Jazz and Wine Tasting

Enjoy a glass of wine as you watch the SF Pinoy Jazz Revue in the Asian Arts and Crafts Alley! Five tastings and a complimentary souvenir wine glass will be available all day for $10 at the Celebration’s wine area located at Larkin and Golden Gate Streets.

SF Pinoy Jazz Revue

The San Francisco Filipino American Jazz Festival in collaboration with the Asian Week Foundation presents the “SF Pinoy Jazz Revue” at the 7th Annual Asian Hertitage Street Celebration on Saturday May 21st. The Revue includes the music of tenor saxophonist Jonathan Bautista Quintet featuring Winston Raval on piano and the sounds of Kulintronica with guitarist and kulintang player Ron Quesada.
 
Kulintronica with Ron Quesada features the music on the Kulintang, an indigenous Filipino instrument from Mindanao combined with the sounds of an electric guitar and a digital interface with an Apple laptop to provide programmed loops and background music.  This unique combination is Kulintronica – the creation of Ron Quesada, a Filipino-American Bay Area artist who has performed at numerous venues and cultural events in San Francisco as part of KulArts and SambAsia San Francisco. 
 
He has been part of several Filipino American SOMA-based dance groups in the Bay Area including the Palabuniyan Kulintang Ensemble. With Palabuniyan Quesada has represented the authentic music of the Maguindanao, Maranao, and Tao Sug people of the Southern part of the Philippines.  As a guitarist,  Quesada is a former member of various club bands in SF and the Haranistas de Manila Rondalla. It was with the Haranistas that he immersed myself into the world of Filipino cultural performance.  That journey continues, as he regularly performs at different concerts and cultural events throughout the Bay Area and also in the Philippines.  Quesada performed with John Calloway and the Next Generation Filipino American Jazz Orchestra at the 2009 San Francisco Filipino American Jazz Festival and with the Danny Kalanduyan Kulintang Ensemble at the SF Main Public Library for a “Jazz Appreciation Month” Concert in April 2010.
 
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Jonathan Bautista Quintet featuring Winston Raval
 

Jonathan Bautista. Photo by Manny Lim.

Jonathan Bautista is a Bay Area saxophonist, composer and educator. Born and raised in San Francisco, he attended the SF School of the Arts, San Jose State University and the Manhattan School of Music for graduate work. Jonathan received honors as a California Arts Scholar, California Pre-Doctoral Scholar and was awarded  scholarships from the Organization of Filipino educators, SJSU school of music, and the Manhattan School of Music. He has played in Paris for a special concert and has also performed at the San Jose Jazz Festival, the Stanford Jazz Festival, the SF Filipino Jazz Festival, and at the Great American Music Hall, Davies Symphony Hall, Kuumba’s and Kimble’s. Bautista has played with James Williams, Pete Escovedo, John Santos, and others, as well as with the Monterey Bay Symphony, the Monterey Wind Symphony and the San Jose Symphony. He has studied both classical and jazz repertoire with Melecio Magdaluyo, William Trimble, Dr. Paul Cohen and Bobby Watson. Bautista performs regularly throughout the Bay Area and is available for clinics, coaching, and lessons in his woodwind studio. He has appeared as a member of the SF Pinoy Jazz Revue in performances at the SF Main Public Library at the Jazz Appreciation Month Concerts in April 2010 and 2011, and at the 6th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration in May 2010.

“Luk-ing” composed by Jonathan Bautista
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JXNAEOW87I

Winston Raval started playing piano at age 5.  He is from a musical family. His mother, Porfiria Raval is a music director and opera singer and his father is a lawyer and politician who loves to sing.  His three sisters and two brothers can sing and play piano as well . They had a show entitled ” The Raval Family Show ” in the early 60′s.  At age 12, young Winston’s first professional job was a pianist for a radio show,  After finishing a Bachelor’s degree in political science and Bachelor of music degree at the University of the Philippines in the 70′s , Raval worked in the movie industry in Manila as a music director, film composer and arranger and made 23 films with the great Filipino film director Ysmael Bernal. In the 80″s he moved to the USA performing with different artists in the US mainland and Hawaii. He currently lives in Los Angeles and performs throughout Southern California.  Raval is mentioned extensively in Richie Quirino’s booksPinoy Jazz and Mabuhay Jazzabout Jazz in the Philippines.  Quirino credits Raval with being one of the pioneers of jazz fusion on the piano and for being an important band leader and musical director.  Raval is considered by many Pinoy jazz aficionados in the Philippines as well as the United States as a very gifted pianist and a jazz pioneer.

 His performance of  “Over The Rainbow”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UNn14SlvRE&feature=related