Les Claypool performs with Bastard Jazz at JaM Cellars Ballroom in Napa on Dec. 30, 2022. NAPA — Singer-songwriter, bassist, producer and Bay Area native Les Claypool and his quartet Bastard Jazz prepared to ring in the New Year Friday night with the first of two shows at JaM Cellars Ballroom. Les…

The Nels Cline Singers, “Share The Wealth.” Guitar shredders are a dime a dozen. A quick perusal of Instagram reveals a seemingly endless string of bedroom guitarists who can unleash a firehose spray of pentatonic scales that sound like angry hornets. But a guitarist who lends his fretboard talents…