SF’s Conservatory of Music RJAM Side-by-Side Concert

Submitted by the Event Organizer

WHAT’S COOL ABOUT THIS EVENING OF JAZZ:

It’s a night honoring protest songs and music of hope.
Hear RJAM faculty members Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, Edward Simon, and other guests perform.
Side-by-side concerts pair students with members of the SFJAZZ Collective and RJAM faculty to give these young proteges exceptional performance experience.
It will feature new music created by students specifically for this performance.

This concert is extra special: to invite you into San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s concert halls, select performances during the fall semester (like this one) are expertly filmed and feature special intermission content, including virtual artist meet-and-greets, composer interviews, and mini master-classes with top faculty.

Performers:
Chad Lefkowitz-Brown
Lyle Link (SFJazz)
Edward Simon
SFCM RJAM Students

Program:

Joe Henderson
Power to the People

Stevie Wonder
Living for the City

Billie Holiday (Abel Meeropol)
Strange Fruit

Sonny Rollins
Strange Fruit

Sly and the Family Stone
You Can Make it if you Try

Duke Ellington
Black, Brown, and Beige

Donny Hathaway
Someday We’ll All Be Free

Marvin Gaye
What’s going on

Charles Albert Tindley
We Shall Overcome

Tonight’s performance is the culmination of a multiple-day residency, with students and faculty working side-by-side to conceive, workshop, and rehearse their original material and arrangements of jazz standards.

ABOUT RJAM:
The Roots, Jazz, and American Music program at the San Francisco Conservatory of music presents original compositions and arrangements by freshmen all the way to seniors alongside their faculty members. Past performances have included world-renowned jazz greats such as Carmen Bradford, Matt Wilson, Julian Lage, Chad-Lefkowitz-Brown, as well as SFJAZZ Collective members David Sanchez, Warren Wolf, or Edward Simon.

The performance is the culmination of a multiple-day residency, with students working side-by-side with faculty to conceive, workshop, and rehearse their original material and arrangements of jazz standards. The individual pieces will be announced from stage.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.