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Robert Kennedy

Born: February 27, 1966

Robert Kennedy is a Hammond organist, pianist, and accordionist born and raised in the American South who has lived and worked in the San Francisco bay area since 1988. He played piano in the Stanford University Jazz Band and studied jazz piano with the great jazz pianist, band director, and educator Bill Bell.

Robert was a founding member of Hip Pocket Jazz Quintet and Double Funk Crunch, performed as pianist with the SFJAZZ Monday Night Band, and held the accordion chair in Mission Hot Club. He has had the pleasure of playing venues such as Yoshi’s, the Broadway at Music Circus pit orchestra, the Boom Boom Room, Mr. Tipple’s, San Francisco International Arts Festival, Doc’s Lab, Keys Jazz Bistro, the Blue Note Napa, Sweetwater Music Hall, the Agenda Lounge (back in the day), and the SFJAZZ Miner Auditorium. He has shared stages and recorded with renowned players such as Nancy Wright, Calvin Keys, Howard Alden, Jules Broussard, Stella Heath, Howard Wiley, Will Weston, Terrence Brewer, Connie Champagne, Jinx Jones, Bing Nathan, and many more, playing jazz, blues, pop, R&B, country, western swing, and rock and roll.

Cocktails for the Brokenhearted

By No-Mads

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Para Elisa; Mannix; Hey There; Emily; It Could Happen to You; Fried Bananas; Cookin' at the Continental; Chickenwing; Wichita Lineman; In the Mood; Fungii Mama; Blues for Herb; In My Life

Closer To Home

By Robert Kennedy

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Wild Bill; Dat Dere; Robert’s Reflection; Come On, Come In; Do You Know a Good Thing (When You See One)?; Sista Rissy; Rakin’ and Scrapin’; Carrot Cake; Sandu; Alligator Strut.

Robert Kennedy: Closer To Home

by Geannine Reid
June 20, 2018

Robert Kennedy has an interesting story: by day he works for Google; by night he is an organist in the San Francisco jazz scene. Though it is not unusual for musicians to have two careers these days, as let's face it, musicians are still being paid rates from the '70s for playing music. Kennedy hails originally ...

Big Shoes

By Robert Kennedy

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015