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We are very pleased to present the return of "The Sunshine Jazz Concert Series", to be presented on the first Friday monthly at The Sandrell Rivers Theater. This lovely venue's namesake is near and dear to our hearts, and the theme of our first event is as well. Please join us for a birthday tribute to SJO Founding Father "The Mahj" China Valles! The evening's music magic will feature dear friends "Mojo Ike and Lady Val Woods Band". 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM, Friday, November 5, 2021 at The Sandrell Rivers Theater, 6103 NW 7th Ave., Miami, FL 33127; 305-284-8800 | Free Covered Parking; https://www.sandrellriverstheater.com; Admission $16.00 | Tickets/Reservations can be purchased on the Sandrell Rivers Theater website, and at the box office. *Become a new SJO member or renew your membership and admission to our December 3rd concert will be waived! Please contact us at: ChinaVallesSJO@gmail.com. Love, Peace and Jazz! The Sunshine Jazz Organization Celebrating Our 35th Season! Keith Valles (305)710-2555 Holly Spillane (954)554-1800 www.sunshinejazz.org www.facebook.com/SunshineJazzOrg Promoting America's Precious Artform in South Florida Since 1986 SJO programming is presented with support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. SJO EVENTS ARE ADA COMPLIANT We Hope to see your Face in the Place! Website: https://go.evvnt.com/920034-0?pid=4480

July 29, 2021 – summer 2023 Seeing America: 18th & 19th Centuries North Wing We believe in Hudson Rivers School paintings as historic documents of American land and life, and I want to shift these paintings for you. -Saya Woolfalk As artist in residence since 2019, artist Saya Woolfalk has immersed herself in the Museum’s American art and natural science collections. With Saya Woolfalk, Tumbling Into Landscape the artist has created an intervention exploring questions of identity and belonging in relationship to the land and multiple histories of the United States. Drawing attention to what is represented—and more often not represented—in these luminous, Eden-like paintings, Tumbling Into Landscape features a new self-portrait by Woolfalk with a selection of the Museum’s Hudson River School paintings, including six recently conserved works on view for the first time in decades.

Maddaloni Jewelers present the 20th Annual Festival of Watches and the debut of Tonino Lamborghini Watches. Founded in 1981 by Tonino Lamborghini, 2nd generation of the LAMBORGHINI industrial dynasty, the company has evolved into a luxury lifestyle and design powerhouse, creating superlative watches, sunglasses, leather, smartphones, restaurants, jet-setters hotels, food, and beverage, from coffee to vodka and energy drinks, distributed in 40 countries around the world. SWISS-MADE, DESIGNED IN ITALY With the support of the designers of its Centro Stile, constantly under the supervision of Tonino Lamborghini, the company has designed and manufactured timepiece models that, over the years, have become real style icons. Following the Lamborghini family’s vision and constant inspiration, the company’s designers have created unique watches like the Spyder, a watch totally inspired by the shield of the brand’s emblem that encloses the “Miura raging bull,” or timeless pieces like the Cuscinetto, whose first edition goes back to 1983. The new Tonino Lamborghini Swiss Watches collection has been completely conceived and designed by Ferruccio Lamborghini, Tonino’s first son, who represents the third generation of the Lamborghini family. Together with a team of designers and a historic Swiss watch manufacturer, Ferruccio has created eight new lines of timepieces that elegantly combine his father’s past and his experience in the 2-wheels world. A brand-new range of performing Swiss watches dedicated to daring, bold, audacious, intrepid, fearless, and pioneering people, with remarkable resourcefulness. A Unique Gathering of Watch Styles and Collections will be available on display. Friday, November 12th, 7 PM To RSVP, call 212-847-1371

Join the acclaimed Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble for an exciting evening of music with a "Latin Tinge". We are excited to play live again after 18 months. The group will be presenting music spanning the entire spectrum of the Latin Jazz idiom -- classic and modern Salsa, Latin Jazz, traditional Cuban songs, and more! We are particularly featuring the music of famous vocalists Celia Cruz and Rubén Blades and local composer John Calloway. The music is guaranteed to make you want to jump out of your seat! The event takes place at Stanford's Dinkelspiel Auditorium on the Stanford campus on Friday, November 19 at 7:30 PM. Advance tickets are available online for $185 general/$13 students and seniors. In addition, the concert is free to Stanford students with valid SUID. TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED ONLINE through the "BUY TICKETS" button above. Covid Policy: You must either show proof of vaccination or a negative test within 72 hours, and masks are required. Established in 2008 by Grammy-nominated pianist Murray Low, the ensemble has emerged as one of the premier academic performing groups of its kind. As prior recipients of a prestigious SiCA (Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts) grant, SALJE has been affored the opportunity to collaborate with several luminaries in the field of Afro-Latin music, including Karl Perazzo, John Santos, Ray Vega, John Calloway, Jesus Diaz, Wayne Wallace and flautist Andrea Brachfeld. These master musicians and educators have helped to elevate the ensemble's performance acumen, as well as aid in establishing Stanford as a vital West Coast center for Afro-Latin Jazz.

The Alan Barnes All Stars Octet presents "Copperfield" With Alan Barnes on saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet, Bruce Adams on trumpet, Mark Nightingale on trombone, Robert Fowler on saxophones and clarinet, Karen Sharp on saxophones and clarinet, David Newton on piano, Simon Thorpe on bass, and Clark Tracey on drums Like the Dickens classic itself, Alan Barnes's "Copperfield" has something for everyone. A great night out that is also a treat for the jazz connoisseur; it will delight anyone who loves music or literature - or just being entertained! This new suite of pieces, touring for the first time this year, takes the audience through the characters and scenes of ‘David Copperfield". Readings from the original Dickens tell the story, and after each scene eight virtuoso musicians bring the characters and scenes to life, switching audiences from hilarity to pathos with a skill that would have done credit to Dickens himself! A cheery clarinet plays Copperfield, the lost orphan Little Em'ly is a lyrical tenor, Mr Dick flies his kite in the personage of a soaring flugelhorn and trombone, Mr Micawber expresses "Something will turn up!" on the piano and Uriah Heep writhes around on the bass clarinet. Just as we see David progress through the trials of his life, so the movements of this suite seem to develop along with him. The music and readings inspire the full range of Dickens's imagination and emotion: from loneliness and remorse through to love and then irresistible joy. "Barnes is a true Dickensian. He is a serious reader of the novels. It is a clear blunder of providence that he was born too late to appear in their pages!" Hot News.

Russell Malone is one of the signature guitar players of his generation. The several recordings since 1992, Malone is as well-known on the international circuit for helming a world-class quartet and trio as he is for his long-standing participation in Ron Carter’s Golden Striker Trio, and his recent consequential contribution to the musical production of the likes of Sonny Rollins and Dianne Reeves, who recruited Malone for his singular tone, refined listening skills, limitless chops, and efflorescent imagination. In all these circumstances, Malone addresses the tradition of its own terms, refracting the vocabularies and syntax of such heroes as Charlie Christian, Chet Atkins, George Van Eps, Johnny Smith, Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Pat Martino, and George Benson into an argot entirely his own. A master of all tempos, a relentless singer, he spins his stories – in idioms ranging from the urban and downhome blues, country, gospel, various corners of the American Songbook, and hardcore jazz – with a soulful, instantly recognizable instrumental voice, and seasons them with sophisticated harmonies that are never “too hip for the room.” “I take pride on being open enough to play with anybody,” says Malone, citing encounters with such diverse artists as B.B. King, Andy Williams, James “Blood” Ulmer, and Ornette Coleman. “I love to swing, but I won’t turn up my nose at any style of music-or any other musician – because it’s different. I’ll play with anybody, if the music is good.”

7pm Open Healing: Albert Ayler | Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet / Pheeroan akLaff – drums

7:20pm Film: Butterfly Silver by Robert Fenz excerpt (4 minutes)

7:30pm RedKoral Quartet, String Quartet No. 10: Angela Davis into the Morning Sunlight | Shalini Vijayan – violin / Mona Tian – violin / Andrew McIntosh – viola / Ashley Walters – cello

8pm Wadada Leo Smith’s Purple Kikuyu and RedKoral Quartet, “Flight 93 in Pennsylvania’s Sky: No Greater Love – A Remembrance of Their Beauty & Courage” | Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet / Pheeroan akLaff – drums /Erika Dohi – piano / Sylvie Courvoisier – piano / Shalini Vijayan – violin / Mona Tian – violin / Andrew McIntosh – viola / Ashley Walters – cello

8:30pm Wadada Leo Smith’s Purple Kikuyu: New York City's Central Park in August | Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet / Pheeroan akLaff – drums / Erika Dohi – piano / Sylvie Courvoisier – piano

9pm Thulani Davis with Wadada Leo Smith & RedKoral Quartet - Recitation and Music: Billie Holiday, Dark Lady of the Sonnet | Thulani Davis - poet / Shalini Vijayan – violin / Mona Tian – violin / Andrew McIntosh – viola / Ashley Walters – cello

9:30pm Film: Trumpet and Camera by Robert Fenz excerpt (10 minutes)

10pm Prayer | Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet / Pheeroan akLaff – drums

6:30pm Jason Kao Hwang Myths of Origin for 30 Strings

7:30pm Knife & Rose | Patricia Nicholson – text, movement / Ellen Christi – voice / Jean Carla Rodea – voice / Francisco Mela – drums, voice

8:30pm Watershed | Steve Swell – trombone, comp. / Karen Borca- bassoon / Rob Brown – sax / Melanie Dyer – viola / Bob Stewart - tuba / TA Thompson – drums / guest, Dave Burrell – piano

9:30pm Monique Ngozi Nri - poetry / Ahmed Abdullah - trumpet

10:30pm Natural Information Society | Joshua Abrams – bass, gimbre / Lisa Alvarado – harmonium/ Jason Stein – bass clarinet / Mikel Patrick Avery – drums / Special guests: William Parker – bass, gimbre / Hamid Drake - drums

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About The Vision Festival

Founded in 1996, the Vision Festival is New York City's longest continuously running jazz festival. Now in its 26th year, this festival of music, dance, poetry, and visual art is heralded as “one of New York’s most essential art events” (New York Times). Performances feature legendary and emerging stars representing the free jazz, experimental, and avant-garde communities and include Lifetime Achievement honorees like Amina Claudine Myers, Andrew Cyrille, Dave Burrell, Peter Brötzmann, and Milford Graves. This year, we honor Wadada Leo Smith and Oliver Lake.

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Trombonist/composer John Yao reconvenes his audacious three-horn quintet Triceratops in celebration of its bold, inventive second album. Musically scratching that prehistoric itch, trombonist/composer John Yao has once again unleashed his three-horn terror Triceratops on unsuspecting listeners with the band’s even more audacious second outing, Off-Kilter. The album title is an apt one, vividly capturing the exhilarating sense of risk-taking and disconcerting invention that make up this boldly unpredictable album.

"Yao’s compositions hold the kind of steady, swinging cadence of classic Blue Note bop, but with a definite post-bop edge in their spikey harmonies.” – Jackson Sinnenberg, DownBeat

"[Yao’s] music swings, lopes and races forward. All five of the bandmembers share command of their instruments and a likeminded sense of joy that makes the album feel like an amusement park ride: energetic, exciting, yet safe." – Franz A. Matzner, All About Jazz

While How We Do featured some of Yao’s most envelope-pushing music to date, he deliberately stretched the limits even further on Off-Kilter. The compositions are at once daringly complex yet expansive and open, challenging these gifted players while offering limitless space in which to venture and discover.

John Yao, Trombone
Bill Drewes, Alto and Soprano Saxes
Mitch Marcus, Tenor Sax
Robert Sabin, Bass
Jason Tiemann, Drums

Latin Grammy nominated artist Sonia De Los Santos brings a joyful sound to children of all ages with the music of Latin America. Sharing songs of hope and community in English and Spanish, Sonia's music uplifts. Celebrate the end of a challenging school year together with a family concert.

Sonia De Los Santos was born with a smile on her face (that's what her mom says) in Monterrey, Mexico, and in 2007 started touring the world and performing with Grammy Award winning group Dan Zanes And Friends. In 2015 she released her first solo family music album titled Mi Viaje: De Nuevo León to the New York Island (Parents' Choice Foundation Gold Award Winner) a collection of songs that reflect her experiences growing up in Mexico, moving to another country, learning about other cultures, and in the process, feeling closer to her own heritage.

Sonia was nominated in 2019 for a Latin Grammy® with her second family music album titled ¡Alegría! and has been hailed by Billboard as “one of the Latin Children’s music artists you should know” and "Best Latin Children's Music".


“One of the Latin Children’s music artists you should know” and "Best Latin Children's Music" (Billboard)


This engagement of Sonia De Los Santos is funded through the Mid Atlantic Tours program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.