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Vocalist Kurt Elling joins our resident superband, the SFJAZZ Collective, performing the Kurt Elling and Charlie Hunter composition “Freeman Square” during their performance on June 13, 2025 at the 42nd San Francisco Jazz Festival.

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About this concert:
SFJAZZ’s all-star resident ensemble and composer’s workshop represents what’s happening now in jazz. Performing new works and fresh arrangements of classic material, the band embodies the organization’s commitment to jazz as a living art form. For this world premiere collaboration, they are joined onstage by GRAMMY-winning vocalist Kurt Elling.

More than jazz’s renaissance man, vocalist Elling is a rising tide of creativity. In the three decades since his Blue Note Records debut, the double GRAMMY Award-winner has earned just about every honor available to modern jazz singers. Crowned “Male Vocalist of the Year” in the DownBeat Critics Poll for more than a dozen consecutive years, he’s an improviser of astonishing power and inventiveness.

PERSONNEL:
Chris Potter: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
David Sánchez: tenor saxophone
Mike Rodriguez: trumpet
Warren Wolf: vibraphone
Edward Simon: piano
Matt Brewer: bass
Kendrick Scott: drums

With:
Kurt Elling: vocals
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