Archive for December 2016
Sunday, March 5th – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio
Bassist Greg D’Augelli and drummer Mark Lee join pianist Grant Levin for two sets of jazz. For good reason, Grant has gained a substantial following at Bird & Beckett and other San Francisco jazz venues for his astonishingly fluid and creative work.
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Sunday, March 5th – 2 pm
Electric Cool Jelly!— a reading by Buster Baer
Buster Baer reads from Electric Cool Jelly. He notes, I wrote most of the book over the Summer of 2015. It was the only way I could keep my head on my shoulders. Then by the end of the Summer I got the wild idea to collect up everything I’d written, format it, and get…
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Saturday, March 4th – 7:30-10pm
Keith Saunders Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night
Pianist Keith Saunders’ formative years in jazz happened in Los Angeles, and then came a quarter century making up Keith’s New York years, notably centered around the New York HardBop Quintet, an outfit he co-led which had an eight year run, touring extensively and recording four cds, two of them with Rudy Van Gelder at…
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Friday, March 3rd – 5:30-8 pm
Don Prell’s SeaBop Ensemble
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002
Don got his start in L.A. in the 1950s, traveling for several years as a member of the Bud Shank Quartet and put in 30 years with the SF Symphony as well… Tonight, he’s joined by Al Molina, trumpet; Jerry Logas, reeds and Kris Gustafson, drums.
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Thursday, March 2nd – 8-10 pm
Randy Lee Odell presents
Allison Lovejoy & Friends, cabaret & classical
canyon moonlight music series — occasional Thursday and Sunday nights
Allison Lovejoy performs with Greg Stephens on trombone, Bing Nathan on bass and Randy Lee Odell on drums. Read up on Allison’s career in classical music and her cabaret projects at this link.
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Sunday, March 5th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west? Sunday concert series
Betty Wong hosts faculty and friends of Community Music Center
in a celebration of the Year of the Rooster
In celebration of the Year of the Rooster and San Francisco’s wonderful multi-cultural, full access Community Music Center, pianist, composer, bandleader and teacher Betty Wong will present a number of accomplished musicians performing music from all corners of the globe on a variety of traditional and modern Asian and western instruments. A jazz set by…
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