Saturday, June 14
Sat 6/14 7:00 PM Black Cat Jazz Supper Club [400 Eddy St, San Francisco, CA 94109]Sarah Hanahan Quartet - live performance at Black Cat
Happens on the following Dates:
Jun 12, 2025, 7:00pm and 9:15
Jun 13, 2025, 7:00pm and 9:30pm
Jun 14, 2025, 7:00pm and 9:30pm
More... Sunday, June 15
Sun 6/15 4:00 PM 2727 California [2727 California St.
Berkeley, CA 94703]Click to make donation Sarah Grace Graves presents a release party for her album Three Names, the result of two years with Scelsi's Three Latin Prayers, Alvin Curran's Three Ligurian Chants, and so much more meditative and transportive music from across many centuries. The album is now out on Elektramusic.
For the Bay Area sendoff of the program, Sarah Grace has invited local musicians to join her on several of the selections, including an arrangement of Alvin Curran's Tramonto for double choir.
A 100-copy limited edition pre-release pressing of CDs will be available for purchase.
More... Sun 6/15 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street
Dresher Ensemble Studio
Oakland]ROT DIET (MITCH STAHLMANN and CHRIS FARSTAD) may brandish cracklebox and electronic wind instrument, but really nothing is needed other than infinity and nowhere.
For the second set, the WEST OAKLAND SOUND SERIES presents the first of hopefully many events grouping together talented local musicians from different circles within the wider contemporary music community.
Mark Clifford (vibraphone), JULIANA GAONA (oboe),
Ben Goldberg (clarinet), and JUAN DAVID RUBIO (drums) join series curator
Matt Ingalls (clarinet) in a set of free improvisations.
More... Tuesday, June 17
Tue 6/17 7:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St
SF]Jazz at the Make-Out Room (formerly the Monday Make-Out) continues! A wily evening of cutting-edge jazz, free improvisation, and creative music.
(6pm doors/7pm show)
7pm
San KazakgascarJed Brewer, Rachel Freund, Linda Hardy, Greg Hain, Anthony Occhipinti, w/Jaroba James, Colleen Kelly, and Nik
8:15pm
Nora Free Liberation QuartetNora Free - saxophone, David El - guitar, Kevin Goldberg - bass, Cody Rhodes - drums
More... Thursday, June 19
Thu 6/19 6:45 PM The Roar Shack [34 7th Street, SF, CA]Qube Chix
The reunion of the legendary San Francisco new wave/experimental performance trio
More... Thu 6/19 7:00 PM Black Cat Jazz Supper Club [400 Eddy St, San Francisco, CA 94109]Jeff Denson/Romain Pilon Trio with Percussion Powerhouse Jonathan Pinson - live performance at Black Cat
More... Thu 6/19 7:30 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St
Oakland]Marcus Stephens 3-Day Residency
Marcus Stephens premiers:
The Kn'Octet is an 8 piece chamber ensemble rooted in multiple genres including jazz, rock, and hip hop.
More... Thu 6/19 8:00 PM The Back Room [1833 Parker St.]Celebrating our third CD, "Spires", the Actual Trio returns to its Berkeley home base, the Back Room, for an evening of original music.
More... Sunday, June 22
Sun 6/22 3:00 PM MLK Regional Shoreline [https://maps.app.goo.gl/3VqLBpse77zCapQA9]Emergent Sound Practices
This outdoor sound performance series offers an unconventional circumstance for artists to share emergent and experimental works in conversation with place. With an intent to tread lightly, all presented sound is generated either acoustically or through small, portable amplification. Through the assertion of process, and by embracing the unpredictable nature of outdoor environments, the artists of this series depict, in real time, how music is more than simply putting notes and sounds together – it is placing oneself in a specific moment and context, preparing mind and body to shape sound, in community with observers, players, and one’s surroundings. It’s a relationship.
Live performances by Lime Rickey International, SO AR + Jhia Jackson and matt robidoux
More... Sun 6/22 4:00 PM Dinkelspiel Auditorium [471 Lagunita Dr
Stanford, CA]INDIAN JAZZ JOURNEY FEATURING MAHESH KALE AND GEORGE BROOKS w/ Utsav Lal, Salvaganesh Vinayakram, Kai Eckhardt, and
Scott Amendola More... Sun 6/22 6:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St
Oakland]The Music of a Jazz Revolutionary! – an Ornette Coleman Ancestor Celebration
Ten years ago, the world lost a jazz icon, a pioneer who forever changed the path of the music; But his spirit lives in every note, every solo, of every artist he's ever inspired.
On June 22nd, step into the harmolodic universe of Ornette Coleman at Wyldflowr Arts for an unforgettable afternoon of bold, boundary-pushing music. Led by the incomparable Dr. Nora Free (whose 2015 dissertation on Coleman's work cemented her as a leading voice in the study of his music) this tribute brings together some of the Bay Area’s most fearless experimental improvisors.
Tickets Here More... Sun 6/22 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street
Dresher Ensemble Studio
Oakland]KRISTIN NORDERVAL’S career has been twofold: as a soloist working closely with composers such as Pauline Oliveros, Philip Glass, Annea Lockwood and Anne Le Baron, and as a composer and improviser working with technology. Kristin will perform with her Expanded Vocal Improvising Instrument to explore themes of presence, place, and the distortion of time. ANNE HEGE will perform works for her instrument, the Tape Machine, interwoven with excerpts from her latest project, "The Glance: A Laptopera," her second opera for laptop orchestra and live instruments, and works for Tether controller Becoming Within and Like Roots.
LORIN BENEDICT (voice), BRETT CARSON (piano), JEFF HOBBS (violin), and RICHARD WORN (bass) join series curator MATT INGALLS (clarinet) in a set of free improvisations.
More... Saturday, June 28
Sat 6/28 7:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]Percussionist/vocalist Kahil El'Zabar & tenor saxophonist & bass clarinetist David Murray return to Spruce Street concerts for 2 sets, 5pm and 7pm. These remarkable artists have been collaborating for 40 years, and every performance is exhilarating and deeply moving. The sound of David Murray's tenor saxophone in the intimacy of a house concert is astonishing, and the chemistry between him and Kahil El'Zabar is always special.
More... Sat 6/28 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]After 13 years of rockin' in the Bay, John Angel is saying goodbye the only way he can: with an evening of melting faces!! A set of Fire at the Plantation House tunes featuring all the hits and some never before heard numbers will celebrate the release of Angel's latest single "Tin(der) Foil Hats"! Special guests Brent Miller and Brett Eastman will join Angel for a set of HARJO sound baths.
More... Sunday, June 29
Sun 6/29 7:15 PM West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street
Dresher Ensemble Studio
Oakland]PETRA ZÉLIE'S musical approach combines composition and improvisation, driven by emotional responses, the sonic environment, and queer temporality.
SADIE GREYDUCK - "Col Reliquia:" with the relic/with what has been left behind. The double bass is performed with a bison jaw, she wears a mask of shattered bottles and faceted gems.
Myles Boisen (guitar), JOEL DAVEL (percussion), and AMBER LAMPRECHT (English horn) join series curator
Matt Ingalls (clarinet) in a set of free improvisations.
More... Sunday, July 6
Sun 7/06 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)
Monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center. Bring your instrument or come to listen. Movement and other disciplines encouraged. No advance notice needed — just show up.
Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. Set up before 8:00 and be as ready to play as possible. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm.
More... Friday, July 25
Fri 7/25 7:30 PM Dresher Ensemble Studio [2201 Poplar St
Oakland]Other Minds presents scenes in workshop from the work-in-progress, I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment, by American composer Joseph Bohigian, Lebanese-Armenian vocalist Khatchadour Khatchadourian, and the music-technology group Ensemble Decipher. The free workshop performance will take place on Friday, July 25, 2025, at 7:30 pm at the Paul Dresher Ensemble Studio in Oakland, CA. The performance will be followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A with the ensemble, moderated by Charles Amirkhanian.
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