Join us at The Rite Spot for an evening with Suzanne Ramsey, a.k.a. "Kitten on the Keys" Her songbook is deep and wide. Pianist, accordionist, and singer she plays a delicious smorgasbord of styles and eras. Kitschy cabaret originals, bawdy blues, unexpected covers and forgotten gems of yesteryear! Swing on by to enjoy this night...
Enjoy the happy hour show at The Rite Spot Café with Jeff Belbey and Very Fine Company. Jeff specializes in deep catalog covers of his favorite songwriters across the spectrum...
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...
This fabulous quintet honors the blue note, hard bop tradition of the 1960’s and beyond. Aaron Germain - Bass Adam Klipple - Piano Andrew Dixon - Tenor Sax Daniel Herrera - Trumpet JPaul Macklin - Drums
Jinx Jones Biography (Jazz Trio) "Jinx is a guitar virtuoso who seamlessly moves from rockabilly to jazz to twang and back again, sometimes in the same song. Those with a liner note obsession will remember Jinx’s playing on En Vogue’s “Free Your Mind.” (San Francisco Chronicle) Jinx Jones boasts a prolific career spanning from the...
Doug Hilsinger & Brad Brooks at The Rite Spot return with their regular shared night of guitar-driven rock and soulful songcraft. Oakland-based Brad Brooks brings his powerful, gritty rock and...
Jeff Cotton’s Gin Joint is a San Francisco-based roots rock band known for their obscure covers and rootsy originals that draw from the deep well of classic rock, soul, country, and psychedelic groove....
Amanda Addleman at Black Cat brings the New York City–based, San Francisco–raised vocalist, pianist, composer, and arranger home for a program exploring the fusion of her two worlds: her Bay...
São Paulo Choro Quartet at Bird & Beckett brings two of Brazil's leading choro instrumentalists — guitarist Alessandro Penezzi and clarinetist Alexandre Ribeiro — together with São Paulo percussionist Roberta...
Chris Aschman Volcanic Band appear at the Dawn Club. Jazz trumpeter/steelpan musician Chris Aschman enjoys a multi-faceted career as a performer, educator, studio musician, and arranger. A Baltimore native, Chris segued to Philadelphia to study jazz trumpet at the University of the Arts in 2004 and became a mainstay in the Philly scene. Since this...
Paul Griffiths & Sean Silverman return to The Rite Spot with their regular night of melodic, witty acoustic folk, joined by fiddler Diana Greenberg. Manchester-born, San Francisco-based songwriter Paul Griffiths fronts the night with his "Briticana" sound — Americana with a British twist — and is known for his wry, often morbid original songs, backed...
Chris Siebert on the Hammond Organ and the legendary saxophonist Jules Broussard! Prepare to be transported into a "Twin Peaks" dreamscape of deep red lighting and vintage curiosities at The Royal Cuckoo Organ Lounge. This evening features a rare, high-fidelity collaboration between two of San Francisco’s most respected jazz and blues veterans. With the house...
Mitch Polzak & The Royal Deuces perform at Local Edition. Rockabilly and 60’s country music with the religious fervor of Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash and delivers a Honky Tonk ballad with the sincerity of Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings.
San Francisco! Get yourself off the couch and move it on up to BBR—Robby D and the EFG’s are hitting it hard all night long kicking off at 8:30pm until 1:30am++ If you’re not in the know, Robby D and the EFG’s is a kick ass show! Our style throws blistering renditions of new wave,...
Amanda Addleman at Black Cat brings the New York City–based, San Francisco–raised vocalist, pianist, composer, and arranger home for a program exploring the fusion of her two worlds: her Bay Area roots and her growing New York presence. Her voice is rooted yet unmistakably modern, built on a sincere reverence for jazz's great traditions and...
Keenan O'Brien at the Rite Spot brings the Missouri-born, Seattle-based singer-songwriter's raw, stripped-down folk sound to the room, built around banjo, guitar, ukulele, and voice. His songwriting leans on traditional storytelling and classic country-western crooning, with Eddy Arnold cited as a key vocal touchstone, capturing quiet, honest moments of calm and motion. Much of that...
David Kikoski's Jazz All-Star Quartet at Black Cat brings the Grammy-nominated pianist to San Francisco for a three-night residency, backed by longtime collaborators he's known since the early 1980s. Known for virtuosic technique and an innovative, deeply swinging style that blends bebop, post-bop, and contemporary jazz, Kikoski has performed and recorded across three decades with...
Mose Def at Bird & Beckett celebrates the music of Mose Allison, the Mississippi-born pianist and songwriter whose wry, blues-rooted jazz shaped generations of musicians on both sides of the Atlantic. The project is led by San Francisco vocalist Dean Mermell, a co-creator of Golden Gate Park's Flower Piano festival, who describes Allison as “the...
Ladies and Gentemen, introducing Fog City Swing! The bay area's newest and hottest swing band featuring an electrifying three horn front line, stellar crooning vocals, and a swing till you drop rhythm section. This seven piece ensemble will transport you to the 1940’s, it is truly the world’s smallest big band! Fog City Swing is...
12 String Roulette at The Rite Spot is a regular fixture at the venue, bringing the San Francisco outfit's self-described "Tin-pan Django-Classical" sound to the room — an ever-shifting blend of early Tin Pan Alley pop, Django Reinhardt-style gypsy jazz, and classical touches, built around a rotating wheel of members and genres, sometimes in smaller...
Experience an intimate evening of soulful jazz, blues, and swing featuring the iconic trio of Lavay Smith, Mike Olmos, and Chris Siebert! Vocalist Lavay Smith delivers sultry, classic jazz and blues alongside the powerful trumpet of Mike Olmos. Musical director Chris Siebert on the house Hammond organ.
The Oakland Jazz Funk Project appears at Local Edition with a set that moves between straight-ahead jazz, 1970s funk, fusion, R&B, and contemporary neo-soul. The group approaches jazz as a living language that continues to evolve, highlighting the connections between classic forms and newer groove-based styles. Their music will warm your heart, speak to your...
David Kikoski's Jazz All-Star Quartet at Black Cat brings the Grammy-nominated pianist to San Francisco for a three-night residency, backed by longtime collaborators he's known since the early 1980s. Known for virtuosic technique and an innovative, deeply swinging style that blends bebop, post-bop, and contemporary jazz, Kikoski has performed and recorded across three decades with...
Join us at the Dawn Club for the late night set. JC Grady is a Bay Area drummer with a broad orbit — bandleader, collaborator, composer, teacher. Her music finds the through-line between bebop's swing and the raw momentum of punk and dance, held together by an improviser's instinct and a deep respect for the...
New Shoes Blues Band debuts at Pier 23. Traditional Blues for a new generation. Sure to be a hopping afternoon with this blues bunch. Join us for a drink and some fun times listening to blues right on the bay!