Dhafer Youssef Quartet When: Sunday, June 9 Time: 7 p.m. (doors open at 6) Where: Jackson Theater, 4400 Day School Place, Santa Rosa Tickets: $75 | $55 | $45 (Reserved seating) 10% discount for members starting at Jazz Supporter Level Dhafer Youssef, a charismatic and mesmerizing oud player and singer from Tunisia, headlines the Healdsburg Jazz Festival with a top New York jazz rhythm section – drummer Marcus Gilmore
Double-bill concert at Jackson Theater Joey DeFrancesco Trio with Troy Roberts and Billy Hart And the Regina Carter Quintet When: Saturday, June 8 Time: 7 p.m. (doors open at 6) Where: Jackson Theater, 4400 Day School Place, Santa Rosa Tickets: $75 | $55 | $45 (Reserved seating) 10% discount for members starting at Jazz Supporter Event Patron: Thomas Sparks With all he’s already accomplished in his 47 years, it’s perhaps
Harold López-Nussa Quartet featuring Ruy López-Nussa, Luques Curtis and Mayquel Gonzalez When: Friday, June 7 Times: 7 (sold out) and 9 p.m. Where: Paul Mahder Gallery, 222 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg Tickets: SOLD OUT Event sponsor Healdsburg Sotheby’s Last fall Healdsburg Jazz presented Cuba’s latest piano sensation Harold López-Nussa and his trio at the Paul Mahder Gallery, and there was enough magic to warrant a return engagement as part of the
Jazz Night at the Movies with Mark Cantor When: Thursday, June 6 Time: 7 p.m. (doors open 6:30) Where: Raven Theater, 115 North St., Healdsburg Tickets: $15, open seating Anyone out there old enough to remember a jazz musician named Bob Howard? Born in 1906, he was a successful swing pianist and singer who was the first African American to get a network television series – “The Bob Howard Show”
Jenny Scheinman and Allison Miller’s Parlour Game When: Wednesday, June 5 Where: Spoonbar, 219 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg Two seatings: 6:30 (music at 7) and 8:30 (music at 9) Cost: $68 includes show, dinner, tax and gratuity. See the menu online. Event sponsor: Rodney Strong Vineyards Parlour Game may not be a supergroup according to the strict definition of the word. But in terms of sound, vision, and chemistry, Parlour Game
Free Tuesday in the Plaza Concert The King Street Giants When: Tuesday, June 4, 6 – 8 p.m. Where: Healdsburg Plaza With their emphasis on the historical, trad-jazz bands sometimes forget that the music is bottom-line about fun. Louis Armstrong certainly understood this, and so do the King Street Giants. This Sonoma County band playing the Healdsburg Plaza June 4 consists of seven highly-proficient musicians dedicated to early jazz, but the
Carla Bley Trio with Steve Swallow and Andy Sheppard and Ethan Iverson – Mark Turner Duo When: Sunday, June 2, 7 p.m. Where: Raven Theater, 115 North St., Healdsburg Tickets: $75 Gold | $55 General (Reserved seating) 10% discount for members starting at Jazz Supporter level The paradox of Carla Bley – 82 and going strong – is that while she is inimitable, she is also influential. The composer/arranger/pianist and
DEJOHNETTE • COLTRANE • GARRISON When: Saturday, June 1, 7 p.m. Where: Raven Theater, 115 North St., Healdsburg SOLD OUT When ECM Records issued its first album in 1969, Ravi Coltrane was 4 years old and Matt Garrison wasn’t born yet. Jack DeJohnette, on the other hand, was the ripe old age of 27 and getting ready to embark on a long string of albums on ECM – 18 as
Festival Premiere at Soda Rock Winery Ralph Towner with guest Paul McCandless When: Friday, May 31 Time: 7:30 p.m. (courtyard open 6 p.m.) Where: Soda Rock Winery, 8015 Highway 128, Healdsburg (Alexander Valley) Few artists are as closely associated with ECM Records as Ralph Towner. Each is a Rock of Gibraltar, one an institution, the other a guitarist, each expecting the musical world to come to them, and it does.