“Tender” Tim Shea, with his small combo Hipsteria, is ubiquitous on the jazz casual scene around town and around the Bay, wherever fine jazz is purveyed.

Catch him this evening in the neighborhood at your favorite jazz bookshop, with a top notch quartet and a singer who handles classic and quirky tunes with unique swing & authority.

Tim has performed and studied with some of the finest musicians in the world in a variety of styles and settings, including Donald “Duck” Bailey, Johnny O’Neal, Grant Levin, Slide Hampton, Smith Dobson V, Roomful of Blues, Chapito, The Cunninghams, Brian Patneaude, Jim Gunderson, (David) Tronzo, Danny Spencer, Mark French, Top Cat, Gerald Bryant, John Baboian, Gerald Beckett, and many more! “Tender” Tim has a BA in music as well as a California Single Subject Teaching Credential in Music studying at Berklee College of Music, Tufts University, Skidmore College and San Francisco State University.