Featuring the Jason Myers Trio, with piano, guitar and bass, Sun-Thur. starting at 6PM. Request a table near the band. Otherwise, you may end up on the side of the dining room where you can't hear them very well.

Andy Narell

Steel pan virtuoso Andy Narell has spent the last quarter century fusing the subtleties and complexities of the steel pan to an astounding range of jazz and World Music sensibilities. This month, Narell comes to Jazz at Pearl's in San Francisco's North Beach with Sakésho, a band deeply immersed in the enchanting music of the French Caribbean. Narell's Sakésho bandmates are pianist Mario Canonge, bassist Michel Alibo and drummer Jean Philippe Fanfant.

Sakésho draws inspiration from the biguine - the syncopated, polyrhythmic music from the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe, with jazz, calypso, Afro-Cuban and more strengthening the gumbo. In French Creole, sakésho means, "It's gonna be hot."

Andy Narell is a constantly-growing musician with an explorer's eye for experimentaion and collaboration, Narell, within the past few years, has recorded and performed music influenced by music of France, South Africa and the French Caribbean. Put simply, Narell makes fascinating, always surprising music on a unique, lyrical, expressive instrument.