Brubeck Festival
The Danilo Perez Trio performing during 2012 Brubeck Festival
Brubeck Festival
The Brubeck Festival is an annual event that celebrates and explores the musical, intellectual, and philosophical ideas of Dave Brubeck, as well as his influence on the world of music and ideas. The Festival features performances of jazz, contemporary concert music, lectures, and academic symposia.
The 2013 Brubeck Festival
Join us March 18-23 for the 2013 Brubeck Festival. This year's festival is a broad-based tribute to Dave's legacy that covers the spectrum of jazz: live concert performances, a documentary film about jazz history, jazz education talks/symposia, the spiritually inspired works of Dave Brubeck, and the integration of street/community-based jazz events.
In addition to the three headline artists - Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, the Tom Harrell Quintet and the Brubeck Brothers Quartet - the Festival will feature nightly performances at the Take 5 Jazz Club, talks by Marsalis and other artists and a screening of the rarely seen film Music Inn.
In its first several years, the Festival has featured many performing organizations including the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Christian McBride Trio, Capital Jazz Project, Turtle Island String Quartet, David Grisman Quintet, Hiromi's Sonicbloom, Deepak Ram Quartet, Gerald Clayton Trio, Ramsey Lewis Trio, Yosvany Terry Quartet, Pete Escovedo Orchestra, Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio, Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band, SFJazz Collective, Talujon Percussion Quartet, Quartet San Francisco, Stockton Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Mozart Ensemble, Ballet NY, and many of the ensembles of Pacific's Conservatory of Music.
Individual performing artists on past Brubeck Festivals include Dave Brubeck, Christian McBride, Bobby Militello, Michael Moore, Randy Jones, Bill Smith, Alberto Mizrahi, Kevin Deas, Jean Piche, Darius Brubeck, Bob Mintzer, Joshua Redman, Bobby Hutcherson, Nicholas Payton, Renee Rosness, Miguel Zenon, Eric Harland, Matt Penman, Isaac Smith, Roberta Gambarini, John Salmon, Julia Dollison, Geoff Keezer, Taylor Eigsti, Yosvany Terry, Gilbert Castellanos, Trio M, Maria Schneider Orchestra, and many others.
Symposia, lecture, and discussion topics have included music management and business, sociology and music, improvisation, civil rights, creativity, jazz education, cultural diplomacy, and words with music.