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Sunday, March 2nd – 5pm
Mamboleo! Latin music set + jam session
Mamboleo! From Ruth Asawa School of the Arts: Amaru Duran-Calahorrano – Drums. Santiago Winton – Piano. Sai Ray – Trumpet. Mateo Siguenza – Bass. From Oakland School for the Arts: Vito Marcacci – Trombone. From Berkeley High School: Mario Barragan – Congas. On the first Sunday of most months (subject to the academic calendars of…
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Sunday, March 2nd – 1pm
The Community Music Center
15th Annual Chinese New Year Celebration
2025, the Year of the Green Wood Snake
Betty Wong–musician, composer and 50+ year veteran teacher at San Francisco’s century-old Community Music Center and long-time Glen Park resident–presents her annual CMC Chinese New Year world music and jazz celebration! Teachers, students and friends of the CMC will cover a diverse range of music as befits San Francisco, one of the world’s great multi-cultural…
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Saturday, March 1st – 7:30-9:30pm
Benny Amón’s New Orleans Pearls
Marc Caparone, trumpet. Jeff Hamilton, piano. Sam Rocha, bass. Benny Amón, drums. $25 cover charge; byob. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Jazz in the Neighborhood (a 501(c)3 nonprofit funded by folks like you) has offered to subsidize this date, augmenting your $20 cover charge to help us pay the musicians a guaranteed…
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Friday, February 28th – 8:30pm
Larry Ochs + Tales End
a musical collective featuring
Lisa Mezzacappa,
Darren Johnston & Ben Davis
Ben Davis – cello. Darren Johnston – trumpet. Lisa Mezzacappa – acoustic bass. Larry Ochs – tenor and sopranino saxophones. $20 cover charge; byob. For a reservation, call 415-586-3733. Jazz in the Neighborhood (a 501(c)3 nonprofit funded by folks like you) has offered to subsidize this date, augmenting your $20 cover charge to help us…
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Friday, February 28th – 6-8pm
Tony Johnson’s 230 Jones Street
Local 6 Literary Jazz Band
Bird & Beckett’s legacy band! Charlie McCarthy, saxophone; Sam Cady, piano; Chuck Bennett, bass; & Tony Johnson, drums continue a 23-year tradition of jazz in the bookshop! $20 suggested donation helps us pay these long-time professionals a decent guaranteed wage for the night’s work. BYOB. It’s a cheap night out, and high quality, we assure…
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Thursday, February 27th – 7:30pm
The Good War, Great Sounds!
a benefit for Outsound New Music Summit
with Elizabeth Costello,
Rent Romus & Suki O’Kane
The Good War is just out, and writer Elizabeth Costello has invited Rent Romus and Suki O’Kane to share the stage to raise funds for Romus’s most excellent Outsound New Music Summit and to celebrate Elizabeth’s debut as a novelist. Suggested donation for the event, $20 cash/venmo. BYOB. Bring your checkbook or the digital equivalent…
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