How did I not know there is a small jazz club in San Francisco, just off Market Street, with a menu consisting of dim sum and a cocktail called the Oxford Comma?
It’s called Mr. Tipple’s. I caught a set there Saturday evening: bassist Kevin Goldberg’s quintet doing the music of Herbie Hancock on the great one’s 85th birthday, closing with a fantastic “Watermelon Man,” off Hancock’s 1962 album Takin’ Off, his solo debut. Goldberg’s band included Will Comer, piano; Ashley Jemison, alto saxophone; Mario Silva, trumpet; and Miles Turk, drums.
