20 years down, now embarking on the next 20!

Plenty more ahead, of course, through the end of the  month, including:

— City  Jazz – CCSF Jazz Club’s big combo – coming in on Wednesday the 22nd to celebrate the end of the term with a blowout jam & party, 7pm

— The 230 Jones Street band holding forth on Friday the 24th, 5:30pm

— The Glen Pearson Quartet featuring the great saxophonist Robert Stewart on Saturday the 25th, 7:30pm

— and three events on Sunday the 26th:
• Walker Talks — on the Romantic era visionary poet William Blake — at 2:30pm
• The Frank Tusa Trio with Akira Tana at 4:30pm
• The Evangenitals — up from L.A. with a new cd — at 7:30pm

— then, rounding out the month, five more events:
• a gathering to remember poet, humanist and dearly missed friend of the shop Maurice Woods on Memorial Day, Monday the 27th, 7pm
• Craig & MacGregor bringing us the vocalist Crystal Miller on Wednesday the 29th, 8pm
• NY percussion star & Warriors fan Annette A. Aguilar’s quartet on Thursday the 30th, 8pm
– celebrate Game 1 of the finals! Live music ’til 10:45pm
•,and two shows on Friday the 31st —
John Calloway & The Hired Guns, featuring bassist Marcus Shelby at 5:30pm
The fabulous six-piece jazz band Mean to Me with vocalist Judy Butterfield at 9pm

And on it goes!

Mean to Me plays Friday, May 31st at 9pm, with vocalist Judy Butterfield, pianist Ben Slater, trumpet & flugelhorn player Dave Shaff and guitarist Scott Foster, with (not pictured) Sam Heminger on bass and Cairo McCockran on drums.