This time on “Drop the Needle,” Preservation Hall Jazz Band bassist, tubist, and Creative Director Ben Jaffe dives deep into his formative influences and shares his memories and emotions about a cross-section of adventurous jazz and a New Orleans pop classic.

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Jazz’s greatest artists trace the evolution of a composition from conception to performance, and you’re invited on the journey – backstage and on-stage.

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The legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band with guest Tarriona “Tank” Ball of Tank and the Bangas perform XXXXXXXX during their concert on August 18 as part of Summer Sessions 2023, broadcast on...

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New Orleans legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band performs Ben Jaffe and Tao Rodríguez-Seeger’s Afro-Cuban inspired composition “L...

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SFJAZZ presents a New Orleans institution and a national treasure, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Founded in 1961 to preserve and promote the traditional jazz of the...

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Blues legend Taj Mahal performs a tribute to saxophonist Lester Young with his version of the 1924 Gershwin classic “Lady Be Good” during his performance on August 4, 2023, part of Summer Ses...

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Equal parts preservationist and visionary, Taj Mahal is the closest thing we have to an American griot. His music embraces the raw energy of field hollers, the rent-party gumption of early jazz, the urbane grooves of rhythm and blues, the church-derived cadences of soul music...

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Equal parts preservationist and visionary, Taj Mahal is the closest thing we have to an American griot. His music embraces the raw energy of field hollers, the rent-par...

Blues legend Taj Mahal in an illuminating conversation with SFJAZZ exectuite artistic director Terence Blanchard. They discuss Taj’s musical upbringing growing up in Massachusetts, his passion for world music, as well as the diversse range influnces that shaped his newest recording “Savoy”. Watch...

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Drummer/composer Nate Smith and his KINFOLK band perform his composition “Rambo” from his 2021 album “KINFOLK 2: See the Birds” during his concert on September 22, 2022 as part of the 2022-23 Se...

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At the center of a jazz dynasty that encompasses Havana, New York, Mexico City and borderlands physical and metaphorical, GRAMMY Award-winning piano virtuoso, compose...

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Celebrating 70 years of amazing music, woodwind genius, Latin Jazz icon, and 2005 NEA Jazz Master Paquito D’Rivera settles in for two nights on the Miner stage with his...

Afro-Cuban jazz legend Paquito D’Rivera and his quintet perform his composition “To Brenda With Love” from his 1989 album “Tico Tico” during his performance on September 26, 2025, part of the SFJAZZ 2025-26 Season and broadcast on Fridays Live.

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SFJAZZ presents a cosmic jazz orchestra and a cultural phenomenon, the Sun Ra Arkestra. They continue the legacy of its visionary founder Sun Ra, who blended music, ph...

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The Sun Ra Arkestra perform Marshall Allen and Ronnie Boykins’ 1960 composition “Angels and Demons at Play” during their performance on July 21 as part of Summer Sessions 2023, broadcast on Fri...

The iconic Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Knoel Scott performs the Sun Ra composition “Carefree” during their performance on August 1, 2025, part of Summer at SFJAZZ.

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Drummer, composer, and SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director Terri Lyne Carrington and her New Standards band perform vocalist Gretchen Parlato’s composition “Circling,” fil...

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SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director Terri Lyne Carrington and her all-star sextet perform Linda May Han Oh’s “10 Minutes Till Closing” and Marilyn Crispell’s “Rounds” during their Feb...

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Jazz vocal great Dee Dee Bridgewater and pianist Bill Charlap perform Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges’ 1944 hit “I’m Beginning to See the Light” during their concert on April 28, 2023 — part o...

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GRAMMY-winning pianist Bill Charlap has established himself among the most respected keyboardists in jazz and leads one of the longest lived and telepathic piano trios...

The masterful Bill Charlap Trio with Dee Dee Bridgewater and Nicholas Payton perform the 1930 Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard classic “Mood Indigo” during their concert on September 29, 2024 — part of the 2024-25 Season and broadcast on Fridays Live.

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Bassist and composer Christian McBride performs guitarist Ely Perlman’s composition “Elevation” during McBride’s performance with his new quintet on 6/11/22 at the SFJAZZ Center, broadcast on Fr...

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Christian McBride New Jawn perform McBride's original composition "Via Mwandishi," for the West Coast debut of McBride’s exciting “New Jawn” project —...

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Alto saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins is one of the vital voices of jazz in the 21st century. A native of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, Wilkins moved to New York...