Friday February 12, 8 pm

Todd Sickafoose’s Tiny Resistors ($18/15)

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Bay Area native Todd Sickafoose has recorded and performed
with many notable innovators and genre-benders, including Ani DiFranco, Andrew Bird, Don Byron, Trey Anastasio, Jenny Scheinman, Nels Cline, Ron Miles and Myra Melford. Presenting material from his new CD Tiny Resistors.

A captivating improviser, imaginative composer, and master of collaboration — San Francisco Chronicle.

Ani DiFranco’s secret weapon. — The New Yorker

Saturday February 13, 8 pm

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Destani Wolf brings her powerful vocals and an eclectic sound — soulful grooves punctuated with urban and latin music — for a special love-filled Valentine’s day weekend concert. Featuring passionate and uplifting songs from her album Again and Again, along with raw and emotional blues. With special guest guitarist Johnny Talbot.

Sunday February 14, 4:30 pm

Jeff Marrs and the Red Planet Lovers ($15)

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This all-star quartet presents a hard-driving mix of originals and re-imagined standards.
Featuring Mike Zilber, saxophone; Matt Clark, piano; Peter Barshay, bass; Jeff Marrs, drums.

Highlighting Jazzschool faculty

Mimi Fox
Releases new Jazz Guitar Method book by Mel Bay Publications entitled:"Graduated Soloing,the Mimi Fox Guitar Method".

Releases new inter-active DVD by True Fire:"Flying Solo"(solo jazz guitar mastery). Learn more at www.mimifoxjazzguitar.com

Jazzschool Faculty Grammy Nominee's
La Guerra No
John Santos Y El Coro Folklórico Kindembo
Best Traditional World Music Album

QSF Plays Brubeck
Quartet San Francisco - Jeremy Cohen, Alisa Rose, Keith Lawrence and Michelle Djokic
Best Classical Crossover CD of the Year and Best Engineered Album, Classical

Jazzschool Faculty member Wayne Wallace receives 4 and 1/2 star review
Downbeat, January 2010.
Available now in the Jazzschool Books and Records store!

Jazzschool Faculty member Mark Levine Featured in Downbeat, January 2010
Available now in the Jazzschool Books and Records store!

20th Anniversary of Mark Levine’s Jazz Piano Book!

Since its publication 20 years ago, Mark Levine’s acclaimed Jazz Piano Book has been an essential text for jazz pianists around the world. Join us as we celebrate Mark’s great achievement with a weekend of concerts featuring terrific piano-led groups, including Mark’s own trio!

Chicago-Born Vocalist and Jazzschool Institute Student Jua Howard Is First Recipient of the School's Mark Murphy Vocal Jazz Scholarship 
Press Release

Improvisation Workshop with John Stowell

A hands-on explanation and demonstration of simple ways to expand your harmonic palette using melodic and harmonic minor scales, arpeggios and triads. Reharmonizations of progressions and tunes are also covered. All levels and instruments welcome, but intermediate to advanced students are recommended.

Saturday February 13, 3:30 – 5:30 pm
john stowell 
$30 Jazzschool students/$45 others
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Jazz Composition Workshop with Todd Sickafoose — Outside the Staff Lines

Bassist/Composer Todd Sickafoose talks about texture, rhythm, dynamics, pacing and repetition as ways to shape music without getting bogged down in pitch and harmony. And then we talk about pitch anyway because it’s fun. Please bring instruments & music paper. If you have music that you are working on, please bring that too.

Sunday February 14, 2 – 4 pm
todd sickafoose 
$30 Jazzschool students/$45 others
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A captivating improviser, imaginative composer, and master of collaboration. 
— San Francisco Chronicle

Ani DiFranco’s secret weapon.   — The New Yorker

A Bay Area native, Sickafoose spent some years in Los Angeles studying bass with Charlie Haden and composition with the great, late Mel Powell. Since then, he’s been recording and performing with a ton of innovative folks and genre benders including Ani DiFranco, Andrew Bird, Don Byron, Trey Anastasio, Jenny Scheinman, Nels Cline, Ron Miles, Myra Melford, Tin Hat Trio, Adam Levy, Skerik, Stanton Moore, Bobby Previte, Scott Amendola, Will Bernard, Stebmo, Jessica Lurie, Shane Endsley, Erin McKeown, Anaïs Mitchell, Gina Leishman, Carla Bozulich, Noe Venable, Etienne de Rocher, James Carney, Erik Deutsch, Tony Furtado, and Darol Anger.  The consistency of his personal voice within wildly diverse collaborations prompted the LA Weekly
in 2004 to call Todd “one of the most comprehensive musical minds of this coast.” Since 2005, Todd has been living in Brooklyn, NY.

Exploring Jazz Guitar

This workshop, taught by world-class guitarist John Stowell, focuses on chord construction, chord melodies, scale substitution and building solo lines.

Sunday February 14, 11 am – 2 pm
john stowell 
$45 Jazzschool Students/$60 others
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Portland-based guitarist John Stowell has published numerous popular jazz guitar method books and videos, most recently “Jazz Guitar Mastery,” which is available at Jazzschool Books and Records

The Mandinka Kora, A Harp of Sub-Sahara. (Lecture/Demonstration)

The Kora is a 21-string harp of Sub-Saharan West Africa. The Kora is played by an endogamous group of bardic musicians who are the keepers of history in Mandinka society. The Mandinka empire was one of the great empires of the 13th century, and its bardic traditions are one of Africa’s most conspicuous music exponents. In this lecture/demo Kane Mathis explains the musical mechanisims and social context for the Kora and the Mandinka bards. This lecture features plenty of musical demonstrations and lots of discussion of how music is learned in Africa and other high-context environments. High-context learning environments are learning situations where the student is trained specifically for the professional situations they will encounter after having completed their training, in many case they are even trained in those environments.

Sunday February 14, 11:45 am – 1:45 pm
kane mathis 
$15 general admission
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Kane Mathis has been making trips to West Africa for the last 13 years to study with families of hereditary musicians and his recordings are played regularly on Gambian national radio. Kane is highly active internationally as a performer in both traditional and contemporary contexts.