Stanford Jazz Festival

Get ready to sing, clap, and groove with Dr. David Hart and the Zookeepers in this interactive jazz experience designed for kids and families! Through lively performances and hands-on participation, […]

Whether interpreting Brazilian Songbook standards, deploying her voice like a horn alongside an orchestra, or transforming beloved poems into original songs, Brazilian vocalist Luciana Souza is a musician of the […]

San Francisco guitarist Nick Rossi is one of the world’s foremost experts on pre–World War II jazz, both as a practitioner and a scholar. A few years ago he traveled […]

Nicolas Bearde earned an avid following as a solo act crooning sophisticated R&B before evolving over the past decade into a captivating jazz singer who brings easy-going authority to ballads […]

Marcus Shelby has never shied away from extending his creative reach. From his early years as a young lion recording for some of jazz’s most vaunted labels, the San Francisco […]

Now living in Los Angeles, Christina Galisatus has gained recognition in recent years as one of the brightest young artists on the vibrant Southland scene. A versatile creative force as […]

Jimmy Heath would likely give a wry smile at the thought that his 100th birthday might be overshadowed by the centennial celebrations for Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Hailing from […]

Victor Lin always brings a thoughtful and imaginative game plan to the Festival. A mainstay at the Workshop since the late 1990s, he has emerged in recent years as a […]

Growing up in Los Angeles, Michael Mayo seemed destined for a life in music. His father is a vocalist and saxophonist who performed with Earth, Wind & Fire and Sérgio […]

There’s no artist in jazz with a creative vision quite like Anat Cohen. Since arriving in New York City in 1999, she has moved fluidly from trad jazz ensembles devoted […]

Featuring trumpeters Riley Mulherkar and Chloe Rowlands, along with trombonists Andy Clausen and Addison Maye-Saxon, The Westerlies sound like no other group in jazz. It’s no mean feat introducing a […]

An integral part of the Workshop family since he was a teenager, Flocks has earned widespread esteem performing and recording with a glittering constellation of jazz stars, from Dave Brubeck, […]

A prodigious trumpeter, producer, and composer who has been at the center of the New York jazz scene for a quarter century, Jeremy Pelt has released some two dozen albums […]

When John Lee Hooker needed to put some boom in his “Boom Boom,” he gave Ruth Davies a call. When R&B great Charles Brown sought a supple pulse for his […]

The contemporary jazz scene is in the midst of an unprecedented wave of vibraphone innovation, and no artist deserves more credit for this development than Stefon Harris. Since emerging in […]

Cuban violinist and vocalist Yilian Cañizares is on the cusp of becoming a major figure on the North American jazz scene. Introduced to Bay Area audiences through her collaboration with […]

On a jazz scene bristling with brilliant young vibraphonists, Sasha Berliner has distinguished herself with a lithe electro-acoustic group sound rooted in post-bop improvisation and shaped by contemporary currents. Now […]

A long-running, ever-evolving showcase for jazz’s finest guitar stylists, Guitar Night pairs two extraordinary bandleaders with strikingly different sounds this season. Chilean-born Camila Meza first drew widespread attention on the […]

A treasured presence at the Workshop for years, George Cables made his mark on classic recordings by era-defining musicians including Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson, and Woody Shaw. As […]

Even in a country with a glorious tradition of extravagantly talented pianists, Havana-reared Aldo López-Gavilán is a conspicuously commanding musician. Steeped in jazz, Afro-Cuban, and European classical traditions, he hails […]

Taylor Eigsti’s annual performance at the Stanford Jazz Festival typically falls in the Festival’s last week, providing a bold exclamation point to the previous weeks of musical adventures. Though he’s […]

At this lovingly curated annual jam session, you’ll hear parings and combinations of jazz artists you’ll never hear anywhere else. In duet, trio, quartet, and larger ensembles, these amazing top-tier […]