Joe Goldmark is the pedal steel guitar king of San Francisco, and his band the Seducers just won’t quit. Mitch Polzak, the guitar wizard Mayor of Port Costa, and honey-voiced Eddie Kendrick on electric bass share the vocal honors, with solid rockin’ Kenny Owen making it all flow. Every second Saturday, you’ll find the Seducers…

Lewis Jordan…plays a mean sax, sweet and mellow, sharp and staccato, richly complex, as the mood demands.  Jordan is a triple threat– a virtuoso on alto saxophone, a deft and ingratiating comic actor and a poetically humorous writer. — Robert Hurwitt Music at Large is Lewis’ vehicle for jazz expression.  Much can be learned about…

Come early, from 4 to 6 pm, to hear Grant play two sets of duo work with bassist Charles Thomas.  A sublime way to spend a rainy afternoon… Then grab a bite and come back at 7:30 pm for the quartet session featuring Jonathan Bautista on tenor sax, the great Jazz Messenger Chris Amberger on…

Liza Silva, vocal Ray Loeckle, sax Ray Scott, guitar Alex Baum, bass Michaelle Goerlitz, drums For well more than a decade we’d imagine, this band has held forth with the marvelous vocalist Liza Silva as the Club Deluxe’s Sunday night bossa nova band– with its roots in the Never on Sunday band that was the…

J.B. Frame is a frequent reader in the Monday night open mic, a sometimes wry and always observant, perceptive and considered voice in poetry. We’re pleased to present him in a full-length reading tonight. James Queen is a former high school English teacher, and a lover of art, plants, and tender moments. His poetry generously…

Eric Shifrin and Ralph Carney are the E and the R in EaR Candy– so that must make Joe Kyle, Jr. and Randy Odell the a… Regardless, they have a fabulous time, delving into an eccentric book of music, mostly obscure old jazz tunes and the occasional high lonesome ballad. Shifrin is a consummate saloon…

Bassist John Clark and drummer Mark Lee mesh to perfection with one of the West Coast’s finest jazz pianists, Mike Greensill.  And up front, the sublimely talented and well traveled saxophonist Charlie McCarthy. Consummate professionalism and improvisation for your Sunday afternoon in Glen Park. Greensill is known on both coasts, major cities dotting the continent and the…

Every year this time, round about the Chinese New Year, the force of nature that is Betty Anne Siu Junn Wong rounds up some fine talents associated with San Francisco’s beloved teaching institution, the Community Music Center, for a wide ranging program that might include Chinese classical music, klezmer, western classical music from Debussy to…

……………………….. Tonight, the Quartet will focus on jazz originals by Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, Billy Strayhorn and Bud Powell, as well as timely classics from the Great American Songbook such towering composers as Cole Porter and Harold Arlen. The leader on the date, saxophonist Smith Dobson, has this to say about his sidemen: — Kai Lyons,…

Katharine Harer brings along bassist Ollie Dudek to celebrate the publication of her new poetry collection, Jazz and Other Hot Subjects.