Bassist

Renowned jazz bassist Rufus Reid returns to SFCM for the Roots, Jazz, and American Music (RJAM)  Department’s Big Band concert. Reid has been a hugely influential presence in the jazz world since the 1970s, and has direct ties to SFCM: He played in a long-running jazz trio with SFCM RJAM drum faculty Akira Tana and Emerging Black Composers Project winner Sumi Tonooka. This concert will be celebrating his original compositions for large jazz ensembles. 

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Roots, Jazz, and American Music Big Band Concert featuring Rufus Reid

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Spread out your picnic blankets, grab your lawn chairs, and get ready for an afternoon filled with uplifting music! The program is a joyful culmination of the ACMF season, featuring a diverse mix of tunes that will have everyone tapping their toes and swaying along.

Festival Finale: Voices of Celebration

Friends of Happy Retreat

A continuation of this year’s theme, “Voices Intimate, Voices Powerful” will provide a wonderful sample of beautiful and powerful chamber music works. Held at Camp Hill Methodist Church in Harpers Ferry, this program promises a vibrant selection of chamber music featuring the virtuosity of nearly all of our ACMF artists.


The concert opens with a powerful vocal work. Samuel Barber's "Dover Beach" sets the scene with its dramatic exploration of faith and doubt, featuring the voice of Thomas Coltman accompanied by string quartet.

Voice Intimate, Voice Powerful

Camp Hill-Wesley United Methodist Church

Imagine a summer afternoon filled with the vibrant sounds of jazz and the powerful echoes of history. The Appalachian Chamber Music Festival and the National Park Service invite you to a free concert unlike any other, celebrating the legacy of the Niagara Movement.


This concert celebrates the groundbreaking organization that paved the way for the NAACP. The Niagara Movement held its meetings at the historic Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, where this performance takes place.

Voices of the Niagara Movement

Stephen T. Mather Training Center

Join ACMF and NPS for a fun and relaxed festival finale on the historic Storer College lawn! Featuring a special performance by old time fiddler Earl White, National Park Artist in Residence participant author Nancy Cook, and more! (Rain location is on site.)

Festival Finale: Appalachia in America

Two of the most celebrated works from the 19th century Europe, Schubert’s “Trout” quintet and Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence” feature in this exhilarating program.  The Shenandoah and Potomac rivers whose confluence is in Harpers Ferry were the original inspiration for this program. The first half draws on the idea of water as a place, and in the second half provides a stunning postcard of the beautiful city of Florence. Also featuring the world premiere of “Wind and Sail” by Rufus Reid, featuring Sam Suggs, bass.


Water and Beauty

Frank Center

As the headliner of Jazz Festival 2023, Jazz at Princeton‘s Creative Large Ensemble, directed by Darcy James Argue, presents their final concert of the year with special guest artist Rufus Reid.

To learn more about the full Jazz Festival 2023 and the outdoor performances taking place on the Richardson Lawn from 12:00 to 6:30 PM.

Jazz Creative Large Ensemble

Richardson Auditorium

An eagerly-anticipated annual tradition at SJW, this concert presents some of the greatest artists in jazz, performing in combinations familiar and unfamiliar, delivering performances of unrivalled intensity, passion, and excitement. Among the artists you’ll hear are Kenny Barron, George Cables, Peter Bernstein, Rufus Reid, Larry Grenadier, Taylor Eigsti, and many others.

SJW All-Star Jam

Stanford University

This is the jazz trio at its finest. Jazz legend Kenny Barron is one of the great composers and bandleaders, whose credits include long stints with Philly Joe Jones, Roy Haynes, Lee Morgan, James Moody, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, Milt Jackson, Buddy Rich, Yusef Lateef, and many more. With Charlie Rouse, Ben Riley, and Buster Williams, he co-founded the band Sphere, devoted to the music of Thelonious Monk. Johnathan Blake is a trail-blazing musician, bandleader, and composer in his own right, but is also a regular member of Kenny’s trio — and his favorite drummer. Bassist Rufus Reid, an SJW family member for many years, is himself one of the greats of jazz, as a performer, educator, and composer. In fact, both Rufus and Kenny first played and taught at SJW in the 1980s with Stan Getz.

Bassist

Rufus Reid

Events

Past events

May 1, 2025

Roots, Jazz, and American Music Big Band Concert featuring Rufus Reid · San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Aug 19, 2024

Festival Finale: Voices of Celebration · Appalachian Chamber Music Festival

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