Sharman Duran Quartet at Bird & Beckett Books & Records

The Sharman Duran Quartet offers music that questions what we take for granted. Sharman's original music can be heard on her CDs “Questioning Reality”, “Future Echo”, the EP “PostApocalyptic Subterranean Paradise”/”Brothers” and the compilation CD “Quintessentials.” She's played clubs and festivals in Europe and Asia as well as in her home town, at such venues as the St. Francis Hotel, Top o’ the Mark, Fillmore Jazz Festival, Russian River Jazz Festival, Club Deluxe, Yoshi’s, and many more. Raised in a musical family with roots in Mexico, her father was guitarist Eddie Duran, who made his mark in jazz in the 1950s with Vince Guaraldi, Cal Tjader and assorted giants of the music...

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The Sharman Duran Quartet offers music that questions what we take for granted. Sharman's original music can be heard on her CDs “Questioning Reality”, “Future Echo”, the EP “PostApocalyptic Subterranean Paradise”/”Brothers” and the compilation CD “Quintessentials.” She's played clubs and festivals in Europe and Asia as well as in her home town, at such venues as the St. Francis Hotel, Top o’ the Mark, Fillmore Jazz Festival, Russian River Jazz Festival, Club Deluxe, Yoshi’s, and many more. Raised in a musical family with roots in Mexico, her father was guitarist Eddie Duran, who made his mark in jazz in the 1950s with Vince Guaraldi, Cal Tjader and assorted giants of the music. Her uncles, an aunt and her grandparents were all musicians when North Beach was truly the latin quarter. She's a complete musician whose main impetus is always to get inside the music, whether it be bop, Brazilian jazz, funk, Afro Cuban jazz, R &B, or (her favorite) “uncategorizable”. Her voice is soulful, her phrasing makes astute use of rhythm, her delivery witty, poignant or playful as called for by the composer (be it Cole Porter, Chick Corea, Fran Landesman, George Duke, Stevie Wonder). Her piano voicings provide the perfect setting for her voice and a complement for the other instruments in the ensemble, and her jazz B3 playing exhibits a mean left hand bass. She's been a great teacher as well. With Sharman, you'll have a great trip down avenues you won't expect.

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