Guitarist

Ches Smith is an innovative drummer, percussionist, and composer deeply versed in jazz, improvisation, and experimental music. A New York-based artist with a deep connection to the Bay Area, he settles into the Joe Henderson Lab with two sets focused on his all-star Clone Row project with guitarists Mary Halvorson and Liberty Ellman along with bassist and multi-instrumentalist Nick Dunston.

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Ches Smith - Clone Row

SFJAZZ Center

The Stone Residencies - Nicole Mitchell  Duo

The New School

Guitarist extraordinaire Marc Ribot follows his muse wherever it leads, resulting in a career path that has ranged across free jazz and no wave, rock and Cuban rumba. In some circles he’s best known as a key collaborator with singular artists such as Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, John Zorn, Diana Krall, and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (contributing to their 2007 hit album Raising Sand).

The last time the mind-bogglingly eclectic checked into the SFJAZZ Center he played eight solo shows in the JHL, alternating between freely improvised sets, extended medleys of Haitian-American composer Frantz Casseus, Cuban maestro Arsenio Rodríguez and John Coltrane, and his gorgeous score for the 1924 Soviet silent film Aelita: Queen of Mars.

Marc Ribot 70th Birthday Celebration

This supergroup assembled by pianist and composer Myra Melford includes Mary Halvorson on guitar, Ingrid Laubrock on saxophone, Tomeka Reid on cello, and Lesley Mok on percussion. 

Guitarist

Mary Halvorson

Events

Past events

Oct 16, 2025

Ches Smith - Clone Row · San Francisco Jazz

30 - 31 Jul, 2025

The Stone Residencies - Nicole Mitchell Duo · The New School College of Performing Arts

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