Jeff Kashiwa w/ Parker Jazz Club House Band (9:30, 7:00)

Cleverly manufacturing his own luck, saxophonist Jeff Kashiwa gained a spot in smooth jazz kings the Rippingtons by hiring their bassist Steve Bailey for one of his own projects, thus being in the right place at the right time when their original saxist left. Though the multi-woodwinder has continued to perform and record with the Ripps since leaving the band at the end of the Nineties, he’s also persisted in a 30-year solo career that’s now 11 albums deep. He hits Parker on the heels of the release of Luminoso, an album influenced by Brazilian bossa nova and tropical rhythms. – Michael Toland