Papa Joe Cohen can’t make it this Friday! There’s his brand new baby girl and other family matters… but bassist Adam Gay will handle the honors, putting together some top notch players to entertain you mightily, don’t you worry. He’s got sax player Lyle Link, pianist Keith Saunders and drummer Omar Aran on the bandstand…

Bassist Bishu Chatterjee, vocalist Vivek Anand, saxophonist Aaron Bennett and drummer Rusty Aceves explore a territory where zen-influenced jazz and Indian classical music interact.  

Finnish trumpet player Heikki Koskinen leads this ensemble, featuring Kati Pienimäki Schenker, vocals; Steve Heckman, saxes, flutes & clarinet; Rent Romus, saxes & flutes & kantele; and Noah Schenker, bass.  Heikki performs on piano, e-trumpet, tenor recorder & kantele. A poll winning jazz trumpet player in the 1970s in his native Finland, Koskinen came to the U.S. to study…

Smith Dobson, highly regarded for his talents on tenor sax, vibes and drums, is picking up the alto for this date — the horn on which Charlie Parker made revolutionary jazz advances through the 1940s and 1950s. Charlie Parker, known as Bird, is the namesake of this little store, so you should know that we’re among…

Don Prell’s got a trio tonight, with Vinnie Rodriguez on drums and Jerry Logas on tenor — promising many some sublimely beautiful moments along the way.

Michael Marcus Duo “Remembering Morris Atchison Michael Marcus – clarinets Brian Ho – Hammond organ This concert, put together by New York clarinetist Michael Marcus, is a tribute to legendary tenor saxist Morris Atchison, an important player out of Oakland, Ca., working primarily in R&B and blues bands. Atchison toured with Bobby Blue Bland during the…

Misisipi Mike is all over the San Francisco country/Americana scene, writing songs left and right, fielding more than a few bands and working in ten more as a hired gun & ringer. Not to mention turning out hundreds of stylish, eyeball pleasing show posters with an alacrity nobody can match — including a lot of your…

Trickster & Deities:  Walker Brents discusses native american conceptions of god.

Cole Porter wrote a good portion of the most elegantly clever songs in the halcyon days of Tin Pan Alley. Drummer Vinnie Rodriguez leads a fine quartet through just a few of his most memorable numbers, and a few rediscovered chestnuts. Lyle Link – alto saxBen Stolorow – pianoAdam Gay – bass Vinnie Rodriguez –…