Our annual holiday concert series, featuring jazz pianist Glen Pearson (Count Basie Orchestra), bassist Ruth Davies (Charles Brown), and drummer Lorca Hart (Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Jordan), offers four opportunities to enjoy the music that the holidays can’t live without:

THE MUSIC OF A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS! Originally broadcast in 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas is hands-down one of the most beloved specials in TV history. Commissioned by Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, Vince Guaraldi composed and performed the timeless contemporary jazz score, which wonderfully reflects both the spirit of the legendary Peanuts characters and the Christmas season.

Glen, Ruth, and Lorca have created a sensation with their superb interpretations of this beloved, uplifting music. Get your tickets today and make sure you and your family get the season off to a Charlie Brown start!

Now celebrating his 18th Annual Holiday show, this special concert is a "must see" for all fans of contemporty Jazz and Blues. With heart-warming holiday classics and carols getting the signature Nicolas Bearde high-energy makeover, and... with genre turns from jazz to soul to blues, be sure to catch the Holiday spirit audience favorites and new selections as Nicolas and his powerful ensemble light up the season.

Performance with Steve Turre

Vocalist, songwriter and recording artist, Nicolas Bearde, along with some of the SF bay area’s finest will grace Mr. Tipples stage once again. Bearde, who has been a bay area treasure since he moved here from Nashville, TN in the 1980’s, is known for his velvet voice, wit and engaging rapport and has a style likened to Lou Rawls, Nat King Cole and Bill Withers. He originally made his mark as an original member of Bobby McFerrin’s innovative a cappella ensemble, Voicestra and later its off-shoot, SoVoSó. He has released 6 albums as a leader and is also the vocalist and narrator for saxophone great Vincent Herring’s “Story of Jazz Orchestra” out of New York, that travels and chronicles 100 years of recorded jazz. He has performed and/or recorded with jazz legends such as Nat Adderley, Jr, Vincent Herring, James Carter, Steve Turre, Eric Alexander, Jon Faddis, the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, and the Savannah Jazz Orchestra, and… has headlined prestigious festivals and venues around the globe. With his supple phrasing and tender delivery, Bearde turns every song he sings into personal expressions of love, hope, and soul.

Tiffany Austin is a vocalist, composer, educator, and Berkeley Law Juris Doctor. She has performed with luminaries such as Pharoah Sanders, Roy Ayers, John Handy, Cyrus Chestnut, and Doug Carn.

Grammy Award winner with The Count Basie Orchestra and internationally renowned vocalist Jamie Davis will seduce you with his deep, velvety voice. This evening, he delivers a tribute to the smooth sounds of one of the best Baritone’s of our time, R&B vocalist Lou Rawls. He’ll be joined by Glen Pearson, (piano), Tod Dickow (saxophone), Ron Belcher (bass),

Our annual holiday concert series featuring jazz pianist Glen Pearson (Count Basie), bassist Ruth Davies (Charles Brown, Elvin Bishop), and drummer Lorca Hart (Freddie Hubbard, Calvin Keys, Stanley Jordan, Craig Handy) offers four opportunities to enjoy the music that the holidays can’t live without – the music of A Charlie Brown Christmas!

Originally broadcast in 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas is hands-down one of the most beloved specials in TV history. Commissioned by Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, Vince Guaraldi composed and performed the timeless contemporary jazz score which wonderfully reflects both the spirit of the legendary Peanuts characters and the Christmas season. Get the season off to a Charlie Brown start!

Our annual holiday concert series featuring jazz pianist Glen Pearson (Count Basie), bassist Ruth Davies (Charles Brown, Elvin Bishop), and drummer Lorca Hart (Freddie Hubbard, Calvin Keys, Stanley Jordan, Craig Handy) offers four opportunities to enjoy the music that the holidays can’t live without – the music of A Charlie Brown Christmas!

Originally broadcast in 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas is hands-down one of the most beloved specials in TV history. Commissioned by Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, Vince Guaraldi composed and performed the timeless contemporary jazz score which wonderfully reflects both the spirit of the legendary Peanuts characters and the Christmas season. Get the season off to a Charlie Brown start!

Our annual holiday concert series featuring jazz pianist Glen Pearson (Count Basie), bassist Ruth Davies (Charles Brown, Elvin Bishop), and drummer Lorca Hart (Freddie Hubbard, Calvin Keys, Stanley Jordan, Craig Handy) offers four opportunities to enjoy the music that the holidays can’t live without – the music of A Charlie Brown Christmas!

Originally broadcast in 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas is hands-down one of the most beloved specials in TV history. Commissioned by Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, Vince Guaraldi composed and performed the timeless contemporary jazz score which wonderfully reflects both the spirit of the legendary Peanuts characters and the Christmas season. Get the season off to a Charlie Brown start!

Our annual holiday concert series featuring jazz pianist Glen Pearson (Count Basie), bassist Ruth Davies (Charles Brown, Elvin Bishop), and drummer Lorca Hart (Freddie Hubbard, Calvin Keys, Stanley Jordan, Craig Handy) offers four opportunities to enjoy the music that the holidays can’t live without – the music of A Charlie Brown Christmas!

Originally broadcast in 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas is hands-down one of the most beloved specials in TV history. Commissioned by Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, Vince Guaraldi composed and performed the timeless contemporary jazz score which wonderfully reflects both the spirit of the legendary Peanuts characters and the Christmas season. Get the season off to a Charlie Brown start!

Dawan Muhammad is a grassroots community activist who has also maintained a career as a jazz artist for over fifty years. From 1969 through the late 1970s Muhammad resided in Santa Cruz as a student, artist in residence, and staff member at UCSC. He has been a supporter of Kuumbwa Jazz since its inception and has returned periodically over the years for special occasions and presentations. The Ole Dawgs New Tricks ensemble is a collaboration of like-minded composers and musicians dedicated to preserving traditions and expanding upon traditional ideas related to jazz. Although they perform many styles individually, those familiar with their original work, consider the group’s style to be exploratory extensions of the mid-sixties post-bop era of jazz. However, for those seeking to experience music without preconceived commercial labels, classifications, categories, etc., this group is simply comprised of composers and independent producers known for presenting creative and innovative music, which is spiritually inspired.

Dawan Muhammad – Saxophones/Flutes Graham Bruce – Trumpet/Flugelhorn Glen Pearson – Piano “Heshima” Mark Williams – Bass Jason Lewis – Drums Special Guest Multi-Instrumentalist – Paul Contos Special Guest Trombonist – Charles Hamilton

Performance w/Grammy Award Winning Vocalist Jamie Davis

Jamie Davis Quintet with Glen Pearson, piano; Richard Howell, saxophone; Chris Amberger, bass; Leon Joyce Jr., Drums

After studying under the renowned New York vocal coach Edward Boatner, he moved to San Francisco securing opportunities to perform with Milt Jackson, Eddie Henderson, Melba More and Pharoah Saunders. The year 2000 brought exhilarating performances with the Count Basie Orchestra. On that experience Davis reflects, “Having all that sound behind you is just amazing. You’ve got to ride that current.”

With a repertoire from Cole Porter to Stevie Wonder to the classical music of Bach, Schumann, Mahler and Rameau’s French compositions, confirms Davis possesses the flexibility and sexy sophistication by his effortless delivery to stand with any of the great vocalists. He has been described as a fine wine which has stood the test of time, constantly innovating jazz classics, ‘rolling out’ the blues and performing with one foot in the past and the other in ‘today.’