Some jazz out there for you in the clubs and other venues in and around Rochester while we begin the inexorable move out of summer and into....wait for it...Fall (you thought I was going to write "winter" didn't you...admit it).  Here are the live jazz listings for the next seven days, plus a new feature—the "Listings Wordle"!

Thursday, August 28th

• Matt Valerio @ The Grill at Strathallan, 6:30 pm
• Jazz Dawgs @ Bistro 135, 7:00 pm
• Gap Mangione New Blues Band @ Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 7:30 pm

Friday, August 29th

• Margaret Explosion @ Bop Shop's 14 Fridays, Village Gate, 6:00 pm
• Deborah Sorensen Trio @ PaRe Bar and Grill, 6:00 pm
• Bobby DiBaudo Trio @ Bistro 135, 7:00 pm
• Shared Genes @ Café Vas, 546 Merchants Rd, Rochester, 7:30 pm
• Bill Dobbins Trio @ The Grill at Strathallan, 8:30 pm
• Dave Spinner (Solo Piano) @ The Rabbit Room (Honeoye Falls), no time given

Saturday, August 30th

• Shared Genes @ Triphammer Grill, 5:30 pm
• The Westview Project @ Bodhi's Café & Lounge, 7:00 pm
• Deborah Sorensen (solo) @ PaRe Bar and Grill, 7:00 pm
• Kind of Blue @ Bistro 135, 7:00 pm
• Bob Dibaudo Trio @ Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 7:30 pm
• Paul Hofmann Duo @ The Grill at Strathallan, 8:30 pm
• East End Boys @ Havana Moe's (East Ave.), 9:30 pm
• All Funk'd Up! Featuring Dubblestuff, The Legend and The Po'Boys Brass Band @ Water Street Music Hall, 10:00 pm (doors 9:00 pm, $8 Advance, $10 door)
• Noel Colon and Orchestra @ Tapas 177 Lounge, 11:00 pm
• Brad Batz Group @ Pomodoro's, no time given

Sunday, August 31st

• Bill Slater @ The Lodge at Woodcliff, 11:30 am

Monday, September 1st (Labor Day)

• Jazz Dawgs @ Little Theatre Café, 7:30 pm
• Big Apple Mondays Swing Dance Class and Live Jazz with Quinn Lawrence Trio @ Flat Iron Café, 8:30 pm

Tuesday, September 2nd

• No jazz for you!
• Jim Nugent Trio @ Bistro 135, 7:00 pm

Wednesday, September 3rd

• Rochester Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra @ Hobart and William Smith College (Scandling Center), Geneva, 6:30 pm
• Madeline Forster w/ Chris Ziemba @ Bistro 135, 7:00 pm
• The Gateswingers @ Roger Robach Community Center. 7:15 pm
• Margaret Explosion @ Little Theatre Café, 7:30 pm
• Instant Composers Pool (ICP Orchestra) @ Bop Shop Atrium, Village Gate, 8:00 pm

We've compiled these listings from information obtained from the performing artists themselves and from other sources. Please forgive me for any discrepancies with reality; feel free to let me know what the problem is, and I'll get the corrections up on the site as soon as possible. Any list items that contain an Added image or struck-through text reflect corrections implemented after initial publication of this post. Email subscribers should check the listings post online for updates or revisions before making decisions based on the information in this post. For additional information regarding a particular performance (where I haven't previewed it in a separate post in advance) you may want to check the artist or venue links in the right panel of this weblog. If you go out to hear a performance listed here, feel free to drop a comment to this post about how it went. I want to hear from you!