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Kenny Werner
Pianist, composer, educator and author Kenny Werner comes to Palo Alto for a solo jazz concert presented by local promoter Earthwise Productions. Among Werner’s many accomplishments is the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship Award he earned for “No Beginning No End,” an exploration of tragedy, loss and transition. He’s also the artistic director of Berklee College of Music’s Effortless Mastery Institute.
Aug. 1, 8 p.m., Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto; $23.18; tinyurl.com/WernerPAartcenter.
Randy Brecker
Grammy Award-winning trumpet player and composer Randy Brecker has had a six-decade career, including as a member of Blood, Sweat & Tears, playing on recordings by everyone from Frank Sinatra to Frank Zappa, Parliament/Funkadelic and Bruce Springsteen, and with his late brother, the saxophonist Michael Brecker, creating the jazz fusion duo The Brecker Brothers. At his performance at Meyhouse Palo Alto, he’ll play with saxophonist Tod Dickow and jazz trio Charged Particles, who’ve paid tribute to the music of Michael Brecker.
Aug.1, 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., Meyhouse Palo Alto, 640 Emerson St., Palo Alto; $80; meyhousejazz.com.
Vintage Computer Festival
It doesn’t take very long for new-fangled tech to become, well, old-fangled these days, but the Vintage Computer Festival celebrates technology that’s truly old enough to be museum pieces. The annual two-day festival presented by the Vintage Computer Federation offers a chance to learn about how these machines — and the pioneering people who created them — contributed to today’s tech with exhibits and hands-on demos of computers and other technology from the 1960s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and beyond. Visitors can also enjoy two days of speakers on a variety of topics, including a panel discussion with members of one of the groups that started it all: the Home Brew Computer Club, which once counted Apple founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs as members. There will also be food trucks on hand 6-7:30 p.m. on Aug. 1.
Aug. 1, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., and Aug. 2, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m., at the Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View; $16.50-$40 single-day admission/$33-$80 two-day admission/free admission for children 7 and under; computerhistory.org.
Eric Darnell
Local writer, director and Baobab Studios co-founder Eric Darnell comes to Linden Tree for the launch of “The Magic Paintbrush: The Guardian’s Quest,” the second in the epic “Magic Paintbrush” fantasy series, co-authored with Kat Zhang. Eleven-year-old Amy’s malfunctioning paintbrush paints a portal to a mythical world, filled with creatures from Chinese folktales, where she must undergo a trial to prove she is the magical tool’s worthy guardian. She has her faithful friends Diego and Luna at her side – as well as a mysterious cat, who may or may not be on her side.
Aug. 2, 11 a.m., Linden Tree Books, 265 State St., Los Altos; lindentreebooks.com.
‘Let’s Add Voices’
This summer, Music@Menlo is all about celebrating the power of ensembles, and for its Concert Program VI, the festival’s attention turns to the power of the human voice. “Singers, like instruments, vary in range and timbre, making them ideal chamber collaborators,” the concert description notes. The program for “Let’s Add Voices” includes Carl Maria von Weber’s selected “Scottish National Songs” for Baritone, Flute, Violin, Cello, and Piano; Johannes Brahms’ Two Songs for Mezzo-Soprano, Viola, and Piano, op. 91; Samuel Barber’s “Dover Beach” for Baritone and String Quartet, op. 3; Brett Dean’s String Quartet no. 2 for Soprano and Strings (“And Once I Played Ophelia”); and Leonard Bernstein’s Arias and Barcarolles for Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone, and Piano, Four Hands.
Aug. 3, 4 p.m., Spieker Center for the Arts, Menlo School, 50 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton; $25-$87; musicatmenlo.org.
