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MUSIC: The 27th Annual Jazz Festival presents living jazz legend Omara Portuondo. Portuondo, who is dubbed the “la novia del filin” (fiancée of feeling), will perform the romantic Afro-Cuban boleros and Brazilian-inspired jazz that first made her a star six decades ago, which are featured on her latest release, Gracias.

8 p.m. // Palace of Fine Arts Theatre (3301 Lyon St) // $35-80

LIT: Bay Area journalist Robert Julian revisits 17 essays, interviews, and feature stories he created for the San Francisco Sentinel over 20 years ago in his latest novel, But the Show Went On - San Francisco 1987-1988. But the Show Went On, a prequel to Julian's best-selling memoir, Postcards from Palm Springs, establishes how he came to be viewed as a 1980s gay male version of Sex and City’s Carrie Bradshaw - a decade before Candace Bushnell penned that successful novel.

7:30 p.m. // A Different Light Bookstore (489 Castro St) // free