Yoshi's (jazz club)

Yoshi's (jazz club)

Yoshi's is the preeminent jazz club of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Started as a Japanese restaurant in Berkeley by Yoshi Akiba, a World War II war orphan, (who came to the United States to study dance, art, and dance therapy), and her friends Kaz Kajimura and Hiroyuki Hori, the club soon moved to a larger space on Claremont Avenue in Oakland, California and began to feature live jazz music. It eventually gained a reputation as one of the most significant jazz venues on the West Coast.

In May 1997 the club moved to Jack London Square during the revitalization of the Port of Oakland, as a 330-seat, 17,000 square foot jazz concert hall with an attached 220 seat Japanese restaurant, assisted by funding from the Oakland Development Agency. [cite news
first=David
last=Rubien
title= The Spot for Jazz
url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/13/PKGHVPL6GF32.DTL
work=San Francisco Chronicle
publisher=
date=2007-05-13
accessdate=2008-01-24
] On November 28, 2007, it opened a second 28,000 square foot location in San Francisco's Fillmore District, as a flagship of the city's attempt to restore the formerly African-American neighborhood (which was uprooted in the 1970s by urban renewal) as a center of black culture and jazz. [cite news
first=Jesse
last=Hamlin
title=Yoshi's gets ready for its San Francisco opening
url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/09/19/DD4RRT9KO.DTL
work=San Francisco Chronicle
publisher=
date=2007-09-19
accessdate=2008-01-24
] [cite news
first=Dan
last=Ouellette
title=Club aims to return San Francisco to jazz glory
url=http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSN2333387620071124?sp=true
work=
publisher=Reuters
date=2007-11-23
accessdate=2008-01-24
]
Roy Haynes was the featured performer on the opening night of the new San Francisco location. [cite news
first=Richard
last=Scheinin
title=Yoshi's shines, sizzles on opening night in S.F.
url=http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainmentheadlines/ci_7598175
work=San Jose Mercury News
publisher= |date=2007-11-30
accessdate=2008-01-24
]

References

ee also

*List of jazz clubs

External links

* [http://www.yoshis.com yoshi's.com] - home page


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