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Jazz in the neighborhood: Scott Foster & Sheldon Brown Duets
August 10, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Advance tickets are available online. It is advised to purchase advance tickets for this event. If tickets sell out online, tickets will not be available at the door.
Jazz in the neighborhood: Scott Foster & Sheldon Brown Duets
Guitar and Saxophone Explorations
The evening will feature an Eclectic mix of jazz, original and improvised music for guitar and saxophone in an intimate duo setting. Scott and Sheldon are reuniting after a long hiatus and look forward to sharing work from their collaboration 25 years ago and updating their work together with developments that have sprung up in the interim. This will be a concert full of surprises for both the audience and performers.
Featuring:
Scott Foster – Guitar
Sheldon Brown – Saxophones
Friday, August 10, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $15 – $30 / (Door) $35 general
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Composer and woodwind instrumentalist Sheldon Brown has been active on the San Francisco Bay Area creative music scene and beyond for over 30 years. In addition to performing his original music with Sheldon Brown Group, Brown has performed with a diverse array of people and groups including Anthony Braxton, Ben Goldberg, Omar Sosa, Club Foot Orchestra, Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, Clarinet Thing and Bobby Weir. His extended original composition Blood of the Air (funded by Chamber Music America and Inter Music) premiered at the 32nd Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival, and was featured at the 16th Annual Outsound Festival. Most recently Brown performed and composed music for Club Foot Orchestra’s score for the classic silent film, Pandora’s Box, at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland.
Scott Foster has been a fixture on San Francisco jazz scene for over two decades. He can be heard performing regularly with his own group and as a sideman with the Americano Social Club, B3B4 and multitude of the bay area’s finest musicians at wide variety of venues. Scott Foster’s CD’s “Basement Sinfonietta”, “Go Small” and “Night Blooming Jazzmen” are currently available. Additionally Scott is the Performing Arts Chair and Jazz Band Director at the Urban School of San Francisco.
JAZZ IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD:
Jazz in the Neighborhood works to improve the economics of jazz performance in the Bay Area by presenting affordable concerts, paying musicians a guaranteed wage, and supporting the work of established and aspiring jazz artists.
Art • Equity • Access.
ART • Jazz is often called the one truly American art form. We honor that legacy while supporting exploration and new approaches to the genre. Jazz in the Neighborhood events provide a space for jazz musicians to be creative, spontaneous, and expressive in their interpretation of music. Our Emerging Artists program nurtures the upcoming generation of jazz musicians through mentoring and opportunities to learn on the bandstand.
EQUITY • Jazz musicians have long been participants in the “gig” economy. Very few have the security of regular employment playing jazz, especially with the decline of union representation. For many, the economics of jazz performance has become a cut of ticket sales, a tip jar, maybe a free meal, and often a day job. This kind of remuneration hardly seems fair given the knowledge, skill, and practice that’s required to become a jazz musician. So unlike many concert producers, Jazz in the Neighborhood guarantees musicians a fair wage when they perform at our events. We encourage all venues to join us in paying a guaranteed fair wage to jazz musicians.
ACCESS • We believe that everyone should be able to enjoy live jazz in a comfortable, acoustically appropriate setting at an affordable price. Many of our shows are free. When events have an admission charge, we keep the price reasonable and never turn anyone away for lack of funds. Please take a look at our events blog and calendar page for upcoming concerts.
https://jazzintheneighborhood.org/about/mission/
https://sheldonbrownmusic.com/home
PREVIEW THE MUSIC:
Friday, August 10th, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $15 – $30 / (Door) $35 general
Note: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door unless otherwise noted on the Facebook event page that the show is SOLD OUT.
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