Yoshi's

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Nels Cline 2006 at Yoshi's, Oakland
The Yoshi's in San Francisco

The Yoshi's is a bar and jazz club in Oakland (California) , which has existed since the 1970s. Together with the branch of the same name in neighboring San Francisco, which was opened in 2007, it is one of the outstanding venues for modern jazz in the Bay Area .

Yoshi's in Oakland

The Yoshi's went from a Japanese restaurant in Berkeley indicates that Yoshi Akiba, a war orphan of World War II, who had come to study in the US, had built with his friends Kaz Kajimura and Hiroyuki Hori. The club soon moved to larger premises on Claremont Avenue in Oakland and hosted performances by jazz musicians. After all, Yoshi’s was considered to be one of the most important jazz venues on the west coast .

In May 1997 the establishment moved near the Oakland Harbor. There the jazz club has 330 seats, the Japanese restaurant 220; the company is supported by the municipal Oakland Development Agency .

The Yoshi's in San Francisco

On November 28, 2007, a branch of the same name - including Roy Haynes - opened in neighboring San Francisco; it is located in the renewed Fillmore District . The second Yoshi’s is considered to be a showcase for the revitalization of a district that was dominated by a predominantly Afro-American population before it was demolished in the 1970s and was then a center of black culture and jazz, the historic Jazz Fillmore Jazz Preservation District . At the beginning of 2015, the successor club The Addition is threatened with closure due to bankruptcy.

Live at Yoshi's

Numerous recordings were made in both Oakland and San Francisco, including a. 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 , of the band Oregon 2005, Joe Pass 1992, Jenny Scheinman , Cedar Walton 1995, Jessica Williams 2003, Jacqui Naylor 2004, Sarah Manning 2008 and most recently Eric Vloeimans in 2009 .

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, Jazz Cultural Center and Jazz Art Gallery. In parallel, educational programs are running to share the cultural legacy of jazz in the city and region through artwork, photographs, and music samples, starting with early examples from Harlem in the West in the 1940s. The Jazz Heritage Center sees itself as a meeting place in the Fillmore District .

The Jazz Heritage Center contains

  • the Lush Life Art Gallery , specializing in jazz-related art;
  • the Koret Heritage Lobby , which houses changing exhibitions devoted to jazz history on the one hand and the cultural maintenance of the Fillmore district ;
  • the JHC Screening and Education Lab , a media center for holding rare jazz films, lectures, and workshops that are also linked to performances at neighboring Yoshi's .

Web links

Commons : Yoshi's (jazz clubs)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ San Francisco Chronicle 2007
  2. ^ Jesse Hamlin, Yoshi's gets ready for its San Francisco opening. San Francisco Chronicle September 19, 2007
  3. ^ Dan Ouellette, Club aims to return San Francisco to jazz glory . Reuters., November 23, 2007
  4. ^ Richard Scheinin, Yoshi's shines, sizzles on opening night in SF San Jose Mercury News, Nov. 30, 2007
  5. ↑ http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/01/12/the-addition-formerly-yoshis-in-san-francisco-to-abruptly-close/
  6. ↑ Source: Allmusic.

Coordinates: 37 ° 47 ′ 46 "  N , 122 ° 16 ′ 41.5"  W.