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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.

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