Name: Marcus Shelby New Orchestra
Start: 2026-05-10T19:00:00
Location: SFJAZZ Center

Marcus Shelby

San Francisco Jazz

“Jaw-dropping… one of the finest saxophonists going” (Pitchfork), Rudresh Mahanthappa is a visionary artist, blending a master’s touch on the alto saxophone with an exploratory compositional voice informed by the Carnatic musical traditions of his south Indian heritage.

Rudresh Mahanthappa Hero Trio

SFJAZZ Center

A rising vocal star and two-time JUNO Award winner, Montreal-based singer and songwriter Dominique Fils-Aimé performs two nights in the Joe Henderson Lab with music from her latest album, Our Roots Run Deep, which took the 2024 JUNO for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. “What she does with her voice is absolutely incredible” (NPR).

Dominique Fils-Aimé

For his second 2025-26 Season performance, bassist and bandleader Marcus Shelby and his New Orchestra tackle the era-defining music trumpet icon Miles Davis and his nonet recorded in 1949 and 1959 that was released under the name Birth of the Cool — a pivotal moment in the development of “cool jazz.”