Saturday, Oct. 31. 7pm – 1am
Brass Menazeri - Balkan Brass Band
with Japonize Elephants, Helladelics, Maracatu Luta, Juliet Strong
Zambaleta, San Francisco's brand new nonprofit community world music and dance school, is throwing a Halloween Hullabaloo to celebrate its grand opening and raise some money. Armed with San Francisco's favorite circus sounds and blasting horns, the Hullabaloo is guaranteed to be the year's masquerade of choice for anyone seeking a Halloween to remember. Costumes and Dancing Shoes Highly Encouraged.
$12 advance, $15 door
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Monday, Nov. 2, 8pm
Nice Guy Trio CD Release Concert at Yoshi's SF!!!!!
with very special guests:
Ben Goldberg -clarinet,
David Phillips - pedal steel,
Sameer Gupta - tablas,
and Meklit Hadero - voice/guitar
Come celebrate our new release with us on Porto Franco Records.
$10, advance -$14 at door
Yoshi's Jazz Club - 1330 Fillmore St, San Francisco
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Wednsday, Nov. 4, 9pm
a new weekly series curated by Eric Moffet
1. The Music of Herbie Nichols, a la Sheldon Brown, with Sameer Gupta, Daniel Fabricant and Me on trumpet.
2. singer/songwriter Meklit Hadero, with Daniel Fabricant, Smith Dobson, and Me
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Friday, November 6, 10pm
The Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra
@Coda, 1710 Mission St, SF
$12
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Saturday, November 7, 8pm (doors at 7:30)
Earthquake Kitchen
This brand new project will premier at one of my all-time favorite venues to hear music or perform. We'll be playing mostly original songs with words, sung by all of us! With a couple instrumentals and reinterpretations of some surprising covers.
with David Phillips, also on pedal-steel,
Seth Ford-Young, also on bass,
and Dave Mihaly, also on marimba, drum set, and various other noisy contraptions,
and Me, also on trumpet.
$10 -15
The Red Poppy Art House. 23rd at Folsom, San Francisco
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Sunday, November 8th,15th, and 22nd, 8:00-10:00
The Deconstruction Orchestra, by Josh Allen
at a great new venue for a variety of artistic endeavors, and a twenty-something-folks-large-ensemble featuring an all-star cast of folks like William Winant, Henry Kaiser, and many more.
We'll go on after a different opening set also led by Josh each week.
Flux 53 -5300-5312 Foothill Boulevard - Oakland - California 94601
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Friday November 13, 8:00
Bill Horvitz Expanded Ensemble
Guitarist/composer Bill Horvitz has written a powerful, very touching requiem for his brother Philip, entitled "The Long Walk," which will be performed with other pieces by a large ensemble of horns, strings, vocals, and drums.
$10
Community Music Center, 544 Capp Street, San Francisco
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Saturday, November 14, 8pm
Bill Horvitz Expanded Ensemble
sliding scale
The Glasser Center, 547 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, Ca
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Sunday, November 15
Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra
Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society
4:30-7:30pm
http://www.bachddsoc.org/calendar.html
Friday, November 20, 7:00pm
Film Screening of Works by Jeff Kao and Alfonso Alvarado
adding live music for a piece of Jeff's, I'll be adding electronics and performing duo with drummer Vijay Anderson.
Free!
Big Umbrella Studios, 906 1/2 Divisadero St, SF
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Sunday November 29, 7:00pm
Bay Area Composers Big-Band
Collectively run by trumpeter/composer Erik Jekabson, and trombonist/composer Jeannie Geiger, this big-band plays only music from within it's ranks. We might play one of mine....
Anna's Jazz Island - 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley, Ca.
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Monday, November 30, 8pm
Cylinder
a very exciting, ear-bending collective quartet with
Aram Shelton - alto sax, bass clarinet
Lisa Mezzacappa - bass
Kjell Nordeson - drums
$7
Luna's Cafe and Juice Bar, 1414 16th St., Sacremento, Ca