Marc Caparone, trumpet.
Jeff Hamilton, piano.
Sam Rocha, bass.
Benny Amón, drums.

$25 cover charge; byob.
For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733.

Jazz in the Neighborhood (a 501(c)3 nonprofit funded by folks like you) has offered to subsidize this date, augmenting your $20 cover charge to help us pay the musicians a guaranteed fair wage.

A decade and a half ago, drummer Benny Amón—California born, raised and trained in jazz — finished a music degree at UC Berkeley and left for New Orleans, where he lived and played for the ten years from 2011 to 2021, and where his love for the oldest jazz traditions was nurtured and flowered. Tonight, with the capable collaboration of two seasoned musicians, Marc Caparone and Jeff Hamilton, and a generational ally in the bassist Sam Rocha, Benny will deliver two generous sets of music reaching back to the earliest days of jazz.

In New Orleans, Benny performed regularly at Preservation Hall, Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro, The Palm Court Jazz Cafe, and aboard the Steamboat Natchez. Along the way, he has toured the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Japan, Belgium, Germany, Denmark and Sweden, performing in clubs and at jazz festivals that have included the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the Monterey Jazz Festival, Festival international I LOVE JAZZ in Brazil and the New Mexico Jazz Festival.

Benny is currently a Teaching Artist with the Preservation Hall Foundation and the Jazz In Schools program at Jazz at Lincoln Center. In the Bay Area, he regularly leads his own quartet playing New Orleans and classic jazz, as well as his trio that focuses on the music of the Ahmad Jamal trio, and is also the Musical Director for the South Bay Traditional Jazz Society.