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Al Marshall Trio

Jazz

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your instrument. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Carla Helmbrecht

Jazz

Grammy-nominated singer/song-writer, Carla Helmbrecht, began her love affair with music at the age of eight. A native of Wisconsin, Carla was raised in a large music-loving family and had an inherent desire for music.

Clairdee

Jazz

Soulful, swinging, and stylish, the music of San Francisco-based jazz singer Clairdee epitomizes jazz’s empowering imperative. More than a masterly interpreter of lyrics with a lustrous, velvety tone, she embodies the tradition’s twinned legacy of standing for social justice with glamor and guts.

Hella Fitzgerald

Jazz

Hella Fitzgerald is a deluxe party band based in California, specializing in vintage jazz and swing, classic soul and funk, 90's and contemporary songs.

Jazzaholics

Jazz

Jazzaholics is a trio of world-class musicians who are based in the San Francisco Bay Area. This exciting modern jazz trio is comprised of Steve Carter on Piano, Dennis Smith on bass and Al Marshall on drums.

Lavay Smith

Jazz

Lavay Smith is an American singer specializing in blues, jazz, and swing. She tours with her eight-piece "little big band", Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers.

Ricardo Scales

Jazz

"The black Liberace," Ricardo Scales' nickname, only tells part of the pianist's story. Like the real Liberace, he wears flashy attire on-stage when he launches into a set that showcases his incredible versatility. What the nickname doesn't tell you is that the pianist has a determination as tough as steel, and he needed every ounce of it to ever make it to the stage in the first place.

Steely Dan

Jazz

Steely Dan is an American jazz fusion band founded in 1972 by core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.