EDUCATION INSPIRING. INFORMATIVE. INTERACTIVE.

FALL 2019 PROGRAMS, ENSEMBLES & CLASSES FALL 2019 AT-A-GLANCE

SEPTEMBER DECEMBER

SEP 14 4 Family Matinee W/ Tiffany Austin DEC 3 4 Digital Lab: weMusic! W/ Daniel Berkman

SEP 14 4 Digital Lab: Intro to Digital Audio Production W/ Jef Stott DEC 8 4 SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Winter Concert

SEP 16– 4 Monday Night Band Fall Season DEC 9 4 Monday Night Band Showcase Concert DEC 9 DEC 10 4 Digital Lab: Intro to Music for Picture W/ Heidi Trefethen SEP 17 4 Digital Lab: Intro to Logic Pro W/ Daniel Berkman DEC 14 4 RJAM Young Artists SEP 18 4 Digital Lab: Intro to Ableton Live W/ Jef Stott DEC 21 4 Family Matinee W/ Adam Shulman SEP 28 4 RJAM Side-by-Side

OCTOBER

OCT 5 4 Family Matinee W/ Rebeca Mauleón & Special Guests THE MISSION OF SFJAZZ EDUCATION OCT 5 4 Digital Lab: Intro to Recording & Mixing W/ Heidi Trefethen IS TO REACH, DEVELOP, AND NURTURE OCT 9– 4 Discover : From Post-Bop to Hip-Hop W/ Terrence Brewer & Lyle Link NOV 6 CURRENT AND FUTURE MUSICIANS OCT 16 4 Digital Lab: Intro to Digital Audio Production W/ Jef Stott AND AUDIENCES BY PROVIDING OCT 23 4 Digital Lab: Making Your Mixes Shine W/ Heidi Trefethen

OCT 30 4 Digital Lab: Jazz & Hip-Hop in the Mix W/ Michael Aaberg RICH, INNOVATIVE, INTERACTIVE, AND INFORMATIVE PROGRAMMING

NOVEMBER IN JAZZ APPRECIATION, CREATION,

NOV 12 4 Digital Lab: DJing & Live Performance with Ableton W/ Jef Stott AND PERFORMANCE WITHIN NOV 16 4 Family Matinee W/ Alphabet Rockers OUR DIVERSE COMMUNITIES. NOV 16 4 Digital Lab: Live Looping & Spontaneous Composition W/ Daniel Berkman

NOV 19 4 Digital Lab: The Art & Science of Mastering W/ Heidi Trefethen

NOV 23 4 Artists On the Rise W/ Rebecca Holtz & Dan Neville

2 Cover image: Jazz Girls Day Workshop. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS

PG 6 4 Family Matinees PG 14 4 Koret Discover Jazz PG 8 4 SFJAZZ High School PG 16 4 Digital Lab Program All-Stars PG 18 4 School Programs PG 10 4 Monday Night Band PG 20 4 The Future of SFJAZZ PG 11 4 Artists on the Rise PG 22 4 CENIC Partner Spotlight PG 12 4 RJAM Young Artists PG 23 4 SFJAZZ Education Staff

HAPPY FALL!

SFJAZZ serves thousands of youth and adults across the Bay Area with dynamic education programs in the concert hall, classroom, and community. Whether you are an aspiring musician wishing to brush up on technique, an enthusiastic jazz fan eager to dive deeper into jazz history, or a parent searching for engaging musical experiences to share with your child, SFJAZZ provides musicians and students of all ages with a beautiful space to learn and play.

“AN INSTITUTION THAT UNDERSTANDS WHERE JAZZ COMES FROM, AND IT WILL BE A PLEASURE TO SEE WHERE IT GOES.” — DOWNBEAT Rebeca Mauleón Family Workshop SFJAZZ Director of Education

4 For more information, visit SFJAZZ.org/education. 5 FAMILY MATINEES “THE COOLEST KIDDIE SHOW.” —RED TRICYCLE

Sing! Rise, Shine, Woke! TIFFANY AUSTIN ALPHABET ROCKERS

SEP 14 SAT • 11am miner NOV 16 SAT • 11am miner Vocalist and composer Tiffany Austin Alphabet Rockers make music has quickly become a force in jazz, that makes change. Led by Kaitlin with an ebullient style and soulful McGaw and Tommy Shepherd, this eloquence that honor the vocal greats GRAMMY-nominated group creates while pushing forward in search of new brave spaces to shape a more territory. Her 2018 release, Unbroken (on equitable world through hip hop. the Con Alma Music label), celebrates Known for their multigenerational the indelible link between jazz and the presentations, Alphabet Rockers bring blues, and showcases her talents in messages of hope, empowerment, the lineage of Bessie Smith and Betty and social justice to audiences around Carter. We kick off our matinee season the country, reminding us of the with the transformative power of song power of community. For this special and honor the instrument we all share: and interactive Family Matinee, we the voice! invite the entire audience to sing, clap, and move as the Rockers Youth $5 | Seniors $10 | Adults $23 say, “BE YOU and GET LOUD!”

Youth $5 | Seniors $10 | Adults $23 Descarga Cubana

REBECA MAULEÓN & FRIENDS Charlie Brown Holiday OCT 5 SAT • 11am miner ADAM SHULMAN Cuban music is undoubtedly some of the most joyful on the planet, and in DEC 21 SAT • 11am miner 1950s Cuba, one of the most exciting A creative force on the San Francisco manifestations of that joy was heard jazz scene for the past decade, in the descarga. Cuba’s answer to the pianist Adam Shulman reprises his Alphabet Rockers cutting session in jazz, the descarga tribute to Bay Area jazz legend Vince allows musicians to cut loose and fly Guaraldi and his beloved soundtrack to free. For this matinee led by pianist and Charles Schulz’s 1965 holiday classic, SFJAZZ Director of Education Rebeca A Charlie Brown Christmas. Join us oth fun and educational, Family Matinees provide a window into Mauleón, we are thrilled to welcome for a joyful look and listen back as the exciting world of live jazz. Each one-hour matinee features several giants of the music along with we get grooving and swinging to a cadre of Cuban artists who call the favorites including “Linus and Lucy”and live performance, audience participation, Q&A, and amazing B Bay Area home, with a special guest “Christmas is Coming,” and celebrate music. Our interactive Family Workshops follow select performances appearance by legendary pianist and the holidays with the entire family! and are FREE to matinee ticket-holders, led by musician, educator, Resident Artistic Director Chucho Youth $5 | Seniors $10 | Adults $23 and Orff music expert Doug Goodkin and others. Enjoyed individually Valdés! or as a series, these Family Matinees and Workshops will change Youth $5 | Seniors $10 | Adults $23 the way you hear jazz and get families playing together.

Watch all Family Matinee concerts live online at 6 SFJAZZ.org/live—you won’t miss a beat! 7 “THE ALL-STARS ARE SOME OF THE MOST TALENTED AND SFJAZZ HIGH SCHOOL COMMITTED YOUNG PLAYERS I’VE EVER HAD A CHANCE ALL-STARS TO WORK WITH.” —SAXOPHONIST MIGUEL ZENÓN BIG-BAND & COMBO

SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Big Band

he skilled young musicians comprising our award-winning Big Band and Combo continue to earn accolades wherever BIG-BAND & COMBO WINTER CONCERT Tthey appear, including seven consecutive wins at the Next DEC 8 SUN • 1pm miner Generation Jazz Festival in Monterey, numerous DownBeat Awards, Join the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Combo and Big Band as we kick off first place in the Savannah Swing Central, Portland Jazz Forward, the holidays in swinging style! From unique takes on classics to a brand new and Charles Mingus festivals, and more. Under the expert direction commissioned work by SFJAZZ Resident Artist Director, Marcus Shelby, of Paul Contos (Big Band) and Dann Zinn (Combo), the SFJAZZ High this winter concert will get you in the mood for the holiday season. School All-Stars display a technical brilliance and musical maturity Students $10 | General $20 rarely seen in the youth ensemble arena. Don’t miss the All-Stars in concert and support the next generation of jazz ambassadors!

For information on how to audition for the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars, 8 visit SFJAZZ.org/auditions. 9 MONDAY NIGHT BAND ARTISTS ON THE RISE SFJAZZ COMMUNITY ENSEMBLE

Monday Night Band performance Rebecca Holtz & Dan Neville

ow into its 14th season, the SFJAZZ Monday Night Band has FJAZZ Education proudly showcases a new generation of become one of the most in-demand community groups in the cutting-edge talent, from undiscovered Bay Area treasures NBay Area, attracting a range of talented musicians — from Sto young artists on the national scene. Headliners share a retired pros to emerging young artists ­­— with a 12-week program common thread: they have all matriculated through SFJAZZ in some that culminates in a thrilling free showcase in the SFJAZZ Center’s way, whether through our flagship youth ensemble—the High School gorgeous Miner Auditorium. Directed by acclaimed Bay Area musician All-Stars—as a member of our pro-am Monday Night Band, or as and bandleader Adam Theis, the Monday Night Band is open to a commissioned composer of new works. Experience some of the intermediate and advanced level instrumentalists and vocalists, and most talented and creative musicians working today! provides band members with exciting opportunities to perform, compose, and create new works. Want to play with us? Sign up to REBECCA HOLTZ & DAN NEVILLE audition and join our amazing community of Bay Area jazz musicians! NOV 23 SAT • 7pm & 8:30pm jhl Rebecca Holtz and Dan Neville join forces to present an evening of original music and classic jazz. A dynamic performer and entertainer with incredible range of FALL 2019 SESSION SHOWCASE CONCERT expression, Rebecca’s electrifying vocals are matched only by her captivating stage presence. Joining her for this performance is composer and multi-instrumentalist SEP 16–DEC 9 DEC 9 MON • 7:30pm miner Dan Neville, whose deep dedication to the jazz idiom shines through in his innovative 12-Week Program: FREE but reservations required arrangements and award-winning vibraphone playing. Members $400 | Public $450 Students $10 | General $20

10 Sign up to audition at SFJAZZ.org/auditions. 11 RJAM YOUNG ARTISTS IN PARTNERSHIP: SFJAZZ & SFCM

FJAZZ is proud to partner with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and its Roots, Jazz & American Music (RJAM) Sprogram, linking a world-class conservatory to the award- winning SFJAZZ Center and its resident all-star ensemble, the SFJAZZ Collective.

RJAM SIDE-BY-SIDE RJAM YOUNG ARTISTS

SEP 28 SAT • 12pm miner DEC 14 SAT • 7pm jhl

Side-by-side concerts pair The Young Artists series select faculty from the Roots, showcases select faculty from Jazz & American Music (RJAM) the Roots, Jazz & American program at the San Francisco Music (RJAM) program at the Conservatory of Music with San Francisco Conservatory their young artist protégés, of Music, leading their young in a 90-minute presentation artist apprentices through a of original compositions and 60-minute set of newly minted arrangements. The stellar originals and arrangements from faculty cast includes the faculty and students both. Past SFJAZZ Collective’s Warren groups have featured Julian Wolf, David Sánchez, Edward Lage, Mike Rodriguez, Chad Simon, and Matt Brewer, Lefkowitz-Brown, and Edward along with luminaries Carmen Simon at the helm. Bradford, Julian Lage, Chad Students: $10 | General $20 Lefkowitz-Brown, Mike Rodriguez, Steve Davis, and Matt Wilson, among others.

Students: $10 | General $20

RJAM ensemble led by Chad Lefkowitz-Brown

12 13 KORET DISCOVER JAZZ

azz history, live performance, classic audio, and exciting video make Discover Jazz the most distinctive jazz appreciation Jcourse available for adults. Each series offers an in-depth look at the life and work of some of jazz music’s most enduring legends, and includes stellar live performances by critically-acclaimed guest artists, rich multimedia presentations featuring historic recordings, and engaging Q&A.

FROM POST-BOP TO HIP-HOP: JAZZ IN THE MODERN ERA

OCT 9,16,30 | NOV 6 WED • 7-8:30pm jhl *No Class on Wednesday, Oct 23rd OCT 9 | class one Roots & Influences What “happened” to jazz during and after the 1960s? What role did rock, funk, and soul play OCT 16 | class two in its evolution? How can we connect jazz to Technology & Innovation today’s contemporary music? These topics and many others are the subject of this four-class OCT 30 | class three series exploring the jazz lineage and its musical The Beat(s) “offspring.” Among the many artists we will survey are , , James Brown, NOV 6 | class four , Nina Simone, Sly Stone, Stevie Here, Now & The Future Wonder, Gil Scott Heron, and many more! From the post-bop evolution to the hip-hop revolution, we will uncover some of the groundbreaking artists whose work blurred the lines between jazz Generously supported and popular music. by the Koret Foundation.

Terrence Brewer & Lyle Link, Instructors Members $60 | Public $75

One class FREE when you buy the series

Terrence Brewer

14 15 DIGITAL LAB PROGRAM FOR OLDER TEENS & ADULTS LIVE LOOPING & SPONTANEOUS COMPOSITION INTRO TO RECORDING & MIXING NOV 16 SAT • 1-4pm OCT 5 SAT • 1–4pm In this fun, hands-on class, Daniel Berkman A hands-on class on recording vocals demonstrates the technical wizardry behind and instruments as well as basic mixing live looping and creating spontaneous live techniques using Logic Pro. Open to all levels. compositions on many instruments. Ideal for Experience with Logic Pro recommended. established musicians and producers.

Heidi Trefethen, Instructor Daniel Berkman, Instructor Members $60 | Public $75 Members $60 | Public $75

MAKING YOUR MIXES SHINE THE ART & SCIENCE OF MASTERING

OCT 23 WED • 6:30-9:30pm NOV 19 TUES • 6:30-9:30pm Digital Lab Program Learn how to make your mixes stand out Learn the mysteries of mastering your from the crowd! Join acclaimed engineer tracks with industry standard techniques Heidi Trefethen for an in-depth, hands-on in this engaging class with engineer orkshops exploring the INTRO TO LOGIC PRO look at how to get your final mixes radio and composer Heidi Trefethen. Ideal for ways digital music is ready, no matter the genre. experienced music producers, engineers, and SEP 17 TUE • 6:30-9:30pm Open to all levels. Wcreated and performed musicians. Join composer and performer Daniel Heidi Trefethen, Instructor today, with an emphasis on live Heidi Trefethen, Instructor Berkman for a deep dive into producing Members $60 | Public $75 performance and improvisation, Members $60 | Public $75 music in Logic Pro X. Students will learn recording, mixing, and mastering, the main features of this amazing music JAZZ & HIP-HOP IN THE MIX and the latest in state-of-the-art software application, with explorations into music production techniques in WEMUSIC! the instruments, effects, arranging, and OCT 30 WED • 6:30-9:30pm an intimate 10-seat class. Each mixing tools while working on a variety of DEC 3 TUE • 6:30–9:30pm Hip-hop producer and keyboardist Michael session is three hours. projects in class. Open to all levels. Aaberg explores techniques for remixing In this fun and interactive, hands-on class, Daniel Berkman, Instructor jazz classics into urban and hip-hop idioms Daniel Berkman demonstrates the vast Members $60 | Public $75 using Ableton Live. Experience with Ableton potential of making music on personal INTRO TO DIGITAL AUDIO electronic devices using free or low-cost Live required. PRODUCTION apps and software. Open to all levels. INTRO TO ABLETON LIVE Michael Aaberg, Instructor Members $60 | Public $75 Daniel Berkman, Instructor SEP 14 SAT • 1-4pm SEP 18 WED • 6:30–9:30pm Members $60 | Public $75 OCT 16 WED • 6:30-9:30pm Composer and producer Jef Stott will DJING & LIVE PERFORMANCE A great overview of audio production go under the hood with Ableton Live to INTRO TO MUSIC FOR PICTURE including home studio setup and gear, audio show its innovative creative workflow and W/ ABLETON and MIDI editing, effects, and mixing, with powerful music-making tools. Students DEC 10 TUE • 6:30–9:30pm a comparison of popular software including will learn how to record and edit MIDI and NOV 12 TUE • 6:30-9:30pm Learn to create evocative music and Garage Band, Logic, Ableton Live, and audio, explore Ableton’s instruments and Learn how to turn your laptop into a impactful sound design for film, video, and ProTools with producer Jef Stott. Open to all effect libraries, and learn to create basic powerful DJ performance tool using visual media, with composer and producer levels. arrangements and mixes in Ableton Live. Ableton Live, with acclaimed producer and Heidi Trefethen. Ideal for experienced musicians Open to all levels. DJ Jef Stott. Open to all levels. Jef Stott, Instructor and composers. Experience with Logic Pro Members $60 | Public $75 Jef Stott, Instructor Jef Stott, Instructor required. Members $60 | Public $75 Members $60 | Public $75 Heidi Trefethen, Instructor Members $60 | Public $75

16 17 SCHOOL PROGRAMS AWARD-WINNING PROGRAMS MAKING MUSIC EDUCATION ACCESSIBLE TO ALL

SCHOOL DAY CONCERTS OPEN SOUND CHECKS

These free performances are tailored Open Sound Checks at SFJAZZ to students in grades K-12 with are a special, behind-the-scenes leading jazz artists and educators at opportunity for schools and the SFJAZZ Center’s beautiful Miner community groups to witness Auditorium, as well as direct to public the critical preparation that goes and charter middle schools across into making the performance San Francisco and Oakland. Students a success. Select Open Sound experience jazz in all its forms, explore Checks are more hands-on and how the African Diaspora shaped our interactive in nature, and all include musical landscape, participate in a a Q&A session with the artists. highly interactive environment, and learn how jazz is alive, relevant, and continuing to grow today.

JAZZ IN THE MIDDLE JAZZ IN SESSION

Sends jazz musicians and poets into Collaborates with San Francisco and San Francisco and Oakland public Oakland schools in strengthening middle school humanities classrooms existing music instruction programs by to unlock the history of jazz from making jazz education accessible to a social, historical, and creative the public school community. perspective.

OUR SCHOOL PROGRAMS

4 Serve all San Francisco and Oakland public and charter middle schools

4 Provide over 25,000 hours of instruction each year Donate over 3,000 SFJAZZ Center concert tickets to schools and community Jazz In Session 4 groups each year

4 Provide students and educators special access to select interactive soundchecks, rehearsals, concerts, and professional development workshops ince 1983, SFJAZZ has reached out to youth with in-school performances and interactive programs. From field trips to our Sacclaimed Miner Auditorium at the SFJAZZ Center, to hands-on For more information: SFJAZZ.org/education/schools-and-partnerships learning in their very own classrooms, our school programs give students access to the legacy and rich history of jazz music.

18 For more information, please contact [email protected]. 19 THE FUTURE OF JAZZ STARTS WITH YOU

ou bring jazz to life! Whether you give $50 or $50,000, your SFJAZZ HIGH SCHOOL ALL-STARS SCHOOL DAY CONCERTS tax-deductible gift helps bring the rich tradition of jazz to Training, mentorship, and performance Free school day concerts for children in Ythousands of students, schools, and adults. You can support opportunities for advanced jazz students. grades K–12 at the SFJAZZ Center and specific programs or all SFJAZZ Education offerings through a gift of in schools. cash, stock, or a bequest in your will. JAZZ IN THE MIDDLE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS Free residencies in San Francisco and Oakland middle school classrooms. Collaborative partnerships with Bay We are grateful to the foundations, corporations, and individuals who have Area cultural arts organizations. supported SFJAZZ Education programs directly with a gift of $1,000 or JAZZ IN SESSION more in the last year: SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM Free clinician support for school band programs and teacher training. Providing students with access to jazz INSTITUTIONAL INDIVIDUAL across all programs.

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California Arts Council Concepción & Irwin Federman

Crescent Porter Hale Foundation Barbara and Ron Kaufman

Ella Fitzgerald Charitable David S. Leinbach Foundation Mr. Keith Kappmeyer

Bill Graham Supporting Foundation Ms. Linda Minor

Walter & Elise Haas Fund Susan Sillins

The Hut Foundation Webroot Inc.

The Kimball Foundation Daphne & Stuart Wells

Koret Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Thurman V. White, Jr.

Willard L. Marmelzat Foundation Fred Levin and Nancy Livingston, The Shenson Foundation, in memory Sam Mazza Foundation of Ben and A. Jess Shenson Seyfarth Shaw Charitable JIMFoundation instructor Hector Lugo

Silver Giving Foundation

Stupski Foundation

Students at a School Day Concert

For more information, please contact Rachel Wyley 20 at [email protected] or 415.283.0354. 21 CENIC BRINGS YOU HERE

School Day Concert made possible by CENIC

PARTNER SPOTLIGHT SFJAZZ EDUCATION STAFF

FJAZZ collaborates with CENIC to bring rich, world-class cultural Rebeca Mauleón Jef Stott Lyle Link arts and music to California communities. CENIC’s high-capacity Director of Education Digital Lab & Media Manager School Programs Lead Sdata network serves over 20 million users, including the vast 415.283.0326 415.283.0365 Teaching Artist majority of K-20 students together with educators, researchers, and [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] others at vital public-serving institutions. CENIC’s Charter Associates are part of the world’s largest education system; they include the Erin Putnam Jasmarie Murry Sheba Aaberg

California K-12 system, California Community Colleges, the California Ensembles Manager School Programs Coordinator School Programs Liaison 415.283.0332 650.735.1572 510.679.3109 State University system, California’s public libraries, the University of [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] California system, Stanford, Caltech, USC, and the Naval Postgraduate Veronica Limcaco School. In all, CENIC provides connectivity to 12,000 sites, serving the Vanessa Varela Jamahn Lee Administrative Assistant public as a catalyst for a vibrant California. School Programs Manager School Programs Coordinator 415.283.0343 628.400.9253 510.858.9396 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

SFJAZZ is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our tax ID is 94-2990335 22 Photography by Scott Chernis, Don Dixon & Bill Evans 23 San Francisco JazzOrganization •201 Franklin Street, SanFrancisco, CA94102 •SFJAZZ NONPROFIT ORG. “WHAT MAKES SFJAZZ SO SPECIAL? IT U.S. POSTAGE SAN FRANCISCO, CA BRINGS JAZZ INTO THE SCHOOLS SO YOUNG PERMIT #1782 PEOPLE CAN DISCOVER THE BEAUTY AND PROUD HISTORY OF THE MUSIC.” —SONNY ROLLINS . org

School Day Concert with Marcus Shelby & Tiffany Austin