Posts by Heather World

Guitar god Jinx Jones– twang & rockabilly monster, cover guy for numerous guitar mags, darling of North Beach, oft-featured star of music festivals throughout the western United States as well as the annual Glen Park Festival– has jazz chops to burn, and brings them to                   jazz club!…

$20 per set donation is much appreciated… whatever you can manage! Flat broke? No problem, pay what you will… Al Molina, trumpet Jerry Logas, reeds, flute & vocals Larry Chinn, piano Dean Reilly, bass Vince Lateano, drums   It’s loose, and it’s deep; at one and the same time. Come out and find out for…

$20 cover charge; sliding scale available Italian jazz vocalist Valentina Ranalli, from Naples, is noted for her purity of tone, phrasing, intonation, and improvisational ability. Valentina sings in English, Italian, Neapolitan, French, and Portuguese. She studied singing, piano, and music theory, going though opera singing, gospel music, and jazz music since she was a child.…

Janice Shapiro lived her life with curiosity, joy, abandon and openheartedness. The 36 vignettes in Philly Girl speak of her deep, personal relationships spanning her early years in Philadelphia through her full and multi-faceted adulthood in San Francisco. With warmth and humor, her stories reveal the woman so many people loved, and the life she embraced…

Zinger Phillips is the brainchild of Grammy-nominated bassist Paul Knight who in the spirit of Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac named the band after two band members other than himself!   Among their recent shows the band backed up Peter Rowan at the 2019 annual Plumas Homegrown Americana Festival in the California High Sierra Mountains.  …

The threads out of which so much has been woven come from sources first charted by Walter Benjamin. A classic “vates,” in the old Roman sense — a wielder of insight amidst a plethora of forms and hidden values. A chronicler of his immediate age, which strangely resembles ours, as well as a perspicacious navigator…