Ron Marabuto Quartet.
$20/adults; $10/students; kids/free.
Bob Kenmotsu, tenor sax.
Ben Stolorow, piano.
Ravi Abcarian, bass.
Ron Marabuto, drums.

Ron Marabuto, the son of John Marabuto, a key Bay Area pianist/arranger throughout the 1950s-1990s, was raised in the East Bay, graduated from UC Berkeley, and spent over a decade in New York City working extensively with such jazz greats as Pepper Adams, Tommy Flanagan and Roland Hanna. Upon returning to San Francisco, he picked up work with Buddy Montgomery, Bruce Forman, Mark Levine and countless other master jazz musicians who have populated the local scene.

These days, Ron gigs frequently while teaching and mentoring a new generation of musicians at Oaktown Jazz Workshops (directed by the bassist on tonight’s date, Ravi Abcarian), and has also taught for years at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, JazzCamp West and the Monterey Jazz Festival Education Program.

Ron has been on the bandstand at Bird & Beckett many, many times over the past 25  years, as have his colleagues in the quartet he presents here tonight.