When & where: 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Sound Room, Oakland.; $25; www.soundroom.org; 8 p.m. Saturday at SJZ Break Room, San José; $20; sanjosejazz.org; 6 and 7:45 p.m. Sunday at Mr. Tipple’s, San Francisco; $15-$25; mrtipplessf.com; and 8:30 p.m. Jan. 17 at Bird and Beckett Books & Records, San Francisco; $25; birdbeckett.com