Posts by Eric
Sunday, July 14th – 5-7pm
Mitch Polzak & the Royal Deuces
featuring pedal steel master Joe Goldmark
Honky Tonk Showman Mitch Polzak plays a mean guitar and raises a ruckus like no one else! This second Sunday summer afternoon, he brings us his famous Royal Deuces — Tim Wagar on bass and Paul Revelli on bass — with pedal steel master Joe Goldmark. He’ll thrill you and seduce you with two sets…
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Sunday, July 14th – 3:30pm
Writer Larry Tye introduces
The Jazzmen: How Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Count Basie Transformed America
Larry Tye has published books on the Pullman Porters, Satchel Paige, Bobby Kennedy… The Jazzmen (Mariner Books, 2024) is “the story of America in the twentieth century,” says Ricky Riccardi. It’s told through the stories of “three men who are not only the most important men in American music, but (who) changed the whole world,”…
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Saturday, July 13th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Flying Salvias invite you
to Henry’s Hideaway for a
cd/lp/download preview show!
Henry Salvia, piano and vocals. Kathleen Salvia, vocals. Alex Baum, bass. Kenny Owen, drums. John Pearson, percussion. $25 cover charge; byob. reservations, 415-586-3733. Welcome to Henry’s Hideaway… it might be a dive on the Embarcadero, a concrete bunker or shaky wooden shack of a bar… maybe it’s the sixties, maybe the fifties… maybe it’s the…
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Friday, July 12th – 8:30-10pm
The Marlina Teich Quartet
Jean Fineberg, sax & flute. Marlina Teich, guitar. Carla Kaufman, bass. Joyce Baker, drums. $20 cover charge; byob. reservations, call 415-586-3733. “The warmly sensuous flow of music Marlina sends forth moves me into a groove I hate to leave when I go back to my day job.” – Nat Hentoff. Marlina Teich will be performing…
Read MoreMid-July events, and further explorations…
Check our calendar for details on these events from mid-July to the end of August: Thursday 7/18 at 7pm, join filmmaker Abhijeet Paul and editor Rebecca Whittington for a screening of BHATTI, their Mohalla Film Colletive’s 29-minute documentary being readied for release, about the life of a 21st century potter family who make bhar, earthen…
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Friday, July 12th – 6-8pm
Eric & the In Crowd
celebrate songwriters
Jerome Kern & Frank Loesser
Eric Shifrin, piano. Ollie Dudek, bass. Mark Lee, drums. $20 suggested donation per adult. Kids free. Teens and students – $5-$10 The In Crowd’s 2024 second Fridays residency is dedicated to the 20th century songwriters behind so many tunes we know as jazz standards. This month, it pleases Eric and his trio to spotlight the…
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