Our Alone Together series is a celebration of spontaneous creation, presenting exclusive and unrehearsed duo performances captured live in the intimacy of the SFJAZZ Center. Whether they’re longtime collaborators or meeting on stage for the first time, these world class artists are improvisors of the highest level, creating powerful musical dialogues in the moment.

For this up-tempo duet, SFJAZZ Collective vibraphonist Warren Wolf and drummer Kendrick Scott go full speed on a special duo rendition of Dizzy Gillespie’s iconic “Bebop.”

ABOUT THE SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE

An all-star ensemble comprising the finest performer/composers at work in jazz today, the SFJAZZ Collective was conceived to create fresh arrangements of works by a modern master and newly commissioned pieces by each member of the band. Following last season’s inspired concept to reflect the moment by re-arranging socially relevant classics along with debuting fresh compositions that reflect the tumultuous state of the world, the band is changing things up yet again.

ABOUT WARREN WOLF

Warren Wolf is a multi-instrumentalist from Baltimore, MD. Wolf began playing vibraphone, marimba, drums, and piano at age three, studying at Peabody Institute preparatory program and the Baltimore School for the Arts with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra member John Locke. After graduating in 1997 he enrolled at the Berklee College of Music in Boston for studies with master vibraphonist Dave Samuels, graduating in 2001 and returning as an instructor from 2003–2005. Warren became an active musician on the national scene after leaving Berklee, working with Bobby Watson, Tia Fuller, Christian Scott, Donal Fox, Christian McBride, and Karriem Riggins and his own Wolfpack band.

ABOUT KENDRICK SCOTT

Named "Rising Star - Drums" by DownBeat magazine and a "Drummer Whose Time is Now" by The New York Times, Kendrick A.D. Scott is a premier drummer and composer of his generation. The Houston-born Scott has toured worldwide and recorded with artists including Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Marcus Miller, Charles Lloyd, Wayne Shorter, The Crusaders, Joshua Redman, Robert Glasper, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Dianne Reeves, Kurt Elling, Gretchen Parlato, and the Blue Note All-Stars. Kendrick’s compositions have been recorded on GRAMMY-winning records, and he won a 2017 Chamber Music of America New Works Grant funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. He has released five albums as a bandleader with his band Oracle, The Source (2007), Reverence (2011), Conviction (2013), We Are The Drum (2015), and A Wall Becomes A Bridge on Blue Note records. Scott is on faculty at the Manhattan School Of Music.

Personnel:

Warren Wolf: vibraphone
Kendrick Scott: drums