Every Sunday at 5pm, it’s our happy hour show… bring some cash for the band and enjoy yourselves! if you’re not hurtin’ for money, let it flow so those who are squeezin’ every dollar till the eagle grins can relax and enjoy the music too, and the musicians can go home well paid… it’ll make everybody happy!

Stay for a tune, stay for two sets… contribute and amount that fits your pocketbook… byob and food if you like, for yourself or to share… we have some fine hetch hetchy water for you, and jazz from swing to bop!

Today it’s our legacy band with its roots in the original jazz in the bookshop weekly tradition — The 230 Jones Street, Local Six Literary Jazz Band, in direct line of descent from the 2002 Chuck Peterson Trio, now led by drummer Tony Johnson with Charlie McCarthy, saxophone; Art Khu, piano; and Chuck Bennett, drums. average age? typically, for this band, it’s somewhere around 75 or 80. with Art sitting in for regular pianist Sam Cady tonight, we might trim 10 years off that number.

Tony hit the beach in San Francisco in 1959, swimming down the coast from British Columbia after sailing the ocean blue from his Australian homeland. made his way to North Beach, recording with singer Bev Kelley and saxophonist Pony Poindexter live at the Coffee Gallery on Grant Avenue for Riverside Records in 1960 with Orrin Keepnews producing. he’s kept on swingin’ ever since. it was the early ’60s by the time Charlie and Chuck got going, and Art, a ringer tonight. Sam Cady’s out. Art is one of the best piano players and teachers that the Bay Area can boast, and a youngster in this company!

Drummer Tony Johnson holds down an every-other-month residency on third Sundays, alternating with drummer Vince Lateano’s trio.

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At 7:30pm tonight, we present the fresh end of the age continuum, with the Ohana Collective.

Byob and the $25 cover charge in cash ($10 for students) and bask in the amazing musical energy of five brilliant young players already going strong in their post baccalaureate professional careers, brought together by bassist Alan Jones and trombonist Nate Gilbreath, with Nicolaus Gelin on trumpet, Mwanzi Harriott on guitar and Miles Turk on drums.

Ohana — a Hawaiian term for those who are family, and those you choose to call your family – invites listeners into a sonic gathering nurtured by shared bonds and years of musical collaboration. their familial chemistry gives each artist’s creative energies space to shine, voicings intertwining to produce a dynamic, chameleonic sound reflecting shared experience and a collective desire to push beyond artistic boundaries. the members of the collective have performed and presented original music at prominent venues across Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, including SFJAZZ, The Jazz Gallery, Sam First, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Smalls Jazz Club, Blue Note LA, and The Hollywood Bowl.