Thursday January 16th

Club Deluxe 1511 Haight St, San Francisco 9:30 PM-12:30 PM Showtime. Junk Parlor’s influences range from Louis Armstrong, Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt to Fats Domino, Howling Wolf and Elvis. This is one of the best and most creative Bay Area bands. Highly recommended!! N/C.

Red Poppy Art House 2698 Folsom St, San Francisco 7:30 PM-10:00 PM Showtime… Marta Pereira da Costa is the world’s first and only female professional Portuguese guitarist of fado music, the soulful sound of Portugal recently acknowledged by UNESCO as part of the World’s Intangible Cultural Heritage. Highly recommended!!!!! $30 Cover Charge..

Local Edition 691 Market St, San Francisco 8:30 PM-11:30 PM Showtime.. From Memphis to Motown Blues, Early Rock ‘n’ Roll, Soul, and Motown On The Avenue plays the hits of Al Green, Otis Redding, Aretha, Ben E. King, Ike & Tina, Stevie Wonder, Albert King, Maceo Parker, Dion & The Belmonts, Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Amy Winehouse, Ann Peebles, The Nite-Liters, Wilson Pickett, James Brown, Eddie Floyd, Fontella Bass, Etta James, Martha Reeves, The Supremes, The Temptations, Sam & Dave. Highly recommended!!!!! No Cover Charge..

Le Colonial 20 Cosmo Pl, San Francisco 8:00 PM-11:00 PM Showtime.. Robert Dehlinger & The Alpha Rhythm Kings is a swinging fun band led by Robert’s vocals and superb trumpet playing. This is a great band. Highly recommended!!!! No Cover Charge..

Sweetwater Music Hall 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley 8:00 PM Showtime.. Jazz Mafia Heaviest Feather is their newest band paying tribute to the classic women of hip-hop, from Lauryn Hill and Missy Elliot to Lil Kim and Eve, with this evening of high-energy originals and re-imagined cover songs with special guests including the best female MCs in the Bay Area. Highly recommended!!!! $17 Cover Charge..

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Kuumbwa Jazz Center 320 Cedar St # 2, Santa Cruz, CA 7:00 PM Showtime.. In this pairing, guitarist Terrance Brewer and vocalist Pamela Rose lovingly rejoice in the vocal/guitar duo work of Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass. Mellifluous, swinging and intimate, Ella and Joe’s partnership on Pablo Records created four incomparable records, treasured by a generation of music lovers. Brewer and Rose discovered that those recordings had been deeply influential to them both – and embarked on a journey of rediscovery which has resulted in a new recording, Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me – Remembering Ella & Joe. Highly recommended!!!!!! $31.50 Cover Charge…

Friday January 17th

Great American Music Hall 859 O’Farrell St, San Francisco 9:00 PM Showtime. One of the most fun alternative rocks bands in existence
Nada Surf is celebrating their 17th anniversary promoting their new album “Never Not Together”. Opening the show from Pasadena the indie rock band Apex Manor. Highly recommended!!!!!! $30-$54 Cover Charge..

Club Deluxe 1511 Haight St, San Francisco 9:30 PM-12:30 AM Showtime.https://www.jacknifejazz.com/ “>Jacknife</a is currently my favorite Bay Area Jazz ensemble. Jacknife explores the music of the legendary post bop alto saxophonist Jackie McLean playing tunes from McLean's seminal early- and mid-1960s Blue Note albums including "Jacknife” for which the group got its name. Jacknife brings together a formidable cast of rising talent including Steve Lugerner on alto, trumpeter JJ Kirkpatrick, drummer Michael Mitchell, bassist Josh Thurston-Milgrom and pianist Malcolm Campbell. Highly recommended!!!!!!! No Cover Charge..

Club Deluxe 1511 Haight St, San Francisco 9:30 PM-12:30 AM Showtime. Cosmo Alleycats is one of my favorite Bay Are jazz ensembles. The Alleycats are so good and so much fun and one of the better jazz bands in the Bay Area. Highly recommended. N/C

Milk Bar 1840 Haight Street San Francisco, CA 9:00 PM Showtime.. A fun night of music in store with headliners Stymie & The Pimp Jones Luv Orchestra playing classic funk groups like Funkadelic and Sly and The Family Stone, yet the music is 100% original, blending all the musical influences, modern cultural craziness, and cartoon humor. Opening the show is the funk collective The Fuzz Band. Highly recommended!!!!! $10 Cover Charge..

The Fillmore 1805 Geary Blvd, San Francisco 8:00 PM Showtime.
Railroad Earth is one of the great bluegrass-influenced American band. This band combines so many elements including progressive bluegrass, folk, rock, country, jazz, Celtic and other Americana influences. This is the must see show of the week!!! Highly recommended!!!!! $29.50 Cover Charge..

Red Poppy Art House 2698 Folsom St, San Francisco 7:30 PM-10:00 PM Showtime… Grupo Falso Baiano is a choro group that offers a window into the history and diverse culture of Brazil. Choro is one of Brazil’s earliest popular music genres, dating back to the late 1800s, and, similar to jazz, it reflects the melding of African rhythms with a melodic and harmonic structure closely resembling Baroque Classical music. The group features Brian Moran on 7-string guitar, mandolin, Zack Pitt-Smith on reeds, Ami Molinelli on percussion and special guest Julio Lemos on 7-string guitar. Highly recommended!!!!! $25 Cover Charge..

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma 8:30 PM Showtime.. Elvin Bishop is a legendary blues and rock icon will be performing with his Big Fun Trio. Elvin is so much fun and entertaining. Highly recommended!!!! $33-$38 Cover Charge..

Saturday January 18th

The Fillmore 1805 Geary Blvd, San Francisco 8:00 PM Showtime.
Railroad Earth is one of the great bluegrass-influenced American band. This band combines so many elements including progressive bluegrass, folk, rock, country, jazz, Celtic and other Americana influences. This is the must see show of the week!!! Highly recommended!!!!! $29.50 Cover Charge..

The Independant 628 Divisadero St, San Francisco 8:00 PM Showtime. Oakland based rock n’ rollers Whiskerman at times sounds like a gospel and soul band that can make you feel like raising your hands in the air in praise of its talent. They are fun and exuberant. Opening up the show are the eclectic folk trio Rainbow Girls and the San Francisco folk duo The Feelings Parade. Highly recommended!!!! $20 Cover Charge…

Brick & Mortar Music Hall 1710 Mission St, San Francisco 9:00 PM Showtime. Headlining is the Sacramento based rock/blues power trio the Zach Waters Band. Also on the bill are Austin based Cowboy Diplomacy is a four piece alternative rock and blues group and East Bay based Panoram is an energetic psychedelic, pop-synth rock band. Highly recommended!!!! $12 Cover Charge..

Club Deluxe 1511 Haight St, San Francisco 10:00 PM-1:00 AM Showtime..Barrio Manouche is a great Bay Area ensemble performing a repertoire of original instrumental compositions with a unique sound that it’s difficult to classify but instantly recognizable deeply influenced by a range of musical traditions, from the swing of Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet, to the hot jazz of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli,the gypsy soul of eastern europe, the flamenco of Paco de Lucía to the avant-garde sounds of Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane…

Revolution Cafe 3248 22nd St, San Francisco 5:00 PM-8:30 PM Showtime..
Westside Jazz Club, lead by the wonderful tenor saxophonist Scott Silverberg, is a collective of innovative jazz musicians performing jazz standards, challenging modern compositions and freshly-updated classics. I have seen this ensemble a number of time and they never disappoint.. Highly recommended!!!

The Freight & Salvage 2020 Addison St, Berkeley 8:00 PM Showtime..
Juan de Marcos & The Afro-Cuban All Stars are gaining international fame for reviving classic Cuban music, tres master Juan de Marcos has turned the Afro-Cuban All Stars into a sensational showcase for Cuba’s most prodigious young musicians. Long revered as a founding member of Cuba’s great revival band Sierra Maestra, de Marcos is perhaps best known as founder of the Buena Vista Jazz Club. This should be a great show. Highly recommended!!!!!!! $20-$40 Cover Charge…

The Backroom 1984 Bonita Ave, Berkeley 8:00 PM Showtime…
Devine’s Jug Band is “America’s most authentic sounding jug band”…say’s legendary radio personality Mal Sharpe, formally of KCSM Radio. Playing jug band blues, hokum, and old-style string band music, Devine’s Jug Band, is a San Francisco ensemble wise to the ways of the weird old South. The band members include Pete Devine on jug, washboard, kazoo, drums, Meredith Axelrod on guitar and vocals and Morgan Cochneuer on mandolin, banjo-mando fiddle. This is a rare show for the jug band – so please don’t miss this very special event! Highly recommended!!!!!! $20 Cover Charge..

Terrapin Crossroads 100 Yacht Club Drive, San Rafael.. 8:00 PM Showtime.. Bay Area band Midnight North blends Americana, rock, and a hint of soulful blues. Their harmony base is both beautiful and comforting, a wall of vocals that can envelop you in ways that just feels right. Highly recommended!!!!! $18-$35 Cover Charge..

Sunday January 19th

Club Deluxe 1511 Haight St, San Francisco 6:00 PM-9:00 PM Showtime.. Buena Vista Jazz Band follows the in the style and instrumentation of guitarist Eddie Condon’s classic bands of the 1950s: Bass, Drums, Piano, Rhythm Guitar, Cornet, Trombone and Clarinet.The selections played by the Buena Vista Jazz Band are the classic songs of the New Orleans jazz age, along with selections from America’s blues and Tin Pan Alley traditions. The Buena Vista Jazz Band features the vocals of Ms. Darlene Langston.Highly recommended!!!No Cover Charge..

The Lucky Horseshoe Bar 453 Cortland Ave, San Francisco 4:00 PM-7:00 PM Showtime. Bernal Hillbillies.. A great three hours of bluegrass music at a really great venue reminiscent of the jams at the Old Paul Saloon many years ago. N/C

Mr.Tipples 39 Fell St, San Francisco 7:00 PM-10:00 PM Showtime. Singer/songwriter Lilan Kane presents a Sunday Singer Sessions focused on showcasing singers in the Bay Area. Supported by a house band and hosted by Lilan, singers will be featured throughout the evening performing their favorite covers and originals. You never know who might pop in! Join us for a fun night, lots of new songs, and great cocktails. Highly recommended!!!!! No Cover Charge..

The Freight & Salvage 2020 Addison St, Berkeley 7:00 PM Showtime..
Juan de Marcos & The Afro-Cuban All Stars are gaining international fame for reviving classic Cuban music, tres master Juan de Marcos has turned the Afro-Cuban All Stars into a sensational showcase for Cuba’s most prodigious young musicians. Long revered as a founding member of Cuba’s great revival band Sierra Maestra, de Marcos is perhaps best known as founder of the Buena Vista Jazz Club. This should be a great show. Highly recommended!!!!!!! $20-$40 Cover Charge…

The UC Theatre 2036 University Ave, Berkeley 8:00 PM Showtime. Brazilian singer-songwriter/actor Seu Jorge music integrates stylings of reggae, pop, electronic, and jazz into his own music and is credited with reinvigorating Brazil’s modern samba scene. Joining Seu Jorge is Brazilian guitarist Roge.
Highly recommended!!!!!! $47.50 Cover Charge..

Video Pick Of The Week

In honor of what would have been his 79th birthday this week I highly recommend The Artist Formerly Known as Captain Beefheart, a documentary traces the roots and history of this iconic musical legend. Featuring rare live and studio performances of Beefheart, interspersed with contributions from virtually all members of The Magic Band – along with a panel of esteemed experts.