Charles Tolliver: Silent and Superb
Charles Tolliver brought Coltrane’s Africa/Brass to SFJAZZ with a commanding quintet and 15 Conservatory musicians. The performance soared, even as introductions, context, and an encore went missing.
Stewart Copeland Tests The Police at Orchestral Scale
Stewart Copeland brings Police Deranged for Orchestra to Miner Auditorium, reworking the Police catalog with symphonic scale and raising questions about how much bite survives the expansion.