2014 Festival Brochure
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Celebrating the Blues 2 days featuring 8 more days featuring Plus: healdsburgjazz.org AN EVENING OF JAZZ ON FILM WITH ARCHIVIST MARK CANTOR Co-Produced by Healdsburg Jazz and Smith Rafael Film Center SUNDAY, MAY 18 • SMITH RAFAEL FILM CENTER 1118 Fourth Street, San Rafael 6PM FILM AND Q&A 8PM Wine and Music Reception with PIANO JAZZ by KEN COOK Ticket Cost: Discount for current members of CFI and Healdsburg Membership Card required Film & Q&A: $15/$12 for members Film, Q&A and Reception: $25/$20 members Advance tickets online at cafilm.org or at the Rafael Box Office Film archivist extraordinaire Mark Cantor returns this year for a Healdsburg Jazz Festival tune-up,“Jazz Night at the Movies” at the Smith Rafael Film Theater in San Rafael. There could be no better way for festival goers seeking a little (or a lot) of history about the great American art form Healdsburg Jazz presents every year than by attending a screening by Mark. His collection of jazz film clips is over 4,000 strong, including all the greats from most genres of jazz, blues and jazz dance: Dizzy, Tatum, Ella, Bird, Trane, Satchmo, Billie— you name it. Mark will have words to say about each of the clips he screens, and afterward viewers are invited to chat with him during a music and wine reception with Ken Cook on piano. Ticket sales and seat reservations secured by credit card available by phone only. Adults $25, must be accompanied by a child. Student seats must be reserved by credit card. 707.433.4644, M-F 11-4. A great friend of the Healdsburg Jazz Charles and Zakir’s band Sangam knows how Festival, saxophone sage Charles Lloyd well the saxophone and tablas match up. returns on June 8 in collaboration with tabla At the workshop the musicians will discuss legend Zakir Hussain and dancer Antonia the instruments’ mechanisms and histories Minnecola to present a free interactive and demonstrate how versatile they are in workshop geared for children called cross-cultural projects, including working “Common Ground.” The special event is with dancers like Antonia, who is one of free to children grades K-12, and $25 for American’s leading exponents of kathak, the adults, who must be accompanied by at rhythmic and expressive dance of North India. least one child. Anyone who has listened to FUNDED IN PART BY THE CITY OF HEALDSBURG. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jessica Felix ARTISTIC DIRECTOR VICE CHAIR Rollie Atkinson CHAIR Edward Flesch SECRETARY A C M OU O N N T Dennis Abbe O Y S LIF CA ORN TREASURER IA REPUBLIC AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY RECREATION Randy Coleman Roy Gattinella Gloria Hersch Loretta Rosas HONORARY MB BOARD MEMBERS Elizabeth Candelario Frank Carrubba Doug Lipton Circe Sher Pamela Watson, CPA Background color - do not use GENERAL COUNSEL James DeMartini PROGRAM NOTES David Rubien City of Healdsburg DESIGN Project AHIMSA Ranch7 Creative Community Foundation Sonoma County Healdsburg Area Fund FESTIVAL PHOTOS Healdsburg Rotary Club Curtis Thomson Healdsburg Sunrise Rotary Club George Wells Kiwanis Club of Healdsburg COVER PHOTOS Tompkins/Imhoff Family Fund James Radke Steinway Pianos PRINTING provided by Barlow Printing HEALDSBURG JAZZ PRE-FESTIVAL CONCERTS At last year’s Healdsburg Jazz Festival, bassist Marcus Shelby—a composer of Ellingtonian sweep and ambition— enacted his suite Soul of a Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a 16-piece jazz orchestra and 100+ strong HJF Freedom Jazz Choir created especially for the festival with help from a grant provided by the James Irvine Foundation. This year, Shelby plans to repeat the magic on another of his suites, Harriet Tubman, Bound for the Promised Land. As with last year, the project is “about using music as a unifying force,” according to Jessica Felix, founder and creative director of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival and the project. “We want to involve Sonoma County’s diverse population by offering direct performance opportunities for participants to work alongside professional musicians, creating a profound cultural experience and fostering cooperation and understanding while expanding awareness and access to jazz.” The singers will get coaching from Shelby and singer Tiffany Austin. Adam Ivey, director of Santa Rosa’s Joyous Noise Community Baptist Church Ensemble, has been commissioned to compose two pieces for the ensemble. The dynamic Ms. Faye Carol will once again contribute her soulful MARCUS SHELBY ORCHESTRA vocals. When released on disc in FEATURING FAYE CAROL 2007, Bound for the Promised Land and the HJF FREEDOM JAZZ CHOIR proved a landmark effort. Combining performing modern jazz, soul and spirituals, it richly evoked the life of the escaped slave and abolitionist. With close to 100 singers telling her story in Healdsburg, transcendence is practically guaranteed. 2014 SCHEDULE FRIDAY 5/30 MONDAY 6/2 CONT. FRIDAY 6/6 CONT. Marc Cary “Tribute to Mission Gold Jazz Band and Walter Savage Bucket List Abbey Lincoln” New Horizon Stompers HOTEL HEALDSBURG LOBBY HEALDSBURG SHED COSTEAUX BAKERY & CAFÉ 25 Matheson Street 25 North Street 417 Healdsburg Avenue 9PM-Midnight | No Cover 7PM & 9PM | $25 7PM | $30 (includes cookie) Pre-Concert Dinners at 5:30 and 7:30 SATURDAY 6/7 Reservations required TUESDAY 6/3 Benny Barth Trio Groovemasters w/Rhonda Benin SEASONS OF THE VINEYARD SUNDAY AM 6/1 HEALDSBURG PLAZA 113 Plaza Street Blues Brunch with Guy Davis 6-8PM | Free 4-6PM | No Cover DAVIS FAMILY VINEYARDS Carlitos Medrano & Meet the Vintners 52 Front Street Sabor de Mi Cuba ERICKSON FINE ART GALLEY 11AM | $20 PARTAKE BY K-J 324 Healdsburg Avenue SATURDAY 5/31 241 Healdsburg Avenue 4-6PM | No Cover SUNDAY 6/1 8-10PM | Reservations recommended Ron Carter Quartet plus the “Celebrating the Blues” WEDNESDAY 6/4 Healdsburg High Jazz Band 2 days featuring Charlie Musselwhite Mads Tolling Quartet RAVEN THEATER JACKSON THEATER SPOONBAR 115 North Street 4400 Day School Place, Santa Rosa 219 Healdsburg Avenue 7:30PM | $75 | $55 7:30PM | $75 | $55 | $45 7:30-10:30PM | No Cover Reserved Seating Reserved seating. Dinner reservations recommended Lorca Hart Trio SAT. DAY 1, BLUES MEETS JAZZ THURSDAY 6/5 HOTEL HEALDSBURG LOBBY 25 Matheson Street Set 1: “Blues on the Porch” Marcus Shelby Orchestra 9PM-Midnight | No Cover Musselwhite, Elvin Bishop, Guy Davis & the HJF Freedom Jazz Choir Set 2: “Continental Drifter” RAVEN THEATER SUNDAY 6/8 John Santos y Sus Soneros, with 115 North Street Charles Lloyd & Zakir Hussain Charlie Musselwhite 7PM | $20 Interactive Workshop SUN. DAY 2, JAZZ MEETS BLUES FRIDAY 6/6 RAVEN THEATER Set 1: Joshua Redman Quartet with 115 North Street Smith Dobson Quartet guest Charlie Musselwhite 11AM | K-12 Free PARTAKE BY K-J Set 2: Charlie Musselwhite Band with Adults accompanied by child $25 241 Healdsburg Avenue Joshua Redman Purchase & reserve: 707.433.4644 5-7PM | Reservations recommended Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band MONDAY 6/2 Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes Duo Claudia Villela Trio Jazz and Wine Dinner With very special guest RODNEY STRONG VINEYARDS Kai Devitt-Lee Trio Bobby Hutcherson 11455 Old Redwood Highway DRY CREEK KITCHEN RAVEN THEATER 3PM, gates open at 2PM 317 Healdsburg Avenue 115 North Street $65 Shaded Chairs | $45 Lawn 7-10PM | Reservation recommended 7:30PM | $65 | $45 Reserved Seating TO PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE: healdsburgjazz.org PHONE: 24/7 ticket hotline 800.838.3006 WALK-IN: Levin & Cº., 306 Center St., Healdsburg No service fees for cash and checks. All credit card sales will include service fees. TICKETS ARE ON SALE AT THE VENUES ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT, SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY. JUNE blues brunch SUN 1 G U Y DAV IS Davis Family Vineyards | 52 Front Street | Healdsburg 11:00am | $20 | Brunch Vendor TBA Healdsburg Jazz & Wine Club Event: Wine Club Members receive one free ticket and a glass of wine. Non-members welcome. Guy Davis may be from Hopkins, Robert Johnson Yorker, son of actors Ruby New York City, but when and Taj Mahal. After Dee and Ossie Davis, has you hear him play the joining Healdsburg Jazz won a Blues Album of guitar you are instantly Festival honoree Charlie the Year award and was transported to the Deep Musselwhite and Elvin nominated nine times South, creekside. In Bishop for a “Blues on for W.C. Handy awards. his slick fingerpicking the Porch” set May 31, As an artist who not only and raspy vocals, Davis Guy will do a solo Blues embraces the bygone brings to mind a host of Brunch the following rural blues but re-creates country blues artists, like morning at Davis Family it, Guy is as invaluable Charley Patton, Lightnin’ Vineyards. This New as he is entertaining. marc cary solo & trio M AY TRIBUTE TO ABBEY LINCOLN FRI 30 Healdsburg SHED | 25 North Street | Healdsburg 7:00pm & 9:00pm | $25 | Pre-concert dinners at 5:30 & 7:30 Pre-Concert Dinners 5:30 and 7:30 | Reservations required: 707-431-7433 Reserved concert seating for ticket holders with dinner reservations. Jazz tends to be an mostly of his solo piano, than they do on the CD, extroverted type of but on a few numbers just as they don’t sound on music. Musicians create he will be joined by the CD the way he played and then push the two highly sympathetic them when he was in her sounds out dynamically. players, David Ewell band. Improvisation, of Occasionally, though, on bass and Howard course, is supposed to artists show up who Wiley on drums guarantee that live jazz doesn’t repeat itself. have the gift of letting By the time Marc released But there’s a formality everything come to For the Love of Abbey, his to that concept that has them.