The SFJAZZ Center is an all-ages music venue in the
Hayes Valley
Hayes Valley is a neighborhood in the Western Addition district of San Francisco, California. It is located between the historical districts of Alamo Square and the Civic Center. Victorian, Queen Anne, and Edwardian townhouses are mixed with hig ...
neighborhood of
San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17t ...
, that opened in January 2013. It is considered the "first free-standing building in America built for jazz performance and education." It is home to SFJAZZ, a not-for-profit organization that both presents and facilitates jazz education in the San Francisco Bay Area. SFJAZZ has, since 1983, produced the San Francisco Jazz Festival, and since 2004, the
SFJAZZ Collective
The SFJAZZ Collective is an American jazz ensemble comprising nine performer/composers, launched in 2004 by SFJAZZ, a West Coast non-profit jazz institution and the presenter of the annual San Francisco Jazz Festival.
Collective activities
The S ...
. The SFJAZZ season, in addition to the SFJAZZ-produced
San Francisco Jazz Festival and Summer Sessions, includes over 400 performances annually in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The building was designed by
Mark Cavagnero Associates
Mark Cavagnero Associates is a San Francisco, California-based architecture firm, founded by Mark Cavagnero, FAIA in 1988. The Firm's portfolio is of various public-serving projects for public, non-profit and institutional clients.
Current Project ...
, and cost $64 million to complete. The performance space is the
Robert N. Miner Auditorium, with a sound system by
Meyer Sound Laboratories. The Center features murals by
Sandow Birk
Sandow Birk (born 1962 in Detroit) is an American visual artist from Los Angeles whose work deals mainly with contemporary American culture. Seven books have been published on his works and he has made two films. With an emphasis on social issu ...
and
Elyse Pignolet
Elyse Pignolet is a visual artist living and working in Los Angeles, California.
Early life and education
Born in Oakland, CA, Elyse Pignolet is an American with Filipino heritage. She studied fine arts at California State University, San Fran ...
.
References
External links
SFJAZZ website
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Music venues in San Francisco
Jazz clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area
Jazz organizations
Non-profit organizations based in San Francisco
Arts organizations based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Arts organizations established in 2013
2013 establishments in California
2013 in San Francisco