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TAC JAZZ FEST, presented by Jazz in the Neighborhood and JAMBAR!

The below post is for past TAC JAZZ FEST shows in April; click here for the upcoming June shows!

We’re BACK in the neighborhood! The TAC JAZZ FEST is the first three Saturdays of April, presenting Bay Area-based jazz artists at the Temescal Arts Center, 511 48th St in Oakland. Jazz in the Neighborhood is excited to present this series at a new venue, and we are planning to continue presenting events at the TAC in the near future.

Evening concerts at the TAC will feature a cast of Bay Area heavyweights: Raffi Garabedian, Clairdee, Kasey Knudsen, Danielle Wertz, Tammi Brown, and Howard Wiley. Tickets for each show are $20, click the links below to purchase! No one will be turned away for lack of funds, contact us for more information.

April 2nd, 6pm: Raffi Garabedian Octet

April 2nd, 9pm: Clairdee and the Ken French Trio

April 9th, 6pm: The Holly Martins (Kasey Knudsen, Eric Vogler, and Lorin Benedict) with Jon Arkin

April 9th, 9pm: Danielle Wertz

April 16th, 6pm: Tammi Brown, Mads Tolling, and Dan Robbins

April 16th, 9pm: Howard Wiley

Additionally, each TAC JAZZ FEST date will have a free jam session from 2-4pm with a performance by more incredible local musicians who will back up the sessions, including Akira Tana, Mario Guarneri, Erik Jekabson, Frank Martin, Mary Fettig, Gary Brown, Kristen Strom, Scott Sorkin, Ken Okada, Tammy Hall, Jason Lewis, Tony Peebles, Randy Vincent, Pat Klobas, and Dave Rokeach. Check out our events calendar to see who’s playing each day, and come play at the session before checking out the evening concerts!

The TAC JAZZ FEST is presented by Jazz in the Neighborhood and JAMBAR. JAMBAR brings you organic, artisan energy bars, with half of all proceeds donated to supporting music and active living. Find out more on their website, and use code JITN for 10% off your order! Special thanks to Musicians Union Local 6 for supporting musicians’ pay for afternoon jam sessions.

West Oakland Sessions: Creative Music Series

Jazz in the Neighborhood and New Performance Traditions are proud to present the West Oakland Sessions: Creative Music Series. This groundbreaking series honors the internationally recognized Bay Area Creative Music community in 10 concerts performing music infused with influences from multiple musical genres.

Below are the date and ticket links for the concerts in this series. If you’re interested in four or more of these concerts, multi-tickets are available at a 15% discount! Click here to find out more.

1/30: Rent Romus’ Life’s Blood Ensemble

2/20: Ben Goldberg – Porch Concert Material

2/27: Richard Howell

3/13: Karl Evangelista

3/20: Hafez Modirzadeh’s Facets

3/27: Kevin Robinson

4/10: Oluyemi Thomas

4/24: Beth Schenck’s House of Faern

5/1: Erika Oba Trio

5/22: Lisa Mezzacappa

LIVE! at OPC! Jazz Concert Series: renowned bassist, Curtis Lundy

Oakland Public Conservatory of Music & Jazz in the Neighborhood present Live at OPC! hosting musicians from the Bay Area & Beyond.

Join us Thursday January 20, 2022 at 7 pm (PDT) for an evening of hard-driving, swingin’ jazz with renowned bassist, Curtis Lundy, direct from New York. Rounding out the trio will be Darrell Green on drums and Matt Clark on piano.

The concert is a collaboration with Jazz in the Neighborhood and will be in-person at the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music. It will also stream on Bandcamp.

Click here to find out more and purchase tickets.

Arnie Sainz Co Quintet at the West Oakland Sessions

Join us for another West Oakland Sessions show on Sunday, September 5th from 4-5:30pm with the Arnie Sainz Co Quintet! Co weaves the unique voices of his quintet with his own compositions for this final concert before he moves to New York. Proof of vaccination and masks are required for this concert. Full directions and safety protocols will be sent to you upon ticket purchase.

This concert is part of a series of West Oakland Sessions featuring young jazz musicians based in the Bay Area. All shows in this series will be recorded live with an in-person audience. High quality video and audio is provided to the musicians free of charge, courtesy of Jazz in the Neighborhood and Musical Traditions. By purchasing a ticket to this show and participating in the recording, you are helping to launch these young musicians’ careers. 

Arnie Sainz Co is a pianist, composer, and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His voice spans ensembles and genres, finding his footing in both large-scale new music compositions and intimate improvised music settings. While completing his B. M. in Music Education at San Jose State University, Arnie studied jazz piano under Dahveed Behroozi, and currently studies composition with Alan Ferber.

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Nora Stanley at the West Oakland Sessions

Join us for another West Oakland Session on August 8th at 4pm with Nora Stanley! This concert will feature original compositions by Stanley and her bandmates, many of which were written during the pandemic and reflect their experiences of the past year. Stanley is joined by Raffi Garabedian, Omree Gal-Oz, Owen Clapp, and Matt Buckner at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland for this live concert and recording session.

This concert is part of a series of West Oakland Sessions featuring young jazz musicians based in the Bay Area. All shows in this series will be recorded live with an in-person audience. High quality video and audio is provided to the musicians free of charge, courtesy of Jazz in the Neighborhood and Musical Traditions. By purchasing a ticket to this show and participating in the recording, you are helping to launch these young musicians’ careers. 

Nora Stanley is a Bay Area-based saxophonist and composer whose interests and work live at the intersection of composed and improvised music with an emphasis on interaction and collaboration in a contemporary context. In addition to playing as a sideperson, she leads a quartet and a trio as well as BANKSHOT, an improvised wind quartet, and an electric/acoustic duo project. She has shared the stage with Dayna Stephens, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Gary Bartz, and has performed at Monterey Jazz Festival and SFJAZZ. Find more info and media on her website.

Click here to buy tickets and for more information!

Illy Bogart at the West Oakland Sessions

Join us on July 18th for another West Oakland Session featuring Illy Bogart! Drawing from a wide diversity of musical influences, this groove-oriented quintet create their unique sound in the cracks between funk, hip hop, and the jazz tradition.

This concert is part of a series of West Oakland Sessions featuring young jazz musicians based in the Bay Area. All shows in this series will be recorded live with an in-person audience. High quality video and audio is provided to the musicians free of charge, courtesy of Jazz in the Neighborhood and Musical Traditions. By purchasing a ticket to this show and participating in the recording, you are helping to launch these young musicians’ careers. 

Celebrating the release of their debut album, Illy Bogart brings new compositions and their unique musical voice. Featuring Tony Peebles (Tommy Igoe, Pacific Mambo Orchestra, KATCHAFIRE) and Lyle Link (Warren Wolf, Ralph Peterson) on saxophones, Ian McArdle (Erik Jekabson, Jacam Manricks) on keyboards, Kai Lyons (Wil Blades, Joe Cohen) on guitar, and Isaac Schwartz (Negative Press Project, High Standards) on drums, Illy Bogart draws from a wide-reaching plethora of influences from classic jazz, modern funk, and hip hop to bring something new, impactful, and exciting. 

Click here to buy tickets and get more info!

The Jawn-tet at West Oakland Sessions!

Join us Sunday, July 11th for a live recording of the debut concert of the Jawn-tet. This live concert at the Dresher Ensemble Studio is part of a series of West Oakland Sessions featuring young jazz musicians based in the Bay Area, on select Sundays through September. All featured musicians will receive high quality audio and video recordings of the concert, and will be paid a guaranteed fair wage in line with Jazz in the Neighborhood’s standard.

Emerging as a response to the isolation of the past year, the debut of the Jawn-tet is a refreshing and long overdue return to live music for these five young musicians. Virtuosic Bay Area drummer Genius Wesley propels his new quintet through innovative takes on old standards and intrepid originals, contrasting sheets of sound against insistent bebop momentum. After meeting pianist Luis Peralta through a choral orchestra in Berkeley, and Tommy Noble (sax), Isaac Coyle (bass), and Jed Holtman (guitar) at an improvisation class taught by Howard Wiley, the group combined what had already become a loose collective into this new group. Their debut at the West Oakland Sessions will be the first recording of the Jawn-tet.

Fred Randolph Quintet

Friday, April 3, 6 pm at Marin Country Mart – POSTPONED

A concert in conjunction with the release of Mood Walk, a CD of original compositions by Fred Randolph. Performing will be:

Fred Randolph, basses — Sheldon Brown, saxes/flute — Erik Jekabson, trumpet/flugel — Dan Zemelman, keyboards — Greg Wyser-Pratte, drums

This is a Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund event where each musician will be paid $150 in advance. Jazz in the Neighborhood makes this possible by subsidizing 40% of their pay. Marin Country Mart guarantees the rest. For additional information, please contact Marin Country Mart.

Marin Country Mart — 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle
No admission charge. Call (415) 461-5700 for more info.

All Day Celebration and Fundraiser for an Independent Musicians Alliance

Saturday, February 29, 2-10:30 pm at Bird & Beckett
hosted by Bird & Beckett and Jazz in the Neighborhood

Tammy Hall Trio with Ruth Davies & Daria Johnson at 2 pm
•  Get tickets @ $25

tbd Quartet with Mario Guarneri, Erik Jekabson, John Wiitala & Akira Tana at 4:30 pm
•  Get tickets @ $25

Mads Tolling Trio with Dave MacNab & Dan Feiszli at 7:30 pm
•  Get tickets @ $25

All day pass for all three shows
•  Get tickets @ $60

Bird & Beckett’s Cultural Legacy Project presents hundreds of intimate shows a year by Bay Area professional musicians for neighborhood audiences, while Jazz in the Neighborhood presents and underwrites shows all around the Bay.

The BBCLP and JITN are in league to improve the wages and working conditions of local gigging musicians, and hence are launching an Independent Musicians Alliance — a solidarity organization to encourage the free exchange of information among musicians so that they can better agitate for a fair wage and better working conditions.

B&B and the JITN are on the same wavelength in considering musicians to be crucial to the survival of the human spirit in these trying times and worthy of being celebrated and awarded for their efforts in the best of times!

Please bring your checkbook, enjoy what you hear and take pride in your role as heroic listeners and generous supporters. Dancing encouraged!

Bird & Beckett — 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco

Calvin Keys Quartet

Saturday, February 15, 7:30-10 pm at Bird & Beckett

Calvin Keys, guitar — Art Maxwell, sax — David Rokeach, drums — with Calvin’s student Joel on bass

This is a Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund event where each musician will be paid in advance, regardless of ticket sales. Jazz in the Neighborhood makes this possible by subsidizing 40% of their pay. Bird & Beckett and the Jazz Philanthropists Union guarantees the rest. The $20 cover charge at the door is a crucial component of that guarantee, though a sliding scale is available to those who need avail themselves of it. For tickets and other information, please contact Bird & Beckett.

Bird & Beckett — 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco

Branice McKenzie Trio

Sunday, February 9, 6-8 pm at Shinmai restaurant

Jazz vocalist Branice McKenzie is joined by Larry Steelman on piano and Daniel Fabricant on bass. Ms. McKenzie’s four-octave voice and song stylings have brought international acclaim, touring with artists like Harry Belafonte, Gregory Hines, Roberta Flack, Hugh Masekela, Carly Simon, BeBe Winans, Dianne Reeves, Peggy Lee and Miriam Makeba. Their set will include tunes from the Great American Songbook and beyond.

This is a Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund event where each musician will be paid in advance, regardless of ticket sales. Jazz in the Neighborhood makes this possible by subsidizing 40% of their pay. Shinmai restaurant guarantees the rest. For reservations or other information, please contact info@shinmaioakland.com or call 510-271-1888

Shinmai 1825-3 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland

Guarneri Trio

Thursday, January 30, 6-8:30 pm at Tam Commons

Mario Guarneri, trumpet, heads a trio with guitarist Randy Vincent and bassist Robb Fisher.

This is a Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund event where each musician will be paid $150 in advance by Berp & Co.  Jazz in the Neighborhood makes this possible by subsidizing 40% of their pay. For more information, please contact Berp.

Tam Commons Tap Room and Kitchen — 1300 4th Street, San Rafael

Brown, Wilcox, Bowman Trio

Saturday, January 18, 7:30 pm at Bird & Beckett

Saxophonist Sheldon Brown, six-string bassist Michael Wilcox, and drummer Bryan Bowman continue in the tradition of Sonny Rollins, one of the earliest proponents of the tenor/bass/drums format. As a trio, they explore a wide variety of music that has interested them over the years—from Brazilian choro, Bulgarian music, and the music of Herbie Nichols to pieces adapted from the classical repertoire by composers like Brahms, Faure and Machaut.

The Brown Wilcox Bowman Trio is a unique partnership of melody, harmony and rhythm between 6 string electric bass, reeds and drums.

They explore a wide range of themes from contemporary jazz, classical music and world music influences creating dialogues that and unexpected and exciting.

This is a Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund event where each musician will be paid in advance, regardless of ticket sales. Jazz in the Neighborhood makes this possible by subsidizing 40% of their pay. Bird & Beckett and the Jazz Philanthropists Union guarantees the rest. The $20 cover charge at the door is a crucial component of that guarantee, though a sliding scale is available to those who need avail themselves of it. For tickets and other information, please contact Bird & Beckett.

Bird & Beckett — 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco

Eric Shifrin & The In Crowd

Friday, December 13, 5:30-8 pm at Bird & Beckett

Eric Shifrin, piano & vocals — Rick Elmore , trombone — Bing Nathan, bass — Randy Lee Odell,  drums

In addition to the normal “In Crowd” repertoire of upbeat and lesser performed  swing,  latin and blues tunes, this concert will include selections which honor the memory of Ralph Carney.  Eric and Ralph formed a band called EaR Candy  (Eric and Ralph) which performed several times at Bird and Beckett before Ralph’s untimely death two years ago.  Ralph’s unique voice has been sorely missed in the Bay Area, especially by the musicians in this ensemble, who collaborated with Ralph on many occasions.

Jazz in the Neighborhood’s Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund will provide a subsidy for this date, allowing Bird & Beckett to pay a “fair wage” of $150 per musician for this engagement, double their regular guarantee on a Friday evening! The $20 cover charge at the door is a crucial component of that guarantee, though a sliding scale is available to those who need avail themselves of it. The Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund was established with the aim of raising gigging musicians’ wage standards so they can afford to stay in this very expensive city and region. Your donations to Jazz in the Neighborhood and to the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project make it possible to keep live jazz happening in the Bay Area.

For tickets and other information, please contact Bird & Beckett.

Bird & Beckett — 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco

 

 

 

Rhodessa Jones with Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids

Saturday, December 7, 7:30 pm at Bird & Beckett

A double bill: first up the duo of Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor, followed by a set from Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids.

Musicians in the Pyramids will be Sandy Poindexter, violin; Robert Cobb, guitar;  Charles Thomas, bass; Abdul Wahid, percussion, and Bob Marshall, drums. They’ll be performing music from their just completed new album entitled Shaman!, which resonates with personal musical statements about love and loss, mortality, the after life, family, and salvation. Also on the program will be music from their acclaimed album An Angel Fell, which concerns the worldly themes of climate change, political and social musical commentary.

This is a Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund event where each musician will be paid in advance, regardless of ticket sales. Jazz in the Neighborhood makes this possible by subsidizing 40% of their pay. Bird & Beckett and the Jazz Philanthropists Union guarantees the rest. The $20 cover charge at the door is a crucial component of that guarantee, though a sliding scale is available to those who need avail themselves of it. For tickets and other information, please contact Bird & Beckett.

Bird & Beckett — 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco

Lisa B and the Reverberant Band

Saturday, November 16, 7:30-10 at Bird & Beckett

Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) celebrates the release of her seventh record, Reverberant: Poems & Music Accompanying Lisa B’s spoken and sung verse will be Ben Flint and Scott R. Looney, both on  piano & keyboards; Marcus Shelby, bass; and Isaac Schwartz, drums.

The new record’s theme of reverberation links jazz stories with tales of spiritual self-realization. In a departure from Lisa B’s previous albums  – which feature her jazz vocals and poetic rap in original songs and standards – Reverberant is grounded in her free-verse poems, spiced with singing and musical compositions created with stellar Bay Area musicians. Many of the poems appeared in esteemed literary journals, such as Kenyon Review. The evening’s performance will also include tunes from Lisa B’s 2018 record, I Get A Kick: Cole Porter Reimagined, as well as other fan favorites, such as “Joe Williams Died Walking/Every Day I Have the Blues” and “Holiday in Oakland.”

This is a Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund event where each musician will be paid $150 in advance, regardless of ticket sales. Jazz in the Neighborhood makes this possible by subsidizing 40% of their pay. Bird & Beckett and the Jazz Philanthropists Union guarantees the rest. The $20 cover charge at the door is a crucial component of that guarantee, though a sliding scale is available to those who need avail themselves of it. For tickets and other information, please contact Bird & Beckett.

Bird & Beckett — 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco

 

 

Grant Levin Trio featuring Denise Perrier

Friday, November 8, 5:30-8 pm at Bird & Beckett

Denise Perrier, the voice with a heart, sings with pianist Grant Levin’s fine trio, featuring veteran bassist Dean Reilly and the young drummer Genius “G-Dub” Wesley in a program that’s guaranteed to delight.

Jazz in the Neighborhood’s Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund will provide a subsidy for this date, allowing Bird & Beckett to pay a “fair wage” of $150 per musician for this engagement, double their regular guarantee on a Friday evening! The $20 cover charge at the door is a crucial component of that guarantee, though a sliding scale is available to those who need avail themselves of it. The Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund was established with the aim of raising gigging musicians’ wage standards so they can afford to stay in this very expensive city and region. Your donations to Jazz in the Neighborhood and to the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project make it possible to keep live jazz happening in the Bay Area.

For tickets and other information, please contact Bird & Beckett.

Bird & Beckett — 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco

 

JITN recommends events at 7 Mile House

7 Mile House has stepped up to the plate and will be paying musicians the JITN minimum guarantee — without funding from Jazz in the Neighborhood — for selected events. Scheduled so far are:

Dog House Jazz Jam with Vince Lateano
with Michael Zisman, Ben Stolorow, Andrew Speight
Sunday, July 14, 5-8 pm

Al Molina Sextet
with Al Bent, Tod Dictow, Larry Chinn, Peter Barshay, Vince Lateano
Tuesday, August 6, 7-10 pm

Soul Sauce
Curt Moore, Jon Erikson, Ken Cook, Rich Girard, Michaelle Goerlitz
Tuesday, September 24, 7-10 pm

Dave Bendigkeit’s Keepers of the Flame
with David Udolf, Chris Amberger, Akira Tana
Tuesday, October 15, 7-10 pm

Established in 1858, the 7 Mile House is an award-winning, family and dog-friendly restaurant, sports bar, and live music venue, serving up a unique mix of homestyle Italian/American/Filipino food. It is the only mile-house left standing in its original location and has a colorful history dating from its rebel days in the 1800s to being a trucker/biker hangout and then an infamous sports gambling joint in the 80s. Today, this popular restaurant and bar presents live entertainment nearly every night.

Make a reservation to hear great music and to help improve the economics of jazz performance in the Bay Area.

7 Mile House — 2800 Bayshore Blvd, Brisbane — 415-467-2343

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