Saxophonist Lincoln Adler, keyboard player Greg Sankovitch and drummer Randy Lee Odell join bassist Kurt Ribak for a couple sets of originals and standards. This quartet has years of experience working together and playing throughout Northern California, and it shows! Kurt Ribak (pronounced REE-bok, like the shoes) showed a penchant early on for finding rhythm…

Odilia Galvan Rodriguez, Sharon Elliott, Jabez W. Churchill, Avotcja, Antoinette Nora Claypool, James Downs,  Cathy Arellano,  Genny Lim and Cesar Love read to celebrate this new anthology, edited by Rodriguez and Francisco X. Alarcon (University of Arizona Press, 2016). On April 20, 2010, nine Latino students chained themselves to the main doors of the Arizona…

Patrick Wolff, tenor sax Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Tony Johnson drums Injecting swing into jazz classics, a little Monk, some Kenny Dorham, some Lucky Thompson– you can’t really go wrong with these musicians and this music! “The kid can play…so lyrical, and deft and swinging to boot.” —ROBERT PINSKY, UNITED STATES POET LAUREATE…

Piano professor Macy Blackman has played it all, and plays it for you tonight with Bing Nathan on bass… From the Clovers to the Orioles, Fats Domino to Professor Longhair… they’ll play the tunes and tell the stories that we crave!

Smooth Toad presents the dusty American folk ragas of surrealist/dada poet G. P. Skratz, romantic fiddler/bard Hal Hughes, and legendary theater artist Bob Ernst.   The trio weaves an authentic collaboration that conjures original hymns wherein Captain Beefheart meets Lord Byron. Their words and tunes explode into a whole new art form: think nightingale on…

Smith Dobson is a triple jazz threat, a respected and much sought player on saxophone, vibes and drums. He’s heir to several generations of family talent — his father was a top pianist on the scene through his untimely death in 2001, and his mother is a jazz singer and teacher of repute. Tonight, Smith…

Trumpet player Al Molina, reed player Jerry Logas and drummer Vinnie Rodriguez join bassist Don Prell for two generous sets of live jazz. Decades of professional experience and tons of improvisational skill on the bandstand tonight. Don first made his mark on the jazz scene in the 1950s, when he was an integral part of…

Avotcja Jerry Ferraz Francisco Herrera Genny Lim Kaylah Marin Kim Shuck Bill Vartnaw Nellie Wong plus open mic! Stars of Bay Area Poetry read to benefit KPFA!     More headliners as they confirm, so stay tuned! Don’t touch that dial! KPFA is crucial always, particularly in these trying times. Help them get through a…