The San Francisco Jazz Festival is changing things up for 2025.
Instead of its usual multi-week run, where only a limited number of shows are featured per day, this year’s festival will showcase 35 concerts over one single three-day weekend — June 13-15.
The music will take place across multiple stages at both the SFJAZZ Center and a new festival tent, organizers SFJAZZ announced today. There will also be an outdoor festival street market with food, wine and beer vendors as well as a vinyl record swap, clothing vendors and more.
“I’m so thrilled to share America’s greatest art form with the Bay Area and the world with our revamped festival,” says SFJAZZ Executive Artistic Director Terence Blanchard. “We are going to bring you the best artists and most exciting music of our time, along with new music and arts and crafts. Let’s come together and create lasting memories.”
Most certainly, this year’s lineup is absolutely bursting with big talent — including Charles Lloyd Sky Quartet featuring Jason Moran, Larry Grenadier, and Eric Harland; Don Was & The Pan-Detroit Ensemble; Stanley Clarke & Gonzalo Rubalcaba; Lisa Fischer with Grand Baton; Patrice Rushen; and Dave Holland & Lionel Loueke.
In all, the festival will feature a dozen concerts per day, split between SFJAZZ’s two indoor venues — Miner Auditorium and Joe Henderson Lab — and the festival tents.
San Francisco Jazz Festival tickets go on sale at 12 p.m. March 14, sfjazz.org/festival.
Here’s the festival lineup:
FRIDAY, JUNE 13
• Charles Lloyd Sky Quartet featuring Jason Moran, Larry Grenadier, and Eric Harland (Miner Auditorium)
• Lakecia Benjamin & Phoenix Quartet (Festival Tent)
• Kurt Elling with SFJAZZ Collective (Miner Auditorium)
• Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble (Miner Auditorium)
• Kassa Overall (Festival Tent)
• Salami Rose Joe Louis (Festival Tent)
• Mark Lettieri Group (Festival Tent)
• Braxton Cook (Joe Henderson Lab)
• Sachal Vasandani (Joe Henderson Lab)
SATURDAY, JUNE 14
• Stanley Clarke & Gonzalo Rubalcaba (Miner Auditorium)
• Lisa Fischer with Grand Baton (Miner Auditorium)
• The Soul Rebels (Festival Tent)
• Zig Zag Power Trio (Festival Tent)
• Nicholas Payton (Miner Auditorium)
• SOMI (Miner Auditorium)
• SML (Festival Tent)
• New Jazz Underground (Joe Henderson Lab)
• Theo Croker (Festival Tent)
• Jahari Stampley Trio (Joe Henderson Lab)
SUNDAY, JUNE 15
• Patrice Rushen (Miner Auditorium)
• Cimafunk (Festival Tent)
• Dave Holland & Lionel Loueke (Miner Auditorium)
• Ambrose Akinmusire & Sullivan Fortner (Miner Auditorium)
• Idris Ackamoor & The Ankhestra (Festival Tent)
• Orrin Evans (Miner Auditorium)
• Kiefer Trio (Festival Tent)
• Tyreek McDole (Joe Henderson Lab)
• Tatiana Tate (Joe Henderson Lab)
• Brandon Woody’s UPENDO (Festival Tent)
ARTIST-AT-LARGE
• Terence Blanchard
(performing w/ artists throughout Festival on all three days)