Do your best to make it out to the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco to check out the Bay Area’s premiere Hammond B3 organ player Wil Blades. By combining a vintage soulful feel and prodigious technique, Blades has become a staple of the SF jazz scene, performing with jazz legends like, Charlie Hunter, Billy Martin and Dr. Lonnie Smith. This Saturday, he’ll be playing with his new trio comprised of guitarist Jeff Parker from the post-rock band Tortoise and New Orleans drummer, Simon Lott.
For a night of feel good grooved out music at John Lee Hooker’s storied Boom Boom Room, we recommend you hang out and soak in the warm cosmic vibrations of the B3 organ of at one of the best night clubs in the city. –Ethan Varian