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Herbie Hancok Quartet and Gonzalo Rubalcaba solo piano at Nob Hil Masonic Center 11/10 Print E-mail
Written by Ronaldo Oregano   

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Gonzalo Rubalcaba

A night of exiciting music from two jazz piano masters is instore as SFJazz presents “Generations of Jazz Piano” featuring the Herbie Hancok Quartet and Gonzalo Rubalcaba solo piano performance at the Nob Hil Masonic Center 1111 California Street (at Taylor), San Francisco, at 8 PM on Saturday, November 10th. Tickets run from $25 to $87 and are avaiable at sfjazz.org.

Gonzalo Rubalcaba is a prolific virtuoso and composer who brilliantly fuses Cuban with American jazz influences. Gonzalo has to his credit eight Grammy nominations, including four for Jazz Album of the Year (Rapsodia in 1995, Antiguo and Inner Voyage in 1999, and Supernova in 2002.) Among other recent honors, in June 2001 Gonzalo received the SFJAZZ Leaders Circle Laureate Award, and in 2002 he performed as Artist in Residence at Montreal Jazz Festival together with Chucho Valdez. In 2002 he won both a Latin Grammy for Jazz Album of the Year, Supernova, as well as a Grammy for co-production with Charlie Haden of Nocturne, a Verve release of Cuban and Mexican boleros and ballads.

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SFJazz presents Happy Apple and Kneebody 11/7 Print E-mail
Written by Don Berryman   
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Happy Apple and Kneebody appear on Wednesday, November 7, at 8PM at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco as part of the San Francisco Jazz Festival. Blurring the distinctions between genres, cutting-edge groups Happy Apple (Bad Plus drummer Dave King’s first band) and Kneebody merge indie rock, funk, blues, and jazz together with instrumental virtuosity. With Happy Apple and Kneebody, one can hear two exiting sounds of the present that promise to help shape the future.

Celebrating the release of their 7th CD, Happy Apple Back On Top, Happy Apple is a band with a devoted fan-base in the Twin Cities, in France and a cult following worldwide. Happy Apple was formed over ten years ago in Minneapolis, members of the band are David King (drums), Michael Lewis (saxophones) and Erik Fratzke (electric bass). All three members compose music for the group which places equal emphasis on improvisation. Happy Apple draws on several other genres; the group's members play in other bands ranging from indie rock and heavy metal to free jazz and electronic. The best known of these is The Bad Plus, in which King also plays drums.
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Jason Moran Big Bandwagon "In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959" November 2nd Print E-mail
Written by Ronaldo Oregano   
“Monk is the reason I started playing piano. I owe him all the investigation I can do.” - Jason Moran

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As part of the San Francisco Jazz Festival, Jason Moran will present the West Coast Premiere of his original multi-media piece “In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959,” co-commissioned by SFJAZZ and Duke University. The concert will take place on November 2nd at 8:00 PM at the Palace of Fin Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon (at Bay) in San Francisco. This concert, which takes place just weeks after what would have been Monk’s 90th birthday (October 10), is the culmination of Moran’s year long tribute to composer/pianist Thelonious Monk, begun in this year’s SFJAZZ Spring Season.

SFJAZZ had approached Moran last year about recreating Monk’s famous 1959 Town Hall concert for a performance in May 2007. Moran conceived of a larger conceptual project that would reflect upon the man himself, his history and his creative process. “It’s much larger than a tribute project,” he told the Boston Globe. “Monk is the reason I started playing piano. I owe him all the investigation I can do.” So Moran spent time in Duke University’s extensive Monk archive and visited Monk’s birthplace in the nearby town of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The performance includes an octet performance with video projections plus sound clips of Monk rehearsing his band for the now-legendary Town Hall performance.

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David Sánchez Coast to Coast and in-between in October Print E-mail
Written by Ronaldo Oregano   
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Latin Grammy Award winner David Sánchez is being hailed as “the most profound young tenor saxophonist working today. In a review, world-renown jazz critic Howard Reich saluted the young bandleader saying, “Technically, tonally and creatively, he seems to have it all. His sound is never less than plush, his pitch is unerring, his rapid-fire playing is ravishing in its combination of speed, accuracy and utter evenness of tone.” Such is the acclaim and respect that Sánchez has engendered from critics, music lovers and fellow artists throughout the world as he continues to push the frontiers of mainstream jazz to incorporate a compelling and rich array of Latin and Afro-Caribbean influences, while remaining true to the tenets of the jazz genre. You can catch Sanchez and his group on October 17th at Carnegie Hall,in New York, on October 18th Through 21st at Yoshi's in Oakland, on October 26th in Ann Arbor, on October 27th Through 28th at Andy's Jazz Club in Chicago and October 30th at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis.

David Sánchez will be performing La Leyenda del Canavera which is a rseult of a grant David received from Chamber Music America with which he composed a piece that was inspired by a poem on the African Diaspora. The performance includes include spoken-word as well as David's musical composition which weaves Afro-Caribbean and East African elements into a piece that includes several parts, each filled with the depth and richness for which David's work is known. 

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Celebrating Mali:Dee Dee Bridgewater’s Red Earth Project Tours in October Print E-mail
Written by Andrea Canter, Contributing Editor   

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“Melding Malian voices, music and traditional instruments with American jazz vernacular and penning many of the lyrics, Dee Dee Bridgewater has crafted one of her most important musical statements to date.” --EmArcy Records

Described by the Village Voice as "...the most capable jazz singer of her generation," Dee Dee Bridgewater has covered a wide swath of jazz and modern music over her career, from R&B and big band to the songs of Ella Fitzgerald, Kurt Weill and the love songs of France. Winner of two Grammys in 1998 (Best Vocal Performance and Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocal), France’s Victoire de la Musique, a Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical (The Whiz), the 2007 Commandeur de L'Ordre des Artes et des Lettres, and countless other honors, Dee Dee is America’s—if not the world’sFirst Lady of Jazz. Now on a very limited tour with her trio and additional 7-piece band of Mali musicians, Dee Dee celebrates the release of her new recording, Red Earth: A Malian Journey (DDB), with a limited tour of the U.S., which began at the Blue Note (New York City) and Cutler Majestic Theater (Boston) earlier this month. Upcoming stops: Gem Theater/American Jazz Museum in Kansas City (October 13); Kennedy Center in Washington, DC (October 14), the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis (October 16-17); Herbst Theater for the San Francisco Jazz Festival (October 19); Mondavi Center in Davis, CA (October 20), and the Triple Door in Seattle (October 21). 

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