Oh man do I love Utrillo Kushner's piano jams. Comets on Fire's drummer takes a breather from pounding out the thunder with his ivories-tickling side project, Colossal Yes. The band released an excellent debut, Acapulco Roughs, in 2006, an album that cut the difference between the Band and Rowlf the Dog. Now Kushner and co. are back for round two with Charlemagne's Big Thaw, (out on vinyl now and on CD in January), which continues to pay homage to Kushner's piano men (Richard Manuel, Peter
Sadly, it's too late to wheedle a cable car sponsorship out of Thelonious MonkWhen Municipal Transportation Agency director Malcolm Heinicke earlier this week proposed selling off "sponsorships" to the city's treasured cable cars as a means of making the city's ends meet, you could almost hear the resultant hemorrhages in city preservationists' cranial blood vessels. After all, the cable cars -- along with the Golden Gate Bridge -- are the city's most treasured and unique symbols. Good sir, how
FeistTaking a page from onetime bitter rivals (and now just rivals) Another Planet Entertainment's handbook, Live Nation (the live concert spin-off from radio/billboard barony Clear Channel, now its own entity) have announced plans to remodel, makeover, and otherwise update SF's venerable Masonic Center - just as Another Planet had a hand in upgrading Oakland's Fox Theater.
According to a press release, "Live Nation has been promoting single-night events at the Center since 1972, booking some
Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson
Hypnotic & Harmelodic: Ornette Coleman
SFJAZZ has announced its 27th season, which kicks off October 10 with a Thelonious Monk birthday party and ends November 21 with a "Double-Barreled Blues Bash" featuring Keb' Mo and Solomon Burke. Highlights include October 22's show, "Afro-Cuban Keystones," with the Omar Sosa Quintet and the John Santos Sextet; October 28's "Meeting of the Minds" with Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain, and Edgar Meyer; Dee Dee Bridgewater's "Tribute to Lady Day" on October 3
If "don't stop 'til you get enough" is your personal philosophy regarding Michael Jackson tributes, here's one which should be totally off the wall: This Friday, July 17, the Shattuck Down Low hosts what they're calling the "official" MJ Bay Area tribute party. DJ Icewater spins Gloved One classics (and hits from the 80s and 90s) all night, plus live performances by Broadway star Trevor Jackson and local hip-hop/jazz/funkster Kev Choice, playing with the Kev Choice Ensemble. Having seen
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