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SFJAZZ Collective

Founded by SFJAZZ in 2004, the SFJAZZ Collective is a leaderless group and a democratic composer’s workshop that represents what’s happening now in jazz. The SFJAZZ Collective has gone though numerous line up changes over the years and has featured Bobby Hutcherson, Joshua Redman, Miguel Zenón, Eric Harland, Mark Turner, Matt Penman, Avishai Cohen, Sean Jones, Andre Hayward, Stefon Harris, Dave Douglas, Nicholas Payton, Joe Lovano, Josh Roseman, Renee Rosnes, Jeff Ballard, Robert Hurst, Brian Blade and others.

The SFJAZZ Collective’s mission is to perform fresh arrangements of works by a modern master and newly commissioned pieces by each SFJAZZ Collective member. Through this pioneering approach, simultaneously honoring music’s greatest figures while championing jazz’s up-to-the-minute directions, the SFJAZZ Collective embodies SFJAZZ’s commitment to jazz as a living, ever-relevant art form. Over their fifteen-year existence, the SFJAZZ Collective has honored the music of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Horace Silver, Stevie Wonder, Chick Corea, Joe Henderson, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, and Antonio Carlos Jobim and has created over 100 new arrangements and original compositions.

Awards

2013 NAACP Image Award - Most Outstanding Jazz Album - Wonder: The Music of Stevie Wonder


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Live Review

SFJAZZ Collective at SFJAZZ Center

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The SFJAZZ Collective The SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, California November 4, 2023 Taking the stage at the commencement of a four-night run at San Francisco's SFJAZZ Center The SFJAZZ Collective launched into vibraphonist Warren Wolf's arrangement of three amalgamated Miles Davis compositions: “In a Silent Way," “Directions," and “Nardis." Then, trumpeter Mike Rodriguez took the microphone to introduce their new suite, tentatively titled “Golden Gate Suite." The group was founded in 2004 by ...

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SFJAZZ Collective at SFJAZZ

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SFJAZZ Collective SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA October 31, 2021 Established by SFJAZZ, the San Francisco music-presentation nonprofit which hosts most events at its own San Francisco edifice, the SFJAZZ Collective, a group of established jazz musicians, has been making annual tours including material from one modern jazz great (such as Miles Davis or Herbie Hancock) as well as individual compositions penned by band members, all of whom are composers and arrangers. Every tour ...

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Album Review

SFJAZZ Collective: Live: SFJAZZ Center 2016 - Music of Miles Davis & Original Compositions

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In the thirteen years since the SFJAZZ Collective first came together in February 2004, this revolving door octet (septet, in 2009) of “cream of the crop" US-based jazz musicians has, most years, followed a consistent modus operandi: select a well-known jazz (and, in two cases, beyond jazz) musician and pay tribute through innovative arrangements of his/her music, alongside a set of new original compositions--in almost every case, one each contributed by every member of the Collective. In the ...

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Interview

SFJAZZ Collective: Remembering Miles

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The SFJAZZ Collective has been operating since 2004. In the beginning, it may have seemed to some as just another all-star collection of musicians who strut their stuff for a while, then go about their own business. It has shown over time it is much different. The format--eight outstanding musicians banding together to play the music of jazz icons, works hard at what the band was designed for: a leaderless, democratic group where musicians write arrangements that re-imagine ...

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SFJAZZ Collective at the Music Box Supper Club

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SF Jazz Collective Music Box Supper Club Cleveland, Ohio April 21, 2017 Since 2004, the ensemble of first-call musicians known as the SF Jazz Collective has represented the Bay Area in local concerts and throughout the world in a unique collaborative effort that since inception has given new life to the term repertory band. Each year the oeuvre of an iconic jazz master is given the SF treatment. This does not mean simply pulling up ...

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Il SF Jazz Collective al Teatro Manzoni di Milano

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SF Jazz Collective Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni Milano 30.10.2016 Una strepitosa apertura di stagione per Aperitivo In Converto, la rassegna milanese che propone dei matinée domenicali con i maggiori protagonisti della scena jazz contemporanea internazionale. La 32^ edizione è partita il 30 ottobre con l'ennesimo tutto esaurito. Sul palco il SF Jazz Collective, ottetto di star statunitensi tra le più interessanti del panorama contemporaneo, per la prima volta in concerto in Italia ...

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SFJAZZ Collective At SFJAZZ

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SFJAZZ Collective SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA October 20, 2016 What would Miles think? It was hard not to wonder as the SFJAZZ Collective, the San Francisco jazz presenter's long-running large ensemble project, kicked off it's 12th season with a program dominated by sometimes dramatically re-imagined versions of Miles Davis tunes. The basic playbook for the Collective has been the same since the beginning: Assemble some of the finest players in ...

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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: SFJAZZ Collective plays Sly and Miles

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: SFJAZZ Collective plays Sly and Miles

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring the SFJAZZ Collective, who will be coming back to St. Louis to perform next Saturday, March 14 at The Sheldon. Formed in 2004, the SFJAZZ Collective is an eight-member, all-star group that's based at San Francisco's presenting and producing organization SFJAZZ, while drawing players from all over the country. The band's personnel has evolved over the years, as individual members have moved on and been replaced, but they've continued to ...

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Jazz this week: SFJAZZ Collective, Bill Frisell, Tomas Fujiwara's The Hook Up, and more

Jazz this week: SFJAZZ Collective, Bill Frisell, Tomas Fujiwara's The Hook Up, and more

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis features three noteworthy touring acts with widely disparate styles, plus a couple of Sunday big band performances, some free jazz, some vintage swing, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, April 26 The SFJAZZ Collective opens a four-night engagement continuing through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. The all-star ensemble's featured composer this year is Miles Davis, and they'll be performing a repertoire drawn from their latest ...

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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: SFJAZZ Collective plays Miles Davis

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: SFJAZZ Collective plays Miles Davis

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

This week, it's time to check out some videos of the latest iteration of the SFJAZZ Collective, who will be here in St. Louis to perform starting next Wednesday, April 26 through Saturday, April 29 at Jazz at the Bistro. Founded in 2004 as a sort of ever-evolving, all-star house band for the San Francisco presenter SFJAZZ, the group's lineup by design has changed considerably over the years, and currently features Miguel Zenón (alto sax), David Sánchez (tenor sax), Sean ...

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Performance / Tour

Jazz this week: SFJAZZ Collective, Champian Fulton, Lonberg-Holm & Gjerstad, and more

Jazz this week: SFJAZZ Collective, Champian Fulton, Lonberg-Holm & Gjerstad, and more

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

It's looking like it'll be a good weekend to get out and hear some live music, and fortunately, there's an ample selection of jazz and creative music happening in and around St. Louis over the next few days. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, March 30 The SFJAZZ Collective performs for the first of four nights, continuing with two sets per night through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. The Collective is an all-star ensemble assembled by the San Francisco ...

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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: SFJAZZ Collective plays Michael Jackson

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: SFJAZZ Collective plays Michael Jackson

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

Today, let's check out some videos of the SFJAZZ Collective, who are coming to St. Louis to perform Wednesday, March 30 through Saturday, April 2 at Jazz at the Bistro. Formed in 2004 as a project of the San Francisco not-for-profit presenting organization SFJAZZ, the Collective is an eight- piece, all-star band with an ever-evolving lineup of musicians from all over the USA and beyond. The current roster includes Miguel Zenón (alto sax), David Sanchez (tenor sax), Robin Eubanks (trombone), ...

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Music Industry

SFJAZZ Center Reaches Capital Campaign Goal $64 Million & SFJAZZ Collective Receives $3 Million Gift

SFJAZZ Center Reaches Capital Campaign Goal $64 Million & SFJAZZ Collective Receives $3 Million Gift

Source: Marshall Lamm

SFJAZZ today announced that the organization has reached the $64 million goal of The World Is Listening campaign for the SFJAZZ Center. The campaign funds created the award- winning SFJAZZ Center that opened on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 21, 2013 and has become a globally recognized bellwether of art, music, culture, and community in San Francisco’s Civic Center performing arts district. The achievement of the goal is made all the more extraordinary as an anonymous donor stepped forward ...

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Recording

SFJAZZ Releases SFJAZZ Collective: 10

SFJAZZ Releases SFJAZZ Collective: 10

Source: Marshall Lamm

SFJAZZ today released SFJAZZ Collective: 10, celebrating the SFJAZZ Collective’s 10-year musical legacy. 10 was recorded during the SFJAZZ Collective’s four-night residency on the SFJAZZ Center’s Robert N. Miner Auditorium stage in October 2013. The ten tracks are performed by the SFJAZZ Collective’s current lineup: alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon, tenor saxophonist David Sanchez, vibraphonist Warren Wolf, trumpeter Avishai Cohen, trombonist Robin Eubanks, pianist Edward Simon, bassist Matt Penman, and drummer Obed Calvaire. Over the last decade, the SFJAZZ Collective has ...

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Award / Grant

SFJAZZ Collective Wins Outstanding Jazz Album at 45th Annual NAACP Image Awards

SFJAZZ Collective Wins Outstanding Jazz Album at 45th Annual NAACP Image Awards

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations

The SFJAZZ Collective’s Album, Wonder: The Songs of Stevie Wonder, won Outstanding Jazz Album at 45th Annual NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena, CA on Friday, February 21, 2014. The 45th NAACP Image Awards is the nation’s premier multi-cultural awards show and celebrates the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors. The SFJAZZ Collective is the all-star award-winning jazz ensemble comprised of ...

Performance / Tour

SFJAZZ Collective Releases The Music Of Chick Corea & New Compositions, Announces Fall Tour Dates

SFJAZZ Collective Releases The Music Of Chick Corea & New Compositions, Announces Fall Tour Dates

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations

SFJAZZ today announced the release of the SFJAZZ Collective’s ninth limited-edition set, SFJAZZ Collective: Music of Chick Corea and New Compositions, Live at SFJAZZ Center. Only 2,000 copies will be produced. Available exclusively from SFJAZZ the deluxe, hand- numbered 2-CD set is the definitive recording of this all-star jazz ensemble’s ninth year. Recorded live March 28-31, 2013 at the new SFJAZZ Center, the release features new arrangements of the classic works of Chick Corea as well as new original compositions ...

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Event

SFJAZZ Gala To Stream Performances From Ahmad Jamal, Sfjazz Collective, Maceo Parker, Friday, May 4

SFJAZZ Gala To Stream Performances From Ahmad Jamal, Sfjazz Collective, Maceo Parker, Friday, May 4

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations

The 2012 SFJAZZ Gala on Friday, May 4, 2012 will be streamed on sfjazz.org live and direct from San Francisco’s Bimbo’s 365 Club, beginning at 7:00pm PST. The Gala — which celebrates the near completion of the $63 million “The World is Listening” capital campaign for the landmark SFJAZZ Center opening on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 21, 2013 — will honor the legendary pianist Ahmad Jamal with a performance by the jazz great himself. Newly appointed SFJAZZ Poet ...

The Collective demonstrates that decades-old music needn't lose its contemporary relevance — not, at least, in the hands of a group this encyclopedic in its knowledge of tradition, but just as versed in the foundation of jazz as a living, breathing and forward-reaching thing. As definitive of the modern mainstream as it gets." All About Jazz

"You can propose various definitions for what this band represents, but it’s a superbrain for what serious jazz sounds like now." — New York Times

"There hasn't been a group to call itself "the All Stars" — at least not without irony — since the death of Louis Armstrong, but this collective deserves the title more than any other band playing today." — Wall Street Journal

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