Sat 2/22 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Coagulator (L.A.)
Courtney Doorhinge
Decision/Fatigue
Dovetail
Clarke Robinson
G N Pancakes now in it's 25th year. Come on, it's a big deal ...so eat some food!
Gourmet vegan pancakes with entrance fee!  More...

Sat 2/22 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita  More...

Sat 2/22 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Rick Prelinger, Anna Friz & Jeff Kolar: The Other Spectrum  More...

Wed 2/26 8:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
On Wednesday, February 26 at 8:00pm, Tom's Place presents

Paul Sakai trio
Paul Sakai (drums)
Tim Duff (double bass)
Josh Allen (tenor sax)
and
Ken Ueno (vox)/Matt Ingalls (clarinet) duo  More...

Thu 2/27 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [Oakland]
INSECT LIFE with Ben Goldberg, Danny Lubin-Laden, Ben Davis, & Raffi Garabedian featuring Hamir Atwal.  More...

Thu 2/27 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita  More...

Thu 2/27 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Elizabeth Costello - reading from her debut novel
The Good War, from Regal House
with
Suki O'Kane - percussion
Rent Romus - alto sax  More...

Thu 2/27 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Byron Westbrook + Thomas Dimuzio  More...

Fri 2/28 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [Oakland]
Marcus Stephens & Raffi Garabedian  More...

Fri 2/28 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound is our Friday music series curated and hosted by Boohaabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce. Each week David will be inviting different musical guests to join him in our galeria for a night of sonic sustenance.  More...

Fri 2/28 7:00 PM Lloyd’s Records [3824 telegraph ave Oakland]
Paul Sakai/Brandon Schlomann, Kumi Maxson/Michael Morales/Karl Evangelista, Matt Robidoux  More...

Fri 2/28 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita  More...

Fri 2/28 8:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Larry Ochs / Darren Johnston / Ben Davis / Lisa Mezzacappa - Tales End  More...

Sat 3/01 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Zachary James Watkins----
Concious Summary (L.A.)----
Temoleh-----
Zebra Secrets----
Linoleum Dicks----

Godwaffle now in it's 25th year longest running Pacific Rim sound series with synthstruments & pancakes. Who's counting though. All ages show  More...

Sat 3/01 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [Oakland]
Raffi Garabedian quartet featuring Dahveed Behroozi, David Ewell, & Hamir Atwal.  More...

Sat 3/01 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita  More...

Sat 3/01 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Bridge Music Collective will showcase composers from across the country writing music for our quintet. These pieces are the result of our Call for Scores project with the goal of expanding the repertoire for this unique instrumentation.  More...

Sun 3/02 12:00 PM Opening Ears Concert Series [1026 Pleasant Oaks Dr]
Solos and a trio set featuring Jordan Glenn, Matias EA, and Ari Brown  More...

Sun 3/02 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...

Tue 3/04 8:00 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Rent Romus and Eli Knowles  More...

Thu 3/06 6:00 PM San Francisco Public Library Main Branch [SPL Main Library 100 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA 94102]
King of the Omniverse - Sun Ra and His Arkestra
Author Nicole V. Gagné offers a celebration of one of the 20th century's master composer/musicians: Sun Ra, who led his big band the Arkestra for 40 years and took humanity on a never-ending trip through outer space and into dimensions unknown.  More...

Thu 3/06 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Guitarist and Composer Aaron Larget-Caplan explores contemporary American compositions in ‘A Modern American Guitar Celebration.’
New solos and arrangements, a genre bending micro-opera, and a premiere for electronics and guitar that push the envelope of the guitar and performer and challenges the position of Art in today’s world.
American composers include the California connected: John Cage, Ken Ueno, and Daniel Felsenfeld, as well as California premieres by Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Douglas Knehans, Ian Wiese, and Larget-Caplan.  More...

Fri 3/07 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Ben Goldberg and Scott Amendola have been playing music together for over 3 decades. Tunes, improv, who knows what's going to happen, but their long storied history will for certain make it for an interesting evening. Both utilize electronics and have a deep love of Thelonious Monk. Stretching the boundaries of jazz, and improvisation, at one minute there could be a stream of sound. The next a composition. The deep intuitive nature of Ben and Scott can only make for an evening of deep, fun, and joyous music.  More...

Sat 3/08 8:00 PM Zellerbach Hall [UC Berkeley Berkeley]
yMusic Performs a World Premiere by Gabriella Smith  More...

Sun 3/09 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
ON&ON&ON&
Brett Carson - piano
Kyle Bruckmann - oboe
Lisa Mezzacappa - double bass
Jordan Glenn - drums  More...

Thu 3/13 7:00 PM Dharma Collective [2929 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110]
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The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums are an internationally renowned all-female saxophone quartet with drums. Formed in 1988 in Seattle, WA by Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame member Amy Denio (alto sax, clarinet, voice), she is joined by co-leader Jessica Lurie (soprano/alto/tenor sax, voice), Sue Orfield (tenor sax, voice), Tina Richerson (baritone sax, voice), and Rick Wabbies (drums, percussion), the Tiptons' material ranges from micro-Big Band to Gospel, Bluegrass to Balkan, whimsical Chamber Jazz, and nocturnal Funk to Free Jazz Improvisation.  More...

Fri 3/14 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
Mat Muntz quartet

Ben Goldberg - clarinet
Xavier Del Castillo (NYC) - tenor sax
Scott Amendola - drums
Mat Muntz - bass/compositions  More...

Sat 3/15 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus near corner of College and Bancroft Berkeley]
UC Berkeley Wind Ensemble I  More...

Sat 3/15 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704-1038]
Click to make donation  
The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums are an internationally renowned all-female saxophone quartet with drums. Formed in 1988 in Seattle, WA by Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame member Amy Denio (alto sax, clarinet, voice), she is joined by co-leader Jessica Lurie (soprano/alto/tenor sax, voice), Sue Orfield (tenor sax, voice), Tina Richerson (baritone sax, voice), and Rick Wabbies (drums, percussion), the Tiptons' material ranges from micro-Big Band to Gospel, Bluegrass to Balkan, whimsical Chamber Jazz, and nocturnal Funk to Free Jazz Improvisation.  More...

Sat 3/15 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Chihei Hatakeyama + Billy Gomberg  More...

Tue 3/18 8:00 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Rent Romus and Eli Knowles  More...

Sat 3/22 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Still House Plants + Kathryn Mohr  More...

Sun 3/23 3:00 PM Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts [1537 Euclid Ave. Berkeley]
Satoko Fujii & Kappa Maki + Motoko Honda & Ben Davis  More...

Sun 3/23 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
2025 is the 10th year of Aerocade Music and the first year as a non-profit record label.
Aerocade Artists Isaac Io Schankler, Nick Norton, Elizabeth Robinson, Alchymie & Gregg Skloff, and Chelsea Hollow & Taylor Chan will perform. Pre-concert reception catered by local musician and vegan chef, Philip Gelb.  More...

Wed 3/26 7:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [2150 Allston Way, Suite 240]
Other Minds presents a celebration of the centennial of Pierre Boulez, comprising an inventive concert of music for two pianos played by Gloria Cheng and Ralph van Raat at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. The duo will perform the composer’s rarely heard Structures Books I and II, alongside music by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Frank Zappa, and Magnus Lindberg, concluding with Igor Stravinsky’s elegant neo-classical masterwork Sonata for Two Pianos.  More...

Sat 3/29 2:30 PM First United Methodiest Church [625 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA]
The Peninsula Women's Chorus presents the 11th New Music for Treble Voices Festival, celebrating vocal improvisation through Circle Singing.

The festival will feature guest choirs including San Francisco-based Musae, Ensemble from the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, Sacramento-based Vox Musica, and the PWC.​ Throughout the day, festival members will participate in workshops led by Bay Area-based members of MOTION, Bryan Dyer, Tammi Brown and David Worm, exploring the art of vocal improvisation.  More...

Sat 4/05 7:30 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [2150 Allston Way, Suite 240]
Other Minds welcomes pianist Geoffrey Burleson to present his solo piano recital “From Antheil to Zappa” on Saturday, April 5, 2025, at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland. Burleson’s performance will feature forgotten mid-century masterpieces by American composers, including such rarities as the Piano Sonata No. 12, “Mirror Sonata,” (1982) by Vincent Persichetti, “Mirrorrorrim” (1931) by Gerald Strang, Music for Piano (1947) by Irving Fine, Piano Sonata No. 3 (1947) by Norman Dello Joio, Samuel Barber’s Four Excursions, as well as works by George Antheil, Frank Zappa, Mary Kouyoumdjian, and Herbie Nichols.  More...

Sun 4/06 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...