It’s Prince’s birthday today! He’s amazing! Yeah that whole Jehovah’s Witness thing is kinda weird, but it didn’t stop him from making lewd gestures at his Super Bowl performance like this:

To celebrate, the fabulous Jazz Mafia Allstars (you know,that group of guys that jammed with Stevie Wonder in the Mission that one time) are putting on an all Prince tribute night at the new Brick and Mortar club on Duboce and Mission. Doors are at 8, show at 9.  Cover is $10.

The Jazz Mafia All-Stars featuring Joe Bagale, Joe Cohen, Matt Berkeley, Adam Theis and Jon Monahan will take you through the Prince catalog in celebration of his Birthday month!  Guests to include Crystal Monee Hall, Uriah Duffy, Chris Mcgee, Soulati and Infinite (Felonious MCs), Ryan Greene, DJ Teeko, Sonya D and Many more!

Do you want to go? Post a comment telling us why you deserve these two complimentary tickets and we’ll pick the best answer by 6pm tonight. Be sure to post using your real email address, ok?

A new music venue called Brick and Mortar is opening up tonight with the local Ray Charles tribute band: Rayband. They start at 9:30pm. Here’s the event page. The venue is at Mission and Duboce which puts it right by Discount Builders Supply, a great place to go if you need lots of pipe.

Looks like they are going for a funk and soul vibe, and have a pretty ambitious lineup for the coming months, including Zigaboo Modeliste of the Meters, Breakestra, and Daptone records presents Charles Bradley.

[photo by insouciance]

Update: The venue occupies the old Coda space, according to SFWeekly.