SFJAZZ Center
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| Address | 201 Franklin Street |
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| Coordinates | 37°46′35″N 122°25′17″W / 37.7763°N 122.4214°W |
| Owner | SFJAZZ |
| Genre(s) | Jazz |
| Capacity | 700 |
| Opened | January 2013 |
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| 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
- ^ "New Jazz Center Opens In SF's Hayes Valley". CBS San Francisco.
- ^ Cy Musiker, "SFJAZZ Center Opens Tonight", KQED, January 23, 2013.
- ^ Patrick Jarenwattananon, "The New SFJAZZ Center, As Seen By Its Musicians", NPR, January 22, 2013.
- ^ John King, "SFJazz Center - new Cavagnero landmark", SF Gate, January 23, 2013.
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