Night one of Shulman’s Joe Henderson Lab residency is an intimate duo performance with the legendary Bay Area saxophonist Noel Jewkes.

Born into a musical family who formed a swing band to play at local functions in his nateive Utah, Jewkes clearly has jazz in his blood, starting on saxophone and clarinet at 12. A stalwart presence on the Bay Area scene since the 1960s, Jewkes has amassed a staggering resume of work with local and national artists including Jon Hendricks, Weslia Whitfield, Lavay Smith, Mike Bloomfield, Mary Stallings, Jackie Ryan, and Larry Vuckovich.

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Adam Shulman & Noel Jewkes Duo

SFJAZZ Center

There’s nothing like a jazz dialog between two great tenor saxophonists. The format has some serious precedents: Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster, Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, and John Coltrane and Hank Mobley – to name just a few. Noel Jewkes has long been considered one of the top jazz players in the West, and longtime SJW faculty member and alumnus Patrick Wolff has been on everyone’s list of rising stars to watch for many years. In this sublime pairing, these two masters of the idiom will show us all what friendship and mutual respect can do in a musical setting. They’ll each showcase their own playing with one of the finest rhythm sections around, and will likely combine their sounds a bit, too.

Noel Jewkes

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Nov 14, 2024

Adam Shulman & Noel Jewkes Duo · San Francisco Jazz

Jul 9, 2023

Patrick Wolff Quartet & Noel Jewkes · Stanford University Department of Music

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