Alan Hall’s Ratatet performs live on The Hear and Now, 10 p.m., Thursday, August 23.

Tune in for a live in-studio concert by Ratatet, led by jazz drummer Alan Hall. The Bay Area sextet released its second CD, Heroes, Saints and Clowns, this past June, and will be performing this Sunday in the California Jazz Conservatory’s Hardymon Hall @ The Jazz School. Hall built Ratatet out of the Electreo trio with bassist Jeff Denson and bassoon player/saxophonist Paul Hanson, adding trombonist John Gove, pianist/keyboardist Greg Sankovich, and vibraphonist and percussionist Dillon Vado. Join host Derk Richardson for an hour of surprising, original jazz, engineered by Tony Ferro.