The Super Super & Amateur Music Network presents
The San Francisco LGBTQ+ Swing Symphony
Saturday May 25, 7pm, 2024
on Z Space’s Steindler Stage
Join LGBTQ+ big band The Super Super in collaboration with the Amateur Music Network for their Swing Symphony! From the iconic "I've Got Rhythm" to modern arrangements like "Bob Omb Battlefield,” this is a rare opportunity to hear some swingin' jazz big band favorites performed with a full string ensemble.
The Super Super is a 17 piece jazz orchestra founded in San Francisco in 2022. Our goals are to bring excellect performances to the public, create learning and development opportunities for musicians, and increase visibility of the LGBT+ community. We are super excited to collaborate with the Amateur Music Network and local string players on this performance. If you are a string player interested in joining you can find out more information here.
The ensemble will feature the very talented local vocalist and cellist Briana Scales and will be conducted by the fabulos and inestimable contributor to bay area music, Dee Spencer.
About Dee Spencer
Conductor Dee Spencer is a Professor of Jazz and Musical Theatre in the School of Theatre & Dance at San Francisco State University (SFSU).
She received her B.S. from Florida A&M; M.M. at Washington University in St. Louis; and EdD., University of San Francisco. Dee founded the Jazz Studies degree program in the School of Music at SFSU and served as director for five years.
Dee Spencer’s musical director/sound designer credits include “Androcles and the Lion”, “Raisin” award-winning Theatreworks production with legendary directors Danny Duncan and Tony Haney, “Purlie Victorious”, “The Me Nobody Knows”, “No Place To Be Somebody”, “Ain’t Misbehavin’”, “Sassy Divas”, “One Mo Time”, “Twelfth Night”, “Spring Awakening”, “Lysistrata”, “Chicago”, “Hair” and “Dreamgirls in Concert”.
She has performed/recorded/toured/judged with Wynton Marsalis for Jazz at Lincoln Center; GRAMMY Award winning vocalist “Ledisi”, TOWER OF POWER’s Lenny Williams and legends John Handy, Jimmy Scott, Louis Bellson, Clark Terry, Regina Carter, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Bernard Purdie and X-Factor star Jason Brock and the legendary GLIDE ensemble. Her latest recording “Tranquility” was released in 2018. She is an Annual Screener for the GRAMMYs Music Awards.
Her former students include recording artists/producers, Braxton Brothers, BEYONCE’S music director, saxophonist Tia Fuller, and LAUREN HILL’S music director, saxophonist Howard Wiley.
As an active contributor to the San Francisco community, she founded the San Francisco Jazz Organization (SFJAZZ) education program and performed for a US Senator Kamala Harris’ fundraiser at the African American Cultural Center formerly headed by San Francisco Mayor London Breed. She also served as program director for the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts.
She has served on the following boards: International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE), National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), San Francisco Jazz Organization (SFJAZZ), Stanford Jazz Workshop, Community Music Center, Amateur Music Network, and the Women’s Audio Mission.
