San Francisco State University presents a special performance by the acclaimed Natural Gas Jazz Band at noon on Sunday, August 29 at the Stonestown Family YMCA near the university's campus. The performance is presented as part of the university's first annual John Handy Jazz Festival.
Admission is free.
The San Francisco-based Natural Gas Jazz Band has been delighting audiences since 1970. This surprising longevity of 29 years is the result of a singularly stable band lineup, a musical book of broad appeal, and gifted musicians who enjoy creating jazz together. Their repertoire is rich with the music of Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller, Lu Watters, Turk Murphy, and a variety of others. The listener can expect to hear stomps, blues, rags, marches, spirituals and dances of all moods and tempos. The 1999 John Handy Jazz Festival is presented in memory of D. Phillip McGee .