BREAKING NEWS
Trumpeter Etienne Charles & Bassist Matt Brewer
Join SFJAZZ Collective

2018-19 Season repertoire will be
the music of Antônio Carlos Jobim & new compositions

SFJAZZ announces a new lineup of its award-winning all-star octet, the SFJAZZ Collective, with trumpeter Etienne Charles replacing trumpeter Sean Jones and bassist Matt Brewer replacing long-time bassist Matt Penman.

The two new members join a lineup featuring founding member and alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón, tenor saxophonist David Sánchez, trombonist Robin Eubanks, vibraphonist Warren Wolf, pianist Edward Simon, and drummer Obed Calvaire.

"It is a humbling honor, privilege and dream come true to join the SFJAZZ Collective,” says Charles. "In addition to being a group of some of my favorite musicians, it is truly a Collective where each member puts their heart and soul into the music they write and play."

"I have had a long history with many of the members in the SFJAZZ Collective and I am really looking forward to making music with everyone," says Brewer. "It goes without saying how high the SFJAZZ Collective's musicianship is.”

For the upcoming 2018-19 Season, the SFJAZZ Collective premieres innovative new arrangements of the work of pioneering Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Jobim and original compositions. A pioneering figure and primary creator of the bossa nova style, Jobim merged Brazilian popular song with jazz to form a new and wildly popular hybrid that captivated listeners from its inception in the 1960s to today.  The Collective highlights the pianist and composer’s immense diversity of expression, interpreting epochal work from Jobim’s timeless songbook. Recordings from these performances will comprise the SFJAZZ Collective’s next album, due to be released in early 2019.

SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE
2018 EUROPEAN FALL TOUR

Playing the Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim & Original Compositions

Oct 24: Bozar Concert Hall, Brussels, Belgium
Oct 25: National Forum of Music, Wroclaw, Poland
Oct 26: German Jazz Festival, Frankfurt, Germany
Oct 27: Auditorium de Cladas, Caldas da Raihna, Portugal
Oct 28: CCB Concert Hall, Lisbon, Portugal
Nov 1: Teatro Central, Seville, Spain
Nov 3: So What’s Next Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Nov 8-9: Cité de la Musique, Paris, France
Nov 10: Theaterhaus Gessneralle, Lausanne, Switzerland
Nov 11: Elbphilharmonie Hamburg - Hamburg, Germany

ABOUT ETIENNE CHARLES

From Trinidad, Etienne Charles is the Associate Professor of Jazz Trumpet at Michigan State University. He has received critical acclaim for his exciting performances, thrilling compositions and knack for connecting with audiences worldwide. In June 2012, Etienne was written into the US Congressional Record for his musical contributions to Trinidad & Tobago and the World. Perhaps more than any other musician of his generation or Eastern Caribbean origin, Etienne brings a careful study of myriad rhythms from the French, Spanish, English and Dutch speaking Caribbean to the table. As a soloist, he fully understands the New Orleans trumpet tradition; which is readily discernible in his trademark instrumental swagger, and what famed Crescent City pianist, Jelly Roll Morton so succinctly captured in the now immortal phrase, 'The Spanish Tinge.’

ABOUT MATT BREWER

Matt Brewer was born in Oklahoma City and grew up in Albuquerque NM, surrounded by a family of musicians and artists. His grandfather played trumpet in the bands of Charlie Barnett, Woody Herman, and Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. Matt’s mother worked as a jazz radio DJ and his father is a trombonist/educator with a doctorate in music composition and theory. Since studying at the Juilliard School, he has travelled the world playing in the bands of Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Greg Osby, Steve Coleman, Antonio Sanchez, Gerald Clayton, Vijay Iyer and many others. He has been a frequent guest lecturer at the Banff Center, and is an adjunct faculty member at the New School University.

NEW ALBUM OUT NOW!

Recorded over four nights at the SFJAZZ Center from October 26-29, 2017, this collection consists of one CD of new pieces composed by each member of the current SFJAZZ Collective with a second CD of fresh versions of selections from the Collective’s vast trove of tunes including Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk and Stevie Wonder arranged over the years by current and former SFJAZZ Collective members.

The new CD also includes a bonus DVD featuring footage of the band playing new arrangements of four Miles Davis compositions live at the SFJAZZ Center. Watch a preview of the group performing Edward Simon's arrangement of "All Blues."