Join us for casual daytime talks and listening sessions with leading lights of the Bay Area jazz community. Bring your own lunch or order ahead from the JazzCaffè. Wednesdays at lunchtime! Free, drop-ins welcome.

Javier Navarrette is an Oakland-based percussionist, arranger, composer, educator and music producer, contributing to the vibrant Afro-Caribbean music community in the Bay Area for more than 40 years. Navarrette’s highly-acclaimed productions include the Brooklyn Basin Modúpue series, and the Annex Sessions in El Cerrito, as well as projects such as Javier Navarrette’s Socially Distant Friends and the Charangüi Project.

Navarrette developed Oakland’s Living Jazz children’s program and has taught with Sheila E at the Oakland High Jazz Festival, the Oakland Youth Program (OYC), and the Cuba Caribe Moving Juntos program. He has also performed with greats such as Aretha Franklin, Los Van Van, and Pedrito Martinez, recorded on three Grammy-nominated albums with Oakland-based John Santos and the Machete Ensemble/Folklorico Kindembo, and is a member of the Bobi Céspedes Band and Folkloric Group.

To order lunch from the JazzCaffè, call 510-654-0148 to place your order before 10:30am the day of the program. Scan this QR code for the menu or visit actcatering.com/jazzcaffe.