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Jazz mandolin with Tom Bekeny and the Missing Man Quartet
The Missing Man Quartet will be playing jazz at a relatively new downtown Berkeley restaurant for the first time this coming Sunday starting at 5pm (Gio's Pizza and Bocce, at 2420 Shattuck).
Long time East Bay residents may remember an old school Italian eatery called Giovanni's that had been at that site forever. Giovanni's is gone and has been replaced by Gio's which has a more open and modern layout that includes, oddly enough, a full sized indoor Bocce ball court. So, I'm reaching out to a very particular cohort of people--bocce ball playing fans of jazz and jazz mandolin...all three of you...(rimshot). "But seriously folks", I hope you can join me Tom Bekeny, (mandolin), Greg Reginato (guitar), Craig Griffeath (bass), and Bill Lanphier (drums) for a few sets of lively straight ahead jazz--everything from blues, ballads, bebop to latin. There is no cover.