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After 36 years as a demanding music educator and life-changing mentor, including 18 years running the prestigious Dillard Center for the Art Jazz Ensemble, band director Christopher Dorsey will retire after one final concert on May 8.
The annual event will be Memorial Day weekend Downtown.
Check out The Chronicle's guide to fun events and activities coming this Labor Day weekend in San Francisco and beyond.
THE SOUNDTRACK OF COMING AND GOING It is a steamy August late-morning in 2018. Singer-songwriter Eric Hutchinson is in the studio with five jazz musicians he has essentially just met. He brought them together in what he describes as an Ocean’s Eleven détente to make new music about the rather pedestrian subjects of life and death. All of this seems kind of important, but when considering his wife Jill is expecting their first child at any moment, there is an added air of excited tension infused into the session. Today the makeshift band is working on two songs, the first one I encounter...
THE SOUNDTRACK OF COMING AND GOING It is a steamy August late-morning in 2018. Singer-songwriter Eric Hutchinson is in the studio with five jazz musicians he has essentially just met. He brought them together in what he describes as an Ocean’s Eleven détente to make new music about the rather pedestrian subjects of life and death. All of this seems kind of important, but when considering his wife Jill is expecting their first child at any moment, there is an added air of excited tension infused into the session. Today the makeshift band is working on two songs, the first one I encounter...