Troker & Subharmonic’s Jazz Scene | Yerba Buena Gardens
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Yerba Buena Gardens (Esplanade) | 773 Mission St., San Francisco, CA
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SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2023 (May 6 – Oct. 28)
The 2023 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival hosts a full lineup of free outdoor music, theater, circus, dance, poetry, and children’s programs. The Festival opens on Saturday, May 6 at 1:00pm with John Santos Sextet + The Afro-Peruvian Coalition.
Now in its 23rd year, the Festival will run each and every week and weekend until October 28 and is located between Mission and Howard Streets and Third and Fourth Streets in downtown San Francisco.
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2023
May 6 – October 28, 2023
Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission btwn Third and Fourth, SoMa, SF
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Though little known in the US, Mexico’s jazz scene bristles with genre-bending bands, and one of the most creative is Troker. Founded in Guadalajara in 2004, the group has honed a potent fusion of jazz, funk, DJ scratching, and mariachi horns. Stocked with world-class improvisers from different regions of Mexico, Troker creates music that sounds like a soundtrack for a surreal action film, with mesmerizing rhythms and arresting juxtapositions.
A sensational live act, it’s the only Mexican band selected to perform in elite international showcases in Europe such as Jazzahead and WOMEX. Expect the unexpected.
Subharmonic is the sound of the Bay Area’s Jazz Mafia horns, unleashed by heavy rhythmic grooves. By using any means necessary, Subharmonic’s multi-instrumentalists create the sound of everything from a futuristic mega-orchestra to 1920s Cotton Club dubstep by sampling, looping, layering and manipulating an array of brass instruments and beyond. Trombone, trumpet, sax, clarinet and tuba all lock in with remixed electro/acoustic rhythms from Max Roach and Charles Mingus to brass/jazz remakes of Joni Mitchell, Radiohead, J Dilla or Prince, as well as original compositions by Adam Theis.
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Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, Live Music