Stanford Shopping Center's Annual Summer Jazz Series

EVENT DATES: 6/18/2015 - 8/6/2015

When: Thursdays, June 18 - August 20, 2015 6:00 - 7:30pm
Where: The Courtyard, between Nordstrom and Crate & Barrel.

Stanford Shopping Center swings into summer with the return of Summer Jazz. International and local jazz legends will perform everything from swing to straight ahead jazz. This year, the ten-week series of free concerts will take place in the courtyard between Nordstrom and Crate & Barrel. The event is produced by SFJAZZ.

2015 Summer Jazz Concert Series
6/18: Stanford Jazz Workshop
6/25: Joomanji
7/2: Beso Negro
7/9: Pamela Rose
7/16: North Beach Brass Band
7/23: Erik Jekabson Quintet
7/30: Mads Tolling
8/6: The Clifford Brown 3
8/13: Marcus Shelby Trio featuring Tiffany Austin
8/20: Gaucho

Emcee: Clifford Brown, Jr.

Stanford Jazz Workshop Faculty All-Stars 6/18

The Stanford Jazz Festival is pleased to kick off its 44th season of bringing together the world’s great jazz artists with young musicians from all over the world. Renowned as educators as well as maintaining careers as leading performers, the Stanford Jazz Workshop All-Stars present an afternoon of new arrangements of classic jazz, featuring saxophonists Patrick Wolff and Andrew Speight, trumpeter Erik Jekabson, pianist Matt Clark, bassist John Wiitala, and drummer Hamir Atwal.

stanfordjazz.org

Joomanji 6/25

Joomanji was formed in 2010 by Jonah Christian, Amir Oosman, and Robert Finucane. The multi-faceted instrumentalists met at the University of California Santa Cruz whilst studying Jazz and Electronic Music. Their first release, MANJ, gained attention from Earmilk, BamaLoveSoul, and Pigeons & Planes, and hit #1 on Bandcamp’s Neo-Soul & Nu-Jazz Top 500 charts, respectively. The group has also been featured on Bandcamp’s Weekly homepage and Reddit’s official best of 2013 “Listen toThis”.

Joomanji has had the pleasure of collaborating with artists such as Devin the Dude, Carlitta Durand, Chris Young the Rapper (VIBE) and many more. The group has relocated to Los Angeles and currently features Lindsay Olsen, Austin Antoine and Joseph Salcedo. Productions consist of live recordings mixed intermittently with vinyl chops. The resulting music is a fusion of crisp instrumentals with that vintage sound that us hip hop heads all love.

joomanji.bandcamp.com

Beso Negro 7/2

Beso Negro has an all-star lineup of internationally experienced musicians who have brought drive and passion to Gypsy Rock. The love for tradition has collided with a modern sensibility and has transformed the genre into a vibrant new beast. Darker, faster, more danceable, more blues, more Gypsy, Beso Negro’s indelible fingerprint brings Jazz Manouche to a new generation and to the 21st century.

Beso’s pyrotechnic gypsy rock has set many a stage ablaze, having energized hundreds of crowds at festivals and venues such as: Outside Lands Music Festival, Oregon Country Fair, SXSW, Russian River Jazz & Blues Festival, Symbiosis, Whole Earth Festival, Slim’s SF, The Great American Music Hall, and countless clubs and events. Whether the setting is large or intimate, the electrifying passion of Beso shines through in their rave-garnering performances.

besonegro.net

Pamela Rose7/9

Pamela Rose is a San Francisco jazz and blues vocalist who thrills audiences locally and internationally with her swinging, soulful style. Rose is that rare breed of entertainer who connects solidly with her audience by always delivering a personal and unforgettable musical experience.

With 6 recordings to her credit and a book on the history of women in early jazz and blues (Wild Women of Song: Great Gal Composers of the Jazz Era), Rose definitely keeps up a busy schedule of national tour dates and local shows. Appearing at Stanford with some of her favorite players (Tammy Hall, Ruth Davies, Kristen Strom, Deszon Claiborne) Pamela Rose will be bringing her favorite blend of jazz, blues and original music to the stage.

“Outstanding vocals...Rose sings in the deftly cadenced voice of a natural storyteller, ratcheting up or coyly coddling various emotions with grace and a true understanding of lyrics.” Frank-John Hadley, DownBeat

pamelarose.com/whatshot.htm

North Beach Brass Band 7/16
San Francisco’s homegrown North Beach Brass Band is a traditional
brass band playing early New Orleans jazz, iconic show tunes and
electrified funk and wry reworkings of popular pop songs.

Led by tuba man Ed Ivey, the band’s lineup consists of sax, trumpet,
trombone, tuba, bass drum, snare drum and often guitar and piano. NBBB
celebrates the Big Easy sound with an array of straight-up brass band
classics in the spirit of Rebirth Brass Band, Trombone Shorty, Dr.
John, The Meters and Kid Ory.

This versatile group of San Francisco’s best brass players do it all, from
Louis Armstrong’s favorites to danceable versions of great hits from
artists like James Brown, War, Hugh Masakela, The Meters, Jobim, Miles
Davis and dozens more.

NBBB is also proud to conduct brass band classes for young musicians
every Saturday at Bird School Of Music in San Francisco. The band will
feature student players from the class at this concert!

reverbnation.com/northbeachbrassband

Erik Jekabson 7/23

Erik Jekabson is a freelance trumpet player, composer, arranger and educator who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Erik has four CDs out under his own name, most recently: “Erik Jekabson Quartet & John Santos: Live at the Hillside Club” (2014). He’s recorded as a sideman on over 25 other jazz recordings, as well as in many other genres of music and soundtracks. He’s spent time on the road with John Mayer, Galactic, and the Howard Fishman Quartet, and has performed at notable venues such as the Algonquin Room, Madison Square Garden, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with David Letterman. His own Electric Squeezebox Orchestra plays every Sunday at Doc’s Lab in San Francisco. Erik’s quintet features frequent collaborators Kasey Knudsen on alto sax, Matt Clark on piano, John Wiitala and Smith Dobson on drums. They’ll be playing Erik’s original music and arrangements of standards.

erikjekobson.com

Mads Tolling 7/30

Mads Tolling, internationally renowned violinist and composer is a two-time Grammy Award-Winner. As a former nine year member of both Turtle Island Quartet and bassist Stanley Clarke’s band, Mads has spent most his professional life touring internationally. Since 2007 Mads has lead his own group, Mads Tolling Quartet. “The Playmaker” released in the fall of 2009, features Stanley Clarke and jazz greats Russell Ferrante & Stefon Harris. A brand new MTQ album: “Celebrating Jean-Luc Ponty – Live at Yoshi’s” was released in May, 2012. Mads has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, and his recordings have received rave reviews in Downbeat Magazine, Strings Magazine, Washington Post & San Francisco Chronicle. He is a recipient of Denmark’s Sankt Annae’s Award for Musical Excellence as well as grants from Queen Margaret, Sonning Foundation and the Berklee Elvin Jones Award.

madstolling.com

The Clifford Brown 3 8/6

Heavily influenced by the American Songbook, Clifford Brown III, Josh Jones, and Brian Ho apply a modern jazz aesthetic to traditional jazz values.

Marcus Anthony Shelby 8/13

Marcus Anthony Shelby is a bandleader, composer, arranger, bassist, educator, and activist who currently lives in San Francisco. His work and music has focused on sharing the history, present, and future of African American lives, on social movements in the United States of America, and on early childhood music education. Shelby is an artist in residence with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and the Artistic Director of the Marcus Shelby Orchestra. In March 2013, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee appointed Shelby to the San Francisco Arts Commission where he

marcusshelby.com

Gaucho 8/20

Gaucho began in San Francisco, in the winter of 2001 as a Django Reinhardt or “gypsy jazz” style band. As the band grew, learned and searched for material, they quickly discovered a shared love of the music that inspired Reinhardt himself, namely, the American performers and composers of the Great Jazz Age as well as the music that followed in the 1930’s, such as Jimmie Rodgers, the Mills Brothers and Louis Armstrong. During this time, they also became instantly popular on the scene in Mission District of San Francisco, where they have played at Amnesia every Wednesday night for over 13 years. They have performed for many of the great local San Francisco institutions such as The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Sonoma Jazz Festival, SFJAZZ, The Healdsburg Guitar Festival, Pixar, Google, Twitter, The Gap and Facebook.

gauchojazz.com