I don’t get out as much as I’d like, but if I could drag my butt to one music event in the San Francisco Bay Area every day this week, this is what I’d choose. Just sayin’…
Monday, July 27
- Jaz Sawyer & Horace-Scope @ Stanford Jazz Festival – 7:30pm
- or… Bill Bell @ Yoshi’s, Oakland – 8pm/10pm
Tuesday, July 28
- Jeb Patton Trio w/Tootie Heath @ Stanford Jazz Festival – 7:30pm
- or… Orquesta BaKan @ Yoshi’s, Oakland – 8pm
Wednesday, July 29
- Leo Kottke @ Yoshi’s, SF – 8pm
- or… “1959 Revisited” @ Stanford Jazz Festival – 7:30pm
Thursday, July 30
- Broun Fellinis @ Yoshi’s, SF – 10pm
- or… Alexa Weber Morales @ Café Claude, SF – 7:30pm
Friday, July 31
- Tito Gonzalez y Su Quinteto Sonero @ Red Poppy Art House, SF – 9pm
- or… Roy Rogers & Delta Rhythm Kings @ Yoshi’s, Oakland – 8pm/10pm
Saturday, August 1
- Ernestine Anderson & Ed Reed @ Yoshis, SF – 7:30pm/10pm
- or… Madeline Eastman & Terell Stafford @ Stanford Jazz Festival – 8pm
Sunday, August 2
- The Heath Brothers @ Stanford Jazz Festival – 8pm
- or… Noertker’s Moxie @ Musician’s Union Hall, SF – 7:30pm
This is a completely subjective list. For more options, try the Jazz Datebook, SF Bay Guardian or Bay Area Improviser.
Got a better suggestion for live music this week? Feel free to add a comment!
Mads Tolling Quartet @ Kuumbwa Jazz
http://www.kuumbwajazz.org/concerts/073009.htm
http://www.examiner.com/x-12458-Oakland-Jazz-Music-Examiner~y2009m7d28-Stringing-along-with-Mads-Tollings-new-quartet
Mads Tolling: The Playmaker
(Street date: October 27, 2009)