The Fred Randolph Trio Fred Randolph basses Ian Mcardle piano Isaac Schwartz drums Originals and re-imagined standards by the members of the trio plus music from Fred’s acclaimed new release “Song Without Singing.” “An exquisite project from bassist Fred Randolph whose talents as a composer and arranger are what truly makes Song Without Singing an engaging musical experience.” –Edward Blanco, All About Jazz

Juan de Yepes y Álvarez, 16th Century Spanish mystic and Catholic saint — St. John of the Cross — mystic seer, rigorous thinker, masterpiece-maker of the Andalucian renaissance, eraser of sectarian illusions. Walker Brents III provides a personal reflection on a universal thinker.

Calligraphic works by CCSF students. Show ends February 28.

jazz club! every Saturday night, when lights are low… Tonight: Bob Kenmotsu, tenor sax Ben Stolorow, piano Noah Schenker, bass Vinnie Rodriguez, drums Collaborating tonight on original tunes by each of the members of the quartet, and wailing on some perennial jazz standards!

Grant Levin, an extraordinary jazz pianist who surely ranks among the very best players in the business, plays two sets of music with Chilean bass player Ricardo Diaz.       Grant brings in a duo partner on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month, and plays in a quartet setting on the 2nd Saturday as well.   On these duo dates, you can always expect an afternoon of sublime interplay between two very talented musicians.

Zan Stewart, sax & stories; Keith Saunders, piano; Adam Gay, bass; Ron Marabuto, drums. Zan Stewart is a lifelong musician and award-winning jazz journalist. Keith Saunders, Adam Gay, and Ron Marabuto are all top-call SF Bay Area jazz artists. Together, the four made ‘The Street Is Making Music,’ the band’s debut release.  

Heshima Mark Williams presents! The Ways & Means Committee: Dr. Gary Bean, trumpet Michael Bush, alto sax Dr. David Ferrazares, tenor sax Art Khu, piano Mark Williams, bass Julian Hogan, drums  

Colleagues making jazz music for you. Live. Once in a lifetime. Two sets: 5:30-8:00 pm!  

4:30-6:30 pm: The Walter Earl Trio. 7:30-10 pm – The Seducers.  

Noel Jewkes, one of the Bay Area’s legendary talents in jazz, is featured this week with Grant Levin’s quartet.  Chris Amberger on bass and Jaz Sawyer on drums guarantee a deep and swinging evening of jazz. Jazz club is what we call our Saturday night shindig.  $10 at the door.  Best ten bucks you could spend on a Saturday night! Featured saxophonist Noel Jewkes was born in Utah in 1940 and migrated to San Francisco as an adult to become one of the most revered local masters of the jazz saxophone, but only after playing for years, from the age of 12, in the family swing orchestra headed by his mother and father. The Jewkes Orchestra traveled widely in the region, delivering a swinging and danceable beat to audiences of hip Indians, farmers and city slickers in rural assembly halls, lakeside resorts and downtown hotels. Talented beyond measure on piano…

  The Don Alberts Quartet with Ian Carey, trumpet Stu Pilorz, trombone Aaron Cohn, bass Top flight bebop, standards and originals… with guest Jeff Kaliss reading some of Don’s poetry Don Alberts is a triple threat, as a jazzman, poet and novelist. Add jazz historian for his valuable compilation of oral interviews called Diary of the Underdogs: Jazz in the 1960s in San Francisco. Born and bred in the Bay Area, with a long stint on the Portland jazz scene, he was house pianist at Jimbo’s Bop City in the early 1960s, played Pearls in North Beach, Ronnie’s Soulville in the Fillmore, and all manner of other clubs up and down the coast.  A key figure in jazz piano as it’s been played in these parts for five decades!

Smith Dobson, tenor sax Jack “Tone” Riordan, guitar Miles Wick, bass Timothy Angulo, drums. Timely and timeless jazz classics by Thelonius Monk, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington.

Scott Foster, guitar, and Vinnie Rodriguez, drums join bassist Don Prell on the bandstand. Always something new under the jazz sun!