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Rova Saxophone Quartet
Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThe Rova Saxophone Quartet is a legendary Bay Area avant-garde ensemble that pushes the boundaries of jazz and contemporary classical music through complex structured improvisation and experimental, all-saxophone soundscapes appears at Bird & Beckett. Rova Saxophone Quartet has returned to live performances to showcase their brand new and recently recorded commissions. Band line up: Bruce...
$20Deep Space with Rent Romus
The Rite Spot 2099 Folsom Street at 17th Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesDeep Space is an independent instrumental music band and jazz-influenced experimental trio appearing at the Rite Spot. The group focuses on freeform improvisation, ambient structures, and avant-garde jazz textures. They are joined by Rent Romus, an Emmy Award-winning queer, non-binary Finnish-American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and community activist
FreeLewis Jordan and Music at Large
Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesLewis Jordan & Music at Large bring a rare and powerful voice to Bird & Beckett — born in San Francisco and raised in Chicago with the blues, Jordan co-founded United Front, the seminal Bay Area ensemble celebrated for its originality and cultural synthesis, and has spent decades bridging music and the written word through...
$20Deep Space with Rent Romus
The Rite Spot 2099 Folsom Street at 17th Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesDeep Space is an independent instrumental music band and jazz-influenced experimental trio appearing at the Rite Spot. The group focuses on freeform improvisation, ambient structures, and avant-garde jazz textures. They are joined by Rent Romus, an Emmy Award-winning queer, non-binary Finnish-American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and community activist
FreeDeep Space with Rent Romus
The Rite Spot 2099 Folsom Street at 17th Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesDeep Space is an independent instrumental music band and jazz-influenced experimental trio appearing at the Rite Spot. The group focuses on freeform improvisation, ambient structures, and avant-garde jazz textures. They are joined by Rent Romus, an Emmy Award-winning queer, non-binary Finnish-American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and community activist
FreeLisa Mezzacappa Quintet
Mr. Tipples 39 Fell St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesLisa Mezzacappa Quintet at Mr. Tipples presents adventurous original music by the Bay Area bassist, composer, bandleader, and producer, alongside fresh arrangements of rarely heard works by Herbie Nichols, Geri Allen, Arthur Blythe, Ornette Coleman, Carla Bley, and Charles Mingus. With Aaron Bennett on tenor saxophone, Mark Clifford on vibraphone, Brett Carson on piano, and...
$15Devin Gray Quartet
Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesDevin Gray Quartet at Bird & Beckett brings Brooklyn- and Berlin-based drummer and composer Devin Gray to Glen Park with a set of his own compositions. Gray has worked with David Liebman, Tim Berne, Kris Davis, Michael Formanek and Ralph Alessi, and releases his music on his own Rataplan Records, including Dirigo Rataplan, RelativE ResonancE...
$20Lisa Mezzacappa Quartet
The Deluxe 1511 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesLisa Mezzacappa Quartet at The Deluxe spotlights a San Francisco Bay Area bassist, composer, bandleader, and curator known for adventurous original music at the intersection of written composition and improvisation. Mezzacappa’s work ranges from avant-garde jazz to chamber, electro-acoustic, film, and interdisciplinary projects; expect an exploratory small-group set with strong ensemble interplay rather than conventional...
$5
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