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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

2014: By The Numbers

4 new SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Directors

32 years of the San Francisco Jazz Festival, going on 33!

$64 million Capital Campaign for the SFJAZZ Center reached

50th Anniversary of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme

©Bob Thiele

1 home run by Wynton Marsalis

301 shows at the SFJAZZ Center

241 sell outs

101 shows presenting Bay Area artists

©Scott Chernis

10 year anniversary of the SFJAZZ Collective

300+ classes, rehearsals, and performances put on by SFJAZZ Education.

18 free concerts and clinics, for over 2,000 people.

300 education work opportunities for local musicians and poets.

1st place at NextGen Jazz Festival awarded to SFJAZZ High School All-Stars, earning them a spot at the 2015 Monterey Jazz Festival

©Scott Chernis

$1.4 million raised at the SFJAZZ Gala honoring Herbie Hancock

©Drew Altizer

11,000 SFJAZZ Members, and counting...

©Scott Chernis

20+ skaters in Miner Auditorium's half pipe (Jason Moran's Jazz + Skateboarding)

©Scott Chernis

216 bottles of champagne to ring in 2015 (Maceo Parker's Funky New Years)

See what's coming up at SFJAZZ in 2015!

Monday, June 2, 2014

Jason Moran: the story behind 'Cane'

Jason Moran tells the story behind his composition Cane, commissioned and recorded by Imani Winds. The renowned woodwind quintet joins Moran this Thursday (June 5th) for his final week as a 2013-14 Resident Artistic Director at the SFJAZZ Center, performing Cane, Moran's new sextet piece Jump Cut Rose (which Moran plays on!) and a selection from Igor Stavinsky's The Rite Of Spring.

Moran's residency also features a duet with saxophonist Charles Lloyd, and two nights of Jazz + Skateboarding! Check it out online.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

WATCH: Ben Gore x Jason Moran - San Francisco Skateboarding by Night

"Fruits of the labor"—look what Jason Moran sent to us this morning: a fresh skate video from Ben Gore, filmed exclusively at night in San Francisco, beautifully complemented by Moran's solo piano piece "For Coleman Hawkins." We can't wait for Round 2 in June! Skateboarding & Jazz returns to the SFJAZZ Center 6/7-8, part of Moran's final week as a 2013-14 SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director.

Watch footage of last year's Skateboarding & Jazz. Grab a seat before it sells out again at sfjazz.org.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

NEW VIDEO: Jason Moran & The Bandwagon w/ SF Skaters

Check out this new, awesome video of Jason Moran & The Bandwagon with guitarist Jeff Parker and a crew San Francisco's top skateboarders, riding a mid-sized half-pipe situated in front of the stage at the SFJAZZ Center! Although produced for the upcoming Jason Moran documentary "Grammar," the beautifully edited footage is also a teaser, as Moran and Co. gear up for a second outing of Jazz & Skateboarding on June 7-8, 2014 (back by popular demand!).

Read more at NextBop, including a transcribed interview with Moran. For more information on Resident Artistic Director Jason Moran and Jazz & Skateboarding, visit sfjazz.org.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

SFJAZZ Center One-Year Anniversary, Pt.2

After a clinic with the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars earlier this week, Resident Artistic Director Bill Frisell reflected, "So much has happened in a year. It seems impossible. I said, 'Wait, that's two years!' It just seems like an incredible bunch of stuff happened." In recognition of the SFJAZZ Center's One-Year Anniversary, SFJAZZ Members get 25% off all of Bill Frisell's shows this weekend, starting with his debut of the Big Sur Quintet tonight!

To continue celebrating the Center's One-Year Anniversary, below is a collection of photo-highlights, spanning from the Historic Grand Opening, Season 1, the 31st San Francisco Jazz Festival, the first annual Summer Sessions and Season 2, still underway!