CIFF West, live music in between movies. 2:40 to 3:10pm and 5:10 to 5:40pm.

Solo concert performing originals and covers on the Bossa Nova tradition with a touch of humor.

Cash donation $20, can be purchased here on the website.

My friend Josh is one of the best musicians that I have met in my life. We will be playing a blend of Bossa Nova with a deep touch of Jazz, as we have played many times in Cleveland and California in the last decade and I will be trilled to have him on stage again. Joshua Smith is a saxophonist/multi instrumentalist residing in the San Francisco Bay area. He has been performing for the past 20 years with a wide array of notable jazz and creative musicians, beginning in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.

Joshua has performed in the straight-ahead jazz realm for the past 20 years. His current sidemen are the best of the San Francisco Bay Area, and he has played countless concerts and private events in the straight-ahead arena. Growing up, Smith began gigging at a very early age with older jazzmen of his hometown, Cleveland, Ohio... He was a member of "Greg Bandy's Young Lions'" and studied under saxophone iconoclast Ernie Krivda. He has lead groups with a wide array of top jazz players in Cleveland and California.

In addition to a life of playing straight ahead jazz, Joshua has also consistently performed in the avant grade jazz realm, starting at the age of 16 as a member of an envelope-pushing avant garde jazz trio led by drummer Leland Scotty Davis.

Joshua has since made his mark in the arena of avant-garde jazz and forward thinking jazz through performing with players like Joe Maneri, Cuong Vu, (of The Pat Metheny Group), Chris Jonas, trumpet legend Nate Wooley, Trevor Dunn, Todd Sickafoose, Myra Melford, Ben Goldberg,Carmen Castaldi, and drummer Scott Amendola in addition to many other notable players...

Additionally, he's performed with funk drumming legend Clyde Stubblefield, toured as a member of The Youngblood Brass Band, and bluegrass legend Peter Rowan...

Also, Smith toured for several years both internationally and nationally with his well-loved trio, "birth" along with bassist Jeremy Bleich and drummer Joe Tomino, which performed for many years before Smith departed for the West coast in 2004. Since relocating to the Bay Area, Joshua has performed with stalwart new music composer, Dan Plonsey playing in his famed Daniel Popsicle Ensemble and other projects of Dan's...

He's been a member of The Scott Amendola Quartet for the last five years, having performed with guitar luminary Nels Cline, at John Zorn's NYC venue, The Stone.

In 2010 he acted as music director and contributing composer to the "Leave Me Alone" opera, an avant grade jazz opera written by Smith's good friend Harvey Pekar, at Oberlin College. He has released records on his own with various groups and as a sideman. He is featured alongside bass icon Bill Laswell on a recent recording and is featured on a release with Bay Area Jazz band, Brojazz on LA Sound Records.

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