Friday, May 10th, 5:30 to 8:00 pm:
The Jimmy Ryan Quintet

On the second Friday of each month, jazz in the bookshop features The Jimmy Ryan Quintet. Drummer Ryan learned the trade in L.A. in the ’50s as well, and hit the San Francisco scene in 1960 — and never looked back. Jimmy has played with legendary musicians like Putter Smith, Vince Wallace, Kent Glenn and…

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Sunday, May 26th, 4:30-6:30 pm:
Pacific Jazz Connection

which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. May 26th – 4:30-6:30 pm: Pacific Jazz Connection Jerry Logas, a multi-instrumentalist who covers all manner of saxes, clarinet and flute with equal parts lyricism and power, and Smith Dobson…

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Sunday, May 19th
Jimmy Gallagher Quartet
feat. Warren Gale

Sunday, May 19, 4:30-6:30 pm which way west? Sunday concert series never a cover charge, but your donations help us pay the musicians! Trumpet player Warren Gale has had a long and esteemed career, and is considered a key bebop player, particularly in West Coast small combo work, with significant time in Stan Kenton’s orchestra…

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Don Alberts, piano

A Bay Area native, active throughout the region in the early 1960s, with time served as house pianist at Jimbo’s Bop City from 19__ to 19__ in the company of Bishop Norman Williams, etc.  Author of Diary of the Underdogs: San Francisco Jazz in the 1960s.  Poet and novelist as well.

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