An excursion through the scrapbook of the music’s history in these parts, from Jelly Roll Morton passing through to Kid Ory in a longer sojourn, the post-WWII Fillmore jazz scene, Turk Murphy and his trad revival crew… the Blackhawk, Brubeck, the Both/And and Bimbos… and Keystone Korner, where three bucks got you in on a weekday, $3.50 on a weekend for the likes of Art Blakey, Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Latif, Charles Mingus, Freddie Hubbard… impossible to imagine how fantastic that run was, yet there it was… all we can do is flip through the pages, then turn an ear to the musicians before you, who plumb the history of jazz and the vast depths of their imaginations to take the music into the moment, and then further…

Medea Isphording Bern will be on hand during the Friday jazz session with Chuck Peterson’s quintet, to introduce her book and trade stories…