The Jazzschool Piano Sale
Night at the Movies
Svetlana and her award-winning New York Collective will take listeners on a dynamic musical journey with innovative jazz arrangements of soundtracks from the American Movie classics and French New Wave, to modern day Academy Award-winners and Animated films. This concert reflect moments of joy, passion, sharp humor, reflection, and most of all, fantasy, and will transport the audience to the carnival of sound, seamlessly moving from sophisticated retrospection to a rowdy “exuberant, foot-stomping music combining swing and pop-singer/songwriter sensibilities" (WPIX11TV, NYC). Be ready to sing along or do some swing dancing!
Randy Porter and his trio (piano, bass, drums) return to the piano store and will share their collective musical powers to some Jazz Standards, some originals, and some in-the-moment improvisation fueled by the inspiring audience Piedmont Piano Company always brings.
Triangular Conversations
Returning to the Bay Area for his first live concert after the pandemic, Brazilian pianist and composer Jovino Santos Neto teams up with bassist Peter Barshay and drummer David Flores to present his Brazilian music in a piano trio format. The compositions by Jovino, Hermeto Pascoal, and Marcos Valle will serve as points of departure for inspired musical conversations among the three players. The music will range from the lyrical to the deep grooves this trio can generate. Each show is always unique.
TWO SHOWS 6pm & 8pm
Dayna Stephens is globally recognized as a saxophonist, composer and arranger, and was the first-place recipient of the 2019 and 2020 DownBeat Critics Poll in the category of Rising Star—Tenor Saxophone. NPR’s Kevin Whitehead had this to say about the saxophonist’s unique style, “Dayna Stephens can cry and rip it up on tenor, but at heart, he’s a streamlined melodic player. His handsome down-the-middle tone is not too heavy or light, though he can lean either way. His sound is sleek, with very light vibrato. And the lines he improvises are uncluttered and well-organized. His horn sings.”
