Listen local at the eleventh annual SF Music Day, the Bay Area’s free daylong music festival in downtown San Francisco, presented by InterMusic SF. SF Music Day showcases the dynamism and diversity of Bay Area music, from string quartets to jazz combos, new music pioneers to chamber groups steeped in musical sounds from across the globe.
Bay Area improvisers and jazz artists performing include:
Anne Sajdera Ensemble
Applebaum Jazz Piano Duo
Ben Goldberg: In Memory Of John Shifflett
Brenda Wong Aoki & Mark Izu
Brian Ho Trio
David James’ GPS
Edgar Pantoja & the Afro-Cuban Tribe
George Brooks‘ Aspada
Jeremy Cohen’s Violinjazz
Jon Jangtet
Lisa Mezzacappa Six
Motoko Honda’s Simple Excesses
Myra Melford & Ian Winters
Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble
SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Combo
Tiffany Austin
Contemporary Music:
Earplay
Ensemble for These Times
Luminance Ensemble
The Musical Art Quintet with Lara Downes
Nomad Session
Quinteto Latino
Redwood Tango Ensemble
Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble
Splinter Reeds
ZOFO
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Life's Blood plays "Infinistism" by Rent Romus
Kim Cass - double bass
Timothy Orr - drums/percussion
Markus Hunt - double bass
Darren Johnston - trumpet
Rent Romus - alto saxophone
Livea the 6th Annual In the Flow Festival Luna's Cafe Sacramento, CA
video by Charles Smith
Myra Melford and Satoko Fujii
avantNOIR, a suite of compositions for jazz quartet plus guests, is a musical companion to the crime novels of Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster. All music by Lisa Mezzacappa.