Experience the resurgence of San Francisco’s historic Chinatown nightlife at the Lion’s Den. Tucked away on Wentworth Place, this bi-level lounge and performance space blends modern cocktail culture with the East meets West spirit of the Chinatown’s golden age. Every week, the venue transforms into a unique destination for live music, featuring a rotating roster...
The Peninsula Project brings its high-energy, trombone-led jazz to Comstock Saloon. Featuring Rick Brown on trombone, Jeremy Leber on piano, Carl Herder on bass, and Garry Williams on drums, the quartet combines swinging standards, bluesy grooves, and boogie-woogie rhythms in the historic North Beach venue.
Harlan Records welcomes Fault Line Trio — one of the Bay Area’s most dynamic and innovative crossover jazz projects, serving up a blend of swing, R&B, and sophisticated grooves in an intimate listening‑room setting. Featuring Jay Sanders on piano and keys, Lukas Vesely on bass, and Brian Fishler on drums, this modern jazz piano trio...
Jazz Jam at The Lucky Horseshoe is an open, straight-ahead jazz session in Bernal Heights for instrumentalists and vocalists, centered on standards, shared repertoire, and sit-in collaboration.
An intimate evening of vintage jazz and blues at The Royal Cuckoo Lounge featuring Chris Siebert, a prominent San Francisco-based jazz pianist, organist, and bandleader known for bridging generations of musicians through soulful, swinging jazz. His music is deeply rooted in the Swing Era, Blues, and R&B
My Blue Soul at Tupelo is a vibrant San Francisco band specializing in soul, blues, and funk. Formed in 2010, they gained a strong local following with energetic live shows...
The Door Slammers bring classic North Beach blues-rock back to The Saloon, carrying on the legacy of their founder, the late Johnny Nitro, a cornerstone of the San Francisco blues...
The G-Riders perform at The Saloon. This San Francisco-based ensemble is composed of veteran musicians from the Bay Area blues and gospel-soul communities. Takezo (Guitar/Vocals): Leads the group with a focus on traditional blues and soulful vocal delivery. Kit Roscoe (Guitar): Provides additional guitar work, contributing to the band’s layered blues sound. Dave Mehrwine (Keyboard):...
Viajó de la Música brings a traveling soundtrack of Latin jazz, boleros to the intimate wine‑bar glow of Scopo Divino. Led by saxophonist Renner, this jazz quartet moves effortlessly from...
Sami Stevens at Black Cat brings her intimate, piano- and Wurlitzer-driven original songwriting to San Francisco, drawing on jazz, soul, folk, and indie rock influences in the lineage of the great American singer-songwriters of the 1960s and '70s. She released her debut solo album Morning on Sunnyside Records in 2023, earning praise from Glide Magazine...
Nick Rossi and His Swing 4 brings a lifetime of deep musical devotion to The Deluxe, a Bay Area guitar legend who rose through the local R&B scene with The Loved Ones and Ron Silva & The Monarchs before dedicating himself fully to jazz guitar and its history from the 1920s through the 1960s. Internationally...
Marcus Shelby Quartet Celebrates Monk and Trane at Keys Jazz Bistro honors two innovators of modern jazz: pianist-composer Thelonious Monk and saxophonist John Coltrane. San Francisco bassist and bandleader Marcus...
Small Mission club, big Cuban sound. Guajirón brings its vintage Cuban pop and tropical jazz to Muddy Waters for an intimate Thursday set of Afro-Cuban son, danceable salsa, and jazz....
Katy Stephan brings torch songs, swing standards, and a touch of twang to the Comstock Saloon’s polished‑but‑raucous barroom. Her voice leans into the room’s natural reverb, floating over brushed drums, piano, and upright bass while cocktails clink and the lights stay low. Expect classic tunes, a few deep‑cut surprises, and the kind of between‑song banter...
Experience the resurgence of San Francisco’s historic Chinatown nightlife at the Lion’s Den. Tucked away on Wentworth Place, this bi-level lounge and performance space blends modern cocktail culture with the East meets West spirit of the Chinatown’s golden age. Every week, the venue transforms into a unique destination for live music, featuring a rotating roster...
Dirty Works Jazz Jam at Paris 75 pairs a polished, high-energy jazz jam. Led by upright bassist Kyle Finley, the house band draws from bebop, hard bop, swing, and Latin jazz before welcoming local musicians to sit in.
Channeling the dark wit and biting social commentary of the 70’s, multi-instrumentalist William Johnston has sharpened his songwriting craft to a deadly edge, ready to cut the wires of the systems that keep us in place. Think the acidity of Steely Dan with the smooth finish of Al Green- too modern to be Retro Soul...
Takezo (Yoshinobu Takeda) is a rhythm and blues singer and guitarist who appears at The Saloon in North Beach. Born in Kagawa and raised in Kyoto, he began singing in...
West Coast Blues Revue brings a rotating crew of Bay Area blues players to The Saloon, led by guitarist and vocalist Hal Petcher. Expect raw, soulful electric blues, deep grooves, and a changing cast that can include veterans such as keyboardist Chris Burns and guitarist Tim Wagar, all in one of San Francisco’s most longstanding...
Katy Stephan’s residency at Comstock Saloon turns the room into a small, candlelit listening space. At the piano she blends jazz‑inflected originals with reimagined standards and art‑pop tunes, her clear, expressive voice sitting right on top of the clink of glassware and low conversation. It’s an intimate, song‑forward set that feels equally at home as...
The 3 Elements is the jazz-fusion project of Andre Mateo and Anthony Ferraro, bringing an energetic blend of improvisation, rhythmic groove, and contemporary fusion textures to The Grove.
The Magic School Busk holds weekly residency directly in front of The Red Window at the corner of Stockton and Columbus. This high‑energy busking collective has become one of North Beach’s unofficial “resident joy‑makers,” blurring the line between band and audience as people pause, sing along, or dance on the sidewalk. Whether you are enjoying a...
Jacknife brings hard-hitting West Coast post-bop to The Deluxe as San Francisco saxophonist Steven Lugerner leads his formidable quintet through the music of jazz legend Jackie McLean — exploring tunes...
