$20 cover; $10 for students, musicians, limited income.On their new recording, “A History of Choro,” Duo Violão + 1 survey the history and evolution of choro music, revealing its rhythmic and harmonic permutations. In the process, they have created an album “coherent in timbre and vision while marvelously varied in its nuances.” Guitarists Rogério Souza…

Scott Barnhill, tenor saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Smith Dobson, drums with guest vocalist Louise DeLucchi Scott Barnhill has been a force on the Bay Area jazz scene for decades. Son of the well-traveled drummer Buddy Barnhill and singer Louise DeLucchi, it’s in his blood. Scott has held his own on stage with…

The great jazz writer Gene Lees writes, “Stan Getz was once asked his idea of the perfect tenor saxophone soloist. His answer was, ‘My technique, Al Cohn’s ideas, and Zoot’s time.’ The fulfillment of that ideal may well be embodied in thirty-year-old Harry Allen.” Harry is a fifty-two-year-old now, but that only means he’s had another…

A Reading for Al-Mutanabbi Street Sarah Menefee, Beau Beausoleil, Mahnaz Badihian, Neeli Cherkovski, Rosemary Manno, Jessica Loos,Agneta Falk, Barbara Paschke, Karen Melander Magoon, Jack Hirschman

Faculty, students and friends of the Community Music Center gather to play music from many traditions – classical Chinese to American jazz… and to celebrate the Year of the Pig!