Saxofonist

Howard Wiley’s Miner performance is a celebration of soul-jazz, funk, gospel, and R&B steeped in West Coast flavor. Combining Wiley’s hard-driving originals with a funkified selection of classics, this is an evening of stirring uplift and non-stop party vibes. Wiley is joined by a cadre of groove masters including guitarist Jubu Smith, organist Lionel “LJ” Holoman, bassist Eric Smith, and drummer Dante Roberson, and special guests to be named later.



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Howard Wiley: California Love

SFJAZZ Center

Exploring the dichotomous connection that exists between cutting loose on Saturday night and the repentance of Sunday morning, saxophonist and Resident Artistic Director Howard Wiley performs a program that will alternately get you out of your seat and help cleanse your soul. For these February nights in the Joe Henderson Lab, Wiley is joined by an all-star band including organist Damien Sneed, bassist Reginald Veal, and drummer Darrell Green.

Howard Wiley: Saturday Night to Sunday Morning

A drummer, educator and bandleader of the first order, San Francisco-raised Jaz Sawyer has worked with many of jazz’s most formidable artists, from Wynton Marsalis, Abbey Lincoln, and George Benson to Bobby Hutcherson, Jacky Terrasson and Dee Dee Bridgewater.

For this exclusive night, he honors the memory of the late pianist and organist Ed Kelly with a superb quartet including legendary guitarist Calvin Keys, saxophonist Howard Wiley, and organist Tammy L. Hall.



Jaz Sawyers's Soul Jazz Pioneers

Having been mentored by Bay Area great Jules Broussard and sharing formative bandstand experiences with the likes of Clark Terry, Jason Moran, Orrin Evans, and Lauryn Hill, saxophonist Howard Wiley is a shining example of innate musical talent meeting opportunity, and inventiveness inspired by tradition.

Guitarist Terrence Brewer has an encyclopedic grasp of jazz history embedded in his fingers, and a fresh approach to harmony, improvisation, and performance that will elevate you. Each artist will lead their own band featuring jazz organist Tim Campbell in this exciting doubleheader.

Terrence Brewer / Howard Wiley

Braun Music Center

In a series of “gripping portraits of a vast social upheaval” (Chicago Tribune), Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran’s deeply personal presentation Two Wings explores the Great Migration of six million Black Americans from the rural South to northern cities, the West, and beyond.  The husband and wife duo—he a MacArthur Fellow and acclaimed jazz composer and pianist, she a celebrated classical vocalist and composer—trace their family histories through the music that accompanied these brave travelers throughout the 20th century, from Harlem Renaissance-era jazz tunes, gospel hymns, bebop standards, and Broadway show tunes, to classical and chamber music and the Morans’ own compositions. The program even passes through California, where both families put down roots and where Hall Moran was born.  Two Wings also references influential texts by Black authors, historians, and poets. The production, in its West Coast premiere, will be recreated especially for Cal Performances audiences, with a star-studded roster of performers, writers, thinkers, and special guests.

Howard Wiley

Saxofonist

Events

Mar 23, 2024

Howard Wiley: California Love · San Francisco Jazz

3 - 4 Feb, 2024

Howard Wiley: Saturday Night to Sunday Morning · San Francisco Jazz

Jul 13, 2023

Jaz Sawyers's Soul Jazz Pioneers · San Francisco Jazz

Jul 11, 2022

Terrence Brewer / Howard Wiley · Stanford Jazz Workshop

Feb 17, 2022

Jazz:Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration ·

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