Vocalist Saki Minamimoto will be joined by bassist Lisa Mezzacappa, guitarist Matt Wrobel, saxophonist Beth Schenk, drummer Jon Arkin, and trumpeter Ian Carey, in a program including music by Minamimoto, Carla Bley, Fred Hersch, Lennie Tristano, and The Carpenters.

Ian Carey brings his Quintet+1 to the California Jazz Championships for an evening of original jazz compositions from their four albums. The group includes Kasey Knudsen, alto saxophone, Adam Shulman, piano, Fred Randolph, bass, Eric Garland, drums, and Sheldon Brown, tenor saxophone and bass clarinet.

Bird & Beckett welcomes a new ensemble from Bay Area trumpeter, composer, and vocalist Ian Carey, featuring James Mahone and Kasey Knudsen, saxophones, Adam Shulman on organ, and Eric Garland on drums, performing original music plus new arrangements of music by Joe Henderson, Kenny Wheeler, and more.

The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra is the Bay Area’s own 17-piece big band, led by trumpeter Erik Jekabson, playing music composed and arranged by its members. The composers and arrangers, some of the very best in the Bay, draw from a wide variety of influences but always come up with powerful music with groove, beauty and subtlety. The band has colloborated with a number of special guest artists, including John Santos, Kenny Washington, Alan Ferber, Dayna Stephens, Mads Tolling, Sandy Cressman, Kellye Gray, Avotcja, Spok and Ben Goldberg.

East Bay drum legend Ron Marabuto’s long-running Saturday lunchtime gig features Ketih Saunders on piano, Robb Fischer on bass, and guest Ian Carey on trumpet, performing standards and jazz rarities. Free!

Trumpeter/composer Ian Carey brings a new ensemble to San Francisco’s Chez Hanny, with saxophonists James Mahone and Kasey Knudsen, organist Adam Shulman, and drummer Eric Garland, performing Carey’s original compositions as well as new material and underappreciated jazz classics.

Experience the mesmerizing magic of "WOW!" - a captivating blend of circus enchantment and madcap mayhem. Circus Bella offers a modern twist on one-ring circus … overflowing with heart and soul. This exhilarating show promises to delight and astonish children of all ages in a cherished family event. Watch in awe as the vivaciously colorful Circus Bella Company, comprising a diverse troupe of acrobats, aerialists, jugglers, and clowns from the Bay Area and beyond, performs to the lively tunes of Rob Reich and the 6-piece Circus Bella All-Star Band. Shows at 1 & 3PM.

Experience the mesmerizing magic of "WOW!" - a captivating blend of circus enchantment and madcap mayhem. Circus Bella offers a modern twist on one-ring circus … overflowing with heart and soul. This exhilarating show promises to delight and astonish children of all ages in a cherished family event. Watch in awe as the vivaciously colorful Circus Bella Company, comprising a diverse troupe of acrobats, aerialists, jugglers, and clowns from the Bay Area and beyond, performs to the lively tunes of Rob Reich and the 6-piece Circus Bella All-Star Band.

Experience the mesmerizing magic of "WOW!" - a captivating blend of circus enchantment and madcap mayhem. Circus Bella offers a modern twist on one-ring circus … overflowing with heart and soul. This exhilarating show promises to delight and astonish children of all ages in a cherished family event. Watch in awe as the vivaciously colorful Circus Bella Company, comprising a diverse troupe of acrobats, aerialists, jugglers, and clowns from the Bay Area and beyond, performs to the lively tunes of Rob Reich and the 6-piece Circus Bella All-Star Band.

Experience the mesmerizing magic of "WOW!" - a captivating blend of circus enchantment and madcap mayhem. Circus Bella offers a modern twist on one-ring circus … overflowing with heart and soul. This exhilarating show promises to delight and astonish children of all ages in a cherished family event. Watch in awe as the vivaciously colorful Circus Bella Company, comprising a diverse troupe of acrobats, aerialists, jugglers, and clowns from the Bay Area and beyond, performs to the lively tunes of Rob Reich and the 6-piece Circus Bella All-Star Band.

Experience the mesmerizing magic of "WOW!" - a captivating blend of circus enchantment and madcap mayhem. Circus Bella offers a modern twist on one-ring circus … overflowing with heart and soul. This exhilarating show promises to delight and astonish children of all ages in a cherished family event. Watch in awe as the vivaciously colorful Circus Bella Company, comprising a diverse troupe of acrobats, aerialists, jugglers, and clowns from the Bay Area and beyond, performs to the lively tunes of Rob Reich and the 6-piece Circus Bella All-Star Band.

Experience the mesmerizing magic of "WOW!" - a captivating blend of circus enchantment and madcap mayhem. Circus Bella offers a modern twist on one-ring circus … overflowing with heart and soul. This exhilarating show promises to delight and astonish children of all ages in a cherished family event. Watch in awe as the vivaciously colorful Circus Bella Company, comprising a diverse troupe of acrobats, aerialists, jugglers, and clowns from the Bay Area and beyond, performs to the lively tunes of Rob Reich and the 6-piece Circus Bella All-Star Band.

Experience the mesmerizing magic of "WOW!" - a captivating blend of circus enchantment and madcap mayhem. Circus Bella offers a modern twist on one-ring circus … overflowing with heart and soul. This exhilarating show promises to delight and astonish children of all ages in a cherished family event. Watch in awe as the vivaciously colorful Circus Bella Company, comprising a diverse troupe of acrobats, aerialists, jugglers, and clowns from the Bay Area and beyond, performs to the lively tunes of Rob Reich and the 6-piece Circus Bella All-Star Band.

The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra is the Bay Area’s own 17-piece big band, led by trumpeter Erik Jekabson, playing music composed and arranged by its members. The composers and arrangers, some of the very best in the Bay, draw from a wide variety of influences but always come up with powerful music with groove, beauty and subtlety. The band has colloborated with a number of special guest artists, including John Santos, Kenny Washington, Alan Ferber, Dayna Stephens, Mads Tolling, Sandy Cressman, Kellye Gray, Avotcja, Spok and Ben Goldberg.

Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis, plus a live performance by the group.

This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support, highlight, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.

Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.

Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream.

In 1959, John Coltrane turned the jazz world on its ear with his album “Giant Steps,” featuring stunning new chord progressions that took bebop harmony to the next level. Through a combination of theory and playing, this in-person workshop aims to take the fear out of learning this daunting tune by using a variety of ways to internalize these changes and get them off the page and into students’ ears and fingers, from guide tone lines to pentatonic scales and beyond. Students of all instruments as well as improvising vocalists welcome. (Basic knowledge of jazz harmony required.)

John Daversa is a distinguished trumpet-player, composer, arranger, producer, bandleader and educator. He is a multiple Grammy Award winner, Emmy nominee, and the recipient of many other awards including the Global Music Awards, IAMA Songwriting Award, City of Miami Beach “John Daversa Day,” and the Phillip Frost Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship.

In addition to his active career as a performer and recording artist, he is Professor and Chair of Studio Music and Jazz at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. John Daversa is a Schilke Music Artist (trumpet) and a Burglund Artist (NuEVI).

The John Daversa Big Band

Throughout its 25-year tenure, the multiple Grammy® Award winning John Daversa Big Band has passionately pursued a musical philosophy that aims to stretch boundaries, illuminate imagination, and explore new worlds of improvisational music.

Originating from Los Angeles, John Daversa brings his 18-piece jazz orchestra back to Yoshi’s featuring Grammy® Award and MacArthur Fellow, Dafnis Prieto on drums, with special guest vocalist, Tiffany Austin. The big band will perform music from Daversa’s Grammy® nominated album, Kaleidoscope Eyes: Music of the Beatles, the Grammy® winning, American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom, and Global Music Award Best In Show winner, Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album.

Allied with musicians from Miami, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, Daversa’s imaginative, genre- fusing compositions, arrangements, and improvisations have returned to Oakland!

Sonoma State jazz trumpet and ensemble instructor Ian Carey brings his Quintet+1 for an evening of original jazz compositions from their four albums. The group includes Kasey Knudsen, alto saxophone, Adam Shulman, piano, Fred Randolph, bass, and Eric Garland, drums, with special guest Harvey Wainapel on tenor saxophone and bass clarinet.

STRANGE ARTS is the debut album from trumpeter/composer Ian Carey's ensemble WOOD METAL PLASTIC, and his seventh album as a leader. The 7-piece group, which features stellar musicians from across the San Francisco Bay Area's creative music spectrum, tackles a challenging array of Carey's intricate compositions, which bridge the worlds of chamber music, straightahead jazz, and free improvisation, ranging from lush harmonies and counterpoint to spiky modernism. The title refers to Carey's exploration of the aesthetic connections between his music and the eclectic creations of his father, the visual artist Philip Carey, who passed away in 2022, and their shared fascination with density of detail and the areas where the organic world meets the artificial.

With Ian Carey, trumpet; Kasey Knudsen, alto saxophone; Irene Sazer, violin; Jessica Ivry, cello; Lisa Mezzacappa, bass; Jason Levis, drums; and a surprise special guest.

Artwork by Philip Carey will be on display during the performance.

$20 suggested dontation

Pianist and composer Alon Nechushtan has collaborated with jazz greats including William Parker, Don Byron, Donny McCaslin, Bob Moses, Ben Allison, John Ellis, Chris Cheek, Chris Speed, Mark Helias, Mark Dresser, Andrew Cyrile, Kenny Wollesen, Ben Goldberg, Daniel Carter, Ned Rothenberg, Robert Dick, Steve Swell, Dan Weiss, Francois Moutin, Bob Gulotti, John Lockwood, and Ken Filiano.

A resident of New York City, Alon has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Central Park Summer Stage, The Blue Note Jazz Club, and the Kennedy Center. His musical adventures have brought him to Yokohama, Manila, Sao-Paolo, Toronto, Montreal, and Tel Aviv.

Pianist and composer Alon Nechushtan has collaborated with jazz greats including William Parker, Don Byron, Donny McCaslin, Bob Moses, Ben Allison, John Ellis, Chris Cheek, Chris Speed, Mark Helias, Mark Dresser, Andrew Cyrile, Kenny Wollesen, Ben Goldberg, Daniel Carter, Ned Rothenberg, Robert Dick, Steve Swell, Dan Weiss, Francois Moutin, Bob Gulotti, John Lockwood, and Ken Filiano.

A resident of New York City, Alon has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Central Park Summer Stage, The Blue Note Jazz Club, and the Kennedy Center. His musical adventures have brought him to Yokohama, Manila, Sao-Paolo, Toronto, Montreal, and Tel Aviv.

In this unique concert experience Morchestra will highlight the key aspects of the arrangers’ art (specifically bandleader Tony Corman), by taking well-known tunes and transforming them, staying true to the spirit while revealing unexpected facets. Beloved Bay Area vocalist Clairdee will bring an added flare to the revamped renditions.

In this unique concert experience Morchestra will highlight the key aspects of the arrangers’ art (specifically bandleader Tony Corman), by taking well-known tunes and transforming them, staying true to the spirit while revealing unexpected facets. Beloved Bay Area vocalist Clairdee will bring an added flare to the revamped renditions.

The Sonoma State Faculty Jazz Ensemble presents this informal workshop performance, featuring compositions by members of the band and Q&A with the audience. Free and open to the public.

Jonathan Seiberlich has become a prominent member of the San Francisco Bay Area’s vibrant music scene. On any given night you may hear him perform with the the Santa Rosa Symphony, Merced Symphony, Fresno Symphony, Stockton Symphony, playing solo at MacArthur BART Station, performing with the Nomad Session wind octet, the Golden Bell Brass Quintet, with Brass Magic, the Jazz Mafia Collective, Circus Bella, electronic dance music with Balkan Bump, or singing his original music with his band Jensen Engineering. 

The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra is the Bay Area’s own 17-piece big band, led by trumpeter Erik Jekabson, playing music composed and arranged by its members. The composers and arrangers, some of the very best in the Bay, draw from a wide variety of influences but always come up with powerful music with groove, beauty and subtlety. The band has colloborated with a number of special guest artists, including John Santos, Kenny Washington, Alan Ferber, Dayna Stephens, Mads Tolling, Sandy Cressman, Kellye Gray, Avotcja, Spok and Ben Goldberg.

Pianist and composer Alon Nechushtan has collaborated with jazz greats including William Parker, Don Byron, Donny McCaslin, Bob Moses, Ben Allison, John Ellis, Chris Cheek, Chris Speed, Mark Helias, Mark Dresser, Andrew Cyrile, Kenny Wollesen, Ben Goldberg, Daniel Carter, Ned Rothenberg, Robert Dick, Steve Swell, Dan Weiss, Francois Moutin, Bob Gulotti, John Lockwood, and Ken Filiano.

A resident of New York City, Alon has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Central Park Summer Stage, The Blue Note Jazz Club, and the Kennedy Center. His musical adventures have brought him to Yokohama, Manila, Sao-Paolo, Toronto, Montreal, and Tel Aviv.

Circus Bella returns for our free 2023 Circus in the Parks series: BANANAS! With live original music by Rob Reich and the Circus Bella All-Star Band. Shows at 12 & 2pm.