A supremely soulful jazz singer, San Francisco native Mary Stallings has appeared alongside jazz greats including Cal Tjader, Dizzy Gillespie and the Count Basie Orchestra. For this SFJAZZ date she’s paired with world-class pianist Bill Charlap and his telepathic trio with bassist Peter Washingto...

“One of the most exciting emerging artists in Latin music” (LA Weekly), the 2015 Latin GRAMMY winner for Best New Artist brings their singular hybrid that merges the simmering French jazz manouche style of Django Reinhardt with dance-inspiring Latin American rhythms and myriad modern influences. ...

A Carnegie Hall initiative led by acclaimed trumpeter and composer Kris Johnson, National Youth Orchestra Jazz is a remarkable ensemble made up of the greatest young jazz musicians in the country who travel the world as cultural ambassadors, bringing the ever-youthful spirit of the music to audie...

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Trumpeter, composer, and 2011 NEA Jazz Master Wynton Marsalis brings the most recent iteration of his iconic Septet to the Miner stage for four performances over two d...

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The reigning kings of psychedelic funk return to the Miner Auditorium stage for a sublime summertime redux, bringing a power-packed celebration of groove in support of their new Lettuce Records...

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An artist who “gracefully melds two worlds, merging the improvisational spirit of jazz with the compositional intricacies of Western classical music” (DownBeat), pianist Aaron Diehl performs w...

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A Juilliard grad best known as a member of Louis Cato and the Late Show Band, the house band for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Detroit-reared bassist Endea Owens is also making her SFJAZZ...

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The most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz for more than half a century, virtuoso pianist, composer and arranger Chucho Valdés celebrates 60 years of musical alchemy with the SFJAZZ ...

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The most prominent artist blurring lines between acoustic jazz, hip-hop, and contemporary R&B, GRAMMY-winning pianist and composer Robert Glasper performs music from Everything’s Beautiful, his ...

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Drummer, composer, and producer Makaya McCraven returns as part of the 2025–26 cohort of SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Directors, revisiting his “In These Times” ensemble featuring his core group, pl...

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Trumpeter, composer, and SFJAZZ Executive Artistic Director Terence Blanchard celebrates the centennials of jazz icons Miles Davis and John Coltrane, one of the great jazz partnerships of all t...

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New Orleans piano maestro Sullivan Fortner debuted at the SFJAZZ Center in the superlative company of Cécile McLorin Salvant. He celebrated Thelonious Monk’s birthday in 2024 with three sublime solo sets and riveted t...

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GRAMMY-winning bassist, singer, and songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello cut her teeth on Washington D.C.’s explosive go-go circuit in the 1980s and was one of the first artists signed to Madonna’s Ma...

Bay Area native Taylor Eigsti has built a career on superlatives. A virtuoso pianist who began his journey at age four, he released his debut album at 14 and began teaching at Stanford Jazz Workshop the following year. Now a two-time GRAMMY winner and four-time nominee, Eigsti has built a remarka...

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Winner of the 2013 Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition, Melissa Aldana is clearly one of jazz’s leading lights. Her latest Blue Note album, Echoes of t...

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This night is inspired by Miles Davis’s landmark late 50s and early 60s large group collaboration with arranger Gil Evans that yielded four orchestral jazz classics including the seminal 1960 a...

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Few singers in recent memory have earned the well-deserved buzz for being “the next big thing” as Michael Mayo.

The son of singer Valerie Pinkston (Beyoncé, Diana Ross) and saxophonist Scott ...

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The opening night of Immanuel Wilkins’s residency will be the world premiere of an SFJAZZ-commissioned new work entitled Recitations, featuring pianist, singer, composer, and 2024 NEA Jazz Mast...

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This night is inspired by Miles Davis’s landmark late 50s and early 60s large group collaboration with arranger Gil Evans that yielded four orchestral jazz classics including the seminal 1960 a...

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The beloved Georgia-born, Paris-raised jazz vocalist and songwriter Madeleine Peyroux returns for her first SFJAZZ appearances in fifteen years, taking the Miner Auditorium stage with songs fro...

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For this performance, pianist Omar Sosa revisits the musical alchemy he achieved in collaboration with Cuban violinist and singer Yilian Cañizares on their joint 2018 ...

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“The most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday” (NY Times), five-time GRAMMY winner and 2018 NEA Jazz Master Dianne ...

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English soul star Joss Stone, who’s been in the spotlight since winning the BBC Television talent show Star for a Night at 13, makes her SFJAZZ debut in the midst of h...

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A rising star and a veteran master share this double bill as part of Terence Blanchard’s UpSwing series.

A disciple of Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson and Bobby Hutche...