SFJAZZ Center

SFJAZZ Center
Address 201 Franklin Street
Coordinates 37°46′35″N 122°25′17″W / 37.7763°N 122.4214°W / 37.7763; -122.4214Coordinates: 37°46′35″N 122°25′17″W / 37.7763°N 122.4214°W / 37.7763; -122.4214
Owner SFJAZZ
Genre(s) Jazz
Capacity 700
Opened January 2013 (2013-01)
Website
www.sfjazz.org

The SFJAZZ Center is a music venue in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, California, that opened in January 2013. It is considered the "first free-standing building in America built for jazz performance and education."[1]

The building was designed by Mark Cavagnero Associates, and cost $64 million to complete. The performance space is the Robert N. Miner Auditorium, with a sound system by Meyer Sound Laboratories.[2][3][4] The Center's official interior art is by Mark Ulriksen,[5] with additional murals by Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet.[6] It is home to SFJAZZ, a jazz music organization established in 1983. SFJAZZ has, since 1983, produced the San Francisco Jazz Festival, and since 2004, the SFJAZZ Collective.

References

  1. ↑ "New Jazz Center Opens In SF's Hayes Valley". CBS San Francisco.
  2. ↑ Cy Musiker, "SFJAZZ Center Opens Tonight", KQED, January 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ Patrick Jarenwattananon, "The New SFJAZZ Center, As Seen By Its Musicians", NPR, January 22, 2013.
  4. ↑ John King, "SFJazz Center - new Cavagnero landmark", SF Gate, January 23, 2013.
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