A Sunday Kind of Jazz

This is fun and very swinging music, perfect for a summer afternoon. Award-winning composer Lenny Carlson writes challenging but user-friendly pieces and plays jazz guitar in the tradition of Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery. Hal Richards adds visual as well as musical interest by performing on every conceivable saxophone, clarinet and flute. The program also […]

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Yuri Liberzon

Keith Jarrett Köln Concert Part IIc Toru Takemitsu arrangements of songs of the BeatlesSergei Rudnev The Old Lime-Tree, (Lipa vekovaia)Konstantin Vassiliev Three Forest PaintingsJohann Kaspar Mertz ElegieJean Baptiste Lully Ouverture de la Grotte de VersaillesRobert De Visée Suite No. 11 in B minorSylvius Leopold Weiss Tombeau Sur La Mort De M. ComteJoaquin Turina Sonata Op. […]

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sfSound

Erik Ulman Ocean (World Premiere) Mathias Spahlinger Fugitive Beauté (American Premieres)Matthew ShlomowitzFast Medium SwingBrian Ferneyhough ColoraturaChristian Wolff ExercisesMatt Ingalls Trio LargosfSound is a unique collective of composer/performers that performs its own music compositions, commissions new work, performs avant-garde repertory and develops highly creative “radical transcriptions” of modern masterpieces. Presenting contemporary and experimental music concerts in […]

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Rudy Salvini Octet

Jazz and Standards from the Great American Songbook, plus originals.In the aggregate, the members of The Rudy Salvini Octet bring, literally, several centuries worth of musical experience to Old First. Collectively, they are a virtual embodiment of that fabled period in Bay Area music known as the big band jazz era. Just a partial list […]

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