12 at the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley and FEB 15-26 at Art Works Downtown in San Rafael.
- FEB 2-12 – THU, FRI, SAT at 7 PM and SUN at 2 PM
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MUSIC, FEB 3: First Friday: Black/Pacific: The Geography of Freedom at San José Museum of Art, San Jose, California, USA • ArtsEarth | For Black History Month, Mosaic America presents Black/Pacific: The Geography of Freedom, a performance by RIGHTSTARTER at First Friday. Through ancient and contemporary beats, rhymes, and rhythms, RIGHTSTARTER presents a unique Black+Brown musical fusion that showcases the drum as a connective tissue between African and Pacific cultures from pre-colonization to the present. | |
MUSIC, FEB 3: Greek Chamber Music Project – Uproot: Music from Asia Minor at Old First Concerts, San Francisco, California, USA & ONLINE • ArtsEarth | The Greek Chamber Music Project presents Uproot, a powerful program of Greek songs from Asia Minor. GCMP performs modern arrangements of Greek music from the region, celebrating this vibrant musical heritage and capturing the refugee experience through song. Uproot weaves histories and personal stories throughout, generating a universal dialogue about the impact of forced migration and building a bridge to the experience of modern-day refugees. | |
THEATRE, FEB 3+4: The Edwardian Ball 2023 at The Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth | |
PARADOX Media and Vau de Vire announce the return of the all-ages Edwardian Ball to The Regency Ballroom.
Over 22 years, The Edwardian Ball has blossomed into an elegant festival of the arts. Complete with mesmerizing stage shows, galleries, stunning costumes, immersive performances, vending, oddities and more, thousands participants join together to co-create an “Edwardian” world.
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GatherNYC continues its Sunday morning concert series at the Museum of Arts and Design in Columbus Circle, presenting cellist and vocalist Marika Hughes with guitarist Kyle Sanna. | |
MUSIC, FEB 5: Midori, violin – SF Performances at Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth | GatherNYC continues its Sunday morning concert series at the Museum of Arts and Design in Columbus Circle, presenting cellist and vocalist Marika Hughes with guitarist Kyle Sanna. | |
MUSIC, FEB 5: Greenwich Village Orchestra: Arias and Spirituals with Mark S. Doss at All Saints Episcopal Church, New York City, New York, USA • ArtsEarth | Grammy Award-winning operatic bass-baritone Mark S. Doss, sings famous arias from Carmen, Samson et Dalila, Rigoletto, and Wagner’s Ring Cycle plus classic African-American spirituals. The program, conducted by Barbara Yahr and Eric Mahl, includes also orchestral favorites from the operatic repertoire. | |
MUSIC, FEB 5: Melissa Aldana Quartet at Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay California, USA & ONLINE • ArtsEarth | Grammy-nominated saxophonist and composer Melissa Aldana makes her eagerly awaited Bach debut. At 33, the Brooklyn-based tenor player from Santiago, Chile has garnered international recognition for her visionary work. Her album Visions, noted one of best albums of 2019 by NPR Music, earned the saxophonist her first Grammy nomination for “Best Improvised Jazz Solo.” Notably she signed with Blue Note Records and in March of 2022, released her highly acclaimed debut album, 12 Stars. Aldana is also one of the founding members of ARTEMIS, the all-star collective that released their debut album ARTEMIS on Blue Note in 2020. Come and enjoy “one of the more exciting young tenor saxophonists today” (The New York Times.) | |
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VISUAL, FEB 9: The Art of Food – Opening Celebration at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA • ArtsEarth | Join us for the opening celebrations for The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. This fun exhibition features more than 100 artworks by 36 well-known contemporary artists, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jenny Holzer and Ed Ruscha. Whether celebratory or critical, each work presents a different, nuanced perspective on the central place food holds in everyday life. Opening event includes light bites from local chefs, a bar and music. | |
MUSIC, FEB 9: Ambrose Akinmusire, solo trumpet – Sacred Space at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth Partner | Ambrose Akinmusire possesses one of the most original trumpet voices of recent decades. He has a breathtaking, ruby-red tone and a penchant for coaxing extraordinary — and unexpected — sounds and effects from his horn. If you watch him perform (or listen to his five albums on the Blue Note label) you will hear him swing freely between jazz, R&B, chamber music and sounds you cannot put in a box. It’s a unified creative flow. It comes from inside him. It honors the jazz tradition while pointing toward destinations unknown. An Oakland native with an international career, Akinmusire is a master improviser and bandleader. On stage, he has a way of instantly processing musical information, always nurturing, expanding, and elevating the performance. On the last night of his week of residency, he will stand alone onstage at the historic Grace Cathedral – just Ambrose, playing solo trumpet, welcoming you to his latest adventure. | |
Juno award-winning trumpeter and vocalist Bria Skonberg is, in the words of The Wall Street Journal, “poised to be one of the most versatile and imposing musicians of her generation.” An artist deeply committed to the New Orleans “hot jazz” tradition filtered through contemporary influences, the Chilliwack, British Columbia native began her musical life as a big band vocalist (doubling on trumpet) at age sixteen and studying with trumpeter and swing veteran Warren Vaché. | |
MUSIC, 9 FEB-APR 1: Audium: New Voices II at Audium, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth | Audium is launching the second edition of the popular NEW VOICES artist-in-residence program, featuring live performances by Sharmi Basu, Alex Abalos, and Ronald Peabody. This time, the theater’s specially-built speaker environment will tell the stories of Bay Area Filipino culture, African immigrant origins, and a sci-fi tale where the world’s caregivers have all disappeared. | |
VISUAL, FEB 10: Max Gimblett: The Beginning of Time – Opening Reception at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth | Gimblett’s paintings are a unique and mindful hybrid of the New York school of abstract expressionism with traditions of manuscript illumination and icon painting, Asian calligraphy, kintsugi, and lacquerware. Masterful brushwork, an eccentric and sophisticated color sense, and sensuously glossy surfaces are punctuated with precious metals. Some of the sculptural panels – tondos, ovals, and his signature four-lobed quatrefoil – are completely and idiosyncratically gilded in various types of gold or platinum, referring to the universality of devotional objects. Every work in this exhibition is an altarpiece; each is an offering. | |
THEATRE, FEB 10: Bleeding Heart Ball Circus Party at Eli’s Mile High Club, Oakland, California, USA • ArtsEarth | Get ready to be taken to be transported as you melt into the sunset and watch performances including Nikki Borodi’s Acrolele ukulele antics, maniacal MCing with Jamie Dewolf, alluring contortion by Anna Kaye, hypnotic aerial performances by Bridget Star, Poisnivy, Kat Datura and The Dragonettes, mesmerising mayhem with Maia Walker, dazzling dance by Cha Cha, La La and Feliciano Ortiz, intoxicating guitar by Roland Sayn, Sexy Grooves by DJ veterano and other surprise talent! | |
VISUAL, FEB 10: Ritual of Myth Making: Reclaim at Root Division, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth | Ritual of Mythmaking: Reclaim, curated by Katherin Canton and Mariana Moscoso, is an invitation to participate in ceremony. The exhibition will take viewers on a journey through time and space, exploring multiple Indigenous pasts, presents, and futures, resulting in a collective cycle of healing that embraces beauty, death, release, and abundance. | |
MUSIC, FEB 10: Greek Chamber Music Project – Uproot: Music from Asia Minor at Hinde Auditorium, Sacramento State University, Sacramento, California, USA • ArtsEarth | The Greek Chamber Music Project presents Uproot, a powerful program of Greek songs from Asia Minor. GCMP performs modern arrangements of Greek music from the region, celebrating this vibrant musical heritage and capturing the refugee experience through song. Uproot weaves histories and personal stories throughout, generating a universal dialogue about the impact of forced migration and building a bridge to the experience of modern-day refugees. | |
MUSIC, FEB 10: Sean Shibe, guitar and Van Kuijk Quartet – SF Performances at Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth | Shining at the top of a new wave of guitarists, Sean Shibe creates imaginative programs aglow with innovation, new music, and passionate insights into classics. Named BBC New Generation Artists, the Van Kuijk Quartet’s “unanimity, tonal blend, and intonation are close to flawless” (Gramophone). | |
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A series of meetings with artists who have participated in SM Pro Art Programs, who tell us about their experiences, creative process and works done.
Open and FREE informative talks through Zoom platform. If you are interested in attending it, send us an email to circleATsmproartDOTcom to register and we will send you the link to access the talk.
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Please join us for our 4th Annual Bach Fundraiser. We will have wine tasting and superb appetizers, a bit of comedy and a live auction. If we are inspired we might do some dancing too!
Saxophonist and clarinetist Patrick Wolff brings the College of San Mateo Concert Jazz Ensemble, a 16-piece big band. Wolff has become a creative force in the Bay Area since relocating here in 2009 from New York City. As a bandleader, he’s honed an enthralling repertoire arranging overlooked gems by masters like Clifford Jordan, and Lucky Thompson and as a composer he has crafted a book of intricate, intertwining compositions for his numerous band configurations. He has performed with many of the world’s greatest musicians including more recently Charles McPherson and Chris Potter as well as some of the most exciting local bandleaders, including Marcus Shelby, Erik Jekabsen and the late Andrew Speight.
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MUSIC, FEB 11: Albert Cano Smit, piano – Steinway Society at Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose, California, USA & ONLINE • ArtsEarth | |
Spanish-Dutch pianist, Albert Cano Smit has been enchanting audiences and winning international competitions since age 14. Smit won First Prize in the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 2019 and the Naumburg Foundation First Prize in 2017. His Fondation Louis Vuitton recital in early 2019 at the Frank Gehry–designed “glass cloud” in Paris was broadcast live globally. In October 2019, Smit made his Carnegie Hall debut with the world premiere of Stephen Hough’s Partita for Piano, commissioned for him by the Naumburg Foundation. He has been praised for his “dazzling technical and emotional dexterity” (DNA).
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MUSIC, FEB 11+12: Symphony San Jose presents Cinema Paradiso – Film in Concert at San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose, California, USA • ArtsEarth | |
Film with live orchestra, audiences will experience the film with the Symphony San Jose performing Ennio Morricone’s award-winning score live while the film plays on a high-definition screen above the stage.
Film Synopsis: Young Salvatore Di Vita discovers a refuge from his life in his war-torn Sicilian village…the Cinema Paradiso movie house, where projectionist Alfredo instills in the boy a deep love of films.
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San José Chamber Orchestra presents SJCO Chamber Music with the SJCO string quartet and the Dallas-based Julius Quartet, featuring the famed Octet by Felix Mendelssohn.
Commended for leaving audiences “mesmerized by its resonant sounds.” (The Collegiate Times) The Julius Quartet has cultivated a distinguished voice since its formation in 2012. As passionate chamber musicians, the quartet strives to spread the values of chamber music to diverse communities in addition to presenting their unique expression within the music.
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MUSIC, FEB 12: Greek Chamber Music Project – Uproot: Music from Asia Minor at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Oakland, California, USA • ArtsEarth | The Greek Chamber Music Project presents Uproot, a powerful program of Greek songs from Asia Minor. GCMP performs modern arrangements of Greek music from the region, celebrating this vibrant musical heritage and capturing the refugee experience through song. Uproot weaves histories and personal stories throughout, generating a universal dialogue about the impact of forced migration and building a bridge to the experience of modern-day refugees. | |
SFJAZZ announces our new community jam session series, SFJAM! These free monthly open jam sessions in the Joe Henderson Lab provide a space for all Bay Area musicians to come together and perform in an inclusive, multigenerational setting. Each jam session features a musical director and curated repertoire. We invite musicians of all levels and ages to join each session. Space is limited, so musicians, please sign up today! | |
Join us to celebrate the opening of “Cara Levine: To Survive I Need You to Survive,” the highly-anticipated first museum solo exhibition of California-based artist Cara Levine. Hear from the artist in person during a conversation with exhibition curator Qianjin Montoya, then head to the galleries to explore artworks that draw on Jewish tradition and social practice to employ creativity as a path to healing. Enjoy a light nosh, explore art, and discover new insights into the artwork as we welcome the exhibition to The CJM. | |
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The supremely soulful vocalist and Bay Area native Amy D is a leading light on the scene, blending neo-soul, jazz, and R&B into her entrancing musical signature. On the heels of her Michael Aaberg-produced debut album Like You, she performs a reprise of her 2022 Hotplate performance dedicated to music from the great Sarah Vaughan’s classic 1961 Roulette album After Hours, along with some tunes from the follow-up, 1963’s Sarah+2.
Prior to each performance, DJ Weekend Girl will spin a special curated vinyl DJ set that compliments this evening’s music.
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THEATRE, FEB 16-26: Pueblo Revolt at Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, California, USA • ArtsEarth | |
AlterTheater presents the rolling world-premiere of Pueblo Revolt by Dillon Chitto and directed by Reed Flores. A gay Pueblo teen prepares for the Uprising with his older brother, while dealing with a really pesky (and totally inconvenient) crush on the Spanish baker’s son. When history is in the making, what do ordinary people do? The Rella Lossy Award winning comedy runs FEB 2-12 at the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley and FEB 15-26 at Art Works Downtown in San Rafael.
- FEB 16, 17, 18 at 7 PM; FEB 19 at 2 PM; FEB 23, 24, 25 at 7 PM; FEB 26 at 2 PM
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“A bewitching amalgam of Dusty Springfield’s caliginous, cream-filled soulfulness and Nancy Wilson’s sensual sophistication, with distinct shades of Michael Jackson” (JazzTimes), the stunning soul jazz singer Kandace Springs presents music from her latest Blue Note release, The Women Who Raised Me, joined by master drummer Camille Gainer and Oakland-born bassist Aneesa Strings, a former SFJAZZ High School All-Star known for work with José James. | |
Barefoot’s February concert features the great Marin Marais, the viol player who inspired a movie (“Tous les Matins du Monde“). Marais (who also wrote operas) was most famous for his over 550 “pieces de viole” spread over five books published between 1686 and 1725. These books of viol music form the mainstay of our program, which will include the iconic “Labyrinthe” a musical journey through so many curious keys, as well as a variety of other pieces from the other books. | |
A singular jazz vocalist and multi-instrumentalist whose work crosses seamlessly into the pop world, Curtis Stigers makes his debut at SFJAZZ in an intimate duo performance with master pianist Matt King. | |
MUSIC, FEB 17: Gabriela Martinez – Newport Classical Presents at Emmanuel Church, Newport, Rhode Island, USA • ArtsEarth | Versatile, daring and insightful, Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Martinez is establishing a reputation on both the national and international stages for the lyricism of her playing, her compelling interpretations, and her elegant stage presence. Since making her orchestral debut at age 7, Martinez has played with distinguished orchestras around the world and her wide-ranging career includes world premieres of new music, live performance broadcasts, and interviews on TV and radio. | |
DANCE, FEB 17-19: Sacramento Ballet: Swan Lake at SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center, Sacramento, California, USA • ArtsEarth | |
Artistic Director Anthony Krutzkamp who has performed the work across the US and around the world, stages Tchaikovsky’s iconic Swan Lake with everything you expect from this incomparable performance plus more mystery, athleticism and majesty.
- FEB 17-19: FRI 7:30 PM, SAT 2 PM and 7:30 PM, SUN 2 PM
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Join the Alexander String Quartet and SFP’s Music Historian-in-Residence Robert Greenberg for what will be their most far-ranging and adventurous series in their 30 years together, celebrating the music that mirrored the technological, philosophical, and artistic sea change in the Western world between 1889 and 1918. You’ll learn while you listen to music ranging from the nineteenth century status quo to some of the most experimental compositions ever written. | |
The Marcus Shelby New Orchestra combines music, text, and video in live performance that addresses Black history—past, present, and future. Marcus Shelby has composed several big band orchestral suites that musically honors the legacy of the Black experience such as Harriet Tubman: Bound for the Promised Land, Port Chicago, Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Black Ball: The Negro Leagues and the Blues, Beyond the Blues: The Prison Industrial Complex, and more. For this special SFJAZZ Family Matinee Black History presentation, The Marcus Shelby New Orchestra will perform excerpts from Blues in the City, a musical suite in reflection of life in San Francisco during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns, social unrest, the plight of the unhoused, and other experiences are captured in music, song, text, and images. | |
In this introductory course at the SFJAZZ Center, students will get an overview into the latest in recording equipment, microphones and home studio setup, as well as a hands-on intro to audio and MIDI editing and the basics of mixing and working with audio effects. Jef will also give an in-depth comparison of the most popular recording production software including: Garage Band, Logic, and Ableton Live. This is an excellent introduction to digital music production with acclaimed musician, producer, and DJ Jef Stott. | |
LITERATURE, FEB 18: Book Club: Deep Read with Linda Jackson – Just as I Am: A Memoir by Cicely Tyson at Main Branch, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth | |
Linda A. Jackson, San Francisco writer and historian, leads a deep reading of Just as I Am: A Memoir by iconic cultural figure, Cicely Tyson.
Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these pages, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church girl who once rarely spoke a word. I am the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named. I am a daughter and a mother, a sister and a friend. I am an observer of human nature and the dreamer of audacious dreams. I am a woman who has hurt as immeasurably as I have loved, a child of God divinely guided by his hand. And here in my ninth decade, I am a woman who, at long last, has something meaningful to say.
–Cicely Tyson
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MUSIC, FEB 18: Guitarist and Composer Kaki King at Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View, California, USA • ArtsEarth | Kaki King is a visionary composer and performer. Considered one of the world’s greatest living guitarists, she is known both for her technical mastery and her constant quest to push the boundaries of the instrument. The concert will celebrate the 20th anniversary of her debut album Everybody Loves You. Don’t miss the return of Kaki King, one of CSMA’s all-time most popular performers! | |
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Winner of the Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition, Cyrille Aimée truly has jazz in her blood. Raised by a French father and Dominican mother in the northern French town of Samois-sur-Seine – the last home of Roma jazz giant Django Reinhardt – Aimée found inspiration in the music of Reinhardt and the freedom of the gypsy lifestyle, singing on street corners during travels across Europe.
- SAT, FEB 18, 7 PM and 8:30 PM; SUN, FEB 19, 6 PM and 7:30 PM
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MUSIC, FEB 19: Orrin Evans Trio at Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay, California, USA & ONLINE • ArtsEarth | Orrin Evans has been recognized as one of the most distinctive and inventive pianists of his generation. Evans combines raw-edged vigor and left-field nuance into a sound wholly his own. He is a fiercely independent artist whose projects include his Captain Black Big Band, the Eubanks Evans Experience (a duo with Kevin Eubanks,) a three-year stint with The Bad Plus, as well as his long-standing working trio. With over 25 albums to his credit, including many on the Smoke Sessions label, his recording and performing resume includes Wallace Roney, Pharoah Sanders, Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton, Branford Marsalis, Sean Jones, and Ravi Coltrane. Evans is a two-time Grammy-nominee, Pew Fellow and DownBeat 2018 Critics Poll “Rising Star Pianist.” | |
MUSIC, FEB 21: PIVOT Festival, Catalyst Quartet – SF Performances at Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth | |
The Grammy© Award-winning Catalyst Quartet returns for season two of its highly regarded Uncovered series, exploring the music of composers who have been overlooked due to their race or gender with guest artist Anne-Marie McDermott – piano.
PIVOT Preludes: Pre-concert programs featuring Bay Area artists who will take a deeper dive into the works of a composer featured in that evening’s performance. Each Prelude begins at 6:30 PM. Admission is included with a PIVOT Festival ticket purchase.
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MUSIC, FEB 22: PIVOT Festival, Catalyst Quartet – SF Performances at Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth | |
The Grammy© Award-winning Catalyst Quartet returns for season two of its highly regarded Uncovered series, exploring the music of composers who have been overlooked due to their race or gender with guest artist Marcy Rosen – cello.
PIVOT Preludes: Pre-concert programs featuring Bay Area artists who will take a deeper dive into the works of a composer featured in that evening’s performance. Each Prelude begins at 6:30 PM. Admission is included with a PIVOT Festival ticket purchase.
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Cool and mysterious, pristine and intensely emotional, the music of Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen has earned a vast following while making few populist concessions. Easily the most acclaimed composer and pianist on the Norwegian jazz scene, he’s released a series of critically hailed albums that have climbed high on the Norwegian pop charts, starting with his 2003’s ECM debut Changing Places. | |
Guitarist, composer, and musical polyglot Nate Mercereau brings his explosively creative solo project to the Joe Henderson Lab, performing music from his latest How So Records release SUNDAYS, in collaboration with the group led by cutting edge beatmaker and percussion guru Carlos Niño. | |
MUSIC, FEB 23: PIVOT Festival, Catalyst Quartet – SF Performances at Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth | |
The Grammy© Award-winning Catalyst Quartet returns for season two of its highly regarded Uncovered series, exploring the music of composers who have been overlooked due to their race or gender.
PIVOT Preludes: Pre-concert programs featuring Bay Area artists who will take a deeper dive into the works of a composer featured in that evening’s performance. Each Prelude begins at 6:30 PM. Admission is included with a PIVOT Festival ticket purchase.
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During her 40-year career, Terri Lyne Carrington has established herself as one of the most respected and in-demand drummers in jazz. Just ask Herbie Hancock. Or Wayne Shorter. Or Esperanza Spalding. Or the National Endowment for the Arts, which awarded her the title of NEA Jazz Master in 2021. Carrington keeps evolving: She is increasingly busy as a composer, educator, bandleader, and producer — and as an advocate for gender equality in jazz. Constantly pushing her horizons, she brings a typically varied and cutting-edge suite of programs to SFJAZZ in her second season as Resident Artistic Director. | |
“A saxophonist who embodies and transcends tradition” (The New York Times), James Brandon Lewis has become, in just over a decade, one of the most celebrated young artists in jazz — an artist who has carved a niche for his singular mixture of gospel, blues, and R&B with the incendiary saxophone explorations of John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and Sonny Rollins. His performance coincides with the release of his new ANTI Records recording, Eye and I, with a trio featuring electric bassist Josh Werner and drummer Andy Niven. | |
Terri Lyne Carrington an evening of jazz tunes composed by women – now there’s an idea. For too long, jazz standards – the tunes that dominate jazz repertory and that young musicians are taught to master – have almost exclusively been composed by men. From “My Funny Valentine” to “Maiden Voyage,” they are beloved compositions. But where are the women? As founder and artistic director of the Berklee Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice, Carrington has curated a newly published compilation of New Standards composed by women, including: Carla Bley, Cassandra Wilson, Marilyn Crispell, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Eliane Elias, Jaime Branch, Luciana Souza, Hiromi, Emily Remler, Anat Cohen, and others. Tonight’s program draws from this compilation as Carrington challenges inequity and forges a new legacy for jazz – a world of jazz without patriarchy. | |
“One of the brightest new stars in avant-garde jazz” (Stereogum), Zoh Amba is a composer, saxophonist, and flutist from Tennessee. Her music blends avant-garde and devotional hymns. Before studying music at the San Francisco Conservatory Of Music, New England Conservatory and studying with David Murray in New York, she spent most of her time writing and practicing saxophone in the forest near her home. Today, her powerfully unique avant-garde music is full of folk melodies, mesmerizing refrains, and repeated incantations. | |
MUSIC, FEB 25: Dale Tsang – Call for Scores: Solo Piano at Berkeley Piano Club, Berkeley, California, USA & ONLINE • ArtsEarth | |
Emerita pianist extraordinaire Dale Tsang returns to celebrate E4TT’s 15th anniversary with works chosen from a new Call for Scores for solo piano. E4TT received 56 scores by 34 composers; the winners will be announced at a later date, and details will be available here. E4TT’s first Call for Scores was in 2016, and 275 scores were received by 200 composers; 56 scores were chosen by 54 composers, which launched a three-year series entitled 56×54 that ran from 2016-2019.
We are pleased to announce this year’s Call For Scores composers, whose work will be performed by emerita pianist extraordinaire Dale Tsang. This February, you can be on the lookout for music for solo piano by Mary Fineman, Arthur Gottschalk, Jon Grier, Juliana Hall, Jessica Mao, Paul Novak, and João Pedro Oliveira. Congratulations to all!
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Seen/Unseen: Terri Lyne Carrington – composer; Edmar Colon – orchestrater, conductor; Mickalene Thomas – live improvised visuals (full 15-piece personnel below)
During her 40-year career, SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director Terri Lyne Carrington has established herself as one of the most respected and in-demand drummers in jazz. Just ask Herbie Hancock. Or Wayne Shorter. Or Esperanza Spalding. Or the National Endowment for the Arts, which awarded her the title of NEA Jazz Master in 2021. Carrington keeps evolving: She is increasingly busy as a composer, educator, bandleader, and producer — and as an advocate for gender equality in jazz.
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MUSIC, FEB 26 Rodolfo Zuniga + Surfaces at Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay, California, USA & ONLINE • ArtsEarth | Costa Rican native and now LA based jazz drummer, Rodolfo Zuniga is a world-class drummer who has performed with some of the best artists in the business. As a leader and composer, his quartet “Surfaces” has released two albums and has been featured in festivals around the US and in Central and South America. In 2005 the group was awarded the Carnegie Hall Residency under the direction of trumpeter Dave Douglas. The latest configuration of his quartet includes Jeff Ellwood an outstanding tenor sax player and Bach favorite Josh Nelson on piano. As well as being active on the LA jazz scene, Zuniga co-directs the jazz program at Cal State University, Fullerton with Bill Cunliffe. Zuniga has shared the stage with such jazz elites as Ira Sullivan, Bill Mays, Silvano Monasterios, Bill Cunliffe, Randy Brecker, Lew Tabackin and Joe Locke. | |
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Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and Oakland native Satya Hawley is a star on the ascent, with a truly distinctive sound that crosses genres of soul, R&B, folk, and rock. She debuts with music from her latest EP Deep Blue.
A graduate of the Oakland School for the Arts who has since relocated to New Orleans, Satya counts India.Arie, Goapele, Mazzy Star, Corinne Bailey-Rae, and Prince among her myriad influences, and released her debut EP Flourish Against Fracture in 2020, just before the COVID lockdown effectively ended live music.
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THEATRE, 27 JAN-FEB 26: Paradise Blue at Aurora Theatre Company, Berkeley, California, USA • ArtsEarth | |
Dominique Morisseau (Detroit ’67) continues her Detroit Trilogy with Paradise Blue, a jazz-infused drama in which we meet Blue, a gifted trumpeter, who contemplates selling his once-vibrant nightclub in Detroit’s Blackbottom neighborhood.
- 27 JAN-Feb 26; TUE and WED 7 PM, THU, FRI, SAT 8 PM, SUN 2 PM
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Including: artist/arts fundraisers/releases and other online virtual arts orientated events.
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VISUAL, 2022 4 AUG-MAR 27 2023: Gonzalo Lebrija: Breve historia del tiempo at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA • ArtsEarth | Breve historia del tiempo, which will stand in Campbell Art Park at the top of Automobile Alley, is a 1968 Chevrolet Malibu that appears to be suspended vertically over a pool of water. | |
VISUAL, 1 FEB-APR 30: Fugitive Speech at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA • ArtsEarth | Featuring seven artworks by three artists — Emily M. Chase, JJJJJerome Ellis, and Anita Fields — Fugitive Speech explores acts of personal testimony in the face of social, cultural and historical odds. Through distinct perspectives and approaches to media, including textiles, video, photography and ceramics, the artworks in Fugitive Speech consider the relationship between voice, memory and time. | |
VISUAL, 2022 22 SEP-MAY 22 2023: Jose Dávila – Arts Exhibition at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA • ArtsEarth | Visit Oklahoma Contemporary’s Sculpture Garden! Guadalajara-based artist Jose Dávila creates sculptures in which industrial materials seem to be precariously balanced. For a new piece presented in front of Oklahoma Contemporary, the artist continues his recent practice of balancing large, free-standing structural elements — I beams — to fabricate constructions that are tense yet calm and overwhelm the eye and body. | |
VISUAL, 2 FEB-MAY 22: The Art of Food – Exhibition at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA • ArtsEarth | |
Feast your eyes on The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. Featuring more than 100 artworks by 36 well-known contemporary artists highlighting the subject of food, this fun, thoughtful exhibition encourages visitors to consider where their food is from, as well as how food and society inform one another. Whether playful or critical, each work presents a different perspective on the central place food holds in everyday life. Hungry for more?
- Opening Celebrations | 6-9 PM, FEB 9 (free for members)
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Benevity is the global leader in online workplace giving, matching, volunteering and integrated grant management solutions. Many large corporations have Benevity accounts. Ask your HR department if they offer charitable matching. If they do, you can log into your company’s Benevity online portal, search for “ArtsEarth“, and whatever you donate will be matched by your company (up to a certain dollar amount).
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Facebook pays all the processing fees for you, so 100% of your donation goes directly to the charity. Note: You must be logged into Facebook to make a donation.
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PayPal or PayPal Giving Fund helps people support their favorite charities online. We receive donations through PayPal, eBay, and other technology platforms and make grants to our donors’ recommended charities. PayPal Giving Fund is an IRS-registered 501(c)(3) public charity (Federal Tax ID: 45-0931286).
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LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network with more than 875 million members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. | | |
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VolunteerMatch is the largest network in the nonprofit world, with the most volunteers, nonprofits and opportunities to make a difference. | | | | |
