Hawai'i's saxophone-playing, Na Hoku Hanohano Lifetime Achievement Award-winning Gabe Baltazar and Cincinnati's April Aloisio, a soulful vocalist and jazz stylist who incorporates the music of Brazil, team up to head "Jazz & Gumbo," an all-star Memorial Day weekend gig 8 to 10 tonight, 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday and 4 to 6 p.m. Monday at the Banana Patch Lounge of the Miramar Beach Hotel. Tickets are $25. Reservations: 486-9759, 294-9131, or jamesharber2001@yahoo.com.

— Wayne Harada

CYCLONE RELIEF

E&O DONATES SUNDAY PROCEEDS

One of the few restaurants in Honolulu that serves Burmese-style dishes is reaching out to the people of Myanmar (formerly Burma) affected by Cyclone Nargis: E&O Trading Co. and owner Kenwei Chong will donate 30 percent of Sunday's brunch or lunch proceeds to the Myanmar Association of Hawai'i. Consider that $2 will feed a family for a day, and $50 will provide plastic sheeting sufficient for 15 shelters. And you get to eat Burmese ginger salad! Reservations: 591-9555. Pacific Gateway Center is also collecting donations: 851-7010.

— Advertiser Staff

FINAL WORD

"I'm lightning fast on 'Guitar Hero.' I think it comes from the piano playing."

Josh Groban | in Entertainment Weekly