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 was first heard on record on an album recorded live at the Coffee Gallery on Grant Avenue in 1960 by vocalist Bev Kelly with Pony Poindexter on saxophone and Flip Nuñez on piano, produced for Riverside Records by Orrin Keepnews. Not a bad start! He’s been swinging ever since. Habitués of the legendary Club Deluxe well remember the countless nights in the first couple of decades of this century when he ruled the venue’s bandstand from behind the drumkit, carrying all the City’s best young jazz players to ecstatic levels of performance.

This evening, Tony’s quartet will bring it’s own swinging brand of hard bop to the shop, just for you!

BYOB and a twenty for the band.

And don’t keep the secret from your friends. Let’s fill this joint and set it rockin’!

As Tony at Critter Fritters will tell you,
“Buy Local or Bye Bye Local.”

Don’t stay away today and mourn the loss tomorrow!

Stuff a twenty in your jeans & get down here. Carry an extra ten and spend it at Buddies Market on your way up the block. Oh, and need pet food? That’s what Critter Fritters can sell you. Maybe it costs more, even significantly more, than PetCo, that monster corporation. Amazon can be way cheaper than Bird & Beckett, too.

You make the choice!

Vote at the ballot box, and vote at the cash register.
Freedom ain’t free!