Sheldon Brown Group
Composer and woodwind multi-instrumentalist Sheldon Brown
has been involved in the San Francisco Bay Area creative music scene
for over 20 years. In June of 2014 he premiered his extended
composition "Blood of the Air" at the 32nd Annual San Francisco Jazz
Festival.
Since 1994 he has led Sheldon Brown Group, which performs his own
compositions, and he recently formed Sheldon Brown Quintet, which
performs the music of Herbie Nichols, and Distant Intervals, based on
poetic speech melodies.
The Sheldon Brown Group has performed several times at Yoshiʼs, and as
part of the San Francisco Jazz Festivalʼs Summer in the City series.
Brown has performed with Cuban
pianist Omar Sosa, recorded on 5 of Sosaʼs albums, and played with
him at many famous venues, such as The North Sea Jazz Festival in Den
Haag, New Morning in Paris, and Tribute to the Love Generation in
Tokyo.
Brown performs with many groups in the Bay Area, including:
Clarinet Thing, Darren Johnston Quintet, Goldberg/Brown/Anderson, Ian
Carey Quintet + 1, Club Foot Orchestra, Laurie Antonioli, Azesu
(featuring Orestes Vilato), Mike Pattonʼs Mondo Cane, Admiral Ted
Brinkley's Large Group, and the Aaron Germain Quartet.
As a composer, Brown has written music for his own groups and many of
the other groups he performs with. For Club Foot Orchestra he composed
music for the silent films "Metropolis", "Sherlock Jr.", "Pandoraʼs
Box", and "The Hands of Orlac", as well as the cartoon series "The
Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat",
which aired on CBS.
Sheldon appeared here previously with Hemispheres, Mandala, Clarinet
Thing, Ratzo Harris, Michael Wilcox, Ian Carey, the Sheldon Brown
Quintet, and the Sheldon Brown Group.
http://www.sheldonbrownmusic.com/
Guitarist Dave Mac Nab has been performing and
composing music for over twenty five years. Dave has worked in an
unusually wide range of
settings and styles. He has toured and recorded internationally,
appeared on numerous TV
and radio programs, and performed with some of Broadway's biggest
national tours. He has released four albums as a leader, played on
countless other recordings, created original scores for theater and
film, and written instructional material for magazines and books.
Artists he has performed with include Bob Weir (Grateful Dead/Ratdog),
Shelby Lynne, Barry Manilow, Neil Sedaka, Charlie Musselwhite, Randy
Newman, Bonnie Raitt, The Drifters, Paul McCandless, Benny Reitveld,
Larry Goldings, Art Lande, Dewey Redman, Bob Sheppard, Steve Smith,
Scott Amendola, Jenny Scheinmann, Tiger Okoshi, San Francisco Mime
Troupe, San Francisco Symphony, and Marin Symphony.
Dave was heard previously at Chez Hanny with the Dave Mac Nab Trio, and
Andrea Wolper.
http://www.davemacnab.com/
Jonathan Alford studied classical piano at the
University of Wisconsin and
privately with Julian White and Dorothy Taubman.
He has given recitals at Amherst College, Mills College, Sonoma State
University, and with the Tassajara Symphony.
He wrote and performed music for the Ellen Webb Dance
Company, and for Howard Hain’s “A Play for One and All” staged at ODC.
He was also Musical Director of the Childrens Opera of SF at Herbst
Theatre.
Notable performances include Zellerbach Hall with the Machete Ensemble,
the SF and San Jose Jazz
Festivals, and with the Oakland Ballet performing
“Union Fraternal”, a Cuban Danzon Suite for the 2000
season. He appeared with Elaine Lucia on "West Coast Live" in 2001.
Jonathan's recording and performing associations include Pete Escovedo,
John Santos, Bobby Hutcherson, Elaine Lucia, Carlos Santana, Denise
Perrier, Chocolate Armenteros, Orestes Vilato, Machete Ensemble,
Mazacote, Peter Apfelbaum, Josh Jones, Los Compas, Jenna Mamina, Ray
Obiedo, and Maria Marquez.
He has appeared at Chez Hanny with the Sheldon Brown Group.
Michael Wilcox, 6 string electric bass, has
performed with Richie Cole, the Fifth Dimension, Jerry Lee
Lewis, the Oakland Eastbay Symphony, Eddie Duran, Jules Broussard, Tom
Coster, and Larry Schneider. He was an Adjunct Faculty member in the
Jazz Department at San Jose State University for five years
(1989-1994), and also taught extensively at the Jazzschool in Berkeley.
He has appeared at Chez Hanny with Mandala, the Sheldon Brown Group,
Lee Waterman and Jazz Caliente, and the Michael Wilcox Trio.
Drummer Alan Hall has performed and/or recorded
with:
Lee Konitz, Taylor Eigsti, Russell Ferrante, Billy Childs, Kenny
Werner, Art Lande,
Christian Jacob, Kit Walker, Tom Coster, Eddie Harris, Bob Sheppard,
Paul McCandless, John Handy, Jimmy Haslip, Ratzo Harris, Stuart Hamm,
Kai Eckhardt, John Clayton, Rebecca Parris, Kenny Washington, Betty
Buckley, Mark Murphy, Joyce Cooling, Victor Mendoza, Cirque du Soleil,
Teatro Zinzanni San Francisco, and many others.
He has performed at Madison Square Garden, The Monterey Jazz
Festival, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Barbados
International Jazz Festival, JVC Jazz Festival, BumberShoot Festival,
and Yoshi’s San Francisco.
He taught at Berklee College of Music from 1986 to 1993. He currently
teaches at Cal State University East Bay in Hayward,
The California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley, and UC Berkeley.
His sextet Rata-tet released it's first CD in 2016.
Alan was heard previously at Chez Hanny with Michael O'Neill, Charlie
McCarthy, Fiveplay, the Sheldon Brown Group, Jeff Denson, Dave Haskell, Edward Simon, and Ratzo Harris.
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