Monk 101: Thelonious Sphere Monk, Genius of Modern Music. Born October 10, 1917! Ten Decades That Shook the World. An October Revolution in Jazz! Well You Needn’t. Rhythm-a-ning, Crepescule with Nellie, Pannonica, Coming Down the Hudson, Brilliant Corners, Round Midnight, Straight, No Chaser. Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Minton’s Playhouse. Paul Chambers, Charlie Rouse, Ben Riley,…

$10-20 donation requested; $5 for students / musicians / low income. Actually Strictly Clarinets! We’ve got nothing against bluegrass and its allied arts, but today we’ll stay sweetly oblivious to the throng in Golden Gate Park Sunday, listening to this conclave… We rather imagine they could kick ass on some bluegrass if they had a…

A book of paintings of gone and almost-gone south of market San Francisco icons by Richard Louis Perri, aka “Lucky” Perri Above portrait of Richard L. Perri by fellow artist Bob Gerbracht BORN - Rockville Centre, New York 1944 EDUCATION - College of Santa Fe 1963-4 Arizona State University 1967 BA San Francisco Art Institute 1977-78 VOCATION – Fine Arts Painter…

The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Kat Parra, vocal; Mas Koga, saxophone; Murray Low, piano; Aaron Germain, bass In addition to singing fluently in English, Spanish and Portuguese, Kat Parra sings also in the dying language of Ladino, or Judeo-Espanyol, which enables her to interpret Sephardic music (Music of the Spanish Jews) faithfully. “This is the language…

[arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcPDCBwQO5Y” /]   $20 cover charge. $10 for students / musicians / low income. “GOD, CAN THIS WOMAN SING! It’s as if a vocalist from the great post-war blues and jazz combos had been transported to the end of the century.” Blues Access Magazine “Kim Nalley has pipes to burn and works the stage like she…

Al Molina, trumpet; Jerry Logas, reeds, flute & vocal; Jeff Burr, guitar; Dean Reilly, bass; Vince Lateano, drums. Swing to bop. They do it in three-month runs at B&B… September-October-November and March-April-May… Don’t miss out! Consummate musicians doing what they do so well! The heat will be on!

Anybody can play uke! And it’s nothing but wholesome fun, that can be put into service to fight the power, relieve the stress of our times or just have a blast. It’s the latter that will be topmost on everybody’s minds Tuesday night! Bring your uke and join in on some simple tunes, or bust out…

Barbara Hunter, saxophone Bliss Rodriguez, piano Richard Saunders, bass Achyutan, drums

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