About This PROGRAM

Jazz history, live performance, and lively conversation make Discover Jazz the most distinctive jazz appreciation course available for adults. Each series includes stellar live performances by critically acclaimed guest artists, curated examples of historically significant recordings, and engaging Q&A.

From Atlantic and Blue Note to Impulse!, Prestige, Verve and many others, these iconic record labels produced some of the world’s greatest jazz recordings and documented decades of the musical lexicon for fans around the globe. In this Discover Jazz series, guitarist, bandleader and educator Terrence Brewer guides us on a nostalgic look back at some of the greatest jazz albums of all time.

ABOUT THIS CLASS

For our opening class on Blue Note Records, Brewer and company honored iconic albums that chronicled the evolution from swing to bebop, and on to the sounds of hard bop and modal jazz. Founded by German-Jewish immigrants in 1939, Blue Note Records documented every major advance in jazz music and is still a trendsetting imprint today. The musical selections for this program cover a range of critically acclaimed albums recorded between 1949 and 1965, featuring the music of stellar artists Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Lee Morgan and Herbie Hancock. The excellent ensemble for this class features three members of our celebrated SFJAZZ Collective along with stalwarts Kristen Strom and Sundra Manning.

Setlist
Sonnymoon For Two Sonny Rollins
Along Came Betty Benny Golson (as recorded by Art Blakey)
Totem Pole Lee Morgan
Maiden Voyage Herbie Hancock
Lazy Bird John Coltrane

Personnel
Kristen Strom sax
Michael Rodríguez trumpet
Sundra Manning piano
Matt Brewer bass
Kendrick Scott drums
Terrence Brewer guitar, presenter