Aidin Vaziri July 23, 2021Updated: July 23, 2021, 2:57 pm
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band will return to the SFJazz Center. Photo: Laura Morton / Special to The Chronicle
It’s hard to imagine anyone being more excited about SFJazz announcing its first season of live programming in more than a year than the organization’s founder, Randall Kline.
“We all need it,” he said last week, calling from southern Italy where he was on a summer trip with his family. “Music is the balm of life. We couldn’t ask for a more impactful time.”
His enthusiasm doesn’t stop there. On July 22, SFJazz revealed the lineup for its 2021-2022 season, with over 300 full-capacity concerts scheduled to take place at the center’s Miner Auditorium and Joe Henderson Lab halls, as well as at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and Paramount Theatre in Oakland, from Sept. 23 to May 29, 2022.
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Mick LaSalle May 18, 2021Updated: May 18, 2021, 6:09 pm
Chucho Valdés performs at SFJazz Center. Photo: Scott Chernis, Photo By: Scott Chernis
The San Francisco Jazz Festival plans to go virtual for the second year in a row with two dozen broadcasts of archival festival performances, despite the city’s move to allow more in-person events.
But that doesn’t mean all the offerings will be virtual during the festival’s run, which is set for June 4-25, said Randall Kline, founder and executive artistic director of SFJazz.
“We’re easing our way back into it, one toe at a time,” he said on Tuesday, May 18.