San Francisco
Elvin Jones
Joe Henderson Quartet
Big Mama Thornton
Denny Zeitlin Trio
Jefferson Airplane
The Great Society
Wildflower
Grateful Dead
Both/And Benefit
On Sunday, September 11, 1966, Bill Graham threw open the Fillmore Auditorium for the Both/And Benefit (AOR-2.74) — a fundraiser for the Both/And, the jazz club on Divisadero, and a rare night where Graham let jazz and rock share one long bill (event and catalog per coau, corroborated on deadnet and jerrybase). It ran as a single continuous show, roughly 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., and the lineup leaned hard into the jazz…
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BG-191 — Fillmore West
Opening night. On Thursday, September 11, 1969, Bill Graham opened a four-night run at Fillmore West behind Randy Tuten's BG-191: the Steve Miller Band headlining, with the James Cotton Blues Band and Keef Hartley underneath, and Little Princess #109 on lights (bill, dates and poster credit per wolf…
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