LIVE MUSIC EVERYDAY. There’s nothing quite like an evening filled with live music and well-balanced cocktails as you sip your martini and dine on mussels and lamb ossobuco. Ula Restaurant is the place where you can enjoy dining with live music. Musicians share their great love for Jazz, Funk, and Soul with our guests. Seating is limited so reservations recommended. A $15 ticket per person with dining will be added to all checks for Strengthening the Arts. Tickets purchased for an experience are non-refundable. We look forward to sharing good vibes!
WEST SIDE JAZZ CLUB. Fronted by Tenor Saxman Scott Silverberg, WestSide Jazz Club is what it says it is, a club. A bunch of like minded cats, all digging deep, all the time. WestSide Jazz Club, from the Westside of SF is full of local players, living here in town, keeping the jazz pot stirred. Always driving, always vibrant. You hear funk when you'd of thought swing. And never mind all the other infectious grooves, Latin, Second line, Funk, Soul, Swing and what not? Cool party band. Killer Chops. Great vocals and lots of dance tunes.
www.westsidejazzclub.com | Youtube
www.westsidejazzclub.com | Youtube
JOYCE GRANT. A lady we should hear sing. Joyce Grant singer/songwriter, determined at an early age that she was going to be a singer and spent her elementary and high school days performing in choir and musical theater. She is the great-great-niece of famed ragtime composer Scott Joplin and has written lyrics to four of his songs. She has participated in the West Coast Ragtime Festival for several years. City Swing started a new chapter in 2007 with jazz singer Joyce Grant. She is the lead vocalist for City Swing, an 18 piece big band. Grant has been singing jazz in Bay Area venues for over 20 years. A mezzo-soprano with a voice like dark honey, Grant has a performance resume which includes a wide range of venues including the Empire Plush Room and Zingari Ristorante in San Francisco, the Ledson Hotel in Sonoma, Sam's Chowder House & Cetrella in Half Moon Bay, the Sticky Rice in Fairfield, Carneros in Napa, Slates in Walnut Creek, Joe’s of Lafayette, and the Woodminster Amphitheater just to name a few. Born in Texarkana, the town where Scott Joplin was raised, Grant moved to Oakland as a child where she started singing with the North Oakland Baptist Church Youth Choir. Since that time she has earned the respect of singers and musicians alike performing professionally in San Francisco, the East Bay, Walnut Creek, Napa Valley and beyond. Her unique shows consist of a blend of jazz, blues, country western, Rhythm and Blues, and funk. Her vocal interpretations range from sensitive to powerful to cheeky over a broad spectrum of charts.
Dennis Dove Band. "There are not enough words to describe this extremely versatile and talented musician, Dennis' musical journey started at age ten when he began playing drums live on the radio and church with his brother Myron Dove (Santana) and guitarist friend Oliver Harris. In high school he further his talent in a variety of bands in 1978 he picked up his roots and relocated to San Jose. Their band the Tear Magnets experienced considerable success and a critically acclaimed CD he continues to entertain audiences with his invaluable musical and personal spirit his efforts to promote live music are noteworthy' he nurtures other musicians by hosting a pro-blues jam at JJ's Blues the past 25 years with a powerful rhythm & style and organized fundraisers for hurricane Sandy & hurricane Katrina with other disaster victims. He has played live on the radio for a blues marathon and spends most of his time recording in the studio with various musicians releasing one of the best CDs in Northern California."
Oliver Harris, Guitar/Vocals. He started playing at the age of 12 when Myron Dove showed him the chords to a song he had written he took it from there learning popular songs off the radio and from his older sister record collection. He started playing live on the radio and Church this encompassed everything from Blues to Motown, his diversification continued when Myron came home with a new genre called "jazz-rock' which introduced him to the sounds of Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Stanley Clarke soon followed by Larry Carlton and Robben Ford. His love of these forms of music continues to this day, he still plays in numerous cover bands keeping music alive.
Mike Pops Phillips. Bass/Vocals. Pops' has been playing music his whole life daycare was spent in a music store where his mother returned to work after his father was sent abroad in the military. After a twenty year career in the high tech computer industry, Mike entered the music world as a bass player and hasn't looked back. Mike has been on the bay area music scene for over 25 years and has been hired by the best in the business Rusty Zinn, Andy Santana, John Nemeth Chris "Kid" Andersen, Mighty Mike Schemer, RJ Mischo, Bob Welsh, Steve Freund and played in the Charlie Musselwhite Band. Mike continues to nurture other musicians by hosting a pro-blues jam at Murphy's Law every Monday night and recording live in the studio.
Oliver Harris, Guitar/Vocals. He started playing at the age of 12 when Myron Dove showed him the chords to a song he had written he took it from there learning popular songs off the radio and from his older sister record collection. He started playing live on the radio and Church this encompassed everything from Blues to Motown, his diversification continued when Myron came home with a new genre called "jazz-rock' which introduced him to the sounds of Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Stanley Clarke soon followed by Larry Carlton and Robben Ford. His love of these forms of music continues to this day, he still plays in numerous cover bands keeping music alive.
Mike Pops Phillips. Bass/Vocals. Pops' has been playing music his whole life daycare was spent in a music store where his mother returned to work after his father was sent abroad in the military. After a twenty year career in the high tech computer industry, Mike entered the music world as a bass player and hasn't looked back. Mike has been on the bay area music scene for over 25 years and has been hired by the best in the business Rusty Zinn, Andy Santana, John Nemeth Chris "Kid" Andersen, Mighty Mike Schemer, RJ Mischo, Bob Welsh, Steve Freund and played in the Charlie Musselwhite Band. Mike continues to nurture other musicians by hosting a pro-blues jam at Murphy's Law every Monday night and recording live in the studio.
