Enhance your experience at three extraordinary jazz and world music concerts by attending this season's Key Notes series, featuring commentary and conversation with Jesse "Chuy" Varela, music director of KCSM-FM radio, and special guests. Afterwards, ticket holders can dine at our cafe on the Zellerbach Hall lobby mezzanine. Talks are free and open to the public; tickets must be purchased for the associated concerts.

2009-10 Key Notes Series: Jazz & World Music
5-6:15 pm, Zellerbach Hall Lobby Mezzanine

Jazz in the Age of Barack Obama: Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center
Talk: 5 pm, Tue, Sept 22, Zellerbach Hall Lobby
The late 20th century cultural dynamics that coalesced into Barack Obama's 2008 election as the first African American president of the United States are paralleled in jazz through the career and contributions of Wynton Marsalis, the visionary New Orleans trumpeter, composer, scholar and musical director of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Chuy Varela discusses jazz and culture with radio colleague Clifford Brown Jr., bassist Marcus Shelby, and Jazzschool founder and director Susan Muscarella, starting with how Wynton Marsalis has brought the big band sound forward into the 21st century.
Concert: 8 pm, Zellerbach Hall, $32/$46/$68/$80

Wayne Shorter Quartet with Danilo Perez, Joe Pattucci, Brian Blade
5 pm, Sat, Oct 17, Zellerbach Hall Lobby
Fans of great jazz Wayne Shorter proudly call themselves "Wayneheads." Like fans of the Grateful Dead and other iconic musicians and bands, Wayne's followers collect and share music by this transcendent saxophonist and composer. With the Quartet's Danilo Perez and the Jazzschool's Mike Zilber, Key Notes host Chuy Varela explores Shorter's contributions to the jazz landscape from his work with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and Miles Davis to Weather Report and his own Grammy award-winning Quartet.
Concert: 8 pm, Zellerbach Hall, $28/$40/$52

Gilberto Gil
Talk: 5 pm, Wed, Mar 17, Zellerbach Hall Lobby
Gilberto Gil is a singer, composer and guitarist with a five-decade record of creativity. Gil-with Caetano Veloso, Tom Ze, and others-founded the 1960s Tropicalia movement, paving the way for the exciting sounds of Brazil today.
Concert: 8 pm, Zellerbach Hall, $28/$40/$52