Archive for August 2015
Friday, October 9th – 5:30-8:00
The Adam Gay Quartet
Papa Joe Cohen can’t make it this Friday! There’s his brand new baby girl and other family matters… but bassist Adam Gay will handle the honors, putting together some top notch players to entertain you mightily, don’t you worry. He’s got sax player Lyle Link, pianist Keith Saunders and drummer Omar Aran on the bandstand…
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which way west?
ZeJaRa: Zen-Jazz-Raga
Sunday, Sept. 27th, 4:30-6:30 pm
Bassist Bishu Chatterjee, vocalist Vivek Anand, saxophonist Aaron Bennett and drummer Rusty Aceves explore a territory where zen-influenced jazz and Indian classical music interact.
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Sunday, October 4th – 7:30-10pm
Canyon Moonlight Music:
EaR Candy
with Eric Shifrin & Ralph Carney
Joe Kyle, Jr. on bass and Randy Odell on drums fill out this quartet that operates under the ethos that to borrow from one source is plagiarism, but to steal from everyone is research!
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Sunday, October 4th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Northern Winds and Voices
Heikki Koskinen
Finnish trumpet player Heikki Koskinen leads this ensemble, featuring Kati Pienimäki Schenker, vocals; Steve Heckman, saxes, flutes & clarinet; Rent Romus, saxes & flutes & kantele; and Noah Schenker, bass.  Heikki performs on piano, e-trumpet, tenor recorder & kantele. A poll winning jazz trumpet player in the 1970s in his native Finland, Koskinen came to the U.S. to study…
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Saturday, October 3rd – 7:30-10:00 pm
Bird Lives!
The Smith Dobson Quartet
pays tribute to Charlie Parker
Smith Dobson, highly regarded for his talents on tenor sax, vibes and drums, is picking up the alto for this date — the horn on which Charlie Parker made revolutionary jazz advances through the 1940s and 1950s. Charlie Parker, known as Bird, is the namesake of this little store, so you should know that we’re among…
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Friday, October 2nd – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
Don Prell’s SeaBop Ensemble
Don Prell’s got a trio tonight, with Vinnie Rodriguez on drums and Jerry Logas on tenor — promising many some sublimely beautiful moments along the way.
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