Archive for April 2017
. . . 2, 3, 4! duo, trio, quartet… pianist Grant Levin
2nd, 3rd & 4th Sunday evenings, every month
Tonight! Sunday, September 24th – 7:30 pm – $15 cover charge
The Grant Levin Quartet
Best damn jazz piano player ever, in your own back yard! Tatum? Mary Lou Williams? Herbie Nichols? Meet your young colleague from the North Coast. He’s San Francisco’s finest… And a pianist for the ages. We’re not joking! You’ll like like this whole quartet. It’s a tonic for our times. Grant Levin, piano James Mahone,…
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Sunday, September 24th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Tin Cup Serenade
tragic songs of hope
In these tumultuous times, we need Tin Cup Serenade’s tragic songs of hope more than ever. Rolf Wilkinson writes the tunes, by and large, sings them and plays guitar, Larry Leight plays trombone and Safa Shokrai plays bass. Nashville Music News glowingly reviewed their most recent album, using the phrase “exuberant melancholy†and that pretty well describes the…
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Sunday, September 24th – 2:30-4 pm
Walker Talks! on the lasting significance of Alan Watts
Alan Watts, born near London in 1915, was drawn to Buddhism at a young age, and published his first book in 1936 at age 21, The Spirit of Zen: A Way of Life, Work and Art in the Far East. Though he later came to view that book as somewhat naive and superficial, it marked…
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Saturday, September 23rd – 7:30 pm
Jeff Hamilton Jazz!
$15 cover charge
Jeff Hamilton plays piano! A trio with Clint Baker on trumpet and Robert Young on reeds. There are at least two drummers named Jeff Hamilton in the world of exquisite music… the big band (Clayton/Hamilton) drummer and this one. And don’t we love this one! I mean, just take a look at that album cover…
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Friday, September 22nd – 5:30-8 pm
230 Jones Street, Local 6, Literary Jazz Band
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002
Talk about your San Francisco jazz… On the fourth Friday of each month, our weekly jazz in the bookshop series features The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band — once known as The Chuck Peterson Quintet — five musicians whose history on the local jazz scene dates back 60 years, to the very…
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Thursday, September 21st – 7:30 pm
Saxophonist Greg Abate
on tour! – $15 cover charge
Listen to this track, and come down to the show! “Take the Crowell Train” – written for saxophonist and Bay Area educator Ken Crowell. It burns! Greg Abate, a multi-instrumentalist and an alto player in the tradition of Phil Woods, is a road warrior, says Simon Rowe, director of the SF Conservatory of Music’s new…
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