Bob Kenmotsu, saxophone.
Keith Saunders, piano.
Eric Markowitz, bass.
Tony Johnson, drums.

$20 suggested donation per adult / byob.
Teens and students, $10.
Kids free.

Tony Johnson has been a cornerstone of the San Francisco jazz scene since he hit town in 1959.

Tony recorded on Riverside Records with singer Bev Kelly and saxophonist Pony Poindexter (Bev Kelly in Person, Live at the Coffee Gallery, 1960, produced by Orrin Keepnews); played with Bobby Short at the Hungry Eye in North Beach and with Peggy Lee at the Fairmont Hotel’s Venetian Room; toured nationally with Earl “Fatha” Hines; played the Ed Sullivan Show with Sammy Davis, Jr.; was musical director of the Vagabonds in Las Vegas (which also played the Sullivan Show); toured and recorded with the Claude Williamson Trio; was in Mike Vax’s Great American Jazz Band for half a dozen years; for more than forty years was in trombonist Brian Gould’s Swing Fever, a premier local party & wedding band that’s featured singer Denise Perrier, saxophonist Noel Jewkes, bassist Dean Reilly and others; and has long been a fixture at much missed Enrico’s in North Beach and the Club Deluxe in the Haight, as well as countless other Bay Area venues still chugging along, including the No Name Bar, Caffe Divino, the Comstock and many more.

For several years now, Tony has led his quartet here at Bird & Beckett four fourth Fridays a year and the 230 Jones Street Band eight more fourth Fridays a year. With either outfit, you can’t go wrong.

“Tony the Tiger,” he’s been dubbed, and he never stops swinging.