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with Erin Bode

GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist Taylor Eigsti returns to the piano store for the holiday season, this time with a brand new duo project featuring the brilliant Nashville-based vocalist Erin Bode. This special program will include brand new co-written selections from their current collaboration, along with everything from jazz standards to pieces to celebrate the Holiday Season.zz

Pianist Hannah Mayer returns with her unique quartet – with Laurel Fink on tenor saxophone, Gus Hurteau on vibraphone, and Isaac Coyle on bass – showcasing a variety of original music and beloved standards, as well as some selections from Hannah’s recently released debut album paying tribute to the Broadway composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim!

Celebrating the Season

Now celebrating his 16th Annual Holiday performance, this special concert is a “must-see” for all fans of contemporary Jazz and Blues. Be sure to make your reservations early. This “one night only concert” always sells out.

Pianist Larry Vuckovich celebrates his 87th birthday in one of his favorite musical settings – Dynamic Duo featuring the creative guitarist Kai Lyons. The steadily growing dynamic chemistry between them brings their jazz expression to a higher level, showcasing a diverse palate of musical styles. They'll play some fresh, hardly-ever-heard material, the Great American Songbook, and more, including some vocal scat on hits of Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie from the Bebop era, and music from The Godfather films. Don't miss this powerful performance and chance to celebrate with Larry!

One of SF's longest running jazz groups, Wolff's quartet has spent more than a decade honing a quirky repertoire focusing on overlooked gems of the bebop era and great American songbook in weekly residencies at Club Deluxe and the Redwood Room. For this special show, East meets West as they host one of the greatest jazz guitar players in the world and a fixture of the NYC scene, the legendary Peter Bernstein.

Adam Klipple brings his new Hammond B3 organ quintet to the piano store to play original, soulful arrangements of songs you know that are sure to surprise! The quintet includes Kai Lyons on guitar, Tony Peebles on sax, and Joel Behrman on trombone, with special guest drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. Adam and Ulysess reconnected after both teaching at Jazz Camp West this past summer. Super swinging and soulful, Ulysses is sure to drive the band to new heights!

Blues, Boogie Woogie, Jazz

Lluís Coloma playing solo reveals a deeper side of this virtuous and renowned Barcelona pianist. Over the years, for Lluís, the piano has become an extension of his own body, the perfect instrument to express himself in a natural, spontaneous, and unique way. Solo in front of the piano, Lluís creates his own compositions, interprets some personal favorites, and paints surprising textures, always imbued with Blues and Boogie Woogie, which are the roots of his very varied influences. He's created a cocktail of styles that over time has become his own signature sound, where each theme is a landscape within his own musical universe.

The last 2nd generation stride jazz pianist Mike Lipskin is joined by Jeff Sanford, virtuoso sax / clarinet / flute jazz master, and Ari Munkres, a premier Bay Area swinging bass player. They'll perform Mike's stimulating and unique arrangements of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, historic compositions of stride jazz pianists Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and Willie the Lion Smith, plus some of Mike's originals. Don't miss this special one-of-a-kind concert!

2-time Grammy winning pianist Alan Broadbent and legendary bassist Harvie S return to the piano store for an evening of standards and some originals they have recorded together. After decades of playing many duo gigs together, they seem to read each others minds. “Their impromptu style, avoiding written arrangements and even rehearsals, succeeds because they are like-minded and share the same unwritten musical maxims.” –Betsy Reed, Guardian USA

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“As a classical-turned-jazz artist, one of the things I have come to love the most about this American art form is its generous, communal heart: this is music made together, played together, and enjoyed together.”

Larry Vuckovich returns to the piano store with his all-star ensemble. The crisp, bright, clean unison sound of marimba and guitar beautifully projects the melodic repertoire of this ensemble’s world music jazz mix: swingin’ bebop/Afro-Cuban salsa + boleros/Balkan ethnic Middle Eastern/boogaloo bluesy funky sounds, Larry Vuckovich on piano, Tommy Kesecker on marimba, Kai Lyons on guitar, Hector Lugo on Latin percussion and vocals, John Wiitala on bass, and Akira Tana on drums.