FISH FRY!
Jazzheimers performs every last Friday of the month at the Western Addition Senior Services Center at their neighborhood fish fry at 1390 Turk Street off Fillmore which attracts patients in neighborhood assisted living homes, neighborhood residents, people living with Alzheimer's and other disablities.
The current Jazzheimers group here is Marlina Teich, guitar and vocals; Jules Broussard, saxophone; Art Khu, piano and bass and drums.
PLACES WE PLAY
Most of the places Jazzheimers performs at are in and around the Western Addition or FIllmore District of San Francisco. It is the area that has been historically at-risk. At the same time, it is an area that is known for its exciting Jazz legacy of the 1950s when the likes of Billie Holliday, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, could be seen at a club or even walking down Fillmore Street. Guitar extraordinare Junius Simmons, formerly with Earl Fatha Hines, Pharoah Saunders, Dexter Gordon and the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, is a product of that era and performs regulary with the Jazzheimers Orchestra. Other performers include residents of the area as well, such as former Chuck Mangione bassist Ed Williams, drummer, Eddie Marshall, bassist Saunders, son of the late Merle Saunders and others..
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VENUES WE HAVE PLAYED:
Western Addition Senior Services Center
Hayes Valley Care
Laguna Grove Convalescent
Coventry Park
SF Community Convalescent Hospital (no longer open)
California Pacific Medical Center
Irene Swindell's Alzheimer's Daycare
Catholic Charities Adult Day
Menorah Park
Every month, in addition to the fish fry, we play the third week at the Irene Swindell's Alzheimer's Residential Treatment Center. This is at 3698 California St. in San Francisco. Also, on every fourth Tuesday we play at the Coventry Park at 1550 Sutter. We play one Tuesday a month at the AgeSong Alzheimer's ward on the third floor on Laguna and Hayes.
