From Jazzmeia Horn and Marcus Shelby to Vân-Ánh Võ and Olesya Zdorovetska, Winter Fest offers some compelling concerts.
Vocalist Jazzmeia Horn performs with Bay Area bassist Marcus Shelby during the San Jose Jazz Winter Fest.There are more unfamiliar names than usual at San Jose Jazz Winter Fest this year, as the Counterpoint With Ukraine program presents nearly a dozen acts and artists making their California debut.
Here are four highly recommended shows, including musicians who are well known to Bay Area jazz fans and players eager to introduced themselves. For ticket and more information, go toSince earning a Grammy nomination with her 2017 debut album “Social Call,” vocalist Jazzmeia Horn has evolved in leaps and bounds. Performing with the stellar jazz orchestra led by San Francisco bass star Marcus Shelby, Horn performs her own big band arrangements .
Composer, multi-instrumentalist and master of the 16-string Vietnamese zither đàn tranh, Vân-Ánh Võ has served as a creative catalyst for vaunted artists such as Kronos Quartet, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and Yo-Yo Ma. She joins forces with Dublin-based Olesya Zdorovetska, the prolific Ukrainian performer and composer who draws on jazz, Afro-Caribbean, contemporary classical and experimental music.
Berlin-based Ukrainian guitarist Igor Osypov started gaining some U.S. notice in 2018 for his work with acclaimed saxophonist Logan Richardson. A highly resourceful improviser, he’s teaming up with New York keyboardist Jason Lindner, who was part of the brilliant wave of mid-‘90s jazz artists who cut their teeth in the essential Greenwich Village jazz club Small’s, and reliably grooving East Bay drummer Brandon Farmer.
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