653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six
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Saturday, August 31st – 7:30-9:30pm
Hafez Modirzadeh Trio
Hafez Modirzadeh, saxophone Stan Poplin, bass Jason Lewis, drums $20 Cover charge; byob Reservations: 415-586-3733 Hafez Modirzadeh has had an outsized influence on jazz education and jazz players over the past few decades, but has now moved on to his own projects and gigging, with a deep affinity for diverse traditions that dovetail with and…
Friday, August 30th – 8:30-10pm
Sharman Duran – The Edge of Reality Show
Sharman Duran, piano & vocals Tod Dickow, saxophone Alex Baum, bass Bob Blankenship, drums $20 cover charge; byob Reservations, 415-586-3733 The Sharman Duran Quartet offers music that questions what we take for granted. Sharman is a complete musician whose main impetus is always to get inside the music, whether it be bop, Brazilian jazz, funk,…
Friday, August 30th – 6-8pm
“The George Barnes Experience”
The Duncan James Quartet
featuring Ned Boynton with guest Jordan Samuels
Duncan James, guitar Ned Boynton, guitar Jeff Saxton, bass Greg Gotelli, drums with special guest, guitarist Jordan Samuels $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, 415-586-3733. Guitarist Duncan James has asked guitarist Ned Boynton to join him in a quartet date in the spirit of swing guitarist George Barnes, and guitarist Jordan Samuels is coming along! Born…
Wednesday, August 28th – 7:30pm
Remembering the March on Washington
August 28, 1963
with Denise Sullivan’s book
Len Chandler:
Shadow Dream Chaser of Rainbows
Denise Sullivan, author of Shadow Dream Chaser of Rainbows: In Memory of a Movement Hero, hosts a remembrance of the March on Washington sixty-one years ago today, focused on the story of folk/protest singer Len Chandler. Len Chandler, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez were among the performers at the historic March on Washington on August…
Saturday, August 24th – 7:30-9:30pm
Rojai in the Pocket
Funkified soul from a legendary young singer, composer and band leader whose quintet will knock you out. Rojai, vocals and small percussion Chris Carter, guitar Eli Goldlink, piano Bil Hagar, bass Jeff Mince, drums $20 cover charge, byob Reservations: 415-586-3733
Friday, August 23rd – 6-8pm
Tony Johnson’s 230 Jones Street, Local 6, Literary Jazz Band
Remembering Dorothy Lefkovits and Chuck Peterson, drummer Tony Johnson fronts the 230 Jones Street, Local 6, Literary Jazz Band on Friday the 23rd at 6pm. Charlie McCarthy, saxophone; Glen Deardorff, guitar; Sam Cady, piano; Chuck Bennett, bass.
Thursday, August 22nd – 7:00pm
Warm Spell, with poets of Two-Way Mirror Books
Patrick James Dunagan, Tammy Fortin, Ava Koohbor and Nicholas James Whittington read from works published by host Marina Lazzara’s Two-Way Mirror Books. Warm Spell –Marina, Tammy, Jay Lee, Kevin Yserloo and guest Richard Beard — improvises following the reading.
Wednesday, August 21st – 7:30pm
Walker Brents III on Rimbaud in Abysinnia
Walker Brents III addresses the enigma of Rimbaud after he’s forsworn the poet’s life in Paris. Becoming someone else was Arthur Rimbaud’s task again and again. On the page it turned into unforgettable poetry. On the actual globe it became strange adventures in frontier borderlands. The poetry runs on in symbolic suggestion. The journeys in…
Saturday, August 17th – 7:30-9:30pm
Tranesformation: The Brian Melvin Trio
Music of John Coltrane and the Beatles, jazz standards & more! Drummer Brian Melvin, a San Francisco native son of the 1960s, is traveling out of his home in Estonia with Danish guitarist Soren Lee and joining forces with the great bassist John Wiitala, who came up in the days of Keystone Korner and remains…
Friday, August 16th – two shows!
Scott Foster Trio at 6
Schillinger-Hyman Quartet at 8:30
From 8:30-10pm, Friday, August 16th, catch local prodigies, now NYC-based rising jazz stars Eytan & Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman with their quartet featuring Langston Hughes II on sax and Michael Mitchell on drums. $20 cover charge (cash or venmo at the door); byob; reservations, call 415-202-4870. Friday the 16th from 6-8pm Scott Foster kicked off this third…