SFCM Roots, Jazz, and American Music: Big Band Concert
Big Band
Program
One of SFCM's newer ensembles, this Roots, Jazz, and American Music (RJAM) ensemble pulls nearly a dozen different instruments together to take on music many have never played before. The ensemble is a collaborative performance by musicians from the RJAM, winds and strings programs, and led by the Executive Director of the RJAM program, Jason Hainsworth.
Thad Jones: Cherry Juice
Ervin Drake, Harry Lenk & Juan Tizol (arr. Gerald Wilson) (Transcribed by David Berger): Perdido
Phineas Newborn, Jr. (arr. Jason Hainsworth): Theme for Basie
Diane Schuur (arr. Dennis Wilson): Travelin’ Light
Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe (arr. Joshua Cossette): On the Street Where You Live
Benny Golson (as performed by The Dizzy Gillespie Big Band) (Edited by Christopher Crenshaw for Jazz at Lincoln Center): Whisper Not
Traditional (arr. Oliver Nelson) (as recorded by the Oliver Nelson Orchestra on “Live From Los Angeles”): Down by the Riverside
Roots, Jazz, and American Music
Jason Hainsworth
About SFCM’s Roots, Jazz, and American Music Department
Roots, Jazz, and American Music is a first-of-its-kind program that links a world-class music conservatory to an award-winning jazz concert venue at SFJAZZ. A program for undergraduate and postgraduate students that takes a holistic view of jazz from its inception to its current status, RJAM prepares the next generation of great jazz artists by engaging students in an innovative model of apprenticeship with all-star faculty, including members of the SFJAZZ Collective. Students in the RJAM program have the opportunity to perform in multiple venues in the Bay Area, and to collaborate and learn from some of the top jazz artists on the concert circuit today.
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