Scott Hamilton & Friends 2/24

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The Stanford Jazz Festival is pleased to present a performance of tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton on Friday, February 24, at Dinkelspiel Auditorium on the campus of Stanford University. In this special performance, Scott not only teams up with his local favorite co-stars in the Larry Vuckovich Trio, he expands his usual quartet format to include the great vocalist Kenny Washington, the incendiary young trumpet star Erik Jekabson, and Latin percussionist John Santos. The combination of these dynamic artists gives Scott a wider palette and more interactive potential than Bay Area audiences are accustomed to hearing from him, promising a very rare night of top-flight jazz.

With a resume that begins with Roy Eldridge, Jo Jones, and Benny Goodman, Scott Hamilton knows the jazz tradition and language inside and out. In the years since his time with those late, great artists, Scott has taken his full-toned tenor in wonderful directions of his own. Over 40 albums and as many international tours later, Scott is widely regarded as one of the most talented jazz artists in the world.

In addition to the beloved master pianist himself, the Larry Vuckovich Trio is powered by bassist Jeff Chambers and drummer Chuck McPherson, whose combined credits include stints with the top artists such as Freddie Hubbard, Roberta Flack, Harold Land, Dizzy Gillespie, Les McCann, Eddie Harris, Benny Carter, Tommy Flanagan, and Joe Henderson — and that’s just scratching the surface.

Expect an evening of jazz fireworks!

Scott Hamilton plays “more swinging, inventive, and hot tenor sax than anyone else on the scene today.” —Down Beat Magazine

“. . . any discussion of the best jazz piano players in the world must now include Larry Vuckovich!” —KSJS, San Jose

Tickets for this special performance of Stanford Jazz Festival are on sale now. Buy tickets by phone: 650-725-ARTS (2787). Buy tickets online:www.stanfordjazztickets.org . See complete lineup and details atwww.stanfordjazz.org. For more information, call 650-736-0324.

Jazz Camp registration now open

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Sign up now for 2012 Stanford Jazz Workshop summer jazz immersion programs and evening classes!

  • Jazz Camp is for musicians aged 12 – 17, and provides a fun, encouraging environment in which to explore jazz improvisation and to make lots of new friends. Week 1: July 15 – July 20. Week 2: July 22 – 27.
  • Jazz Residency is for adults, and gives emerging professionals a chance to work with the greatest jazz artists of our time. Week 3: July 20 – August 3.
  • Evening Summer Classes provide a fun and relaxing way to improve your chops and increase your knowledge of jazz. June 18 – July 13.

Click on the links above to find out more, and click on the Register button above to sign up immediately.

SJF alumna up for GRAMMY® on The Mosaic Project

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Several Stanford Jazz Festival artists are up for GRAMMY® awards for their participation on Terri Lyne Carrington’s new CD, The Mosaic Project, on Concord Records. SJF alumna on the disc include pianist Geri Allen, trumpeter/flugelhorn player Ingrid Jensen, vocalist Gretchen Parlato, and clarinetist/saxophonist Anat Cohen, all of whom contributed beautiful parts to the fascinating arrangements on this excellent album. Other great musicians among the all-female personnel on this fine recording include Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Nona Hendryx, Cassandra Wilson, Esperanza Spalding, Helen Sung, and Tineke Postma, in addition to Terri Lyne herself on drums.

The Mosaic Project is nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Find out more about it by clicking here.

Stanford Jazz Festival artists get GRAMMY® nominations

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Congratulations to jazz pianists Fred Hersch and Gerald Clayton, who each have albums nominated for GRAMMY® awards in the Best Jazz Instrumental Album category. In addition to the nomination for Alone at the Vanguard, Fred has been nominated for Best Jazz Solo for his solo on “Work,” also from Alone at the Vanguard. Gerald’s CD is called Bond: the Paris Sessions. Both pianists performed at the 2010 Stanford Jazz Festival.

Click here to go to the official Fred Hersch website.

Click here to go to the official Gerald Clayton website.

SJW alumni at the GRAMMIES®

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We’re thrilled to learn that several alumni of Stanford Jazz Camp and Jazz Residency have been selected to participate in this year’s Grammy® Camp Jazz Session ensembles. During the week-long program, participants will perform at events related to the 54th annual Grammy® Awards in Los Angeles, under the direction of Justin DiCioccio of the Manhattan School of Music, Dr. Ron McCurdy of the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, and Dr. Leila Heil of the University of Colorado, Boulder. Read more about it here, and congratulations to these great SJW alumni who’ve been selected to participate:

Max Boiko (trumpet)
Lucas Del Calvo (guitar)
Ryan DeWeese (trumpet)
David Leon (saxophone)
Connor Schultze (bass)
Laila Smith (vocals)
Christina Takayama (vocals)
MIchael Wang (trombone)

2012 Camp & Classes dates now set

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Mark your calendars, the dates for the 2012 Jazz Camp, Jazz Residency, and Evening Summer Classes have been announced:

  • Evening Summer Classes: June 18 – July 13
  • Jazz Camp, Week 1: July 15 – July 20
  • Jazz Camp, Week 2: July 22 – July 27
  • Jazz Residency, Week 3: July 29 – August 3

Online registration will open the second week of December; stay tuned for an email at that time, announcing that registration has begun. Find out more about our jazz immersion programs by clicking on links above.

Bird with Strings airs this Sunday on KCSM

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One of the highlights of the 2011 Stanford Jazz Festival wasBird with Strings on July 16, which featured SJW faculty member Andrew Speight on alto saxophone, the Alexander String Quartet with guests, and a killin’ rhythm section. They performed arrangements written for Charlie Parker and strings by the best arrangers in jazz; performing these arrangements was pretty much the focus of Charlie Parker’s life in early 1950s, so their significance can’t be overstated. But if you attended Jazz Camp or Jazz Residency, this concert happened before you arrived at Stanford, so you couldn’t catch this prime opportunity to hear this great music played by Andrew at his bebop best.

You and anyone else who missed the original performance of this amazing show are in luck! KCSM Jazz 91.1 FM will broadcast the performance this Sunday evening, September 25, at 8:00 p.m. Pacific time! Hosted by Jim Bennett on his In The Moment show, the performance was not only historic — many of the arrangements have not been heard since Charlie Parker himself performed them — but it was also music of the highest caliber.

This Sunday evening, September 25, at 8:00 p.m., you can tune in via radio or the internet to hear the concert: visit KCSM’s web site for more information by clicking here.

For more info about Jim Bennett and the In The Moment show, click here.

You can read the program notes from the original concert by downloading a PDF file here, and see the original event information on the Stanford Jazz Festival web site here.

Lee Hildebrand wrote an excellent article on Andrew Speight for the San Francisco Chronicle just prior to the performance of Bird with Strings; you can read it here.

See photos of the original performance by clicking here.

For more information on Andrew Speight, visit his own website here, and see his page on the San Francisco State University web site here.

Don’t forget to tune in this Sunday!

Download the Jazz Residency Concert Roster here

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Tonight’s the night! Everyone is excited for the big show at Jazz Residency this evening.

The Concert Roster lets you quickly find your Resident (or Residents), and the location of their perfomance (or performances).

You can download it by clicking on this link!

The Concert Roster lists all performers:

  • alphabetically
  • with the name of the venue in which they’ll be performing
  • and the numerical order in which they’ll be performing

Each performance by an instrumental combo takes about 10 minutes, with two to three minutes of setup and teardown time for a total of about 15 minutes for each instrumental combo. So if your Resident’s schedule says:

04 Dinkelspiel Auditorium

That means they are the fourth combo to play tonight in Dinkelspiel, which opens at 7:15 p.m. If each of the three previous combos take approximately 10 minutes each, then your Resident’s combo will go on at approximately 7:45.

If your Resident is giving a vocal performance in Braun Rehearsal Hall, please note that vocal performances take approximately 5 minutes each. So if your Resident’s schedule says:

04 Braun Rehearsal Hall

This means your camper is singing fourth in Braun, which would be at approximately 7:35 p.m.

Keep in mind that timings are approximate! All the venues are very close to each other, so you’ll never have far to go to find your Resident — as you can see from the map above.

The schedule for the evening will go something like this:

7:15 p.m. Jazz Residency Performances at CoHo
A show at CoHo is always fun, with food and drink available as you listen.

7:15 p.m. Braun Rehearsal Hall Vocal Performances
The vocal performances are in a beautifully-lit hall, and accompanied by a professional jazz trio.

7:15 p.m. Campbell Recital Hall Combo Performances
This intimate recital hall makes the Residents sound great.

7:15 p.m. Dinkelspiel Recital Hall Combo Performances
There’s nothing like performing on the big stage of Dinkelspiel.

We have made every effort to schedule the venues appropriately to allow parents who have more than one child at Jazz Residency to see both combo performances.  We have also done our best to honor requests to play early or late.  At this point, we cannot make changes to the concert schedule.  Please do not contact our office to request changes.

Win tickets to Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes this Saturday, July 9

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Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes are two of the best jazz pianists in the world. And they’re married. So when they decided to perform together at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, they had a tough compromise to make: Who was bringing the rhythm section?

Bassist Peter Washington and drummer Lewis Nash are the beneficiaries of this decision. But so are you, as together, Renee and Bill have been playing with Peter and Lewis for well over a decade; this is going to be one heck of a great show! The performance is Saturday night at 8 p.m. in Dinkelspiel Auditorium on the campus of Stanford University, and you can be there for free!

Just be among the first 10 people to answer this question correctly: From whose trio did Peter Washington and Lewis Nash come originally, from Bill’s or from Renee’s?

The winning answers must be correct for both Peter and Lewis!

Email your answer to [email protected]. Winners will be notified by return email. Tickets will be held at Will Call on the evening of the performance, on July 9. Box office opens 1 hour prior to showtime, at 7 p.m.

Good luck!

 

SJW iPhone app now available

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sjf-2013-ios_icon-v2 FINALKeep up with the Stanford Jazz Festival, Jazz Camp, and Jazz Residency on the go! This app is a guide to the Stanford Jazz Workshop’s summer Jazz Festival and related activities, such as Jazz Camps, Summer Classes and Special Events. It contains comprehensive information about all of the festival’s concerts, artists, venues, sponsors and ticketing, and it allows you to explore all of these in whatever level of detail you desire.

Click here to download the SJW iPhone app now!