Events for December 2026

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Benny Green

Benny Green was born in New York City in 1963 and grew up in Berkeley, California. His father, who played the tenor saxophone, introduced him to jazz at an early age through his record collection that included Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, and many founding voices of the genre. He began piano […]

Master Class: Ricardo Peixoto – Brazilian Guitar

Ricardo Peixoto’s Brazilian Guitar will explore how various genres of Brazilian music can be expressed on the guitar. Uniquely Brazilian rhythms, harmonies, and chord voicings with open strings are utilized to create distinctive sounds in styles such samba, bossa nova, choro and baião. The class will analyze how the guitar closely translates and is integrated […]

Kassa Overall

“Raw, underground, and chaotic…one of modern jazz music’s most audacious futurists.” – Pitchfork Revered by living icons and underground tastemakers, Kassa Overall began his career behind the drum kit. At the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Overall spent his days studying jazz drums and music theory, and his evenings making beats in his dorm room, often […]

Isaiah Sharkey

Isaiah Sharkey stands at the confluence of modern soul, jazz, R&B, and Black American guitar tradition, carrying forward a lineage that links George Benson, Curtis Mayfield, Wes Montgomery, and Jimi Hendrix, while forging a vocabulary entirely his own. A GRAMMY award-winning guitarist, vocalist, composer, and producer, Sharkey has become one of the most respected musicians […]

The Bad Plus – Farewell Tour

The Bad Plus are the ultimate originals, and this Farewell Tour features the band’s final performances, celebrating their twenty-six years of musical collaboration and influence. A democratic unit with a clear vision and a refusal to conform to convention, for the past two decades The Bad Plus have played with spirit and adventure, made their […]

Isaiah J. Thompson – A Guaraldi Holiday

Pianist and composer Isaiah J. Thompson is originally from West Orange, New Jersey. He began studying with pianist Alla Epelbaum at The Calderone School of Music and Bob Mikula from an early age, and soon after enrolled in Jazz House Kids and NJPAC Jazz For Teens. Thompson later was admitted to The Juilliard School where […]

Spanish Harlem Orchestra – Salsa Navidad – 7:00 PM

The three-time, GRAMMY-winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra is one of the finest music ensembles around. They have performed at many of the great performing arts centers, festivals, and venues around the world. Salsa Navidad is a show dedicated to classic Latinx music as well as select American Christmas classics done in a salsa style. Part of […]

Spanish Harlem Orchestra – Salsa Navidad – 9:00 PM

The three-time, GRAMMY-winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra is one of the finest music ensembles around. They have performed at many of the great performing arts centers, festivals, and venues around the world. Salsa Navidad is a show dedicated to classic Latinx music as well as select American Christmas classics done in a salsa style. Part of […]

A Cosmic Charlie Brown Christmas – Featuring Jason Crosby & Friends

Jason Crosby and friends bring the music of Vince Guaraldi and The Grateful Dead to Kuumbwa. After decades on the road as one of rock’s most in-demand sidemen touring with the likes of Susan Tedeschi, Robert Randolph and others, multi-instrumentalist Jason Crosby took time for himself. The result was his 2017 solo album, Cryptologic, and […]

Victor Wooten & the Wooten Brothers at the Rio Theatre

The Wooten Brothers’ first public performance occurred in Hawaii in 1966 and established their identity as prodigies. Since then, Victor Wooten and the Wooten Brothers (brothers Regi, Roy, and Joseph) have racked up ten GRAMMY wins, and twenty-six nominations. The youngest of the family, Victor, the brother who learned from all his older brothers, has […]

Christian Sands Trio

Pianist and two-time GRAMMY nominee Christian Sands is an emerging jazz force. His abundant piano technique perfectly matches his ambition, accomplishing a much deeper musical goal: a fresh look at the entire spectrum of jazz. A protégé of Dr. Billy Taylor, Sands released his debut album at the age of twelve. He came to wider […]

Skylar Tang Quartet

Skylar Tang is a multidisciplinary musician from the San Francisco Bay Area known for her dynamic trumpet playing and profound compositions. Tang has shared the stage with world-renowned artists such as Sean Jones, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Rufus Reid, and Joshua Redman. She was featured on Redman’s latest album, Words Fall Short. Now based in New […]