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Saturday, 20 March 2010 |
SF Bay Area
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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 Arturo Sandoval © Andrea Canter Multiple-Grammy winning virtuoso trumpeter and international star, Arturo Sandoval, appears at Yoshi's in Oakland on Friday, May 1st trhough Sunday May 3rd and then at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz on Monday, May 4th. Like his mentor Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter Arturo Sandoval is equally gifted as a performer and entertainer. His Grammy-winning discography contains work as a founding member of the Cuban supergroup Irakere, classical recordings, and the score for the HBO biopic of his life and defection from Cuba, For Love or Country. From his days with the Cuban super-group Irakere to the United Nations Orchestra with Dizzy Gillespie to several award-winning albums, he has firmly established himself as a leader in jazz and classical music. He has a created a sound and style all his own. He can burn through an Afro-Cuban groove, tear up a bebop tune, soar over a Mozart concerto and soothe you with a luscious ballad; with equal power and grace Expect a true world music mix of salsa, mambo, bolero, rhumba, danzon to straight-ahead jazz and r&b. |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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 McCoy Tyner © Andrea Canter The Real McCoy, the 2009 SFJAZZ Gala, will be held at The Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco on Saturday, April 25, 2009 in tribute to legendary pianist and composer McCoy Tyner. The black-tie Gala celebration will feature Mr. Tyner in an exclusive performance with members of the SFJAZZ Collective, as well as performances by the SJAZZ High School All-Stars, and other special musical guests. Then on Sunday, April 26th the McCoy Tyner Trio featuring Gerald Cannon on bass and Eric Kamau Gravat on drums will perform with special guest Bobby Hutcherson on Sunday, April 26, 7PM at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon (at Bay) in San Francisco. McCoy Tyner's powerful, propulsive style of piano playing was an integral part of the John Coltrane Quartet in the early 1960s and influenced countless musicians that followed him. McCoy Tyner and Bobby Hutcherson first recorded together on Hutcherson’s 1966 Blue Note album Stick-Up! They continued to work together regularly, appearing on other historic records such as Tyner’s Time For Tyner (1968), Sama Layuca (1974) and Quartets 4x4 (1980). |
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Written by Andrea Canter, Contributing Editor
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 Tierney Sutton with Kevin Axt © Andrea Canter From Wisconsin to Berklee to the Oak Room in Manhattan, Tierney Sutton’s career has been on a steady upward trajectory. Considered to be one of the most accomplished singers on the modern jazz scene, Sutton has collaborated with the same band for fifteen years, during which time they have released 8 recordings, garnered Grammy nominations and played on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Hollywood Bowl and the Monterey Jazz Festival. With a new Telarc release (Desire), the Tierney Sutton Band returns "home" for gigs in Santa Cruz (April 20th, Kuumbwa Jazz Center), Oakland (April 22, Yoshi's) and Los Angeles (April 23-25, Catalina's).Growing up in the Milwaukee area, Tierney Sutton attended college at Weslyan University in Connecticut as a Russian major before discovering the great jazz vocalists. Switching gears and gaining a scholarship, she enrolled at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and was soon opening for the likes of Billy Taylor and Max Roach. After relocating to southern California, she was a semi-finalist among a star-studded group of singers in the 1998 Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocal Competition, joining Roberta Gambarini and Jane Monheit in finishing behind winner Teri Thornton. Over the next decade she released a series of acclaimed albums for Telarc, including the Sinatra-inspired Dancing in the Dark (2004) and the Grammy nominated I’m With the Band (2005). |
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Written by Andrea Canter, Contributing Editor
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 Jacqui Naylor©Andrea Canter
"She can make you sway gently with a blues-flavored melody, heat up a room with a strong R&B sound and then cool it right down with a smoothness that slides gently into your ear." --Cabaret Magazine On You Don’t Know Jacq, released in 2008 for her Ruby Star label, Bay Area native Jacqui Naylor complements her most requested tunes with never-released covers and new originals. Stateside again after her fourth European tour. Naylor and her band will be heating up the East Coast--at Blues Alley in Washington, DC (11/18); at the World Cafe in Philadelphia (11/19); at Puck Live in Doylestown, PA (11/20); at the Turning Point in Piermont, NY (11/21); and at the Blue Note in Manhattan (11/24-26). If you still “don’t know Jacq,” this is a not-to-be-missed opportunity. And if you do know Jacq, you need little coaxing. |
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