FREE! Brown Bag Jazz Hangs: Terrence Brewer — on Miles and Coltrane at 100

Join us for casual daytime talks and listening sessions with leading lights of the Bay Area jazz community. Bring your own lunch or order ahead from the JazzCaffè. Wednesdays at lunchtime! Free, drop-ins welcome.

Our summer series is presented in collaboration with The Freight.

Multiple-award-winning guitarist Terrence Brewer is a first-call and in-demand bandleader, record producer, concert performer, studio musician, and one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s foremost and sought-after music educators. Brewer, a voting member of the GRAMMYS, has produced and released 11 nationally acclaimed albums on the record label Strong Brew Music, which he started in 2006. Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me, Brewer’s 11th album, a duet album with jazz/blues vocalist Pamela Rose, pays tribute to the iconic duet albums by Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass. In addition to his work as an in-demand record producer, Brewer has led various groups for sold-out crowds at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Yoshi’s, the SFJAZZ Jazz Festival, and countless other venues. As an educator, Brewer curates and creates curriculum, facilitates master classes, clinics, workshops, and lectures for many Bay Area schools and jazz organizations, including Jazz Camp West, Blue Bear School of Music, Lafayette Summer Music Workshop, and CMEA, and presents at colleges, high schools, and middle schools throughout California and across the country.

To order lunch from the JazzCaffè, call 510-654-0148 to place your order before 10:30am the day of the program.

For the menu visit actcatering.com/jazzcaffe.
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Marcos Silva Quartet

Doors 7pm / Pre-Concert Talk 7:30pm

Zach Pitt-Smith, saxophones and flute
Richard Lindsey, bass
Marcos Silva, keyboard
Dillon Vado, drums

Longtime Jazzschool instructor, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer Marcos Silva brings his breathtaking quartet to the Jazzschool for an evening of dazzling Brazilian jazz. Silva features compositions and arrangements from his most recent release, Brasil From Head to Toe, traversing energetic samba, bouncy baiano, funky grooves, and moody ballads while reflecting his experiences as a musician living in Brazil and the United States and traveling the world.

Silva’s sumptuous but exacting compositions have been recorded by artists including Flora Purim, Romero Lubambo, Bud Shank, and Herbie Mann. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Silva served as musical director for Flora Purim and Airto Moreira for 24 years. A Grammy nominee, he has toured with many celebrated artists, including Paquito D’Rivera, Claudio Roditi, Raul de Souza, Toninho Horta, Leny Andrade, Edu Lobo, Emilio Santiago, and Dori Caymmi.

Since relocating to the Bay Area in the 1980s, Silva has been an active force in the local jazz community, helping fuel the growth of Brazilian jazz in the region and supporting vocalists such as Claudio Gomez, Claudia Villela, and Sandy Cressman. He has been teaching at the Jazzschool for 28 years.

“Brasil From Head to Toe exhibits the fine musicianship from an artist who understands and feels Brazilian music very well.” — Música Brasileira

https://concerts.jazzschool.org/marcos-silva-quartet/
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FREE! Brown Bag Jazz Hangs: Beth Schenck — on Lee Konitz

Join us for casual daytime talks and listening sessions with leading lights of the Bay Area jazz community. Bring your own lunch or order ahead from the JazzCaffè. Wednesdays at lunchtime! Free, drop-ins welcome.

Our summer series is presented in collaboration with The Freight.

Beth Schenck has been an integral part of the Bay Area’s jazz, improvised, and new music scenes for more than a decade. Her recent projects as a leader and composer include works for solo saxophone (Above and Below, Innova, 2022); the saxophone quartet Social Stutter; the Beth Schenck Quintet (Dahlia, Queen Bee Records, 2025); Present/Past Quartet; and House of Faern. Schenck has collaborated and performed as a sideperson with the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Jenny Scheinman, Todd Sickafoose, Tina Raymond, Judith Berkson, Jordan Glenn, and Matt Small. She has performed her music for audiences around the world, from New York and Los Angeles to Europe and Asia. The Bay Area music scene remains her chosen home, where she continues to create music with her favorite collaborators, all of whom happen to be members of the Beth Schenck Quintet.

To order lunch from the JazzCaffè, call 510-654-0148 to place your order before 10:30am the day of the program.

Scan this QR code for the menu or visit actcatering.com/jazzcaffe.
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