Events for Tuesday, November 10 - Thursday, December 3

Join bassist and music educator Diane Bock for Music Matters! Beyond the Notes to explore innovative strategies, activities and insights to connect and create a successful musical learning experience.  Musicians of all ages, skill levels and abilities thrive and respond positively when their teachers and peers incorporate elements of honest engagement, trust, reflection along with […]

Ken Okada Group feat. YOYOKA is a San Francisco Bay Area-based jazz fusion ensemble blending Japanese and American jazz fusion traditions with modern improvisation and vibrant rhythmic interplay. Led by bassist and composer Ken Okada, the group features GRAMMY award-winning saxophonist Ben Torres, DownBeat ‘Rising Star’ guitarist Hristo Vitchev, four-time GRAMMY award nominee Murray Low, […]

With a career spanning more than twenty years and six studio albums, Las Migas have become one of the most internationally acclaimed Spanish bands. They have performed in more than fifty countries and have been nominated four times for the Latin GRAMMY Award in the Best Flamenco Album category (2016, 2022, 2024, and 2025), winning […]

Though John Carroll Kirby’s background is steeped in jazz, his signature sound blends genres and styles. A sought-after collaborator, he's worked with the likes of Miley Cyrus, Frank Ocean, Harry Styles, and Solange. Kirby earned a Song of the Year Grammy nomination in 2023 for his contribution to Steve Lacy’s “Bad Habit.”  Since 2020, he’s […]

James Gordon Williams is an acclaimed composer and pianist whose performances span leading jazz clubs, concert halls, theaters, and international festivals throughout the United States and Europe. He has performed with distinguished artists including Terri Lyne Carrington and Anthony Davis, and has appeared at iconic venues including Birdland and the Village Vanguard. As a theatre […]

In 1988, drummer Brian Blade moved to New Orleans to attend Loyola University. It was at this time that he met Jon Cowherd and the roots of the Fellowship Band began. Both Blade and Cowherd were able to study and play with most of the master musicians living in New Orleans, including: John Vidacovich, Ellis […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 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 […]