2009 Gigs

January

• Pharoah Sanders Quartet (Yoshi’s)
• Junior Mance Trio (Kitano)
• John Abercrombie Organ Quartet (Jazz Standard)
• Fred Hersch Trio Plus 2 (Village Vanguard)
• Jim Rotondi Quartet (Smalls)
• James Moody Quartet (Yoshi’s)
• Blue Note 70th Anniversary Tour (Kuumbwa’s)
• Joey DeFrancesco Trio (two days) (Yoshi’s)
• Kim Nalley (Yoshi’s)
• Bobby Hutcherson Quartet (Yoshi’s)
• Monk’s Music Trio (Anna’s Jazz Island)
• Delfeayo Marsalis Quintet (Blue Note)
• Clayton Brothers (Dizzy’s@JALC)
• Pat Martino Organ Quartet (Birdland)
• Pete Van Nostrand Quintet (Dizzy’s@JALC)

February

• Hank Jones Trio (Yoshi’s – S.F.)
• Rueben Wilson Quartet (Smoke)
• Joe Calderazzo Trio (Jazz Standard)
• Lewis Nash Quintet (Birdland)
• Helen Sung / Ron Carter Duo (Rubin Museum Of Art)
• Barry Harris Trio (Iridium)
• Mike Melvoin Trio (Kitano)            
• Cindy Blackman Quartet (Jazz Standard)
• James Carter Organ Trio (Miller Theatre/ Columbia University)
• Benny Golson New Jazztet (Dizzy’s@JALC)
• Ralph Peterson Group (Sweet Rhythm)
• Seamus Blake Quintet (Smalls)
• Jacky Terrasson Trio (Kuumbwa’s)
• Rhoda Benin (Yoshi’s)
• Generations Band (San Francisco State University)
• Kenny Barron Trio (Jazz Bakery)
• Rickey Woodard Quartet (Charlie O’s)

March

• Lou Donaldson Quartet (Yoshi’s)
• Roberta Gambarini (Blue Note)
• Miles Davis “Kind of Blue” w/Jimmy Cobb (Smoke)
• Luques & Zaccai Curtis (Dizzy’s@JALC)
• Andy Bey Trio (Fat Cat)
• Manuel Valera Quartet (Cachaca)               
• Detroit 3: Geri. Allen, Robert Hurst & Karriem Riggins (Kitano)                  
• Dr. Lonnie Smith Quartet (Jazz Standard)            
• Cyrus Chestnut & Eric Reed (Dizzy’s@JALC)
• Roy Hargrove Quintet (Village Vanguard)            
• Dexter Calling: Randy Brecker, George Cables, & Eric Alexander (Iridium)               
• David Schnitter Quartet (Smalls)
• Terrence Brewer Trio (Yoshi’s)
• Eric Reed Trio (Yoshi’s)
• Vincent Herring Quartet (Sweet Rhythm)                
• E.J. Strickland Quintet (Jazz Gallery)                  
• Freddie Redd Sextet (Smalls)           
• Larry Coryell Trio (Iridium)               
• Louis Hayes Quartet (Kitano)               
• Kevin Mahogany’s Kansas City Review (Jazz Standard)
• Tom Guarna Trio (Bar Next Door)
• Ernestine Amderson Quintet (Dizzy’s@JALC)
• Frank Wess Quintet (Village Vanguard)
• James Moody Quintet (Blue Note)
• Spike Wilner Quartet (Smalls)
• Branford Marsalis Quartet (Kuumbwa’s)

April

• Roy Haynes Quartet (Clifford Brown Jazz Festival)
• Tim Armacost Quartet (Kitano)
• Steve Nelson Quartet (Creole)
• Jimmy Greene Quintet (Smoke)
• Lage Lund Trio (Bar Next Door)
• Akiko Tsuruga (The Garage)
• Sonny Fortune (Sweet Rhythm)
• Joe Lovano Quartet w/Hank Jones (Birdland)              
• One For All (Smoke)
• Tom Harrell Quintet (Village Vanguard)            
• Cedar Walton Quintet (Iridium)
• Andrew Beals Quintet (Smalls)
• Joe Magnarelli Quartet (Fat Cat)
• Denise Perrier (Yoshi’s – S.F.)

May

• Generations Band (Yoshi’s – S.F.)
• Eric Alexander Quartert (Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society)
• George Coleman Quintet (Smoke)
• Mike LeDonne Trio (Kitano)
• Paula West (Jazz Standard)
• Jeb Patton Quartet (Dizzy’s@JALC)               
• Tom Guarna Trio (Bar Next Door)                
• Nicholas Payton Quintet (Birdland)               
• Ahmad Jamal   Trio (Blue Note)             
• Sherman Irby Quartet (Smalls)          
• Lage Lund Trio (Bar Next Door)              
• Bill Charlap Trio (Dizzy’s@JALC)
• Allen Toussaint Sextet (Village Vanguard)            
• Horace Silver Tribute Band (Iridium)               
• Spike Wilner Quartet (Smalls)
• Jamie Davis (Yoshi’s)

June

• Willie Jones, III Quintet (Yoshi’s)
• Healdsburg Jazz Festival feat. Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, James Moody Quartet, and Richard Howell Quintet) (Healdsburg Jazz Festival)
• “Kind Of Blue At 50” feat. Jimmy Cobb (Yoshi’s)
• Christian McBride & Inside Straight (Kuumbwa’s)
• Freddie Hubbard Tribute (A) (Iridium)
• Trio West w/ Bobby Watson & Ron Blake (Kitano)            
• Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya (Jazz Standard)           
• Ben Markley Quartet (Dizzy’s@ JALC)
• Melvin Rhyne Trio (Smoke)                  
• Lewis Nash Quintet (Dizzy’s@JALC)              
• Junior Mance Quintet (Sweet Rhythm)               
• Lennie Cuje Quartet (Smalls)          
• Lafayette Harris Trio (Lenox Lounge)              
• Freddie Hubbard Tribute (B) (Iridium)               
• Dizzy Gillespie Big Band (Blue Note)               
• Ned Goold Trio& Alex Stein Quartet (Smalls)
• Lady Mem’fis (Anna’s Jazz Island)
• Pharoah Sanders Quartet (Yoshi’s – S.F.)
• The Karriem Riggins Virtuoso Experience Tour (Yoshi’s)
• James Moody Quartet (Stanford Jazz Festival)

July

• Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts Quintet (Jazz Standard)            
• Anat Cohen Quartet (Village Vanguard)           
• Cyrus Chestnut Trio (Iridium)               
• Sacha Perry Trio (Smalls)                
• Charles Lloyd Quartet (Highline Ballroom)                  
• Mulgrew Miller Trio (Kitano)               
• Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio (Smoke)                  
• Matt Marantz Trio (Bar Next Door)    
• Wycliffe Gordon Quartet (Stanford Jazz Festival)
• Buddy Montgomery Tribute (Yoshi’s)
• Kristopher Bowers & Brandon McCune (Rubin Museum Of Art)               
• Eddie Allen Quintet (Lenox Lounge)          
• Charlie Haden & Kenny Barron (Blue Note)               
• Lew Tabackin Trio (Smalls)          
• Mulgrew Miller / Duane Eubanks Quartet (Smoke)                 
• Harry Allen Quartet (Kitano)              
• Terence Blanchard Quintet (Jazz Standard)         
• Leonardo Cioglio Trio (Bar Next Door)          
• Marcus Roberts Trio (Dizzy’s@JALC)              
• Fred Hersch Trio (Village Vanguard)                  
• Pat Martino Trio (Iridium)
• Jaz Sawyer Trio (Stanford Jazz Festival)
• Jeb Patton Trio (Stanford Jazz Festival)
• 1959 Revisited (Stanford Jazz Festival)        

August

• Heath Brothers (Stanford Jazz Festival)
• Generations Band (Stanford Jazz Festival)
• Remembering Stan Getz (Stanford Jazz Festival)
• Mulgrew Miller Trio (Stanford Jazz Festival)
• Buster Williams Quartet (Yoshi’s)
• Mulgrew Miller Trio (Yoshi’s)
• Roy Haynes Quartet (Dizzy’s@JALC)              
• Jason Moran Trio (Village Vanguard)                
• Kevin Eubanks Quintet (Blue Note)              
• Jeremy Pelt Quartet (Smalls)         
• Melvin Sparks Trio (Smoke)
• Ken Peplowski Quartet (Kitano)
• Joanne Brackeen Quartet (Jazz Standard)
• Greg Skaff Trio (Bar Next Door)
• Jonathan Batiste Trio (Rubin Museum Of Art)
• Eric Revis Trio (Jazz Gallery)
• Hank Jones Trio (Birdland)
• Rodney Green Trio (Bar Next Door)
• Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (Marcus Garvey Park)
• Charlie Parker Tribute: Mike DiRubbo, Jim Rotondi, Anthony Wonsey (Smoke)             
• Ebony Jo-Ann & Blackgold Ensemble (Kitano)
• Akiko Tsuruga Trio (The Garage)
• Joe Magnarelli Quartet (Smalls)
• Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (Tompkins Square Park)
• Larry Willis Quintet (Jazz Standard)
• Arturo O’Farrill Sextet (Birdland)                 
• Roberta Piket Trio (Smalls)         

September

• Detroit Jazz Festival
• Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio (Yoshi’s – S.F.)
• Chick Corea / Stanley Clarke Trio (Yoshi’s)
• Monterey Jazz Festival
• Myron Walden Trio (Bar Next Door)
• Coltrane Revisited w/Joe Lovano, Steve Kuhn & Andrew Cyrille (Birdland)          
• Jon Irabagon Quartet (Fat Cat)
• Walt Weiskopf Quartet (Smalls)          
• Mike DiRubbo Quartet (Kitano)    
• Grant Stewart Quartet (Fat Cat)              
• ‘Tarbaby’ feat. Naheet Waits, Eric Revis, Stacey Dillard & Orrin Evans (Smoke)                  
• Roberta Piket Trio (Dizzy’s@JALC)
• Barry Harris Trio (Jazz Standard)            
• Carmen Lundy Quintet (Dizzy’s@JALC)              
• Billy Hart Quartet (Village Vanguard)                  
• Spike Wilner Group (Smalls)          

October

• Ramsey Lewis Trio (Yoshi’s – S.F.)
• Earl Klugh Quartet (Yoshi’s)
• Ron Carter Quartet (Yoshi’s)
• Tarbaby feat. Orrin Evans, Eric Reevis & Nasheet Waits (Yoshi’s)
• Eldar Djangirov Trio (Yoshi’s)
• Cedar Walton Trio (Yoshi’s)
• Peter Zak Quartet (Fat Cat)                
• Joe Locke Quartet (Kitano)                 
• Eric Reed   Quartet (Smoke)                  
• Steve Davis Quintet (Smalls)
• Charles McPherson Quintet (Dizzy’s@JALC)
• Jon Faddis Orchestra (Blue Note)               
• Spike Wilner Trio (Smalls)          
• Charles Tolliver Band (Iridium)                 
• Mingus Big Band (Jazz Standard)
• Roni Ben-Hur Quintet (JALC)              
• Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (Village Vanguard)            
• Dmitry Baevsky Quartet (Smalls)
• Ron Affif Trio (Zinc Bar)              
• Joshua Redman Quartet (Jazz Standard)
• Ali Jackson (Dizzy’s@JALC)
• Mark Whitfield Trio (Zinc Bar)
• Jim Rotondi Quintet (Smalls)              
• Phil Woods Quintet (Birdland)                  
• Don Friedman Quartet (Kitano)          
• Steve Turre Quintet (Smoke)                  
• E.J. Strickland Quintet (Dizzy’s@JALC)
• William Ash Trio (Dizzy’s@JALC)
• Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars (Blue Note)      
• Jonathan Blake Quartet (Jazz Gallery)             
• Ed Cherry Trio (Bar Next Door)
• Ryan Kisor Quintet (Smalls)   
• Marcus Roberts Trio (Yoshi’s – S.F.)     
• Eddie Daniels Quartet w/Bob James (Iridium)     
• Jim Snidero Quartet (Kitano)              
• David Berkman Quartet (Smoke)                
• Dmitry Baevsky Quartet (Dizzy’s@JALC)
• Pat Martino Organ Quartet (Birdland)         
• Gerald Clayton Trio (Jazz Gallery)         

November

• Celebrating the Music of Illinois Jacquet (Dizzy’s@JALC)              
• Tom Harrell Quintet (Village Vanguard)                  
• Ron Carter Trio (Blue Note)               
• Yves Brouqui Quintet (Smalls)
• Donald Bailey Tribute (Yoshi’s)
• Steve Gadd Quartet (Yoshi’s – S.F.)
• B.B. King In Concert (Heritage Theatre)
• NEA Jazz Masters (Flushing Town Hall)                
• Victor Goines Quartet (Kitano)              
• Ugonna Okegwo Quintet (Smoke)                  
• Pete Van Nostrand Quintet (Dizzy’s@JALC)             
• Steve Grossman Quartet (Jazz Standard)           
• Orrin Evans Quartet (Jazz Gallery)            
• Pharoah Sanders Quintet (Iridium)

December

• Roy Hargrove Quintet (Kuumbwa’s)
• Ahmad Jamal Trio (Yoshi’s – S.F.)
• Roy Haynes Quartet (Birdland)             
• Peter Malinverni Trio (Smalls)
• Cedar Walton Quartet (Village Vanguard)                  
• William Ash Trio (Smalls)
• Ron Carter, Mike LeDonne & Joe Farnsworth (Smoke)
• Steve Wilson Quartet (Jazz Standard)
• Junior Mance Quartet (Kitano)              
• Marcus Roberts Trio (Dizzy’s@JALC)              
• Freddie Cole Quartet (Birdland)             
• Tardo Hammer Trio (Dizzy’s@JALC)               
• Cedar Walton Quartet (Village Vanguard)                  
• 4 Generations of Miles (Iridium)         
• Eric Alexander Quartet (Smoke)          
• Harold Mabern Trio (Smoke)         
• Mingus Big Band (Jazz Standard)              
• Ron Affif Trio (Zinc Bar)
• McCoy Tyner Trio (Yoshi’s)