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 […]
Continue readingJohn Fergusons performances have been praised for their “proselytizing zeal—along with fleet fingers, power, and fine dynamic control†(Boston Globe) and “impressive qualities of pianistic brilliance, strength, intellect and sensitivity†(Sacramento Bee). Ferguson has performed solo recitals in major cities throughout the US, featuring some of the most demanding and epic works in the piano […]
Continue readingUltra World X-tet performs a joyful, exotic, soulful and elegant fusion of East and West for the 21st Century. Originating and developing their sound working a regular gig at a small jazz club in downtown San Francisco, the X-tet’s reputation spread through word-of-mouth and led to concerts at Herbst Theater, San Francisco City Hall and […]
Continue readingWorks by Bach, Handel and Scarlatti. After hearing a performance of Mozart’s piano sonatas on a fortepiano as a graduate student, Trevor Stephenson began an exhaustive exploration of the different expressive and tonal possibilities of historical keyboard instruments. Working with Norman Sheppard, he began building and customizing his own historical instruments, ranging from Italian Renaissance […]
Continue readingObserve the result of almost supernatural musical aptitude combined with thousands of hours training in some of the worlds most esoteric and demanding musical methods including absolute breath manipulation, non-linear resonance tunings and expanded, intuitive song structuring. Two different performers will each perform solo sets of music and sounds that are beyond yet parallel to […]
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