Yoshi's (jazz club)
Yoshi 's is a restaurant and jazz club in Oakland ( California), which has existed since the 1970s. Together with the branch was created in 2007 with the same name in neighboring San Francisco is one of the outstanding venues of modern jazz in the Bay Area.
The Yoshi's in Oakland
The Yoshi's went from a Japanese restaurant out in Berkeley, which had built with his friends Kaz Kajimura and Hiroyuki Hori Yoshi Akiba, a war orphan of the Second World War, who had come to the U.S. to study. The club then moved to larger premises soon in the Claremont Avenue in Oakland and hosted performances by jazz musicians. Finally, Yoshi's was considered one of the most important jazz venues on the west coast.
In May 1997 the establishment moved to the vicinity of the Oakland port. There, the Jazz Club has 330 seats, the Japanese restaurant, 220; The company is supported by the local Oakland Development Agency.
The Yoshi's in San Francisco
On 28 November 2007 opened a branch of the same name - eg with Roy Haynes - in neighboring San Francisco; it is located in the renovated district Fillmore District. The second Yoshi's is regarded as flagship company of a revival of a neighborhood, which was marked prior to demolition in the 1970s by a majority African-American population, and then a center of black culture and jazz was the historic Fillmore Jazz Preservation Jazz Distcrict.
Live at Yoshi's
Both Oakland and San Francisco produced numerous recordings by, inter alia by Anthony Braxton 1997, Dee Dee Bridgewater 2000, Jing Chi, 2003, George Coleman, 1987, Marilyn Crispell 1995, Phillip Greenlief 1998, John Handy 1996, Allan Holdsworth / Alan Pasqua 2005, Pat Martino, 2001, Marian McPartland 1995, Mulgrew Miller 2004/ 05, the band Oregon, 2005, 1992, Joe Pass, Jenny Scheinman, Cedar Walton 1995, Jessica Williams 2003, Jacqui Naylor, 2004, Sarah Manning, 2008 and most recently in 2009 Eric Vloeimans.
The Jazz Heritage Center
The Yoshi's in San Francisco is located in a complex of the Jazz Heritage Center, a non-profit organization, which is a mixture of jazz museum, cultural center and jazz jazz art gallery. In parallel, run educational programs to pass on the cultural heritage of jazz in the city and region through art, photographs and music examples, beginning with early examples of Harlem in the West in the 1940s. The Jazz Heritage Center sees itself as a place of meeting at the Fillmore dictrict.
Includes The Jazz Heritage Center
- The Lush Life - Art Gallery, specializing in jazz -related art;
- The Koret Heritage Lobby, which accommodates changing exhibitions dedicated to the history of jazz on the one hand and the cultural care of the Fillmore district;
- The JHC Screening and Education Lab, a media center to hold rare jazz films, lectures, and workshops that are also available in conjunction with performances in neighboring Yoshi's.