Not every horn player likes to toot his or her own horn. Take Noel Jewkes, the veteran saxophonist who’s been an indispensable presence on the Bay Area music scene for half a century. Self-effacing ...

Jazz in the Neighborhood is proud to present the Noel Jewkes Quartet at the Emerald Tablet in North Beach. Noel Jewkes Quartet featuring Noel Jewkes, reeds; Eddie Mendenhall, piano; Adam Gay, bass; ...

A night with Noel Jewkes is a night of pure, straight-ahead jazz beauty. As prominent Bay Area jazz critic Andrew Gilbert put it, “Jewkes is a compelling, cool-toned tenor player . . . best known as a ...

Noel Jewkes and Kay Kostopoulos are back on stage together with a program on behalf of the Vallejo Jazz Society on Sunday, June 9 at the Empress Theatre, (Courtesy photo) If Kay Kostopoulos wasn’t ...

As he was lying on the floor of his rehearsal studio unable to move his legs, saxophonist Noel Jewkes realized that his chronically bad back had suddenly put his career on hiatus. A brilliant but ...

Noel Jewkes is one of the premier saxophone players in Northern California. He has worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 35 years, and has earned a distinguished reputation with lovers of Jazz ...