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Wednesday, October 30th – 7pm
From Italy:
Valentina Ranalli Trio
featuring
Gaea Schell & Peter Barshay
$20 cover charge; sliding scale available Italian jazz vocalist Valentina Ranalli, from Naples, is noted for her purity of tone, phrasing, intonation, and improvisational ability. Valentina sings in English, Italian, Neapolitan, French, and Portuguese. She studied singing, piano, and music theory, going though opera singing, gospel music, and jazz music since she was a child.…
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Monday, October 28th – 7pm
Janice Shapiro
a memorial reading of her memoir, Philly Girl
Janice Shapiro lived her life with curiosity, joy, abandon and openheartedness. The 36 vignettes in Philly Girl speak of her deep, personal relationships spanning her early years in Philadelphia through her full and multi-faceted adulthood in San Francisco. With warmth and humor, her stories reveal the woman so many people loved, and the life she embraced…
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Sunday, October 27th – 4:30pm
Zinger Phillips Quartet
which way west?
Sunday concert series
Zinger Phillips is the brainchild of Grammy-nominated bassist Paul Knight who in the spirit of Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac named the band after two band members other than himself!  Among their recent shows the band backed up Peter Rowan at the 2019 annual Plumas Homegrown Americana Festival in the California High Sierra Mountains.  …
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Sunday, October 27th – 2:30pm
Walker Talks! on the
philosopher and cultural theorist Walter BenjaminÂ
The threads out of which so much has been woven come from sources first charted by Walter Benjamin. A classic “vates,” in the old Roman sense — a wielder of insight amidst a plethora of forms and hidden values. A chronicler of his immediate age, which strangely resembles ours, as well as a perspicacious navigator…
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Saturday, October 26th – 7:30-10pm
Erik Jekabson Quintet
jazz club!
when lights are low…
every Saturday night
$20 cover charge; sliding scale available Erik Jekabson is one of the most respected trumpet players on the local scene, known for his prolific and varied work as a composer and bandleader as well as for his nimble and creative work on the horn. His quintet for the occasion comprises top local players Sam Priven,…
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Friday, October 25th – 9pm
doors at 8:30pm
Richie Cole Quartet
with Gaea Schell,
Eric Markowitz, Peppe Merolla
$20 donation requested; any amount appreciated, not to worry! The legendary Richie Cole returns to the Bay Area! Doors open at 8:30pm Richie Cole, alto sax Gaea Schell, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Peppe Merolla, drums If you don’t know, and just have a hunch, you’d do well to research Mr. Richie Cole! Come out! You…
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