San Francisco Metro: Sat, Nov 28, 2026 · Jazz · 9 events · data version 20261102-152543
4:00 PM · Peter Smith Trio · The Sound Room (Oakland) · live_music, jazz · rating 9
soundroom.org · details Pianist Peter Smith usually puts out a cooking hard bop sound that has that classic Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers/ Horace Silver groove to it. Smith's piano work is certainly a talent worth paying plenty of attention to. For this post Thanksgiving event, he will be presenting soul jazz / boogaloo music from his latest release Smitty Straightens Out.
Peter is an accomplished pianist, composer, arranger, songwriter, and music director, and his career has flourished on both coasts.
7:00 PM · KAZEMDE GEORGE TRIO · SFJAZZ Lab (Hayes Valley) · live_music, jazz · rating 8
sfjazz.org · details A Berkeley-raised saxophonist who is well on his way to international fame, Kazemde George steps back onto the Joe Henderson Lab stage with his phenomenal trio. As a youth coming up in the Bay Area, George fell under the tutelage of area luminaries Khalil Shaheed, Charles McNeal, and Susan Muscarella, and combined his formal jazz training with his love of beat-making, inspired by the work of J Dilla and Flying Lotus.
7:30 PM · New Squatoolas · Bird & Beckett (Glen Park) · $20 · live_music, jazz · rating 8
birdbeckett.com · details Jim Peterson, saxophone; Scott Foster, guitar; Joe Kyle, Jr., bass; Larry Vann, drums
$20 cover charge; byob
Students $10
For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733
7:00 PM · Eric Wyatt: Thanksgiving Soul & Fire · Black Cat (Tenderloin) · Tickets: $20 , $30, $40 , $50 , $60 · live_music, jazz · rating 7
blackcatsf.turntabletickets.com · details Hard-swinging, deeply soulful saxophone jazz with Brooklyn grit, blues fire, and serious late-night energy.
Brooklyn-born saxophonist Eric Wyatt brings a powerful, full-bodied sound shaped by the jazz tradition and driven by a modern sense of urgency. His playing moves between muscular swing, blues-soaked lyricism, and fiery improvisation, with the kind of presence that takes over a room.
8:00 PM · ADAM KLIPPLE SOUL JAZZ QUINTET · Dawn Club (Financial District) · live_music, jazz · rating 7
dawnclub.com · details Adam Klipple, who has been described as "a standout pianist who has gone to school on McCoy Tyner and Cecil Taylor and earned his degree," plays piano, Hammond organ, sampler, and a variety of vintage keyboards. He currently is a member of the legendary jazz rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears.
9:30 PM · Charged Particles · Good Karma (San Jose) · Free · live_music, jazz, latin_world · rating 7 · unconfirmed vertexaisearch.cloud.google.com · details An evening of live funky Latin jazz performed by the Charged Particles trio at Good Karma Fine Ales Food & HiFi.
9:30 PM · Eric Wyatt: Thanksgiving Soul & Fire · Black Cat (Tenderloin) · Tickets: $20 , $30, $40 , $50 , $60 · live_music, jazz · rating 7
blackcatsf.turntabletickets.com · details Hard-swinging, deeply soulful saxophone jazz with Brooklyn grit, blues fire, and serious late-night energy.
Brooklyn-born saxophonist Eric Wyatt brings a powerful, full-bodied sound shaped by the jazz tradition and driven by a modern sense of urgency. His playing moves between muscular swing, blues-soaked lyricism, and fiery improvisation, with the kind of presence that takes over a room.
time TBA · A TRIBUTE TO DUKE ELLINGTON · Piedmont CFTA (Piedmont) · Tickets: https://www.ticketsignup.io/DukeE · live_music, jazz · rating 7
ticketsignup.io · details A TRIBUTE TO DUKE ELLINGTON
“IN THE TRADITION” JAZZ & POP PIANO TRIO
Tickets: https://www.ticketsignup.io/DukeE
6:30 PM · Kim Nalley · Biscuits & Blues (Union Square) · live_music, jazz · rating 5
biscuitsandblues.com · details Michael Tilson Thomas heard her at the Alta Plaza and put her onstage with the San Francisco Symphony. She ran Jazz at Pearl’s for five years. Two shows, 110 seats.