Keith Saunders, piano
Eric Markowitz, bass
Smith Dobson V, drums

$20 cover charge – cash or venmo at the door
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Continuing in a Club Deluxe vein, three stalwarts of that venue’s jazz bookings converge for ninety minutes of fiery bebop, standards and jazz classics from the music’s glory years. After cutting his teeth in Los Angeles, Keith led the NY Hardbop Quintet in New York releasing four albums in eight years before he migrated to San Francisco, where for 24 years he’s been in the top echelon of players from day one.

Eric Markowitz learned much of what he knows about jazz from bussing in as a teen from Jersey to haunt the New York clubs, and most of what he knows about playing the jazz bass from veteran players in St. Louis; he’s learned the rest on innumerable club dates in the Bay Area since his arrival in 2003. He gigs more than anyone we know, always in demand, always a pleasure to hear.

Smith Dobson grew up on the music, a prodigy with a father who was considered one of the very best jazz pianists around and a mother who was a dominant singer of the 1960s and 1970s; his grandfather was an accordianist; his sister tours with Norah Jones, continuing the bond that led to their vocal trio called Puss N Boots. Besides drums, his first instrument, Smith is a top drawer saxophonist and vibes player. Paints and writes, too.

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We’ll be back in Deluxeville on Sunday with the bluegrass outfit called Trouble Town, featuring Pam Brandon, English-born bassist and singer who’s an engineer by day and a top flight musician by night. Trouble Town and a number other outfits featuring Pam — including Belle Monroe & her Brewglass Boys and the Luxomatics — always knocked ’em dead at the Deluxe.