SFJAZZ Center Opening | KQED This Week
The new SFJAZZ Center opened this week to rave reviews with all-star performances and celebrity appearances, including Bill Cosby. Hailed as the first stand-alone hall in the west exclusively for jazz performance and education, the venue features a 700-seat auditorium with a state of the art sound system. The center, located in the Hayes Valley neighborhood in the heart of the city's arts corridor, will draw big name acts as well as support local musicians and school groups.
A Tribute for Ishmael Reed at the SFJAZZ CENTER in San Francisco
Poetry written and read by Yuri Kageyama with the Yuricane band. featuring Hirokazu Suyama on drums and tablas, Hiroshi Tokieda on bass, Hide Asada on guitar and Trupti Pandkar on vocals.
A Tribute for Ishmael Reed
SFJAZZ CENTER in San Francisco SAT June 28, 2014.
All poetry written and read by Yuri Kageyama
5:40 Loving Younger Men
11:05 Little YELLOW Slut
17:25 No Gift of the Magi
23:55 Ode to the Stroller
30:00 Fukushima in homage to Questlove Jenkins and The Roots.
34:00 Hiroshima
40:10 Indian Improv Interlude
44:02 I Will Bleed Lyrics by Yuri Kageyama and Trupti Pandkar, Melody by Trupti Pandkar and Hiroshi Tokieda.
2019 Pioneers in Design- SFJAZZ Center
June 26, 2019
Our IIDA NC 2019 Pioneer in Design, John SanGiovanni, has contemplated the future for over two decades.
John will expand our minds with his insights and experience as an entrepreneur, strategist, inventor and Ninja Turtle. At Microsoft Research, John shepherded global advances in UI, mobile technology, augmented reality and co-invented the Microsoft Tile-based home screen metaphor. Many patents and award winning apps later, John is cofounder/CEO of Visual Vocal, a lightweight, cloud-based AR/VR communication and collaboration platform for AEC. And he's not done yet.
Join us for an eye-opening and entertaining discussion about designing for the future.
This video recording is made possible by: AECOM & DPR
SFJAZZ Center Construction Time-Lapse
This time-lapse video of the SFJAZZ Center covers the building's construction from June 2011 to December 2012. Join us on Monday, January 21, 2013 for our official Grand Opening and share in a day of free music and activities at the new SFJAZZ Center. To learn more, visit
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Terrace Martin - If These Walls Could Talk (Live at SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco)
Recorded at SFJAZZ center in San Francisco on April 10, 2016.
Google Earth Studio Berkeley SF California
New Sounds - Music By Grapemaster Saxe (Ben Saxe)
San Francisco (/ˌsæn frənˈsɪskoʊ, fræn-/, Spanish: [sam fɾanˈsisko]; Spanish for Saint Francis), officially City and County of San Francisco and colloquially known as SF, San Fran, or The City,[19][20] is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. San Francisco is the 13th most populous city in the United States, and the fourth most populous in California, with 883,305 residents as of 2018.[14] It covers an area of about 46.89 square miles (121.4 km2),[21] mostly at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. San Francisco is the 12th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States, with 4,729,484 people in 2018. With San Jose, it forms the fifth most populous combined statistical area in the United States, the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area (9.67 million residents in 2018).
As of 2017, it was the seventh-highest income county in the United States, with a per capita personal income of $119,868.[22] As of 2015, San Francisco proper had a GDP of $154.2 billion, and a GDP per capita of $178,479.[23][24] The CSA San Francisco shares with San Jose and Oakland was the country's third-largest urban economy as of 2017, with a GDP of $907 billion.[25] Of the 500+ primary statistical areas in the U.S., this CSA had among the highest GDP per capita in 2017, at $93,938.[25] San Francisco was ranked 16th in the world and third in the United States on the Global Financial Centres Index as of March 2019.[26]
San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away, all named for St. Francis of Assisi.[2] The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856.[27] San Francisco's status as the West Coast's largest city peaked between 1870 and 1900, when around 25% of California's population resided in the city proper.[28] After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire,[29] San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a major port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater.[30] It then became the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945.[31][32][33] After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, significant immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the hippie counterculture, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines.
A popular tourist destination,[34] San Francisco is known for its cool summers, fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of architecture, and landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, Fisherman's Wharf, and its Chinatown district. San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co., Gap Inc., Fitbit, Salesforce.com, Dropbox, Reddit, Square, Inc., Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, Craigslist, and Weather Underground. The city, and the surrounding Bay Area, is a global center of the sciences and arts[35][36] and is home to a number of educational and cultural institutions, such as the University of San Francisco (USF), University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco State University (SFSU), the De Young Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the SFJAZZ Center, and the California Academy of Sciences.
As of 2019, San Francisco is the highest rated American city on world liveability rankings.[37]
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1 History
2 Geography
2.1 Cityscape
2.1.1 Neighborhoods
2.2 Climate
3 Demographics
3.1 Race, ethnicity, religion, and languages
3.1.1 Ethnic clustering
3.2 Education, households, and income
3.3 Homelessness
4 Economy
4.1 Technology
4.2 Tourism and conventions
5 Culture and contemporary life
5.1 LGBT
5.2 Media
5.3 Nicknames
6 Entertainment and recreation
6.1 Performing arts
6.2 Museums
6.3 Beaches and parks
6.4 Sports
7 Law and government
7.1 Public safety
7.1.1 Crime
7.1.2 Gangs
7.1.3 Peace Officers
7.2 International relations
8 Education
8.1 Colleges and universities
8.2 Primary and secondary schools
8.3 Early education
9 Transportation
SFJAZZ Center Mural Time-Lapse
Artists Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet were commissioned by SFJAZZ to create three murals for the SFJAZZ Center. Two of these murals, titled Jazz and the Nation and Jazz and the City are located in the second floor lobby. They combine to form one overall composition - a fictionalized cityscape made up of influential and important jazz venues from across the United States and San Francisco. They also depict historical images and references of jazz from its roots in African music and the early days of New Orleans' second line traditions to the jazz styles of St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, New York, the West Coast, and Europe. The second mural includes great jazz venues and defining moments in the history of San Francisco jazz from the Fillmore District to the dot.com boom.
The third mural, Jazz and the Afterlife, is located in the Lester Young Green Room. It is a parody of religious Judgment Day murals with club goers going up to a heaven of harps and bagpipes or down to a swinging party in a jazz hell where horns blast and jazz fans celebrate.
Sandow Birk said, Since the history and scope of jazz is enormous and couldn't be contained in one mural, we have tried to depict places where jazz happened, to be located in the center where jazz will be happening now.
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Eric Johnson “Trademark” SF, CA @ SFJAZZ Miner Auditorium Jan. 14, 2020
Eric Johnson 2020 Tour “Classics: Present and Past”
January 14, 2020
This event was held at the Miner Auditorium (SFJAZZ) in San Francisco, CA
For me, the seating was odd for a rock show as the place is definitely setup for a jazz show. My seat was not as expected as it was very side stage. Add to that being right in front of Eric’s monitor stack, it was great to hear his guitar but I could not hear any vocals thus apologies for the video here.
The players:
Roscoe Beck on bass (Leonard Cohen, Robben Ford, Dixie Chicks), Tom Brechtlein on drums (Kenny Loggins, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Robben Ford), and on keyboards + second guitar and vocals, Dave Scher (a rising star from the Austin music scene)
Set 1:
Things We Said Today (The Beatles cover)
S.R.V.
Friends
Drifting (Jimi Hendrix cover)
Impressions (John Coltrane cover)
Trademark
Down Here on the Ground (Wes Montgomery cover)
Mama
Waterwheel (Eric on keyboard)
Over the Moon (Eric on keyboard)
Nothing Can Keep Me From You (Eric on keyboard)
Soulful Terrain
Righteous
Set 2:
Lake Travis
Mother Nature's Son (The Beatles cover)
The Ballad Of Elrod and Gurlene
Divanae
Black Waterside (Bert Jansch cover)
Manhattan
Desert Rose
Lonely in the Night
Have a Good Time
Cliffs of Dover
Encore:
Shinning Love / Zap
COMMENTS: For me, the set list had many new songs but the new album is not out yet. There was a jazz, country vibe at times and the “classics” seemed a little flat when compared to the last tour (Ah Via Musicom played in its entirety plus others) with Tommy Taylor and Kyle Brock. Nonetheless, Eric is an amazing guitarist and always a treat to see.
As for the venue, the SFJAZZ Miner Auditorium is ok but I would avoid any side seats and sit straight on if at all possible. The side lights are annoying as hell. No point at all for these.
SFJAZZ Family Matinee w/ Rebeca Mauleón & Friends
Cuban music is undoubtedly some of the most joyful on the planet, and in 1950s Cuba, one of the most exciting manifestations of that joy was heard in the descarga, the term for jam session on the island. Spearheaded by musicians such as Bebo Valdés, Peruchín, Frank Emilio, Guillermo Barreto, Tata Güines, Israel “Cachao” López, and many others, the descarga was Cuba’s answer to the cutting session in jazz, allowing musicians to cut loose and fly free. For this matinee led by pianist and SFJAZZ Director of Education Rebeca Mauleón, we are thrilled to welcome several giants of the music along with a cadre of Cuban artists who call the Bay Area home, with a special guest appearance by legendary pianist and Resident Artistic Director Chucho Valdés!
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Diego El Cigala Concert in San Francisco, CA.
Diego el Cigala, Indestructible album tour. Sunday 6, 2016 performance in SFJazz, San Francisco. CA. Salsa, Boleros and Flamenco performance. Excellent concert!!!
At The Center Pt. 5 ~ Bobby Hutcherson on the SFJAZZ Center
Vibraphone legend Bobby Hutcherson talks about the SFJAZZ Center. Check out more video shorts with the NEA Jazz Master, former SFJAZZ Collective member and long-time San Francisco native!
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SFJAZZ Center Grand Opening Jan 21
SF JAZZ
San Francisco Bourbon Kings, Suzie Lundy and Rashidi Omari.
The sound caputure setting was no good on my camera.
Eric Johnson “Desert Rose” SF, Ca @ SFJAZZ Miner Auditorium Jan. 14, 2020
Eric Johnson 2020 Tour “Classics: Present and Past”
January 14, 2020
This event was held at the Miner Auditorium (SFJAZZ) in San Francisco, CA
For me, the seating was odd for a rock show as the place is definitely setup for a jazz show. My seat was not as expected as it was very side stage. Add to that being right in front of Eric’s monitor stack, it was great to hear his guitar but I could not hear any vocals thus apologies for the video here.
The players:
Roscoe Beck on bass (Leonard Cohen, Robben Ford, Dixie Chicks), Tom Brechtlein on drums (Kenny Loggins, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Robben Ford), and on keyboards + second guitar and vocals, Dave Scher (a rising star from the Austin music scene)
Set 1:
Things We Said Today (The Beatles cover)
S.R.V.
Friends
Drifting (Jimi Hendrix cover)
Impressions (John Coltrane cover)
Trademark
Down Here on the Ground (Wes Montgomery cover)
Mama
Waterwheel (Eric on keyboard)
Over the Moon (Eric on keyboard)
Nothing Can Keep Me From You (Eric on keyboard)
Soulful Terrain
Righteous
Set 2:
Lake Travis
Mother Nature's Son (The Beatles cover)
The Ballad Of Elrod and Gurlene
Divanae
Black Waterside (Bert Jansch cover)
Manhattan
Desert Rose
Lonely in the Night
Have a Good Time
Cliffs of Dover
Encore:
Shinning Love / Zap
COMMENTS: For me, the set list had many new songs but the new album is not out yet. There was a jazz, country vibe at times and the “classics” seemed a little flat when compared to the last tour (Ah Via Musicom played in its entirety plus others) with Tommy Taylor and Kyle Brock. Nonetheless, Eric is an amazing guitarist and always a treat to see.
As for the venue, the SFJAZZ Miner Auditorium is ok but I would avoid any side seats and sit straight on if at all possible. The side lights are annoying as hell. No point at all for these.
At The Center ~ John Santos plays the SFJAZZ Center
Resident Artistic Director John Santos dropped by the SFJAZZ Center to talk his Season 2 residency. Afterward, he grabbed some drum sticks and performed an improvised piece on the staircase!
John Santos' residency at the SFJAZZ Center takes place JAN 18/19, FEB 8 and MAR 2, 2014, and features Paquito D'Rivera, Walfredo de los Reyes, Orestes Vilató, Ernesto Oviedo, Faye Carol, Kenny Washington, Destani Wolf, Kellye Gray and many others! More info at
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SFJAZZ Collective - Visions (Stevie Wonder)
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Appears on: Music of Stevie Wonder and New Compositions - Live in New York 2011 Season 8
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MIGUEL ZENÓN - alto saxophone
MARK TURNER - tenor saxophone
AVISHAI COHEN - trumpet
ROBIN EUBANKS - trombone
STEFON HARRIS - vibraphone
EDWARD SIMON - piano
MATT PENMAN - bass
ERIC HARLAND - drums
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SFJAZZ Collective is a project of SFJAZZ
Founded in 1983, SFJAZZ is the largest nonprofit jazz presenting and educational institution on the West Coast.
Visions by Stevie Wonder
Arranged by Stefon Harris
Executive and Audio Production by Jack Conte
Cinematography and Editing by Jeff Orlowski
Assistant Editing by Matt Corliss
Event Production by Randall Kline, Laura Evans, Cecilia Engelhart
Recorded in Sonoma County CA, Feb 2011
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Snarky Puppy @ SFJazz - San Francisco, CA - June 12th
At The Center ~ Sean Jones on the trumpet
Sean Jones dropped by the SFJAZZ Center to talk the trumpet, before his double bill with Christian Scott during 'The Festival of the Trumpet' in August 2014 (SFJAZZ Summer Sessions).
Special thanks to San Francisco Performances for facilitating the interview.
Song credit:
Touch and Go
Composed by Sean Jones
'No Need For Words' (Mac Avenue)
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SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Big Band - Magic Flea (Sammy Nestico)
The SFJAZZ High School All-Stars is a pre-professional training program for current Bay Area high school age jazz musicians. Comprised of two ensembles - the Big Band and the Combo - the All-Stars rehearse and perform throughout the school year at the SFJAZZ Center, receive mentorship and clinics with leading jazz professionals, record a professional studio album, and appear at prestigious music festivals and competitions.
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Featuring Erik Nelson, tenor; Kate Williams, trumpet; Daiki Nakajima, tenor; Michael Wang, drums
The Mavis Effect
A film produced by SFJAZZ celebrating the life and importance of music icon Mavis Staples, recipient of the SFJAZZ Lifetime Achievement Award at the SFJAZZ Gala on January 30, 2020. Narrated by acclaimed actor Delroy Lindo, the film features heartfelt words from Mavis' many friends, collaborators and admirers, including Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Bonnie Raitt, Lizz Wright, Jeff Tweedy, Rosanne Cash, Marty Stuart, Sheryl Crow, Martin Luther McCoy, Jackson Browne, and Charlie Musselwhite.
Edited and produced by Ross Eustis
Narrative written by Richard Scheinin
Footage courtesy of Mavis Staples, Austin City Limits, KLRU-TV, Rhythm & Light, Jubilee Showcase, Kennedy Center, ANTI- Records, Monterey Jazz Festival, Epic Records, Stax Museum, Columbia Pictures, Capitol Records, Jay Blakesberg, Mark PoKempner, Mike & Saori Kappus, Getty Images
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Gregory Porter, Take Me To The Alley (live), SFJazz, San Francisco, CA, August 2, 2019 (HD)
Gregory Porter sings Take Me To The Alley live in concert at a sold-out show at SF Jazz in San Francisco, California on August 2, 2019. The song was the title track on his fourth studio album, released in 2016. Gregory Porter is a two-time Grammy Award winner for Best Jazz Vocal Album, first in 2014 for Liquid Spirit, and then in 2017 for Take Me To The Alley. Joining him onstage were Tivon Pennicott (saxophone), Jahmal Nichols (bass), Chip Crawford (piano), Ondrej Pivec (Hammond organ), and Emanuel Harrold (drums).
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Gregory Porter Upcoming Tour Dates:
August 3, 2019 - San Francisco, CA @ SFJazz
August 4, 2019 - San Francisco, CA @ SFJazz
August 8, 2019 - Philadelphia, PA @ Dell East Music Center
August 9, 2019 - Richmond, VA @ Richmond Jazz Festival
August 10, 2019 - San Jose, CA @ San Jose Jazz Summer Fest
November 28, 2019 - Paris, France @ L'Olympia
January 25 - February 1, 2020 - Caribbean Sea @ Blue Note At Sea
February 7, 2020 - Los Angeles, CA @ Royce Hall
February 8, 2020 - Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
February 10, 2020 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kimmel Center
February 28, 2020 - Zurich, Switzerland @ Konzertsaal Tonhalle Maag
March 1, 2020 - Munich, Germany @ Philharmonie Gasteig
March 2, 2020 - Frankfurt, Germany @ Alte Oper
March 3, 2020 - Düsseldorf, Germany @ Tonhalle Düsseldorf
March 5, 2020 - Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany @ Konzerthaus Freiburg
March 6, 2020 - Münster, Germany @ Halle Münsterland
March 8, 2020 - Bielefeld, Germany @ Rudolf Oetker Hall
March 9, 2020 - Oldenburg, Germany @ Kongresshalle
March 10, 2020 - Neunkirchen, Germany @ Gebläsehalle Neunkirchen
March 12, 2020 - Braunschweig, Germany @ Stadthalle Braunschweig
March 13, 2020 - Hanover, Germany @ Kuppelsaal
March 15, 2020 - Aachen, Germany @ Eurogress Aachen
March 16, 2020 - Lübeck, Germany @ Musik- und Kongresshalle Lübeck
March 19, 2020 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome
April 3, 2020 - North Bethesda, MD @ The Music Center at Strathmore
June 5, 2020 - Nashville, TN @ Schermerhorn Symphony Center
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Gregory Porter's official bio:
A two-time Grammy-winner and six-time nominee, Gregory Porter has undoubtedly become jazz’s most celebrated male vocalist, “a jazz singer of thrilling presence, a booming baritone with a gift for earthy refinement and soaring uplift” (The New York Times). After the success of his 2010 debut Water and follow-up Be Good, Porter broke through to mainstream stardom with his Blue Note debut Liquid Spirit, winning the 2013 Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album. He repeated the Grammy and chart success of Liquid Spirit with 2016’s Take Me to the Alley, and his 2017 tribute to Nat “King” Cole, Nat “King” Cole & Me, is poised to earn Porter his third Grammy nod.
Raised in the hardscrabble city of Bakersfield, the budding vocalist grew up with seven siblings who all sang and worked in their mother’s skid row mission. A chance encounter led to Porter’s recording debut on Hubert Laws Remembers the Unforgettable Nat King Cole, a 1998 album that earned him an audition for the Broadway-bound musical It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues. Growing up around rollicking tent revivals offered ideal training for a revue tracing the history of the blues, and he got the gig. Porter brings the same soul-stirring authority to jazz settings, revealing powerful truths with heart and grace.
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Take Me To The Alley lyrics:
Well they build their houses in preparation for the king
And they line the sidewalks
With every sort of shiny thing
They will be surprised
When they hear him say
Take me to the alley
Take me to the afflicted ones
Take me to the lonely ones
That somehow lost their way
Let them hear me say
I am your friend
Come to my table
Rest here in my garden
You will have a pardon
Take me to the alley
Take me to the afflicted ones
Take me to the lonely ones
That somehow lost their way
Let them hear me say
I am your friend
Come to my table
Rest here in my garden
You will have a pardon
They will be surprised
When they hear him say
Take me to the alley
Take me to the afflicted ones
Take me to the lonely ones
That somehow lost their way
Let them hear me say
I am your friend
Come to my table
Rest here in my garden
You will have a pardon
You will have a pardon
Take me to the alley
Take me to the afflicted ones
Take me, take me, take me, take me, take me
Written by Gregory Porter