The Joshi Marshall Project “Back to Basics” The Joshi Marshall Project will be performing music ranging from bebop to Bob Dylan, including selections from Joshi’s debut album "In the Light." Joining Joshi in rounding out this powerhouse trio are Micah McClain on drums and Sam Heminger on bass, both prominent forces in the San Francisco Jazz scene. Joshi Marshall Tenor Saxophone Sam Heminger Upright Bass Micah McClain Drums $20 Cover Charge / BYOB Students $10; Kids Free For Reservations call (415) 586-3733 BIO Joshi Marshall has had a large role in the Acid Jazz and Hip Hop Jazz scene in the San Francisco club area known as South of Market. He played and recorded with Groove Shop, Daddy Goddess, Human Flavor, The Mofessionals, Jungle Biskit, Alphabet Soup and Bop City. By 1995 Joshi had established himself as one of the premier sax players in the Bay Area and became one of the founding members of the popular, innovative jazz band, Mingus Amungus, who in 1997, won the Bammy Award, the Bay Area's equivalent to the music industries Grammy's, for Best Jazz Club Band. Over the years Joshi has continued to play and record with a growing number of local, national and international musicians which include John Santos, Pete Escovedo, Blackalicious, Goapele, Nicodemus, Big Youth, Sister Carol, reggae icon Don Carlos, rock legend, Carlos Santana and Southern rockers, The Black Crowes. Joshi is currently working with his own ensemble, The Joshi Marshall Project. Joshi reflects on his teaching career and its roots: I have worked with drum set students of all ages for 32 years, and 2024 marked my 20th year of teaching music in the classroom. I constructed my first drum set at age five from a collection of tupperware bowls and pan lids. Family inspiration, a strong school music program, and generous mentorship from Shawn Pelton, Kenwood Dennard, and Kenny Aronoff paved the way for early performances with jazz luminaries David Baker, Dave Liebman, James Moody, and Red Rodney. I attended Indiana University on a jazz studies scholarship and later landed in Chicago where I immersed myself in the rich jazz, funk, and soul traditions that still survive there. I have performed music on six continents, and studied West African drumming and dance in Ghana, North Indian classical music, and royal Ugandan court music. I am a certified in the Orff Schulwerk approach to teaching music and movement. I have lived in the San Francisco Bay area since 2004 and currently teach drum set and music and movement classes at East Bay Montessori in El Cerrito and my home studio in Oakland. I also work as a freelance drummer. My current projects include My 3 Sons, Andre Cruz & Chris Lujan, and the Pentatonics.

$20 Cover Charge / BYOB Students $10; Kids Free For Reservations call (415) 586-3733

$20 Cover Charge / BYOB Students $10; Kids Free For Reservations call (415) 586-3733

Will and Beth interrupt their regular programming to introduce Ken Emerson, a long time friend and collaborator. The evening will include, along with Will and Beth’s compositions, a selection of vintage jazz and blues as well as Hawaiian slack-key, hula and hapa-haole songs with Will on guitar, Beth on clarinet and voice and Ken on lap steel and resonator guitars. This will prove to be an interesting interesting and fun meeting of the spirits. Will and Ken have performed before, notably at Kauai’s Red Clay festival where they teamed up with Ken's Hawaiian trio to perform 30’s an 40’s Hawaiian music. Beth and Will have collaborated for decades. BETH CUSTER Beth Custer is a member of the ensembles Russian Telegraph, Club Foot Orchestra,Trance Mission, Eighty Mile Beach, Will Bernard/Beth Custer and Beth Custer Ensembles, Clarinet Thing, and The Mighty New Farm Band. She has composed for Zeitgeist and Left Coast Chamber Ensembles, and for the films of William Farley, Cathy Lee Crane and Brad Coley, and for the dance troupes Joe Goode Performance Group, AXIS Dance Company, Harupin Ha, and Osseus Labyrinth, and for the theatre productions of Campo Santo, The Magic, San Diego Repertory, and California Shakespeare. WILL BERNARD Twice Grammy nominated guitarist Will Bernard's unique voice was formed from the most part from the rich cultural roots of the San Francisco Bay Area. Along the way he studied classical music, jazz, played in basements and coliseums and absorbed the Bay Area Multi Kulti , the funk of New Orleans, and the New York Downtown edge. He has performed and/or recorded with Charlie Hunter, Stanton Moore, Robert Walter, John Medeski, Bill Laswell, Ben Sidran, Peter Apfelbaum, Dr John, Tom Waits and a lot of other known and unknowns. His 2007 CD "Party Hats" as well as his 1997 collaborative project T.J. Kirk "If Four Was One" were both nominated for Grammys. “Pond Life”, released 2022 on Dreck to Disk records is his11th album as a leader. KEN EMERSON Kenton Robert Lopaka Emerson is a San Francisco bay area born/ Hawaiian island bred guitarist who covers many musical genres. He has played his special blend of Blues/Jazz Hawaiian guitar for 40 years and running. His original compositions and performances on 'Slack Key Guitar Vol 2' (Palm Records) helped bring in the first ever 2005 GRAMMY award for Hawaiian music. 'KE' played on Donald Fagen's 2007 GRAMMY winning "Morph the Cat" album. He is a master of many instruments including the slack key guitar and the Hawaiian steel guitar. He continues to perform in George Kahumoku's Masters of Hawaiian Music series and with Slack Key Guitarist Jim "Kimo" West. $20 cover charge; byob. A deal! Students $10; kids free. Mo bettah! Reservations: call the shop at 415-586-3733

Jim Grantham, saxophone; Scott Foster, guitar; Ollie Dudek, bass; Omar Aran, drums $20 Cover Charge / BYOB Students $10; Kids Free For Reservations call (415) 586-3733

Jim Grantham, saxophone Scott Foster, guitar Ollie Dudek, bass Omar Aran, drums $20 Cover Charge / BYOB Students $10; Kids Free For Reservations call (415) 586-3733 These players will recreate a bit of the “Sea Bop Experience,” playing repertoire from that vast book compiled 20 some odd years ago in tribute to the unique and inspired musical life of Don Prell, who passed just recently at the age of 96, still holding forth weekly at the Bayview Boat Club on Terry Francoise Way, twixt the basketball pavilion and baseball stadium. For well over a decade, Don was a core member of, and practically a labor contractor for, the Chuck Peterson Quartet--which started Bird & Beckett on the way towards legitimacy as a jazz venue There have been more than a few sites and mentors where young jazz players have honed their chops, later to become lasting figures on the San Francisco jazz scene... those that haven't moved on to New York and other centers of the jazz universe. Places like Keystone Korner, where saxophonist Jim Grantham taught music theory in the half-light of a Sunday afternoon to young aspiring players like John Wiitala, and the Gathering Caffe on Grant Street where Bishop Norman Williams and BJ Papa schooled Mike Olmos, Joel Ryan and others. The Bay View Boat Club under Don Prell's hand was one such venue, where Don held down a Tuesday night booking for decades with his ad hoc combo known far and wide as Seabop, comprising a flexible who's who of talented musicians, from accomplished colleagues to youngsters still wet behind the ears playing for tips, cheap drinks and food (mostly hot dogs...known as “tube steak Tuesdays"). Musicians who passed through Seabop included drummers Ulf Bjorkbum, Jim Bovie and Vinnie Rodriguez; guitarists Bob Brumbeloe, Tom Lander and, on occasion, Bruce Forman; horn players Al Molina, Jerry Logas and Frank Phipps, and many more. Don's resume dated back to the 1950s in Los Angeles clubs like The Haig in what's now Koreatown and on tour to New York, Europe, Africa and beyond with the Bud Shank Quartet. He held a bass chair in the San Francisco Symphony for decades along the way, but he was never for a moment of his career anything but a jazz cat. There's never been anyone like him, and he's sorely missed.

Noel Jewkes, reeds Keith Saunders, piano Heshima Mark Williams, bass Mark Lee, drums Kay Kostopolous, vocals Noel Jewkes and the Bird & Beckett proprietor, Eric, share a birthday, and try to rendezvous in the shop on or about the date each year for a performance by Noel and his compatriots. We're pulling it off again this year. It's always a pleasure to present the swingingest cat in Northern California jazz, and it'll be no exception this year, as Noel turns 86 and Eric turns 70. Come out and help us celebrate! And enjoy some fine jazz in the bargain! $25 cover charge, byob. Students $10; kids free For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733