If you need a little help getting warmed up for this weekend's Monterey Jazz Festival, Bay Area clubs are ready to help with these hot live jazz shows:
- Septeto Nacional , Cuba's most revered practitioners of the son style of Latin jazz, check in to Yoshi's San Francisco for four night's of hip-shaking pleasure, helmed by dynamite trumpeter Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros. Shows are at 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday and 8 and 10 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. $18-$26.
- Harmonica ace Phil Berkowitz salutes icon and inspiration Louis Jordan in an 8 p.m. Wednesday show at Freight &Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley. $17.50 and $18.50.
- Janis Siegel, one of the founding members of vocal jazz powerhouse Manhattan Transfer, sings backed by a nimble piano trio at 8 p.m. Monday at Yoshi's Oakland. $18.
- Dave Mihaly's Shimmering Leaves Ensemble and Mercury Falls make creative, butt-wiggling jazz starting at 10 p.m. Thursday at the Make Out Room in San Francisco. $10.
- Saxophonist Rudresh Manhanthappa, a trailblazing force in fusing traditional Indian sounds with jazz elements, brings his Indo-Pak Coallition to Yoshi's Oakland for an 8 p.m. Wednesday show. $20.
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