Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff
CARAVANA seeks to humanize and uplift the experiences of recently arrived migrant youth among teenagers and young college students who wish to better understand the context for recent caravanas, or organized groups of migrants. Central American artists on the frontlines, speaking their truths from their perspective and their home base community.
The last thing we want is for an entire generation of Central Americans living in the U.S. to internalize the xenophobic messages spread by mainstream media and by recent political administrations, which undermine their creativity, resourcefulness, and determination.
On March 10 – April 15, at SOMArts, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, on Friday from 3 to 5 p.m., and 5:30–7:30 p.m. Saturday/Sunday: 12:00–2:00 p.m., 2:30–4:30 p.m. Virtual Opening | Film Screening. Jazz Caliente Band Live at Riggers Loft Guitarist and composer Lee Waterman’s band, Jazz Caliente, infuses its music with lively Afro-Cuban and Brazilian rhythms. This is an all-star ensemble whose members have appeared with such luminaries as Dizzy Gillespie, Pete Esovedo, Linda Ronstadt, Michael Bolton, and the Temptations. The band’s repertoire ranges from Lee’s original compositions to tunes by Miles Davis, Tito Puente, Duke Ellington, and Sergio Mendes. Friday, April 30, 2021 – 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Cost: $5. At Riggers Loft Wine Company, 1325 Canal Blvd, Richmond, California 94804 San Jose Jazz innovates with stateof-the-art new venue “The Break Room” Set to Debut with “SJZ New Works Fest 2021” for International Jazz Day
San Jose Jazz recently announced its most forward-thinking program to date: The SJZ Break Room. A state-of-the-art pop-up video recording and performance venue inside the nonprofit’s downtown San Jose office, The SJZ Break Room launches with its inaugural production the SJZ New Works Fest 2021 set to celebrate International Jazz Day from April 29 – May 8, 2021. The SJZ Break Room hosts leading-edge jazz artists on stage (indoors) while live performances are projection-mapped with Ultra-Short Throw Projectors onto high-end projection fabric that fills a 35 x 14 feet bank of floor-to-ceiling windows (SJZ digital video wall) providing a safe, socially-distanced outdoor experience of the concerts.
The SJZ New Works Fest 2021 is a ticketed livestreaming concert (tickets $10 – $20: available at sanjosejazz.org); there will be no in-person audience indoors at The Break Room due to COVID-19 restrictions. Outdoor viewing is for the general public; no tickets will be sold for viewing the shows from San Carlos Street. Would you be interested in highlighting San Jose Jazz’s latest innovative venture The SJZ Break Room and forthcoming SJZ New Works Fest 2021? The SJZ New Works Fest 2021 features SJZ commissioned compositions from 11 SF Bay Area artists (out of a total of 33 grantees) who were recently awarded $1,000 grants through the nonprofit’s SJZ Jazz Aid Fund. The artist lineup includes GRAMMY Awardwinner Oran Etkin as the headliner (International Jazz Day: April 30 – Free
Livestream – 7:30 p.m.), as well as Bay Area musicians Kev Choice, Javier Santiago, Tammy Hall, Ten Spencer, Vân-Ánh Võ, Chris Cain, Claudia Villela, Justin Ouellet, Howard Wiley, Robbie Benson, and Ian Santillano. Bio information for all artists is listed below and available at sanjosejazz.org.
For detailed information regarding The SJZ Break Room and SJZ New Works Fest 2021, please see the press release below.
