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| SFJazz Collective |
Yearly, the SFJazz
Collective, an all-star octet perform music of iconic musicians past and
present. In the octet’s twelve you history, it has performed the music of
greats such as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, and Stevie Wonder.
Friday evening, before a sold-out audience at Orchestra Hall in mid-town
Detroit, the octet closed the Paradise Jazz Series season with a two-hour presentation of the King of Pop, Michael
Jackson’s, hits arranged for a discriminating jazz demographic. The octet also presented
original compositions. Sean Jones, Robin
Eubanks, David Sanchez, Miguel Zenon, Warren Wolf, Edward Simon, Matt Penman,
and Obed Calvaire are the current members of the SFJC. That’s some major
muscle. Each musician is an accomplished bandleader with solid discographies.
So, how was the octet’s presentation of Jackson’s hits “The Love You Save,”
”Blame It on The Boogie,” “Don’t Stop Until You Get Enough,” ”Thriller,” “Human
Nature,” and “This Place Hotel”? If Jackson had attended the concert, he
would’ve been moonwalking up and down the aisles until his feet were blistered. The concert had many high points, Sanchez’s pit-bull mean soloing on
his arrangement of “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” Wolf stretching out on
“Human Nature,” and Jones and Eubank trading measures on “Thriller”. The octet’s
originals “Fall Prelude,” “Beauty of Space,” and “Franklin & Fell” made the
concert extra special. When the octet switched from Jackson’s hits to its
originals it appeared the audience was being
treated to two concerts for the cost of one
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