Twice a month, on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays, pianist Grant Levin performs with a duo partner at Bird & Beckett.  Grant is always amazing, and the rapport he builds…

The crime fiction of Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster inspired bassist Lisa Mezzacappa to cook up this project, which performed the suite recently at SFJazz.  Thanks to Marty Bigos for…

To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture revisits the circumstances which led to the arts being embraced at the heart of the Cuban Revolution. Introducing the main protagonists to…

There’s no band quite like the bands Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor have been presenting these past several decades, and no concepts quite like their concepts. Tonight, you’ll see how…

Guitarist Scott Foster is joined this evening by James Mahone, tenor sax; Sam Bevan, bass; and Brandon Etzler, drums, for an excursion through the work of a guitarist that influenced…

Broomrider’s Book of the Dead purports to be “A book in no genre based on found fragments from the notebooks of Anna Albuquar a.k.a. Anna Plum.” By happenstance the first reader…

   Based on Margo Perin’s childhood, The Opposite of Hollywood is a riveting novel of a family on the run. Marked by secrecy, false identities, and her father’s criminality, Tosca…

Jane taught Jerry to sing. Just sing, she said, as loud as you can, and don’t stop. And lord if he didn’t! From the Meat Market Cafe to the Cafe…

Jinx Jones, guitar powerhouse well known to the crowds at the Saloon, Tupelo, Speisekammer and countless other spots around Northern California, is joined by the imperturbable Joe Kyle Jr. on…