From gbbombayjazz at gmail.com Thu Sep 3 12:50:50 2026 From: gbbombayjazz at gmail.com (George Brooks) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 12:50:50 -0700 Subject: [Gbrooks-promo] Tonight at the Freight!! Linda Tillery and the East Bay Allstars -- and then some! Message-ID: *So fortunate to work this month with some of the Bay Area's finest vocalists, songwriters and musicians.* *Please join us tonight at the Freight in Berkeley, * *to celebrate the 78th birthday of Bay Area icon Linda Tillery* *with:* - *Tammy Hall* - Piano, MD *Ray Obiedo* - Guitar *Kevin Goldberg *- Bass *Leon Joyce Jr.* - Drums *Javier Navarrette* - Percussion *Vicki Randle* - Vocals and Acoustic Guitar *Zoe Ellis* - Vocals *George Brooks* - Saxophone *Marina Garza* - Trumpet *Jeff Cressman* - Trombone *Doors at 7 show at 8 !! * *https://secure.thefreight.org/15964/15965-linda-tillery-and-east-bay-allstars-260903 * *Linda Tillery* is a Grammy-nominated vocalist, percussionist, producer, educator, and cultural historian whose career spans more than five decades. A founding member of Bobby McFerrin?s Voicestra, Tillery later expanded her artistic focus toward African diasporic vocal traditions, percussion, improvisation, and historical research. During the 1970s and 1980s, Tillery established herself as a distinctive solo artist and became an important presence in the Bay Area?s R&B, jazz, and Women?s Music communities. Her solo recording *Linda Tillery* received a Bay Area Music Award for Best Independently Produced Album, and she was twice honored as Outstanding Female Vocalist at the Bay Area Jazz Awards. - *Coming up at the Freight* *Thursday September 17th 8pm * ELECTRIC BLUES & CLASSIC GROOVES *https://secure.thefreight.org/16049/16050-electric-blues-260917 * *With:* *Vocalists* *Bryan Dyer* *Tony Lindsay* *Nona Brown* *and * *Frank Martin - Keys* *George Brooks - saxophone * *Kevin Goldberg - bass* *Terrence Brewer - guitar, * *Lorca Hart - drums * *Friday September 18th 4pm in **San Francisco * *with the extraordinary singer songwriter Liz Kennedy * *for Flower Piano **https://gggp.org/event/flower-piano-2026/ * *If you haven't been to this one of a kind event you owe it to yourself to make it happen!* -- George Brooks +1 (510) 847-0382 <(510)%20847-0382> *George Brooks Summit 25th Anniversary Edition* *now available on all platforms* https://ddas.lnk.to/summit -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: