Opened just five months ago, the “sacred space” for jazz has plugged a lot of gaps for S.F.-connected musicians.
The saxophonist/composer, a key figure in the Afrofuturist movement, celebrates 50 years of his band as he moves into new creative territory.
Many of these artists have been getting the spotlight year-round from leading presenters, and rightly so.
The drummer brings her four-part multimedia suite to SFJAZZ, working with the Del Sol String Quartet and dancer Babatunji Johnson, among others.
The music of Billy Childs, Gabriella Smith, and Steven Mackey interprets the threat to California’s oldest living things.
Brubeck’s The Gates of Justice, a 1969 piece very different from his up-tempo jazz standards, gets two performances in L.A. this month.
