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SFJAZZ Collective @ 58N6

SFJAZZ Collective (Dave Douglas, Stefon Harris, Matt Penman, Eric Harland, Renee Rosnes, Joe Lovano, Robin Eubanks, Miguel Zenón) performs Stefon Harris' arrangemnt of Wayne Shorter's "Go", Feb 26, 2008.

The SFJAZZ Collective is an all-star jazz ensemble comprising eight of the finest performer/composers at work in jazz today. Launched in 2004 by SFJAZZ—the West Coast’s largest non-profit jazz institution and the presenter of the annual San Francisco Jazz Festival—with invaluable start-up funding from the James Irvine Foundation, the Collective has quickly become one of the most exciting and acclaimed groups on the American and international jazz scenes. As The New York Times hailed the Collective upon its debut: “A serious jazz band rises in San Francisco.”

In addition to its outstanding line-up, the SFJAZZ Collective has been praised for its innovative approach to repertoire. Each year, the ensemble performs an entirely new list of works, consisting of compositions by a modern jazz master and new pieces by the Collective members (commissioned by SFJAZZ). Through this pioneering approach, simultaneously honoring jazz’s recent history while championing the music’s up-to-the-minute directions, the Collective embodies SFJAZZ’s organizational commitment to jazz as a living, ever-changing, and ever-relevant art form.

To cultivate its distinctive sound, the SFJAZZ Collective convenes in San Francisco each spring for a multi-week residency. Throughout this extended rehearsal period—a rarity in today’s jazz—the octet workshops the season’s new repertoire and interacts with the Bay Area community through SFJAZZ’s education programs for youth and adults. The Collective then takes to the performance stage, including home season concerts under the auspices of the SFJAZZ Spring Season and a national and international tour, with stops in a number of the world’s most prominent concert halls.
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SFJAZZ Collective performs Stefon Harris’ arrangement of Wayne Shorter’s “Go”.

SFJAZZ Collective is made up of eight of the best jazz musicians on the planet, and in February 2008 we had the great honor of hosting one of their 2008 tour concerts, from which recordings and photos from our studio later appeared on their triple-CD Live 2008: 5th Annual Concert Tour.

The band rolled in a day ahead of time to take care of all the technical arrangements (mic placements, quick run-throughs, etc), and then the following day they performed a blistering 2-hour + concert featuring over a dozen tunes, and I had a front row seat! Some were originals, and some were arrangements of pieces by jazz great Wayne Shorter, whose music was SFJAZZ Collective’s theme for 2008. I was entirely blown away by the entire band, but especially so by bassist Matt Penman and vibraphonist Stefon Harris, whose Shorter arrangement is featured here in this video. Alto player Miguel Zenon and Harris are the soloists.

About 70 people were in attendance for this. SFJAZZ Collective’s other stops included amazing rooms like Frederick P. Rose Hall/Rose Theatre (home of Jazz at Lincoln Center), so you can imagine how an intimate concert by such high-caliber musicians like the one given at 58N6 was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for me and for many others in the audience. Check out the video to see the close quarters!

SFJAZZ Collective 2008: Miguel Zenon - alto sax, Joe Lovano - Tenor Sax, Dave Douglas - trumpet, Robin Eubanks - trombone, Stefon Harris - vibraphone, Renee Rosnes - piano, Matt Penman - bass, and Eric Harland - drumset.