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Sueños

Wednesday, December 12, 7:30 pm, Rendon Hall at California Jazz Conservatory 

Jazz/Hip-Hop quintet Sueños celebrates the release of their sophomore album, “Shots Fired”! The band pushes the evolution of jazz into a modern context, borrowing rhythms from hip-hop and rock, and blending them seamlessly with modal and gospel harmony. Bebop-tinged horns flow over the top to paint a unique musical portrait. They have performed nationwide, including at the PDX Jazz Festival in Portland and Herb Alpert’s Vibrato Jazz Club in LA. Sueños is Noah Frank on trumpet, Eli Maliwan on tenor sax and EWI, Greg Jacobs on piano, Curtis Aikens on acoustic and electric bass, and Brandon Farmer on drums.

Jazz in the Neighborhood presents its Wednesday night series at CJC with financial support from AFM Musicians Union Local 6.

Rendon Hall at the California Jazz Conservatory
$20 general admission / $10 full-time students

tbd_a quartet

Friday, December 14, 7:30 pm at Open Secret Bookstore

tbd_a quartet evolves out of the great West Coast jazz tradition begun by Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, and Stan Getz in the 1950s and 60s and explores a new sound through original and standard jazz vehicles, with a fresh and original take. The band features veteran Bay Area musicians Mario Guarneri and Erik Jekabson (trumpets), Peter Barshay (bass), and Akira Tana (drums), masterfully weaving together their four instrumental voices with intricate artistry, taking the audience along for an unpredictable ride. What happens when they play together is nothing short of magic.

This is a free event, co-sponsored by Jazz in the Neighborhood, Mario Guarneri, and BERP. For more information about Open Secret Bookstore, see www.opensecretbooks.com.

Open Secret Book Music and World Art Gallery, 923 C St. San Rafael

 

 

Quinteto La Moderna

Wednesday, December 19, 7:30 pm, Rendon Hall at the California Jazz Conservatory

“Quinteto La Moderna” is the Bay Area’s first quintet dedicated to the Cuban musical style known as “charanga”. It features the flute and violin of Miguelito Martinez and Tregar Otton respectively, as they fashion strong melodic figures over the hard driving rhythm section of Bay Area Latin music stalwarts John Calloway, Steve Senft-Herrera and Michael Spiro. The group’s repertoire ranges from the danzon to songo, from the cha-cha-cha to timba, and is truly the ideal group for both listening and dancing.

Michael Spiro, percussion  —  John Calloway, piano and flute — Miguel Martinez, flute — Steve Senft-Herrera, bass — Tregar Otton, violin

 

Jazz in the Neighborhood presents its Wednesday night series at CJC with financial support from AFM Musicians Union Local 6.

Rendon Hall at the California Jazz Conservatory
$20 general admission / $10 full-time students

 

 

Peck Allmond Quartet

Wednesday, December 26, 7:30pm at Bird & Beckett

An evening of original jazz tunes by multi-instrumentalist (and SF ex-pat) Peck Allmond, who will be playing instruments ranging from trumpet and saxophone to alto horn and alto flute. Allmond’s jazz credits include appearances with Oliver Lake, John Hicks, Billy Harper, Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, and Peter Apfelbaum; in the pop world he has accompanied James Brown, Rickie Lee Jones, Randy Newman, Ray Lamontagne among others.

The quartet features Bay Area rhythm-section legends Vince Lateano, drums; John Wiitala, bass; and Keith Saunders, piano – and is led by Peck Allmond, who has made his home in Brooklyn, NY since 1993. Despite living on two coasts, the group has performed extensively in the Bay Area in recent years – and Peck’s association with John Wiitala and Vince Lateano in particular goes back decades. With this long musical history, the group has an easy rapport that lets them dig into Peck’s tunes (and some lesser-known standards!) with a combination of fire, elegance, and swing.

This is a Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund event where each musician will be paid $100 in advance, regardless of ticket sales. Jazz in then Neighborhood makes this possible by subsidizing 40% of their pay. Bird & Beckett and the Jazz Philanthropists Union guarantees the rest. For tickets and other information, please contact Bird & Beckett.

Bird & Beckett — 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco

Rob Hart Trio

Friday, January 5, 5:30-8:30 pm at Marin Country Mart

The Rob Hart Trio is an exciting blend of organic traditional jazz, fusion, funk, latin and textural experimental music, along with high-powered, on-the-edge improvisations. Established in the early 1990s the trio has gone through a series of different incarnations of instrumentation and evolutions, taking the trio through pathways of musical adventures. The group for this performance is Greg Sankovich, keyboards; Paul Eastburn, acoustic & electric bass; and Rob Hart, percussives & 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
At Fisher’s Cheese + Wine shop. No admission charge.


Motoko Honda’s Simple Excesses Quartet

Wednesday January 9, 7:30 pm at Rendon Hall, California Jazz Conservatory

Pianist, composer, and improviser, Motoko Honda is a musical force of nature who blends jazz with chamber music, electronic music, and the sounds of music from around the globe.  Long a vital part of the improvised music community, Motoko has collaborated with many luminaries such as Wadada Leo Smith, Elliott Sharp, William Winant, Mike Watt, and others. The “keyboard alchemist” (Los Angeles Times) leads a quartet featuring some of Northern California’s most inventive, versatile sidemen, Cory Wright on woodwinds, Miles Wick on acoustic bass and Jordan Glenn on drums, through intricate compositions that layer taut rhythms and lush melodies.

Motoko Honda – Piano, Compositions

Motoko Honda is a concert pianist, composer, and interdisciplinary artist who has created a distinctive sound through her holistic approach to music, and her exceptional sensitivity in relating to other art forms and technologies. Employing a “virtuoso technique paired with her intensely imaginative mind” (Susan Dirende, L.A. Splash Magazine), and with stylistic influences ranging from jazz to Indonesian music to contemporary prepared piano with electronics, Motoko’s compositions and structured improvisations are intended to affect the skin, organs and minds of the listener rather than simple recitations of rhythmic and harmonic themes. Called both a “keyboard alchemist” (Chris Barton, L.A. Times), and the “embodiment of a muse” (Greg Burk, Metaljazz), Motoko’s performances transport audiences on sonic adventures that transcend the boundaries and conventions of contemporary music.

Cory Wright – Multi Woodwind

Reeds player Cory Wright has been involved in the jazz and creative music worlds for the past 25 years, including time spent in New York, Los Angeles and his current home in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recent projects reflect his interest in blurring the distinction between composed and improvised music, and in combining the harmonious with the atonal, the grooving with the arrhythmic. He has performed with Anthony Braxton, Yusef Lateef and Vinny Golia, and is a member of Bristle, the Nathan Clevenger Group and Goggle (saxophone quartet). He also leads his own projects Green Mitchell and the Cory Wright Outfit.

Miles Wick – Bass

Miles Wick is a bassist, singer and songwriter with ties to New York City and San Francisco.  His vast contribution to the Bay Area scene includes work with the area’s most innovative jazz musicians, poets, composers, and rock musicians.  Wick’s first full length album, So Much Love, is a collection of original songs accompanied on guitar.

Jordan Glenn – Drums

Jordan Glenn has worked closely with Fred Frith, William Winant, Zeena Parkins, Todd Sickafoose, John Schott, Dominique Leone, and bands Jack O’ The Clock, Beep! and tUnE-yArDs.  Recently he has worked with Rhys Chatham, Secret Chiefs 3, The Rova Sax Quartet, and composer Matthew Welch. He also leads the long trio Wiener Kids.

Jazz in the Neighborhood presents its Wednesday night series at CJC with financial support from AFM Musicians Union Local 6.

Rendon Hall at the California Jazz Conservatory
$20 general admission / $10 full-time students

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Jeff Derby Quartet

Friday, November 30, 5:30pm at Marin Country Mart

Jeff Derby, sax — Jake Smolowe, piano — Jason Carr, bass — Alex Aspinall, drums

Saxophonist/pianist, composer and educator Jeff Derby has been active on the Bay Area jazz scene since 2006. He graduated with honors from Sonoma State University with BAs in jazz studies, music education, and a single subject teaching credential, and in addition to performing, Derby teaches middle school music in Marin County. He draws inspiration from different jazz musicians and composers such as Kenny Garrett, Cannonball Adderley, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman, Michael Brecker, Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea, Oscar Peterson, McCoy Tyner, Horace Silver, and Wayne Shorter.

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

Grupo Falso Baiano

Thursday, November 29, 7:30 pm at Piedmont Center for the Arts

Grupo Falso Baiano performs a blend of traditional Brazilian choro music with modern influences of jazz, flamenco and samba. Choro is Brazil’s first national music, born in the cafés of Rio in the late 1800’s, and reflects the melding of Latin American and African rhythms with a melodic and harmonic structure most closely resembling Baroque Classical music. GFB’s unique exploration of choro spans nearly 100 years, including everything from traditional to contemporary classics, as well as original arrangements and jazz-influenced reinterpretations. The band features Zack Pitt-Smith, reeds, Brian Moran, 7 string guitar, Jesse Appelman, mandolin (bandolim), and Ami Molinelli, percussion.

Grupo Falso Baiano began as a trio in 2003 and later evolved into a quartet when Jesse Appelman (mandolin) joined the lineup in 2006. The group takes its name from the famous Geraldo Pereira song “Falsa Baiana” (which appears on their album Depois). A “falsa baiana” (or falso baiano) is a fake Bahian: one who claims to come from the state of Bahia, named after its famous bay. Hence the play on words as it applies to Grupo Falso Baiano: hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, they are Bahians of North America, but are “fake Brazilians”.

Currently, the band can be heard performing as a quartet and with special guest singers and instrumentalists in clubs, concert halls and festivals including SFJazz, San Jose Jazz Festival, Oakland’s SoundRoom, Healdsburg Jazz Festival, The Freight and Salvage, L.A.C.M.A.’s “Latin Sounds”, Santa Monica’s “Jazz On The Lawn”, and Yoshi’s Oakland among others. GFB has also been featured in multiple interviews on NPR (Latino USA,The California Report, West Coast Live), KCSM, KPFK and KUSP. Their 2009 Yoshi’s Oakland concert and interview was produced and broadcast online by Pandora Live.

Piedmont Center for the Arts, 801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont
$20 advance / $25 day of show / $5 student rush

Paul McCandless/Christian Foley-Beining Collaboration

Wednesday, November 28, 7:30 pm, Rendon Hall at California Jazz Conservatory

A rare opportunity to get to hear the Grammy Award winning sax player Paul McCandless in this collaboration with Christian Foley-Beining. Both McCandless and Foley-Beining are the composers for this ensemble, and you will hear a variety of eclectic music: jazz, Brazilian, fusion, and ballads.

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Paul McCandless specializes on the oboe, is also a master of the saxophone and bass clarinet.  Well-grounded in both classical and jazz disciplines, his work as a guest with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones earned him a Grammy.  During a distinguished three-decade career, McCandless has been integral to the ensemble sound of two seminal world music bands, the original Paul Winter Consort and the relentlessly innovative quartet OREGON.

A German native, Christian Foley-Beining is a powerful and innovative guitarist and composer who studied at the Swiss Jazz School, Berklee School of Music, Musicians Institute, GIT and also bass at BIT.   He has been on the faculty of Musicians Institute in Hollywood and studied guitar with greats such as Joe Pass, Pat Metheny, Ted Greene, Larry Carlton and others.

Rounding out the quartet will be Tom Shader on bass and percussionist Tom Hayashi.  Now based in Sonoma County, Tom Shader has been playing full time professionally since 1970 and lists as his jazz mentors such luminaries as Bob Lucas, Vince Delgado and Mimi Spenser.  Tom Hayashi began playing drums when he was eight years old and has worked extensively in orchestral settings, jazz clubs and rock bands.

Jazz in the Neighborhood presents its Wednesday night series at CJC with financial support from AFM Musicians Union Local 6.

Rendon Hall at the California Jazz Conservatory
$20 general admission / $10 full-time students

 

Jazz Voices of Poetry with Nicolas Bearde and Noa Levy

Thursday, November 15, 7:30 pm at Spark Arts Gallery

On the 3rd Thursday of the month, Spark Arts Gallery will present Norm Rosenblatt‘s Jazz Voices of Poetry. This month features Nicolas Bearde and Noa Levy accompanied by the Ken French Quartet. Half of each concert will be music written by guys with names like  Jerome, Irving, George, Ira, Larry, Richard, Duke, and Cole. The other half will have lyrics by prize-winning poets.

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

Spark Arts — 4229 18th Street, San Francisco

OoN: Paul Hanson and Ariane Cap

Wednesday, November 14, 7:30 pm, Rendon Hall at California Jazz Conservatory

OoN – with its unlikely combination of six string tapped bass and bassoon – creates beautiful melodic Chamber Jazz. Sometimes peaceful and meditative, at other times passionate, raging or groovy, the musical bandwidth these two instrumentalists cover on their respective ‘tools’ is surprising. Utilizing virtuosic and unusual playing techniques as well as effects and harmonizers, the musicians put musicality front and center. Paul Hanson’s credits as an improvising bassoonist include Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Billy Cobham, Wayne Shorter, Peter Erskine, Cirque Du Soleil, David Binney, Dennis Chambers, Brian Blade. Ariane Cap’s credits include Muriel Anderson, Tempest, Nick Phillips, The Sippy Cups.

Jazz in the Neighborhood presents its Wednesday night series at CJC with financial support from AFM Musicians Union Local 6.

Rendon Hall at the California Jazz Conservatory
$20 general admission / $10 full-time students

 

Jeff Sanford’s Cartoon Jazz Nonet

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

Jeff Sanford’s Cartoon Jazz Nonet is a smaller version of the Cartoon Jazz Orchestra, which Jeff Sanford organized in 2003 to play the eccentric, highly entertaining and challenging music of American composer Raymond Scott. The music of Lenny Carlson who has been writing originals for the group for the last ten years is featured along with the music of Charlie Shavers/John Kirby, Jelly Roll Morton, and Duke Ellington.

This is a Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund event where each musician will be paid $100 in advance, regardless of ticket sales. Jazz in then Neighborhood makes this possible by subsidizing 40% of their pay. Bird & Beckett and the Jazz Philanthropists Union guarantees the rest. For tickets and other information, please contact Bird & Beckett.

Bird & Beckett — 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco

Kurt Ribak Quartet

Friday, November 9, 5:30-8pm at Bird and Beckett

Lincoln Adler, saxophone — Greg Sankovich, keyboards — Kurt Ribak, bass, vocals — Randy Lee Odell, drums

Bassist, bandleader, and songwriter Kurt Ribak has played everything from free jazz to reggae to opera and has shared the stage with circus performers, preachers, and fire-breathing strippers. He discovered he loved writing jazz tunes while a student at Berklee College of Music and has formed his own quartet to play his compositions. He describes the group as “Charles Mingus meets The Meters. They jam at Duke Ellington’s house, and Thelonious Monk and Cachao sit in.”

This is a Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund event where each musician will be paid $150 in advance, regardless of ticket sales. Jazz in then Neighborhood makes this possible by subsidizing 40% of their pay. Bird & Beckett and the Jazz Philanthropists Union guarantees the rest. For tickets and other information, please contact Bird & Beckett.

Bird & Beckett — 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco

Erika Oba Trio

Wednesday, November 7, 7:30 pm, Rendon Hall at the California Jazz Conservatory

As long time collaborators, composer, pianist/flutist, and educator Erika Oba and bassist Chris Bastian have developed a large repertoire of original work. For this performance, they are joined by drummer Evan Hughes in their debut performance as a trio. Between them, they have played with the Montclair Women’s Big Band, jazz icons such as Joe Lovano and John Scofield, and across a wide range of musical traditions including jazz, opera, blues, flamenco, klezmer, huayno, musical theater, and Afrobeat. Drawing on influences ranging from Thelonious Monk to Okinawan sanshin music, they’ll perform a dynamic set of original and arranged works.

Jazz in the Neighborhood presents its Wednesday night series at CJC with financial support from AFM Musicians Union Local 6.

Rendon Hall at the California Jazz Conservatory
$20 general admission / $10 full-time students

 

Jazz at Piedmont with Mimi Fox

Sunday, November 4, 3-6pm at Piedmont Center for the Arts

Join us for an extraordinary musical celebration and fundraiser for Jazz in the Neighborhood at the Piedmont Center for the Arts: an afternoon of great jazz, hors d’oeuvres, wine, and a silent auction.

Internationally renowned guitarist Mimi Fox has won six consecutive Downbeat Magazine international critic’s polls and is recognized by jazz writers and colleagues as one of the most expressive jazz guitarists on the scene today. In one of many feature stories, Guitar Player Magazine hailed Mimi as “a prodigious talent who has not only mastered the traditional forms but has managed to reinvigorate them.”

Proceeds from the event will help support local jazz professionals through our Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund and developing players through our Emerging Artists Program.

More information at jazzintheneighborhood.org/benefit-concert/


$150 per ticket for this fundraising event.
The tax deductible amount for each ticket is the ticket price minus $20.

Rhonda Benin

Wednesday, October 31, 7:30 pm, Rendon Hall at California Jazz Conservatory

Vocalist Rhonda Benin breezes in with her unique combination of jazz, blues, and soul with a show featuring the tunes of Stevie Wonder and Bill Withers, along with Rhonda’s original songs and some special “Halloween tunes”.  “Rhonda Benin is a tremendously assured singer who inhabits the celebratory zone where jazz, soul and blues meet.” Her band will feature Tammy Hall (piano), Ruth Davies (bass), Alcide Marshall (drums), Geechi Taylor (trumpet).

Jazz in the Neighborhood presents its Wednesday night series at CJC with financial support from AFM Musicians Union Local 6.

Rendon Hall at the California Jazz Conservatory
$20 general admission / $10 full-time students

Paul McCandless/Christian Foley-Beining Collaboration

Friday, October 26, 6-9pm at Marin Country Mart

Paul McCandless, sax, bass clarinet — Christian Foley-Beining, guitars — Tom Shader,  accoustic bass  — Tom Hayashi, drums

A rare opportunity to get to hear the Grammy Award winning sax player Paul McCandless (Oregon, Paul Winter Consort) in this collaboration with Christian Foley-Beining. Both McCandless and Foley-Beining are the composers for this ensemble, and you will hear a big variety of eclectic music: jazz, Brazilian, fusion, and ballads.

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

Klobas/Kesecker Ensemble

Thursday, October 25, 7:30pm, at the Piedmont Center for the Arts

The Klobas/Kesecker Ensemble is a progressive jazz quintet focusing on original arrangements of mainstream jazz with unique original compositions that have power and grace.  With Tommy Kesecker on vibes, Steve Heckman on sax, Terrence Brewer on guitar, Pat Klobas on bass and David Rokeach on drums, their music communicates jazz of the 21st century.

The band’s members are known for their unique talent and have backed such diverse artists as Rosemary Clooney, Michael Feinstein, Zakir Hussain, Chita Rivera, Marcus Shelby, and Kristen Chenowith. Their two releases, No Gravity and Moments Notice will be available at the performance.

The performance will feature guest artist Maxwell Nesbet, a bassist who has studied at the San Francisco Conservatory and is co-bassist with the SF Jazz Big Band.

Piedmont Center for the Arts, 801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont
$20 advance / $25 day of show / $5 student rush

Howard Wiley’s Extra Nappy

Wednesday, October 24, 7:30 pm, Rendon Hall at California Jazz Conservatory 

Extra Nappy offers a glimpse into an organically-developing musical movement encapsulating the vibrant history of African American music, from gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, and funk, all the way up to contemporary hip-hop.

Extra Nappy tenor saxophonist Howard Wiley has been making the rounds on the Bay Area music scene since his teenage years as a protégé of the Dynamic Miss Faye Carol. His playing is steeped African-American idioms, from gospel, blues and jazz to R&B, funk and hip-hop. This loose and limber quartet delivers improvisation-laced arrangements of classic songs and features drummer Aaron Green, who toured with Lalah Hathaway, Sheila E and Cyril Neville, pianist/organist Lionel “LJ” Holoman, and bassist Michael “Tiny” Lindsey. Wiley’s quartet plays next-level grooves with such a deep pocket it’s not just nappy, it’s Extra Nappy.

Jazz in the Neighborhood presents its Wednesday night series at CJC with financial support from AFM Musicians Union Local 6.

Rendon Hall at the California Jazz Conservatory
$20 general admission / $10 full-time students

 

 

Melecio Magdaluyo Jazz Quartet

Thursday, October 18, 6:30-8:30pm at La Crema in Albany

Melecio Magdaluyo has been a music treasure since the 1980s performing on saxes, flute, and clarinet in the Bay Area’s vibrant music scene. His rhapsodic and soulful approach has given him opportunities to work with many great jazz and Latin jazz artists such as Pete Escovedo, John Santos, Tito Puente, Wayne Wallace, Akira Tana, Linda Tillery, and Ray Obiedo.

His quartet format will give him an opportunity to stretch out and let the members reach high levels of musical expression using standards, Latin jazz, and original compositions. Expect an exciting display of improvisations and surprises!

This is a Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund event where each musician will be paid $150 in advance, regardless of ticket sales. Jazz in then Neighborhood makes this possible by subsidizing 40% of their pay. La Crema guarantees the rest. For tickets and other information, please contact La Crema.

La Crema — 1106 Solano Avenue at San Pablo Avenue, Albany

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