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Headin' back to Coda

Oh yeah, it’s good to be back!

We’ll be at Coda on Friday, January 29, 10pm ($10).

Apparently there are still a handful of people that haven’t checked Coda out yet!! It’s a beautiful room, amazing food & drinks, great sound…c’mon, get off the back of your laps and head over there. We haven’t met a musician yet that doesn’t completely love playing there. And when it comes to clubs musicians are the harshest critics… or the biggest babies, however you wanna look at it.

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Coda: 1710 Mission Street SF, CA 94103 415-551-CODA (2632)

The Music of Sun Ra for SF Jazz Hotplate

Date, time & place: January 14th, 9pm. Amnesia bar, $5. SF Jazz Hotplate

The SF Jazz organization has been putting on a jazz-legends tribute once a month at Amnesia. So far they’ve paid tribute to Ray Charles, Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. We have the special pleasure of bringing Sun Ra’s music to their plate…of hotness.

Those who are familiar with our music know that we enjoy a good dabble in the world of Sun Ra; however, on this night we’ll be doing ONLY the music of Sun Ra. Mike has spent tireless hours transcribing a variety of his favorite Arkestra gems for the show…trans-galactic travel will be an inevitability.

We also recommend arriving early to catch a screening of “Space Is The Place” preview below:

Clips from baytaper.com

We were fortunate enough to have the great Baytaper visit us at Yoshi’s. Most Bay Area music lovers already know whats going on with the Baytaper; but if you don’t, you can do yourself a favor by visiting his website: www.baytaper.com.

Here’s a video clip he took at Yoshi’s from “Basin St. Blues”; Olmos’ solo shook the ground that night:

There are a few audio clips from the show, also captured by Baytaper, on our “Media” page here: 8LM Media.

The Baytaper has recorded live shows for a ton of great Bay Area bands; rock, jazz, hip-hop and just about every style you can imagine…. basically, he’s awesome, end post.

“Vol. 2″ available on iTunes

We’d like to thank all those who made our CD release party at Yoshi’s SF so memorable; pictures and audio of the show should be available on baytaper.com soon. The following link will take you to the iTunes store if you’re interested in checking out the record or some of the tunes on it: 8LM iTunes Store. Below, you can view the cover and liner notes:

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New Works In BeBop From Mike Irwin Johnson

Vol. 2

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We also have a show coming up at SF’s new Jazz Supper Club, “Coda” (website here:www.codalive.com), on Friday October 9th at 10pm. Please come by, and musicians, feel free to bring your instruments and sit in with us.

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KCSM Interview & upcoming Yoshi's release party

If you missed the KCSM interview Wednesday with Chris Cortez you can hear it below. We discuss our latest album from Fantasy Studios entitled “Vol.2″ and our upcoming CD release party at Yoshi’s SF on Wednesday, Sept. 2nd.

The interview had to be broken up into sections in order to post it; but if you’d like the full interview please email us at booking@8leggedmonster.com

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