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Friday, July 26th – 6-8pm
The Tony Johnson Quartet
Bob Kenmotsu, tenor saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Matt Montgomery, bass Tony Johnson, drums $20 suggested donation, byob. Teens and music students, $5-10 sliding scale Kids free Australian native Tony Johnson arrived on these shores in 1959, sneaking into the U.S. from British Columbia and quickly becoming a fixture on the North Beach jazz scene. He…
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Friday, July 26th – 8:30-10pm
The Laura Dreyer Quartet
Laura Dreyer – saxophone and flute Marcos Silva – piano Richard Lindsey- bass Kelly Fasman – drums $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations: 415-586-3733 Saxophonist, flutist and composer Laura Dreyer is a vibrant and widely acclaimed voice in the New York and global jazz scene. Her compositions combine lyrical melodies with jazz, Brazilian rhythms, funk and…
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Saturday, July 27th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Noel Jewkes Quartet
with guest vocalist Kay Kostopoulos
Noel Jewkes, saxes Grant Levin, piano Robb Fisher, bass Mark Lee, drums with guest vocalist Kay Kostopoulos $20 cash cover charge, byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733 Noel is now the grand old man of San Francisco saxophone, with a career spanning six to seven decades. They call him Dr. Legato, for his lovely long saxophone lines…
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Sunday, July 28th – 5-7pm
Jam session!
All jazz players welcome! No charge to play. Audience, your donations allow us to pay the hosting trio members a fair wage for their labor. Drummer Vince Lateano, bassist Peter Barshay and pianist Ben Stolorow set the stage and relinquish their instruments to anyone with the chops and nerve to join in the long tradition…
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Sunday, July 28th – 8-10pm
The Lillian Charlotte Quintet
Marvin Carter, saxophone. Ingbar Solomon, saxophone. Tamir Lifshitz, guitar. Lillian Charlotte Stern, bass. Gary Jones III, percussion. $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, 415-586-3733. Lily Stern has just completed her degree in music at the New School in Manhattan, and is home this summer, preparing her debut album and playing at venues this weekend from Mr.…
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Thursday, August 1st – 7pm
Poets Alice Rogoff & Antoinette Payne
followed by an open mic
POETS! every 1st Thursday at 7
Alice Elizabeth Rogoff grew up in New Rochelle, New York. She lives in the Sunnyside District of San Francisco near Bird and Beckett. Her poetry book Mural won a Blue Light Book Award. Her other books of poetry are Materials, Painting the Cat’s Vision, and the newest, City Canyons. Painting the Cat’s Vision was a semi-finalist in the Codhill Poetry…
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