Bassist John Clark and drummer Mark Lee mesh to perfection with one of the West Coast’s finest jazz pianists, Mike Greensill.  And up front, the sublimely talented and well traveled saxophonist Charlie McCarthy. Consummate professionalism and improvisation for your Sunday afternoon in Glen Park. Greensill is known on both coasts, major cities dotting the continent and the boites of Europe for his talents, often as accompanist for the fine singer Wesla Whitfield and other vocalists. Today, he’s the center of a superb instrumental quartet, a jazz gem of the first water.  

Every year this time, round about the Chinese New Year, the force of nature that is Betty Anne Siu Junn Wong rounds up some fine talents associated with San Francisco’s beloved teaching institution, the Community Music Center, for a wide ranging program that might include Chinese classical music, klezmer, western classical music from Debussy to Schoenberg, and, of course, small combo jazz. It’s the jazz cats who finish it out each time, this time a combo including reed players Ken Rosen and Joe DeAndreis, pianist Randy Clark and bassist Richard Saunders. With luck, CMC Director Emeritus Steve Shapiro, a close neighbor and solid supporter of Bird & Beckett, will sit in on piano for a tune or two. Certainly he’ll play a couple of tunes with Ellen Rosenthal on bass! Betty Wong, a long-time faculty member at CMC, is particularly known for her Phoenix Spring Ensemble, exploring indigenous and Original…

……………………….. Tonight, the Quartet will focus on jazz originals by Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, Billy Strayhorn and Bud Powell, as well as timely classics from the Great American Songbook such towering composers as Cole Porter and Harold Arlen. The leader on the date, saxophonist Smith Dobson, has this to say about his sidemen: — Kai Lyons, at just age 21, is on a mercurial rise to the top echelon Bay Area jazz guitarists. It won’t be long before his name is synonymous with jazz in these parts! — Miles Wick is another young jazz talent. A Sonoma native, Wick studied with Bay Area jazz legends including George Marsh. His talents aren’t exclusive to playing jazz bass. He is also a gifted singer/songwriter. — James Gallagher has steadily proven himself to be one of the foremost bebop drummers on the local scene. He has a deep passion and knowledge of classic jazz and it…

Katharine Harer brings along bassist Ollie Dudek to celebrate the publication of her new poetry collection, Jazz and Other Hot Subjects.

Misisipi Mike & friends spin out a trove of classic songs by giants including Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Johnny Cash and many many more. Kyle Patrick O’Brien on fiddle and vocals, Mike Anderson on bass, Ken Owen on drums. Mike Wolf, once a punk rocker out of Pass Christian, Mississippi, figured some years ago that the most radical thing he could do would be to turn country singer. He hosts the show on the last Sunday of the month in our “Canyon Moonlight” series.  The rest of the month he’s one of the busiest gigging musicians in town, a crack songwriter and a terrific graphic artist (witness the 14 show posters he did for our surf-a-billy swingtime concert series and the hundreds of others he’s done for friends and colleagues). With luck, tonight we’ll get Mike to sing a few of his hits… like “Daddy Drank His Vodka (Like His…

The Fred Randolph Trio Fred Randolph basses Ian Mcardle piano Isaac Schwartz drums Originals and re-imagined standards by the members of the trio plus music from Fred’s acclaimed new release “Song Without Singing.” “An exquisite project from bassist Fred Randolph whose talents as a composer and arranger are what truly makes Song Without Singing an engaging musical experience.” –Edward Blanco, All About Jazz

Juan de Yepes y Álvarez, 16th Century Spanish mystic and Catholic saint — St. John of the Cross — mystic seer, rigorous thinker, masterpiece-maker of the Andalucian renaissance, eraser of sectarian illusions. Walker Brents III provides a personal reflection on a universal thinker.

jazz club! every Saturday night, when lights are low… Tonight: Bob Kenmotsu, tenor sax Ben Stolorow, piano Noah Schenker, bass Vinnie Rodriguez, drums Collaborating tonight on original tunes by each of the members of the quartet, and wailing on some perennial jazz standards!

Grant Levin, an extraordinary jazz pianist who surely ranks among the very best players in the business, plays two sets of music with Chilean bass player Ricardo Diaz.       Grant brings in a duo partner on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month, and plays in a quartet setting on the 2nd Saturday as well.   On these duo dates, you can always expect an afternoon of sublime interplay between two very talented musicians.

Zan Stewart, sax & stories; Keith Saunders, piano; Adam Gay, bass; Ron Marabuto, drums. Zan Stewart is a lifelong musician and award-winning jazz journalist. Keith Saunders, Adam Gay, and Ron Marabuto are all top-call SF Bay Area jazz artists. Together, the four made ‘The Street Is Making Music,’ the band’s debut release.  

Heshima Mark Williams presents! The Ways & Means Committee: Dr. Gary Bean, trumpet Michael Bush, alto sax Dr. David Ferrazares, tenor sax Art Khu, piano Mark Williams, bass Julian Hogan, drums  

Colleagues making jazz music for you. Live. Once in a lifetime. Two sets: 5:30-8:00 pm!