Posts by Heather World

  Jack Riordan, guitar Matt Montgomery, bass Hamir Atwal, drums Two extraordinary sets of live jazz in store for you tonight! $20 cover charge; sliding scale available where needed.  

Grant Levin, piano Chris Amberger, bass Mark Lee, drums Pepe Jacobo, congas Exquisite jazz in San Francisco’s best listening room, bar none! With books and great acoustics. BYOB. $20 suggested donation, but any amount is welcome. You won’t find a better small combo live jazz experience than this! Grant Levin is an extraordinary pianist, and…

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 individual histories on the local jazz scene date back to the 1950s. The…

Composer Karl Evangelista leads his group through avant garde work bearing a large debt to afrological and Western musical concepts that examines “Filipinoness” in the abstract. Karl Evangelista, guitar Corey Wright, alto saxophone Crystal Pascucci, cello Rei Scampavia, keys Jordan Glenn, drums $20 donation requested; sliding scale available. https://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/338/karl-evangelista#32

A Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund event! The Passing Dreams Trio — a bass/tabla/guitar trio. Passing Dreams, led by the legendary bassist Frank Tusa, was a subset of Lookout Farm, a seven-piece band led by saxophonist Dave Liebman in the early 1970s. Lookout Farm was an acclaimed jazz/fusion/world music unit of the era that merged Indian…

Scott Foster, guitar Ben Stolorow, piano Adam Gay, bass Omar Aran, percussion, arrangements Sandra Aran, vocals Guitarist Scott Foster brings in a group tailored made for the occasion each third Friday of the month, and tonight his long-time collaborator, the percussionist Omar Aran brings arrangements of music inspired by the great Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly quartet…