Charlie HadenRavi Coltrane

Geri AllenJason Moran

Bill FrisellEsperanza SpaldingOscar Castro-Neves

Leny AndradeRomero Lubambo

George CablesCraig Handy

Gretchen ParlatoTaylor EigstiDafnis Prieto

Peter ApfelbaumClaudia Villela

Lorca HartBennett FriedmanShea Breaux Wells

Christian Foley-BeiningPaul McCandless

Kai Devitt-LeeBrasilia

Latin Jazz Youth EnsembleJazz Night at the Movies

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FRIDAY, JUNE 4Jazz Night at the Movies with Mark CantorRaven Theater, 115 North Street, HealdsburgTime: 8 pm Tickets: $10.00 SATURDAY, JUNE 5Bennett Friedman QuartetFlying Goat Coffee, 324 Center Street, HealdsburgTwo shows: 7 pm and 9 pm Tickets: $10.00

Art of the Solo GuitarBenefit Concert, Workshop and AuctionWorkshop: 10 am to NoonConcert: Noon to 3 pmVenue TBA

JAZZ AND WINE PAIRINGSHerb Gibson TrioMurphy-Goode Tasting Room, 20 Matheson St., Healdsburg Time: 3-5 pm

SUNDAY, JUNE 6STARS OF BRAZIL – BOSSA NOVA ON THE GREENOscar Castro-Neves & Friends Leny Andrade and Romero Lubambo DuoClaudia Villela BandBrasiliaRecreation Park, Piper and University Streets, HealdsburgTime: 12:30 to 6:30 pm Gates open at noon Tickets: $30.00 General, $20.00 Students & Seniors (65+) Children 10 and under are free

MONDAY, JUNE 7JAZZ AND WINE DINNERKai Devitt-Lee TrioDry Creek Kitchen, 317 Healdsburg Ave, HealdsburgTime: 7 to 10 pm TUESDAY, JUNE 8FREE CONCERT IN THE PLAZA 6 to 8 pmLatin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9George Cables Trio with Shea Breaux Wells Christian Foley-Beining Quartet featuring Paul McCandlessRaven Theater, 115 North Street, HealdsburgTime: 7:30 pm Doors open at 7:00 pm Tickets: $15.00 General, $10.00 Students & Seniors (65+)

THURSDAY, JUNE 10BENEFACTORS DINNER AND CONCERT by invitation onlyGeorge Cables Trio with Craig Handy Healdsburg High School Jazz BandFrancis Ford Coppola Winery300 Via Archimedes, Geyserville, 95441

FRIDAY, JUNE 11Esperanza Spalding GroupTacuma King and the Children’s Percussion WorkshopRaven Theater, 115 North Street, HealdsburgTime: 8 pm Doors open at 7:30 pm Tickets: $45 and $65.00 Gold Circle

FRIDAY, JUNE 11 Lorca Hart Trio with Craig Handy Hotel Healdsburg Lobby, 25 Matheson Street, HealdsburgTime: 9 pm to midnight No Cover

SATURDAY, JUNE 12Charlie Haden with Ravi Coltrane & Geri AllenHealdsburg High School Jazz BandRaven Theater, 115 North Street, HealdsburgTime: 7:30 pm Doors open at 7:00 pm Tickets: $45.00 and $65.00 Gold Circle

JAZZ AND WINE PAIRINGSGary Johnson TrioTopel Tasting Room, 125 Matheson Street, Healdsburg Time: 3-5 pm

Eddie and Madeline Duran TrioSeasons of the Vineyard, 113 Plaza Street, HealdsburgTime: 4-6 pm

SATURDAY, JUNE 12 Craig Handy Quartet with Special GuestsHotel Healdsburg Lobby, 25 Matheson Street, HealdsburgTime: 9 pm to midnight No Cover

SUNDAY, JUNE 13 KEEPERS OF THE FLAMEJason Moran & the Bandwagon with special guest Bill FrisellGretchen Parlato Group with Taylor EigstiDafnis Prieto Quartet with Peter ApfelbaumRodney Strong Vineyards, 11455 Old Redwood Highway, HealdsburgTime: 2 pm, gates open at 1 pm Tickets: $45.00, $30.00 for students & seniors (65+) Children 10 and under are free

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Concert: Art of the Solo GuitarA tribute to the late Jimmy WybleDedicated to the memory of Taku SakashtaOscar Castro-Neves, Romero Lubambo, Sid Jacobs, Kevin O’Neal, Bobby Vega, Ricardo Peixoto, Randy Vincent, Christian Foley-Beining and moreNoon to 3 pm Location TBAHealdsburg, directions will be sent upon ticket purchase.Event sponsors: Healdsburg Guitar Festival, Allied Lutherie Tickets $15.00, $10.00 for students and seniors (65+)The afternoon concert will feature a stellar lineup of guitarists performing solo pieces dedicated to the late Jimmy Wyble. Many of these musicians will be playing their guitars or bass guitars made in Healdsburg by Ribbecke and crew. Expect some surprises and a grand finale.The event will be held at the beautiful grounds of Tom Ribbecke’s private “Barn” workshop, located on five pastoral acres off Limerick Lane. Tom will conduct tours, discuss and show works in progress, and answer questions about the art of build-ing contemporary guitars. Highly acclaimed luthier, Tom Ribbecke, has spent his long career perfecting his craft and pushing the limits of design. With the help of Bobby Vega, bassist extraordinaire, Tom developed a new instrument they named the Halfling.™ The heart of the design is an unusual soundboard in which the bass side is flat, and the treble side is arched. Bring a picnic, a blanket and umbrella and enjoy the afternoon on the lawn listening to world class musicians playing at the birthplace of the Halfling.

Workshop: Making Music Part of Your Life10 am to noonPresented by Ribbecke Guitars

and Jazz Masters Workshop Instructors: Bobby Vega and Tom RibbeckeWorkshop information and registration: 707 431-0125Free to all students of primary or

secondary school age with an interest in music.Bassist Bobby Vega and guitar maker Tom Ribbecke aim to inspire students to learn or continue to play music by talking about their lives and experiences in the music world. Due to the cutbacks in music pro-

grams, great teachers and musicians are no longer resident in the schools to provide motivation and inspiration to young people to study music. Tom and Bobby feel it is very important to talk to aspiring music students about the many different ways they can be involved in music, and hopefully

spark them to follow their dreams.This workshop is free. So come one, come all students

and have a good time being entertained and inspired. Bring your instrument (optional).Special Drawing: Win a guitar donated by Jazz Masters Workshop.

Auction: Ribbecke Halfling GuitarAuction will be on eBay with the ending time June 5th at 2 pm. 17” Halfling Archtop with a retail value of $7500. Bidding starts at $2000. Computers will be on site to take bids until closing time. Check these websites for more info: ribbecke.com | healdsburgjazzfestival.org

FRIDAY, JUNE 4Jazz Night at the MoviesTreasures from the Archive with Mark CantorRaven Theater115 North Street, Healdsburg8 pm Tickets: $10.00

SATURDAY, JUNE 5 Art of the Solo Guitar: Benefit Concert, Workshop & AuctionHealdsburg Jazz Festival and the Ribbecke Guitar Company collaborate to raise funds for the Festival’s music education programs.

All proceeds benefit the Healdsburg Jazz Festival’s very popular jazz education programs

Pioneering film historian and archivist Mark Cantor possesses

one of the most comprehensive col-lections of American popular music on celluloid, including an amazing array of jazz stretching back to the 1920s. Returning to Healdsburg, he’ll bring fresh discoveries from the vaults and long-standing favorites, including rarely seen footage captur-ing New Orleans masters, swing stars and bebop legends. A compilation of jazz performance clips produced over a period of more than 60 years, this program will include a great deal of material that cannot be seen elsewhere. Among the artists to be presented on screen are “Cannonball” Adderley, Stan Getz, Dinah Washington, Jimmy Witherspoon, Louis Armstrong, Art Pepper, Lennie Tristano, Max Roach, Bill Evans, “Hot Lips” Page, and literally dozens more! This is a rare opportunity to see many of the masters of jazz, as pre-served on film. A lot of special surprises are promised!

SATURDAY, JUNE 5Bennett Friedman QuartetFlying Goat Coffee324 Center Street, HealdsburgTwo Shows: 7 pm and 9 pm Ticket price: $10.00

A mainstay on the Bay Area jazz scene for five decades,

Bennett Friedman is a hard swinging saxophonist steeped in bebop. The Berkeley native led a talent-laden big band in the late 1960s and 70s, and accom-panied stars such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Marvin Gaye as a member of the Circle Star Theater Orchestra. On faculty at Santa Rosa Junior College since 1977, he’s men-tored hundreds of musicians over the years, and is now head of the SRJC music department. He’s joined by a veteran rhythm section featuring drummer Lorca Hart and guitarist Randy Vincent, a supremely fluid and flexible player who elevates ev-ery ensemble he joins. Anchoring the band is ace bassist Chris Amberger, who has toured with legends such as George Shear-ing, Rosemary Clooney, Red Garland, and Art Blakey.

“Oscar can capture the soul of Brazil in a few guitar chords, all the joy and sadness.”

— Toots Thielemans

“The Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald of Brazilian music.”

— The New York Times

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As a teenager growing up in Rio de Janeiro in the late 1950s, guitarist Oscar Castro-Neves helped shape the

rising Bossa Nova movement, and he’s been at the center of Brazilian and American popular music ever since. A master guitarist, effective vocalist, and brilliant arranger/composer, Castro-Neves was one of the featured artists at the legendary 1962 Carnegie Hall concert that introduced the Bossa Nova pantheon to North America, performing alongside Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto. Later in the decade he helped spread Brazilian music throughout the U.S. as the guitarist and music director of Sergio Mendes’ tremendously popular band. Castro-Neves went on to a prolific career as a freelance performer and studio musician, collaborating with a mind-boggling array of artists, including Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand and Quincy Jones. He’s had a particular affinity for jazz, recording with Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz and more recently Toots Thielemans.

His Healdsburg band features a dazzling cast of musi-cians whose Bossa Nova-steeped repertoire offers a sensual journey to the heart of Brazil, including saxophonist Gary Meek, who has toured and recorded extensively with Brazil-ian icons Flora Purim and Airto. Sri Lankan electric bass expert Hussain Jiffry, an ace LA studio player with a vast and impressive resume, and Puerto Rican drummer Walter Rodriguez, a protégé of Alex Acuña, make up the supremely flexible, stylistically encompassing rhythm section.

In a scene bursting with sumptuously

talented singers, Leny Andrade has long stood out in

Brazil with her warm, burnished contralto and her lithe, flowing phrasing. Andrade is widely hailed as Brazil’s greatest living jazz singer, a gifted improviser who combines Bossa Nova’s luscious melodic sensibility with a compelling sense of swing. She caresses the rounded Portuguese vowels with such expressive care one needn’t understand the language to sense a song’s nar-rative. She’s also a supremely inventive scat singer fluent in samba jazz, a self-invented style that requires rarified rhythmic agility.

For her Healdsburg appearance she collabo-rates with another superlative Brazilian jazz musician, New York based guitarist Romero Lubambo.

Lubambo is probably best known for his work with Trio da Paz and his series of stunning duo projects with vocal-ist Luciana Souza, but he’s also recorded two gorgeous duo sessions with Andrade, 1994’s “Coisa Fina” and 2006’s “Lua Do Arpoador.” Together, they spin enthralling samba jazz tales full of subtle dynamics and spontaneous invention.

Recreation ParkPiper and University StreetsHealdsburg12:30 to 6:30 pm Gates open at noon Tickets: $30 General, $20.00 Students and Seniors (65+) Children 10 and under are free

SUNDAY, JUNE 6STARS OF BRAZILBOSSA NOVA ON THE GREENOscar Castro-Neves & FriendsLeny Andrade and Romero Lubambo DuoClaudia Villela BandBrasilia

In the five decades since Bossa Nova burst onto the inter-national music scene, Brazil has enriched the world with a glorious torrent of musical talent. Featuring some of the most revered Brazilian musicians on the planet, this festival within a festival showcases the South American nation’s mind-boggling array of rhythms, infinite trove of seductive melodies and affinity for modern jazz harmonies.

SUNDAY, JUNE 6STARS OF BRAZILBOSSA NOVA ON THE GREENOscar Castro-Neves & FriendsLeny Andrade and Romero Lubambo DuoClaudia Villela BandBrasiliaevent sponsors:north coAst breWing compAny

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Claudia Villela’s glorious five-octave instrument is one of the wonders of jazz: lithe and startlingly beautiful in every register. Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, she is a supremely

inventive scat singer with a vivid vocabulary of sounds, an aural conjurer who can evoke the hollow thump of a tabla drum, the muted trumpet of Miles Davis, or the insistent twang of a berimbau. Villela has evolved as an ingenious composer and lyricist with an astonishing body of original material, as well as a repertoire of jewels from the Brazilian songbook.

Villela possesses a rare gift for melodic invention, coupled with a rhythmic sensibility steeped in Brazil’s vast treasury of syncopation. America’s best-kept Brazilian secret, Villela finally attained widespread recognition with the 2003 release of her masterpiece “Inverse Universe,” a stunning set of original pieces created with her longtime collaborator, Rio-born guitarist Ricardo Peixoto. In

recent years, Villela’s international reputation as a performer and composer has continued to grow through appearances at the world’s most prestigious jazz festivals and clubs. Her band for this performance includes Ricardo Peixoto, Gary Brown and Paul Vanwanagagen.

Brasilia is an outstanding Brazilian jazz group that features the ex-traordinary and versatile vocals of Pamela Driggs and the origi-

nal compositions and arrangements of Ted Moore. When vocalist Pamela Driggs fell in love with Brazilian music, she decided to go right to the source, Salvador, the capital of Bahia, the state known as the heart of Afro-Brazilian culture. After honing her command of Portuguese and deepening her knowledge of Brazil’s countless melodies and rhythms, she returned to the States and founded the

Brazilian jazz group Brasilia with composer/drummer Ted Moore, who followed a similar path. The latest incarnation of Brasilia includes bassist Gary Brown, who’s toured and recorded extensively with Flora Purim and Airto, and Driggs’ husband Romero Lubambo, the remarkable Brazilian jazz guitarist sought after by vocalists such as Dianne Reeves, Leny Andrade, Jane Monheit, and Luciana Souza for his consummate skills as an accompanist.

Though only 16, guitarist Kai Devitt-Lee is already a Healdsburg fixture who has soaked up experience

by sitting in with various groups around town. With his fleet fingers and mature approach to improvis-ing, the Healdsburg native is at the start of what prom-ises to be an impressive career. This year he was chosen out of all of California to be the guitarist with the Cali-fornian 2010 All State Honors High School Jazz Band!For his Festival debut as a leader, he is joined by bassist Miles Wick and drummer Jimmy Gallagher. Kai plays a special guitar made by Healdsburg master luthier Tom Ribbecke.

MONDAY, JUNE 7Kai Devitt-Lee TrioDry Creek Kitchen7 to 10 pmNo Cover317 Healdsburg Avenue, HealdsburgReservations suggested707.431.0330charliepalmer.com

Under the direction of

the great flutist/ arranger John Calloway, the Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco (LJYE) has become a prime proving ground for gifted young musicians ages 10 to 18. Dedicated to preserving the traditions of Latin jazz and Afro-Cuban music, the LYJE attracts many aspiring professional musicians.Since debuting at Masonic Auditorium with a tribute to Cal Tjader in 2001 as the opening act for Poncho Sanchez, different iterations of the group have shared stages with legendary Cuban bassist Israel “Cachao” López, Cuban piano virtuoso Chuchito Valdés, and the Grammy Award–winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra.

TUESDAY, JUNE 8Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San FranciscoFREE CONCERT IN THE PLAZA6 to 8 pm

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THURSDAY, JUNE 10BENEFACTORS DINNER AND CONCERTGeorge Cables Trio with Craig Handy + Healdsburg High School Jazz BandFrancis Ford Coppola Winery, 300 Via Archimedes (formerly Souverain Road), Geyserville By Invitation Only s 5 pm

As a special thank-you to our benefactors this year, the Healdsburg Jazz Festival will be hosting a Benefactors Dinner at the newly remodeled Francis Ford Coppola Winery. Supporters of the Festival will glimpse the Coppola win-

ery before it opens to the public and dine al fresco Coppola-style outside under the oaks. It is not too late to become a patron and attend this very special event. For more information, please contact the HJF office at 433.4633 or contact us by email at info@healdsburgjazzfestival.org. We would like to thank all of our patrons, sponsors, and supporters for helping bring 10 days of extraordinary music and culture to our community.

German-born guitarist Christian Foley-Beining opens the double bill with a stellar band featur-

ing veteran bassist Chris Amberger, drummer Lorca Hart and special guest Paul McCandless. A founding member of pioneering world-jazz ensemble Oregon, McCandless is an expert oboist, a true rarity in jazz, who also plays English horn, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet, and pennywhistle, among other instruments. Inspired as a teenager by Wes Montgomery, Foley-Beining studied with an impressive roster of guitar talent, including Joe Pass, Pat Metheny, Robben Ford and Larry Carlton. A fine composer and widely traveled clinician, he’s made a name for himself in the North Bay since settling in Healdsburg.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9George Cables Trio with Shea Breaux WellsChristian Foley-Beining Quartet with Paul McCandlessRaven Theater, 115 North Street, Healdsburg7:30 pmTickets: $ 15.00, General, $10.00 Students & Seniors (65+)

George Cables, an inimitable pianist dubbed “Mr. Beautiful” by altoist Art Pepper, has played an essen-

tial role in the Healdsburg Jazz Festival since the begin-ning. A creative foil for jazz’s most prodigious improvis-ers, including Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson and Joe Henderson, Cables combines unre-lenting rhythmic drive and wry wit with a sparkling touch and evocative lyricism. With his caressing phrasing and deep knowledge of the American Songbook, it’s no surprise that Cables is an in-spired vocal accompanist, which makes his reunion

with Shea Breaux Wells one of the festival’s highlights. A daring singer with a bright burnished sound, Wells re-corded her latest album, “A Blind Date” right after the 2008 festival. A thrilling album featuring Cables, bassist Cecil McBee, drummer Billy Hart, saxophonist Craig Handy and trumpeter David Weiss, “Blind Date” captures the volatile chemistry between Wells and some of jazz’s most powerful and expressive players. The band will be rounded out with Peter Barshay on bass and Jaz Sawyer on drums.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 11Lorca Hart Trio with Craig HandyHotel Healdsburg Lobby | 25 Matheson Street, Healdsburg9 pm to midnightNo Cover

“Whether exploding into vocalese or making her bass solo sound like a horn, she’s a spark plug who dances as she grooves through a funked-up and rocked-out repertoire.”

— Billboard

From Louis

Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie

to Duke Ellington and Dave Brubeck, jazz’s greatest figures have often served as musical ambassadors. Bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding has stepped confidently into the role of jazz’s most charismatic 21st century emissary, equally comfortable laying down grooves on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” the Village Vanguard, the White House, or Oslo’s Spektrum, where she performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert last year at the invitation of President Obama. With a beguiling blend of Brazilian melodies, Afro-Ca-ribbean grooves, post-bop harmonies and lilting vocals, 25-year-old Spalding combines the imaginative flights of a serious improviser with the stage presence and musical

accessibility of a pop star. Her latest album, “Esperanza” on Heads Up, documents her rapidly maturing conception as a bandleader who’s honed a world-jazz repertoire featuring her lithe originals and standards in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Possessing a huge sound and singular sense of time, she’s already racked up an impressive array of credits, includ-ing working with pianist Michel Camilo, bassist Stanley Clarke, guitarist Pat Metheny, vocalist Patti Austin, and saxophonist Joe Lovano, who has built his celebrated Us Five band around the powerfully propulsive pulse of her bass. Already a heavyweight talent, Spalding is growing by leaps and bounds with a deliciously funky sound that’s both bracingly personal and embracingly accessible. Her band for this performance includes guitarist Ricardo Vogt, pianist Leo Genovese and Justin Brown on drums.

African drum and dance master Tacuma King has been an essential part of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival since its founding in 1999. A musical charmer and master educator, King

possesses a gift for teaching children musical technique, song, dance and story, with an em-phasis on traditional African culture, using a variety of percussion instruments. He presents a program featuring this year’s class, offering a heartening perspective on jazz’s power to engage young musicians.

FRIDAY, JUNE 11Esperanza Spalding Group

Tacuma King and the Children’s Percussion WorkshopMC: Greg Bridges

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Raven Theater, 115 North Street, Healdsburg8 pm Tickets: $45.00 and $65 Gold Circle

Lorca Hart was raised on rhythm. Growing up in a highly musical family, he absorbed the intricacies of the trap set from his father, drum maestro Billy Hart.

As a student at Cal Arts in the mid-1990’s he developed an expansive, insistently swinging approach to time through studies with drum masters Tootie Heath and Joe LaBarbera, and avant gard icons Charlie Haden and Wadada Leo Smith. Since then he’s become a fixture on the Southland jazz scene sought out by a succession of esteemed veterans, including guitarists Calvin Keys, Anthony Wilson, Julian Lage, bassist John Heard, trumpeter Hugh Masakela, and saxophonists Herman Riley, Azar Lawrence, Red Holloway, Plas Johnson, and Bennie Maupin. His powerful trio is joined by Craig Handy, the Berkeley-raised tenor saxophonist who’s toured the world leading the celebrated Mingus Big Band.

SATURDAY, JUNE 12Craig Handy Quartet with Special Guests

Hotel Healdsburg Lobby | 25 Matheson Street, Healdsburg9 pm to midnight

No Cover

“Few artists have availed themselves of America’s creative freedom more than Haden.”

— San JoseMercury News

Charlie Haden has forged a brilliant career out of seizing the musi-cal moment. He returns to Healdsburg for an unprecedented trio

encounter with pianist Geri Allen, with whom he first recorded more than two decades ago, and tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, the son of Haden’s late partner in sonic revolution, John Coltrane. “No matter who I’m playing with, spontaneity takes priority,” Haden says. “Making some-thing happen that’s never happened before, that’s what I stress more than anything else. And I seek out musicians that feel the way that I do.”Haden found his first group of likeminded improvisers in late 1950s Los Angeles, where he became a founding member of Ornette Coleman’s radical but blues-drenched quartet. In a generation rife with bassists boasting flawless technique, Haden stood out as a player capable of expressing the deepest of emotions with seemingly simple, harmoni-cally open lines. His gift for cutting to the heart of a composition while leaving ample space for other musicians has made Haden a galvanizing collaborator, whether anchoring Keith Jarrett’s classic 1970s quartet, caressing spirituals with Hank Jones, creating moody film noir-inspired albums with Quartet West or leading his politi-cally charged Liberation Music Orchestra. He’s also a savvy talent scout who boosted the career of a brilliant young pianist named Geri Allen in the late 1980s. The Detroit native had already earned a reputation as a fierce improviser when Haden and drummer Paul Motian joined

her in a searching trio that revealed her burnished lyricism. Now an esteemed master herself, Allen has recorded more than a dozen albums, and has two more just released on Motema Records. While his surname attracted attention when he first started perform-ing in New York, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane has taken his time devel-oping his own sound. He and Geri have worked together frequently. He’s truly come into his own in recent years. Last year he toured exten-sively with the Blue Note 7, an all-star band assembled to celebrate the label’s 75th year, and released the luminous album “Blending Times,” which features Haden’s ravishing composition “For Turiya,” a piece the bassist wrote years ago for Ravi’s mother, Alice Coltrane.

SATURDAY, JUNE 12Charlie Haden with Ravi Coltrane & Geri AllenProduced in association with Jill Newman ProductionsHealdsburg High School Jazz BandMC: Greg Bridgesevent sponsor: horizon Air

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Raven Theater, 115 North Street, Healdsburg7:30 pm Tickets: $45 and $65 Gold Circle

With his big swaggering sound and penchant for hurtling, breakneck solos, tenor saxo-phonist Craig Handy is a wonder to behold, an improviser who brings a sassy sense

of joy to every bandstand he inhabits. No wonder he was cast as tenor sax patriarch Coleman Hawkins in Robert Altman’s 1996 film “Kansas City.” A product of Berkeley High School’s vaunted jazz band, he first made his mark with ace talent scouts like Betty Carter and Art Blakey. He’s well known for his work with the septet Mingus Dynasty and his leadership of the Mingus Big Band, where he’s immersed himself in the passionate, roiling musical world of Charles Mingus. Often drawn to Afro-Cuban grooves in his own projects, he presents a top-shelf quartet and several special guests drawn from other festival acts.

“Improvisation…relentless in its invention and in its velocity.”—New York Times

The Future is Now!Reverence for jazz’s pantheon of veteran masters should never blind us to the wealth of brilliant young musicians busy expanding the music’s frontiers, responding to the present moment with highly person-al sounds crafted from an ever-increasing array of sources. This triple bill, essentially a mini-festival within the festival, showcases three extraordinary young bandleaders who embody the way the best musicians assert an individual vision by absorbing and distilling a multiplicity of influences.

Since pianist Jason Moran emerged in the late ’90s, the Houston native has developed at an exponential rate, recording a series of albums for Blue Note that are as satisfying

conceptually as they are sonically, displaying his capacious intelligence, rollicking touch and road-less-traveled sensibility. His primary vehicle for the past decade has been the Bandwagon featuring bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits (son of the late, esteemed Freddie Waits). Moran has cultivated a passionately encompassing musical approach. His lyrical side is often heard to advantage in tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd’s New Quartet. Moran joins forces with another master from an earlier generation on Sunday when Bill Frisell, a re-markably resourceful improviser whose expansive sound references everything from coun-try blues and bluegrass to West African griots and old-time Appalachian songs, hitches his guitar to the trio. From hip hop and blues to Brahms and Schumann, just about every sound is welcome on the Bandwagon.

The title of Gretchen Parlato’s 2009 Obliqsound album, “In a Dream,” aptly cap-tures the sustained mood of ethereal introspection that she evokes from the first

track to the last. Possessing an enticingly crystalline voice and a ravishing concept deeply informed by samba ballads and bossa nova, Parlato is among the very best of a rising generation of jazz singers, an artist who has taken her own sweet time forging a highly personal sound unlike any of her peers. Her repertoire is full of unexpected gems, from translucent arrangements of Stevie Wonder’s “I Can’t Help It” and Bjork’s “Come To Me” to expertly crafted interpretations of the Wayne Shorter compositions “Juju” and “Footprints” featuring her original lyrics. In 2004, the Los Angeles-raised singer won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition and used the $20,000 award to record her first album, an impressive self-named session featuring Beninese guitarist Lionel Loueke. Parlato has taken her time, evolving into an astonishing vocalist whose deceptively cool sound is belied by her ebul-liently playful sensibility. She’s cultivated a capaciously creative cast of collaborators, and her Healdsburg band features some of jazz’s most inventive young improvisers, including pianist Taylor Eigsti, bassist Alan Hampton and drummer Kendrick Scott.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 13KEEPERS OF THE FLAMEJason Moran and the Bandwagon with special guest Bill FrisellGretchen Parlato Group with Taylor EigstiDafnis Prieto Si o Si Quartet with Peter ApfelbaumMC: Greg Bridges

Cuban drummer Dafnis Prieto’s 1999 arrival sent shock waves through the New York jazz scene. In a city overflowing with

prodigious young drummers, Prieto was a sensation. Innovative bandleaders jostled to recruit him for their projects, and he became an essential part of ensembles led by visionaries such as Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman, Don Byron and Peter Apfelbaum. Now he’s an exceptional bandleader in his own right, with a formidable body of compositions that erase old boundaries between Latin and straight-ahead jazz. While steeped in Cuban rhythmic tradi-tions, Prieto is at the forefront a new generation of Latin Ameri-ca jazz musicians eager to explore advanced jazz concepts, while developing their own compositional voices. His band is loaded with exceptional musicians, including multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum, who put the Berke-ley High jazz program on the map back in the late 1970s with

his polymorphously creative Hieroglyphics Ensemble, a band so impressive that trumpet legend Don Cherry adopted it during his stint in the Bay Area. Whether playing tenor sax, percussion or keyboards, Apfelbaum infuses everything with his singular vision, which encompasses West Africa and the Caribbean as well as East Bay funk. Prieto features Apfelbaum on his recent Si o Si Quartet album “Live at the Jazz Standard,” a sensational session that includes Cuban pianist Manuel Valera, who’s also on hand for this performance. Joining the ranks of Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Omar Sosa and Chuchito Valdés, Valera is the latest Cuban keyboard monster to shake up the American jazz scene; Valera is also an esteemed bandleader whose albums showcase the cream of the New York scene.

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Herb Gibson TrioJoin us at our tasting room in downtown Healdsburg, where you can drink in the Murphy-Goodeness of some of our all time favorite wines. We think you will enjoy Murphy-Goode’s traditions based upon all things Goode; friendship, hard work, a wicked sense of humor, a great bottle of wine and, of course, jazz.

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Gary JoHnson TrioMark and Donnis Topel craft exquisite, artisan wines that have won medals at prestigious wine competitions and praise from the nation’s best-known wine critics. Visit their tasting room just steps off Healdsburg Plaza, and enjoy melodic jazz as you sniff, swirl and sip.

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eddie and Madeline duran TrioSan Francisco Bay Area’s favorite trio brings their live, instrumental jazz act to wine country! Join us at Seasons of the Vineyard on the plaza for a taste of your favorite Ferrari-Carano wines paired with delectable small bites. Sip and sample, swaying to the beat of modern, Latin, Brazilian, and bebop jazz tunes sure to sooth your soul while we satisfy your palate! Start your summer evening off groovin’!

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Doug LiptonCirce Sher

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M I S S I O N S T A T E M E N TThe Healdsburg Jazz Festival stimulates interest in and promotes awareness and appreciation of jazz by facilitating cross-cultural interaction, providing performance opportunities, and educating young people and adults about the important role of jazz as an indigenous American art form.

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exploring electric miles

marcus miller Featuring christian scottHerbst theatre

Electric bassist Marcus Miller’s days with Miles Davis are historic. Fiery young trumpeter Christian Scott steps into Miles’s shoes as they re-examine classic material from Tutu, Amandla and more.

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The Basie Orchestra teamed up with Sinatra in the ‘60s, resulting in three classic albums. Named “best jazz vocalist” in poll after poll, Kurt Elling re-creates this stunning combo. With charts hand-picked from the Quincy Jones archives, Elling and the Basie band are a once-in-a-lifetime matchup.

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Soulive’s unstoppable mix of organ-driven soul-jazz, funk and hip-hop has won a worldwide fan base and collaborators from Roy Hargrove to Dave Matthews. Local B-3 star Wil Blades and trio open up the show.

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bop, ballads & blues

lou donaldsonHerbst theatre

Lou Donaldson’s masterful alto sax tells the full story of mainstream jazz from dazzling bebop to gorgeous ballads. Donaldson was one of the chief architects of ‘60s Blue Note soul-jazz and at 83, he still plays with the same power of his youth.

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violin virtuosos

regina carter quintetmads tolling quartetHerbst theatre

The violin summit of 2010: Regina Carter has earned a MacArthur “Genius” grant, while Mads Tolling combines jazz with a stunning swirl of rock, classical and bluegrass.

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aFropop dance party

saliF Keitabimbo’s 365 club

Salif Keita, “The Golden Voice of Africa,” transformed his continent’s musical landscape and ushered in the Afropop revolution. His soaring vocals and socially conscious lyrics have made him hugely influential worldwide. Two dance shows in one night!

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When Joshua Redman heard keyboardist Aaron Parks’ trio, he knew he had to play with them. The pianist’s vision of jazz is informed as much by electronica and rock as by post-bop. The next jazz supergroup!

dynamic duos

renee rosnes& Bill charlap toshiKo aKiyoshi& lew taBacKinHerbst theatre

Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes may be married, but each is a jazz pianist with distinctive style. A founding member of the SFJAZZ Collective, Rosnes has gigged

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with giants like Joe Henderson and has released more than a dozen albums as a leader. New York native Bill Charlap cut his teeth with Gerry Mulligan and is often compared with Bill Evans.

Partners in marriage and music, pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and saxophonist Lew Tabackin led a famed big band for over 30 years. The couple’s strikingly original work has earned an incredible 14 Grammy nominations.

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