Eytan Hyman

Ranzel Merritt

Rodney Jr.

San Francisco Jazz

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

SFJAZZ Center

For this special Joe Henderson Festival Hotplate, saxophonist Ranzel Merritt performs the immortal music from Henderson’s 1966 Blue Note album.

A serious young musician, composer, and producer, Merritt is the son of acclaimed drummer Ranzel Merritt Sr., veteran of work with David Murray and Pharoah Sanders. The saxophonist was mentored by Murray and is a former member of the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars, now a teaching artist with the SFJAZZ Education department and alumni of the New School in New York.