"the Bay Area's best young jazz musicians in the spotlight" The San Francisco
Chronicle
"Solo Series reignites jazz scene" Oakland Tribune
"pushing the limits of new jazz" The San Francisco Bay Guardian
The Solo Series enters its fourth orbit around San Francisco's thriving jazz
scene, and will once again point the spotlight on a crew of key musicians who
have helped steer the music forward. Each night, the series will showcase
four of the most gifted young saxophonists, vocalists, brass players, and
percussionists who have helped represent the Bay Area jazz community on the
national and international scene.
The Solo Series will feature Musical Director Sharon Hirata and the group
rhythm section of the impeccable Josh Jones Trio. The Solo Series is unique
in that it allows the musicians to step onto the stage as a featured artist,
composer, arranger and soloist for the night, where they make the calls to
the band and liberate their own forms of spontaneous creativity. The
schedule for '97 is as follows:
I. Saxophone August 16 featuring Sharon Hirata from Papa's Culture,
D'Armous Boone from Anibade, young saxophone phenom Howard Wiley, and Joshi
Marshall from Mingus Amungus
II. Vocals August 23
III. Brass August 30
IV. Percussion September 6
The 4th annual Solo Series carries on in the innovative tradition laid down
by the first 3 years as an event where you can hear and experience the
multi-faceted and deep-rooted jazz styles of the Bay Area -- from Afro-Cuban
to hard-bop, heavy funk to hiphop -- in their pure, creative states.
For more information, contact BlueVision at 415.267.5975 or allbluev@aol.com.
Advance tickets are available at ticketweb.com