Marc Caparone, cornet and trumpet.
Dan Barrett, trombone and cornet.
Jeff Hamilton, piano.
Mikiya Matsuda, bass.

$25 cover charge for adults / byob.
Teens and students, $10.
Kids free.

The sweetest, most joyful, most satisfying, most rambunctious music you’ll ever hear is the creole jazz that flowered in New Orleans and floated up and down the Mississippi River in the first decades of the 1900s, when skilled and sophisticated musicians playing for polite society joined with rough and ready talents from the crescent city’s back of town to thrill a richly diverse populace gathering in the public squares, street parades, brothels, barrooms and riverboats of a thriving era.

The Unnamable Quartet brings together four musicians steeped in the traditions, with dozens if not a hundred tunes at their fingertips, to make you realize the music has never gone away or lost its vast charm.

If you like what you hear, as you will, you’ll want to return a week hence, when the five-piece San Francisco Syncopaters–with tenor and bass saxophones fronting a rhythm section of guitar, piano and drums–take the stage at Bird & Beckett on Friday, April 4th to vastly increase your delight.