Casey @ City Winery + Naima & Reinharts

[Tom22]

Casey really does "put on a show" when he...well does a show . It definitely will make me more likely to see him if he comes to san franscisco and much more comfortable dragging along others to see him...

Not San Fran, but close enough... just announced:

Casey Abrams @CaseyBassy · 15h
♫ Just Announced: Oakland, CA - Nov 13 at Yoshi's http://www.bandsintown.com/event/8801407...e_from=217 …

Ok.. Bought 2 Tickets.. gotta think of more people to drag along though

I need to commit to that... and invite a date which is a real barrier but it will also make it a real commitment

BTW Yoshi's is something of a legendary JAZZ club in the bay area ... not even a blues place let alone a rock venue ... just saying for color.

the 2007 san francisco chronicle article below describes its historic and lasting significance

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..........A dozen years ago, when Yoshi's was, in the words of its co-owner and namesake Yoshie Akiba, "a hideaway jazz club" nestled among private homes in Oakland's leafy Rockridge neighborhood, few would have expected that the place would come to bear the weight of the jazz world on its shoulders.

Back then, jazz fans could find internationally known acts in San Francisco at Kimball's and in the East Bay at Kimball's East and Koncepts Cultural Gallery, in addition to Yoshi's.

Now, only Yoshi's is left standing. And far from buckling under the responsibility, it's thriving. And it has a big birthday to celebrate: 10 years at its current location in Jack London Square, a part of Oakland's waterfront that used to be seedy and empty after dark, but now has some nightlife -- thanks in large measure to Yoshi's.

"Yoshi's is one of the best jazz clubs in the world," says Kenny Burrell, the guitar master who celebrated his 75th birthday with a special concert at the club last summer. "They have the best sound system, the best equipment, and they take extra effort to present the music to the public in the best possible way."


Practically every major jazz artist has played Yoshi's. That was true at the former location, but there you couldn't honestly claim -- as fun and intimate as the club was -- that the sound quality was up to the caliber of the music being performed. That situation was rectified 10 years ago when Akiba and co-owner Kaz Kajimura brought in sound designer Tom Schindler with Charles Salter Associates and architect Hiroshi Morimoto to create an acoustically pure room with state-of-the-art engineering and not a bad seat in the 310-capacity house.

It cost millions of dollars, but no one's complaining.

"Our sound always sounds good at Yoshi's," says saxophonist Branford Marsalis, a frequent performer at the club. "I don't have any people complaining they couldn't hear an instrument. ... I dig the place. I have a great time every time I play there."

Among the other jazz stars who have availed themselves of the exquisite sound and ambience are Diana Krall, Oscar Peterson, Bill Frisell, Chucho Valdés, John Zorn, Poncho Sanchez, Marian McPartland, Bud Shank, Woody Allen, Stanley Turrentine, Freddie Hubbard, Pat Metheny, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Elvin Jones, John Scofield, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Cecil Taylor ... the list goes on.

Some of those artists are capable of filling 3,000-seat halls, yet they still come to Yoshi's...................

link is funky but from the big local paper's site.. you need to scroll way down to the article

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/arti...594653.php