Dominic Walker Trio (album release) Thursday, Aug. 28. 7:30 p.m. $25 & up. Side Door Cabaret at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg Credit: Photo c/o Stephen Splane

One of the best jazz gigs in the Bay area happens every Friday night in the jam-packed backyard of a Davis Island coffee shop. The maestro every week is guitarist Dominic Walker, but he’ll bring some of his favorite players—drummer Paul Gavin and pianist John C. O’Leary III—into the basement of the Palladium Theater to release a brand new album.

Recorded at Morrisound, Hurricane Summer corrals the warm and soulful tone of Walker’s Gibson L4-CES, into a collection of jazz, rock and blues covers and originals that’ll come to life in a special way thanks to the addition of saxophonist Jack Wilkins and vocalist Allison Nash.

Tickets to see Dominic Walker play the Side Door Cabaret at St. Petersburg’s Palladium Theater on Thursday, Aug. 28 are still available and start at $25.

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This article appears in Aug 21-27, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...