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SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director Brandee Younger and her all-star ensemble perform the title composition from her 2023 release “Brand New Life” during her concert on March 8, 2024 — part of the 2023-24 Season and broadcast on Fridays Live.

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Resident Artistic Director Brandee Younger begins her week with two nights devoted to her 2023 Impulse! album “Brand New Life,” a shimmering collection of works written by or performed by the late jazz harp pioneer Dorothy Ashby, along with original compositions dedicated to Ashby’s enduring legacy. Building bridges that span jazz, classical music, and hip-hop, Younger is joined for these dates by her working trio of bassist Rashaan Carter and drumming phenom Makaya McCraven, along with a string section conducted by De’Sean Jones and special guests DJ Pete Rock and vocalist Meshell Ndegeocello.

ABOUT BRANDEE YOUNGER:

Carrying on and expanding the tradition of pioneering jazz harpists Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane, Brandee Younger made her public debut in 2007 as a grad student at NYU, when saxophonist Ravi Coltrane enlisted the then-23-year-old to participate in the memorial service for his mother Alice. A student of jazz great Jackie McLean, Younger has collaborated with artists from the worlds of jazz, soul, and hip hop, including Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Pharoah Sanders, Lauren Hill, and Common. In 2021 she released her Impulse! Records debut, Somewhere Else, which earned Younger a Best Instrumental Composition GRAMMY nomination for the track “Beautiful is Black.”

PERSONNEL:
Brandee Younger: harp
Rashaan Carter: bass
Makaya McCraven: drums

SPECIAL GUESTS:
De’Sean Jones: flute, EWI, conducting
Pete Rock: turntables
Meshell Ndegeocello: vocals
Cuna Kim: violin
Jessica Folson: violin
Sarah Hooton: viola
Teresa Zhang: viola
Daniela Gonzales Siu: cello
Hung-Yu Lin: cello

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