JUN 7-18 | 40TH ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ FESTIVAL
Jun 18, 2023
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
Please note: Dance floor is General Admission standing room only. If you would prefer seats, please select a different level for this show. Patrons with seats, please enter the auditorium through the 2nd floor entrances.
With their rambunctious blend of ragtime, blues, stride, and swing, the Bay Area’s John Brothers Piano Company make their debut on the Miner Auditorium stage.
Formed by a pair of former Cal Berkeley students who shared a love of early jazz and barroom blues, the band began as humbly and seemingly incongruous as possible, with the pair dragging their Wurlitzer spinet around to busk on street corners around San Francisco and the East Bay. They’ve built a devoted fan base one show at a time, blending timeless classics and original compositions with nearly irrepressible energy, and the lineup has expanded to a quartet of prodigiously talented multi-instrumentalists.
They’ve graduated from performing on the street to headlining many Bay Area venues The Chapel, Great American Music Hall, Bimbo’s 365 and performing at a multitude of festivals and events SFJAZZ, Stern Grove Festival, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Oakland Art + Soul, Outside Lands and more. In addition to headlining their own shows they’ve performed alongside phenomenal artists like Karen O, Booker T, Joan Osborne, Sugar Pie Desanto, to name a few. Asked to describe their sound and approach by The Bay Bridged, the band responded, “This group is a punk band with jazz instruments and classical inclinations.”
A rambunctious blend of ragtime, blues, stride, and swing, the Bay Area’s band brings “a throwback sound that evokes the honky-tonk ghosts of Barbary Coast.” (SF Chronicle)
A throwback sound that evokes the honky-tonk ghosts of Barbary Coast.
San Francisco Chronicle
A throwback sound that evokes the honky-tonk ghosts of Barbary Coast.
San Francisco Chronicle
Personnel
John Thatcher Boomer piano & clarinet
Arlo Perlstein piano & trumpet
Kent Kessinger bass
Jimi Marks drums
A wonderfully idiosyncratic blend of polyphonic jazz
Berkeleyside
Personnel
John Thatcher Boomer piano & clarinet
Arlo Perlstein piano & trumpet
Kent Kessinger bass
Jimi Marks drums
A wonderfully idiosyncratic blend of polyphonic jazz
Berkeleyside
Watch & Listen
John Brothers Piano Co.
Mint Julep
John Brothers Piano Co.
Off Base
John Brothers Piano Co.
Mint Julep
John Brothers Piano Co.
Off Base