Sunday, December 13th – Noon-1:30 pm
Lavay Smith
and her Red Hot Skillet Lickers Soultet!
featuring Jules Broussard
and Danny Armstrong
Join us for our Surf-a-billy Swing Time Dance Party finale! After a swingin’ 14-month run, who better to wrap it up, tie a ribbon ’round it, and place it under your…
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Saturday, December 12th
Double Grant!
Grant Levin Duo and Quartet
Duo at 4:00 with Chris Amberger on bass Quartet at 7:30, with Howard Wiley, sax; Chris Amberger, bass and Hamir Atwal, drums
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Friday, December 11th – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
The Stu Pilorz Trio
Pianist Don Alberts and bassist Aaron Cohn join trombonist Pilorz for two sets testing the margins where bebop and hard bop constructions encounter harmonic concepts rife with possibility — all…
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Wednesday, December 9th – 7 pm
AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review
Issue SIX Release Party
The long overdue SIXTH issue of AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review is now available, featuring art by Will Yackulic and writing by Garrett Caples, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Derek Fenner, Jackqueline Frost,…
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Sunday, December 6th – 7:30 pm
Potrero Hillbillies do the Kinks!
Joshua Raoul Brody Christopher Gray Joe Cunningham are The Potrero Hillbillies! Joshua Raoul Brody writes:  Everybody loves the Kinks. Not everybody loves their widely overlooked album Muswell Hillbillies, and that is a…
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Sunday, December 6th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Denise Perrier & the Jerry Logas Project!
Denise Perrier, vocals Jerry Logas, saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Adam Gay, bass Tony Johnson, drums “Denise has this wonderfully warm voice….Listening to her is like sipping the best glass of…
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Saturday, December 5th – 7:30-10 pm
Smith Dobson Quartet
plays Ornette!
Smith Dobson, alto saxophone, leads a quartet that includes trumpeter Henry Hung, bassist Miles Wick and drummer Evan Hughes in an exploration of Ornette Coleman’s music. Coleman had a remarkable…
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jazz in the bookshop
Friday, December 4th — 5:30 to 8:00 pm
Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble
We’ve been doing it since late 2002 — never missed a Friday — and on it goes! Bassist Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble plays the first Friday of each month in our…
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Sunday, November 29th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Tom Solinger Quartet
Jazz violinist and vocalist Tom Solinger has assembled a quartet featuring Sue Crosman, piano; John Clark, bass; and Mark Lee, drums. Tom’s time on the San Francisco jazz scene dates…
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Saturday, November 28th – 7:30-10 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Newk’s time
The Vinnie Rodriguez Quartet
Drummer Vinnie Rodriguez leads the date on an excursion through the music of Sonny Rollins, putting his worthy constituents Jay Sanders (piano), Mike Irwin Johnson (guitar) and Noah Schencker (bass)…
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