with Kirk Harwood, drums Takezo Takeda, guitar

The Mythological Tao: A Convocation of Image and Meaning. A consideration of primordial writings, and their ways of interpreting present-day consciousness. I see it as an element of a trilogy, incorporating Chinese, Vedic, and Sufic flavorings.  

Saturday, March 30th 7:30 – 10:00 PM What the World Needs Now: The Burt Bacharach Songbook Dmitri Matheny, flugelhorn Ken French, piano Ron Belcher bass Greg Wyser-Pratte drums Flugelhorn master Dmitri Matheny has been lauded as “one of the most emotionally expressive improvisers of his generation” (International Review of Music). An honors graduate of Berklee College of Music, Dmitri…

The Grant Levin Quartet featuring Noel Jewkes Noel Jewkes, reeds Grant Levin, piano Kash Killion, bass Mark Lee, drums every Friday after work

Sylvia Cuenca on drums Roni Ben-Hur on guitar Harvie S on bass

Rob Sudduth, saxophone Dahveed Behroozi, piano Jason Lewis, drums

Both poets have new books to read from: Crossing Pleasure Avenue (Karen Hildebrand) and Posttraumatic (Ron Riekki).     About Karen Hildebrand’s Crossing Pleasure Avenue, one reviewer had this to say: “Karen Hildebrand’s poetry is like sociology—if sociology could be felt by the hairs on one’s neck and seen in fragrant, Fauvist Technicolor. Her brilliant debut…

The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents…a Jazz in the Neighborhood Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund Event Michael Zilber’s Originals Saxophonist/composer Michael Zilber is hailed as “one of the best players and composers around anywhere, period!” by jazz great David Liebman and called “one of the true masters of the modern jazz saxophone” by All About Jazz. A…

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 — aka The Chuck Peterson Quintet — five musicians whose history on the local jazz scene dates back 60 years, to the very early 1950s….