[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Happening in San Francisco Feb. 25th

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Subject: Jazz Happening in San Francisco Feb. 25th

    Marcus Books on FILLMORE STREET SAN FRANCISCO    The Old Bop City 
Jazz Club.
 Presents a Jazz Memory event; 
 
 Saturday, February 25th, 6:00-9:00 p.m., San Francisco 
  LEWIS WATTS AND ELIZABETH PEPIN in person for autographed  copies of 
their book:

 HARLEM OF THE WEST: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era 

  Billie Holliday singing and Lionel Hampton playing at the Club 
Flamingo/Texas Playhouse, Jimi Hendrix playing with Little Richard at 
the Fillmore Auditorium, John Handy and Pony Poindexter, Johnny Hodges 
and Duke Ellington, Sugarpie DeSanto, Johnny Mathis, and Dexter Gordon 
playing at Jimbo's Bop City with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Sammy 
Davis, Jr., Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane dropping in for jam 
sessions. This was the vibrant, swinging jazz scene of San Francisco's 
Fillmore in the 1940s and '50s. Through amazing photographs and oral 
accounts, Harlem of the West celebrates this unique chapter in jazz 
history and the Black experience on the West Coast. The San Francisco 
Marcus Book Store building (formerly Bop City) will be magically 
transformed for an evening of remembrance, autographing, live jazz, and 
refreshments. Dress like 'back in the day' to enter the "Best Dressed 
Contest" and win an autographed copy of Harlem of the West. 


Hopefully we will soon see such a book about Slim Jenkin's Place in 
Oakland, California.


Cheers,

Tom Wiggins
1-925-952-4585
Saint Gabriel's Celestial Brass Band
http://www.sonoicbids.com/StGabrielscelestialbrassband