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Check out The Chronicle's guide to concerts, events and activities around the Bay Area happening over Presidents' Day weekend.

Matthew Shipp, Allen Lowe, Gerald Cleaver, and Kevin Ray are East Axis, a free improvising jazz band that never sound harsh or lost on 'Cool with That'.

Soul Food is a stepping stone for Christopher Parker in finding his voice as a bandleader. It's impressive that jazz this free can be played with so much restraint.

Multi-instrumentalist and composer William Parker Few musicians on the planet can convey a sense of physicality more effectively than William Parker — the multi-instrumentalist and composer best recognized as a titan on upright bass, especially in the flowing continuum of experimental jazz. So it comes as welcome news that the Vision Festival, over which he always presides as a benevolent guide, will return in person this summer, beginning July 22 at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. (He will it kick off himself, in an "Opening Healing Ceremony" that also includes his wife, Arts For Art founder /...

James Brandon Lewis, a Saxophonist Who Embodies and Transcends Tradition His new album, “Jesup Wagon,” is a tribute to another polymathic figure who insisted on cutting his own path: George Washington Carver. James Brandon Lewis read biographies of the scientist and inventor George Washington Carver before composing the seven tracks and two poems that appear on his new album, “Jesup Wagon.”Credit...Chase Hall for The New York Times May 5, 2021 When James Brandon Lewis plays the saxophone, he usually plants his feet shoulder width apart and bends a bit at the knee, swaying and tunnelin...