fOUR is a project of one take performances with no prerecorded backing tracks, overdubs or click track. Currently only available as video performances on Youtube and Facebook, album launched on July 27, 2018.

Grammy-nominated Nate Wood is a drummer/multi-instrumentalist and mastering engineer based in New York City. Nate is a founding member of the Grammy nominated quintet Kneebody.

Groundbreaking composer and performer Zoë Keating creates a universe of music with just a cello, a laptop computer and her own boundless imagination. Marking her first performances at SFJAZZ since 2016, Keating will be performing music from her brand new EP Snowmelt, which is currently #6 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart. Physical copies of the new EP will be available at all the shows.

Known as the City of San Jose official Ambassador of Jazz, Eddie Gale is a pillar of the Bay Area jazz scene. As a musician, trumpeter, composer, publisher, recording artist and bandleader, Gale is a multi-faceted artist in the genre.

Music begins at 9:30pm.

• Sung Kim creates a new genre with Stop Motion animation and improvisation on hand made instruments.
• Zachary James Watkins' composition 'Peace Be Till' commissioned by Kronos Quartet debuted in January at Carnegie Hall.
• John Shiurba is a composer and guitarist whose musical pursuits include improvisation, art-rock, modern composition and noise. He will be playing with trumpet player Tom Djll (Grosse Abfahrt, hackMIDI, Beauty School, Tender Buttons) and percussionist Gino Robair (founding member of the Splatter Trio and Pink Mountain, performed with Tom Waits, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Nina Hagen, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, John Butcher, Derek Bailey, Peter Kowald, Otomo Yoshihide, and the ROVA Saxophone Quartet).

Louis Cole Album Release Blowout!

fOUR is a project of one take performances with no prerecorded backing tracks, overdubs or click track. Currently only available as video performances on Youtube and Facebook, album launched on July 27, 2018.

Two-time GRAMMY-winner Gregory Porter sings the timeless songs of his greatest influence, Nat "King" Cole, in fresh arrangements by GRAMMY winner Vince Mendoza, re-creating the orchestral setting of Porter's latest Blue Note album Nat "King" Cole & Me, accompanied by the Bay Area's own Magik*Magik Orchestra under the direction of Mendoza himself. On the album, and for this exclusive evening, "Porter distills the wide-screen cinematic romance of the Forties, Fifties and Sixties, mantling his celebrated, honeyed baritone in glistening updrafts of strings, horns and woodwinds." (Rolling Stone)

Check out several different local Portland musicians. Crafts and activities for young families.

• Eric Stern: The Northwest's own premiere operatic tenor, accordionist, pianist, composer and consummate showman, an unparalleled devo with incendiary stage presence and devilish virtuosity.
• Michelle Alany and The Mystics: Journey through exotic lands with this fiddle-driven caravan of Jazz Manouche, Balkan, Klezmer, Sephardic, and original soul music all spiced with an original Texas fiddle twist.
• 3 Leg Torso: Formed in 1996 as violin, cello and accordion trio with the mission of creating original modern chamber music for their unique instrumentation.

Blue-Barbar-Braid is a semi-fictional solo exhibition by Izidora Leber LETHE paying homage to resistant forms throughout the centuries. By mobilizing the ancient Roman use of blue (associated with loose women, barbarians, or effeminate men), LETHE quotes the semiotics of protest, queer artists' work post-1970, and the Yugoslav women that shaped, then rejected, the Bauhaus movement. LETHE braids together these latent legacies and wakes them from oblivion.

Beats 4 Hope and Tito's Handmade Vodka presents a special night benefiting Make A Wish Greater Bay Area.

Featuring: Stone City Band, DJ Dave Paul, DJ Mind Motion, Chuy Gomez, DJ FredWreck, Jose Melendez, Bump'N Beto, DJ Adrian Santos, DJ Alex Mejia, DJ Slammin' Sam, DJ Lazy Boy, Davey D, DJ Makaio, Susy C, Conga King, Funky Latin Orchestra, Dj Ball-D, Yvette LaForce, a special tribute to Pam The Funkstress, and more!

African-American Shakespeare Company presents Ntozake Shange's 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf'

• Written by Ntozake Shange
• Directed by Elizabeth Carter

Seven individual stories of women capturing the brutal, tender, and dramatic lives in Ntozake Shange's 'For Colored Girls...' offers a transformative, riveting evening of provocative dance, music, and poetry.

Both David Toop and Thurston Moore have worked together in quartet and trio as part of the long-running UK improvising group Alterations alongside Steve Beresford and Terry Day. As well as with the composer Tania Chen heard on the CD John Cage: Electronic Music for Piano (Omnivore Recordings 2018 USA).