Archive for September 2015
Saturday, December 12th
Double Grant!
Grant Levin Duo and Quartet
Duo at 4:00 with Chris Amberger on bass Quartet at 7:30, with Howard Wiley, sax; Chris Amberger, bass and Hamir Atwal, drums
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Friday, December 11th – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
The Stu Pilorz Trio
Pianist Don Alberts and bassist Aaron Cohn join trombonist Pilorz for two sets testing the margins where bebop and hard bop constructions encounter harmonic concepts rife with possibility — all in the party atmosphere that we know and love on Friday evenings in San Francisco’s premier & southernmost outpost of literature and jazz — Bird…
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Wednesday, December 9th – 7 pm
AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review
Issue SIX Release Party
The long overdue SIXTH issue of AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review is now available, featuring art by Will Yackulic and writing by Garrett Caples, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Derek Fenner, Jackqueline Frost, Evan Kennedy, Frank Lima, Jason Morris, Rod Roland, Aaron Shurin, Cedar Sigo, Syd Staiti, Richard Tagett, Tara Thomas, and the editor, Nicholas James Whittington, along with…
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Sunday, December 6th – 7:30 pm
Potrero Hillbillies do the Kinks!
Joshua Raoul Brody Christopher Gray Joe Cunningham are The Potrero Hillbillies! Joshua Raoul Brody writes:  Everybody loves the Kinks. Not everybody loves their widely overlooked album Muswell Hillbillies, and that is a shame: it’s one of those albums (like, in this writer’s opinion, Revolver, Loaded (what an interesting juxtaposition!), the Band’s 2nd album,Smiley Smile, Loudon Wainwright’s High…
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Sunday, December 6th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Denise Perrier & the Jerry Logas Project!
Denise Perrier, vocals Jerry Logas, saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Adam Gay, bass Tony Johnson, drums “Denise has this wonderfully warm voice….Listening to her is like sipping the best glass of wine you ever had in your life. You savor every note that comes out of her mouth.†– Dee Spencer, pianist and professor of music.…
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Saturday, December 5th – 7:30-10 pm
Smith Dobson Quartet
plays Ornette!
Smith Dobson, alto saxophone, leads a quartet that includes trumpeter Henry Hung, bassist Miles Wick and drummer Evan Hughes in an exploration of Ornette Coleman’s music. Coleman had a remarkable influence on the shape of jazz to come for so many generations of musicians that followed. Says Smith, “Ornette’s music started to liberate me from…
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