Celebrated ten time Grammy winner and 2015 Hispanic Heritage Award Recipient Arturo Sandoval packed Yoshi's Oakland for a galvanizing weekend of Afro Cuban jazz music. His picante hot group consisted ...

The Jazzschool, Berkeley's innovative music school dedicated to the study and performance of jazz, has become the official education arm of Yoshi's, the Bay Area's foremost jazz presenting ...

Yoshi's has faced a bedeviling challenge since opening a second location in the Fillmore District in 2007. How can the venue maintain its reputation as a pioneering jazz club while drawing a ...

Why you want to know her: Yoshie Akiba, 73, believes that suffering helps people grow. The owner the iconic Oakland jazz club and restaurant, Yoshi’s, was young when her parents died and she grew up ...

Kazuo “Kaz” Kajimura, who turned a tiny East Bay Japanese restaurant into the most important jazz venue in Northern California, has died following a lengthy battle with dementia. He was 82. News of ...

When Yoshi's jazz club in Oakland released its much-anticipated 10-year anniversary CD last month, local jazz aficionados were outraged that no African American musicians were included. The tension ...

Musicians and concertgoers across the Bay Area and the world are mourning the death of Kazuo “Kaz” Kajimura, a co-founder of Yoshi’s jazz club and a relentless promoter of myriad genres of music for ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Yoshie Akiba, 80, claims in the ...