Dinner & Christian Scott at Oakland Yoshis - 6:30pm

I was blown away in Monterey by trumpeter rising star Christian Scott, and I'm thrilled to be seeing him live once again. He weaves a beautiful, artistic tapestry with different sounds, borrowing from music of all genres. He's a visionary that has been likened to Miles Davis, and I concur. Tough to find any videos that do him justice, but he has some good tracks on his myspace page . Let's get some dinner and/or appetizers so that we can reserve a table or two without any surcharge. I'll be at the bar by 6:30pm and have dinner reservations set for 7pm. Send me $19 via personal check (email me for my address) or Paypal (farrellhehn@yahoo.com) and I'll buy the tickets two weeks prior to the show, on Nov. 18th. I'll be at the bar by 6:30pm and the show starts at 8pm. My cell phone is 916.607.7677. From the Yoshi's site: One of the brightest jazz stars to emerge in the last few years is trumpeter Christian Scott. He makes his Concord Jazz debut with Rewind That, arguably the most remarkable premiere the genre has seen in the last decade. Instead of retreading bebop the way so-called young lions did in the early 1990s, Scott delivers a smart, grooved and plugged-in set of tunes (nine of the 11 tracks are originals) with his electric sextet. Steeped in the jazz tradition and intent on participating in the music's evolution, the New York-based Berklee College of Music grad is indeed a significant new voice poised to make an impact on the future of jazz. Scott is a natural. Only 22, the trumpeter has both the tone and the conviction of the great players of his instrument. He eschews cliche and gimmickry in favor of an expressive sensibility and a willingness to break rules when it makes musical sense to him. A New Orleans native, Scott represents the next generation of Crescent City horn blowers whose lineage started with the legendary King Oliver and Louis Armstrong and has continued with such marquee trumpeters as Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard and Nicholas Payton.