Music You Don’t Want to Miss in Oakland this Weekend!
Terrence Brewer @ Mindful Music Academy
Sat., Feb. 4, 8pm
Guitarist Terrence Brewer presents an imaginative reinterpretation of his favorite Wes Montgomery album Full House. Full House is the seventh album and first live jazz album by American jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, recorded at Tsubo in Berkeley on June 25, 1962. The Tsubo had been opened by Glenn Ross in Sept. 1961 with jazz radio station, KJAZ-FM
Brewer is joined by saxophonist Steve Heckman, pianist Tim Campbell, bassist Adam Gay, and drummer Isaac Schwartz.
Brewer was recently proclaimed by long-time music scribe, David Becker (SF Examiner/AXS.com), as the San Francisco Bay Area’s #1 Jazz Guitarist.
Brewer has lead his various groups in nearly 2500 performances in the last 8 years,performing to sold-out crowds at the 52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, the world famous Yoshi’s at Jack London Square, Yoshi’s San Francisco, SFJAZZ Jazz Festival and countless other venues.
Jim Bennett of KCSM continues the winter season with his curated In The Moment concert series dedicated to continuing the legacy of Jazz as a living art form.
Advance tickets or buy tickets at the door and mention KCSM to receive a $5 discount.
Mindful Music Academy, 5776 Broadway in Oakland’s Rockridge District
Gerald Albright Photo/Cary Gillaspie
Gerald Albright @ Yoshi’s
Fri., Feb. 3
Gerald Albright is one of the biggest stars in R&B, contemporary and straight-ahead jazz.
He started playing piano as a young boy in South Central Los Angeles and one day picked up his piano teacher’s sax. He now is a saxophone master, a musician’s musician, as he is called.
Beginning in the late ’80s, Albright recorded many successful solo albums while he was also playing with an impressive roster of popular R&B artists. His influencers were James Brown, Maceo Parker and Cannonball Adderley.
Take a listen.
He is extremely popular! Fri. 8pm show sold out. 10pm show still has tickets available. (Both shows sold out on Sat.) Doors: 9:45 pm / Show: 10:00 pm. Buy tickets online.
Yoshi’s, 510 W Embarcadero in Jack London Square in Oakland
Young People’s Symphony Orchestra @Scottish Rite Center
Sat., Feb. 4, 8-10pm and Sun., Feb. 5, 4-6pm
Program
Miller – Scherzo Crypto
Jonathan Altman & Angela Wu Photo/Vladimir Gurevich
- Featuring YPSO Concerto Competition Winners:
- Wieniawski – Violin Concerto No. 2 – Angela Wu, violin
- Korngold – Violin Concerto – Jonathan Altman, violin
Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade
Music Director/Conductor – David Ramadanoff with 102 YPSO musicians
Young People’s Symphony Orchestra (YPSO) is California’s oldest youth orchestra and the second oldest youth orchestra in the United States. Their mission is to guide young musicians to achieve excellence within an orchestral setting.
YPSO has performed in locations including Carnegie Hall; the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek; San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House; the San Francisco
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Museum of Modern Art; Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard University; the Sydney Opera House, Australia; the Dvorak Hall of the Rudolfinium, Prague, Czech Republic; the Slovak Radio Concert Hall, Bratislava, Slovakia; the Golden Hall of the Musikverein, Vienna, Austria; as well as in venues in Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska; Scotland; the People’s Republic of China; and New Zealand.
Additional notes: Composer Andrew Miller says his 2014 composition, “Scherzo Crypto,” fuses two great loves of his life: orchestral virtuosity and brain-twisting puzzles. When the San Antonio Symphony commissioned a new work from him for their 75th anniversary season, he decided to compose a musical meta-puzzle: a piece with an answer that could be solved by adventurous listeners. “The only hint I will give is that the answer is the name of a musical instrument. This hidden instrument is somehow woven into the sound, continually appearing and disappearing,” he says. To depict the excitement and occasional panic of intense puzzle solving while a clock ticks down to zero, Miller made the instrumental parts wildly virtuosic, with a particular emphasis on strings and percussion.
Admission is FREE with a Suggested Donation of $15
Register online or at the door
Oakland Scottish Rite Center, 1547 Lakeside Drive, Oakland (map)
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are curated by art director Jim Bennett, continuing the legacy of Jazz as a living art form.
Good Place for Books chronicles their best sellers with detailed book descriptions. 
Owner Kathleen Caldwell also suggests her favorite books online. And this month she is promoting The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson.
So, joyful it is – at Jack London Square’s annual tree lighting festivities! Share in an enchanting evening on the Oakland waterfront with holiday music performed by Oakland’s talented young people. You will be surrounded by Santa’s grazing reindeer, youth choral groups, an ornament workshop, an Instrument Petting Zoo, holiday treats, a visit from Santa Claus (and photos), artisans and a warm wonderful community spirit.
Steel Rail Public House says they are going Off the Rails with a gastronomic experience you will not want to miss next Fri. evening, Nov. 11, from 5-9pm on Water St. next to Scott’s in Jack London Square. They are showcasing the talents of two local culinary artisans 
is that steel rail workers helped shape the local community and they continue to celebrate the spirit of this local community of Oakland. Steel Rail honors Oakland’s storied past and celebrates the people here in Jack London Square by providing a warm and casual setting. “We created Steel Rail as a welcome place for the entire community to eat drink share and unwind,” according to the founders.
