Kristen Strom, saxophone
Jhoely Garay, guitar
Scott Sorkin, guitar
Nick Panoutsos, bass
Jim Kassis, drums

$25 cover charge at the door (cash, please!) / byob.
Students $10. Kids free.
For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733.

Kristen Strom and Scott Sorkin are a musical couple who are two of the Bay Area’s most in-demand musicians. For this show at Bird & Beckett they will explore their love of Brazilian music with special guest, guitarist Jhoely Garay.

Garay is a New York-based guitarist, composer, arranger, and educator from Mexico City, whose music expresses her passion for straight-ahead swing, contemporary jazz, and melodies and rhythms from Latin America.

The rhythm section is completed with NYC-based bassist Nick Panoutsos and drummer Jim Kassis.

Jhoely Garay has become an integral part of the dynamic jazz scene in New York and Mexico, collaborating with iconic artists such as Dee Dee Bridgewater, Steve Wilson, Darcy James Argue, Jim McNeely, Vince Mendoza, among others; and performing at renowned venues, such as Carnegie Hall, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, The MET Museum, Jazz Institute Berlin, The Public Theater, Stanford University, Nezahualcoyotl Hall, Aaron Davis Hall, The Clemente Soto Cultural Center, Shea Center for Performing Arts, Colima International Jazz Festival, National Arts Center in Mexico, and as a guest composer, arranger and conductor of the NYO Jazz Orchestra in the U.S., the Berlin Youth Jazz Orchestra in Germany, and the UNAM Philharmonic Orchestra in Mexico.  https://www.jhoelygaray.com/