Clear your schedule this evening (and if you can for the entirety of the San Francisco Jazz Festival, though that might be overdoing it) because you are now going to a jazz block party. Okay? Okay.

Sorry, don't mean to be bossy, but this sounds like fun, and reportedly last year's inaugural jazz block party was great. The festivities are at Proxy, the Hayes Valley parking lot turned (turnt?) events space, and they are free to all from 5 to 10 p.m. Performing are the brazen Mission Brass Band and the gypsy rockers of Beso Negro.

You might consider bringing your wallet: Hoodline highlights that Del Popolo's pizza truck and more food options will be on site, and that neighboring spots Biergarten and Fig and Thistle will be donating their proceeds from the evening to the ongoing outdoor movie nights at Proxy.

The 34th annual San Francisco Jazz Festival runs from today through the 19th and features performances at Davies Symphony Hall and at the SFJAZZ center. Acts from near (the California Honeydrops, Zoë Keating) and farther (Roy Ayers. Roy fucking Ayers) will be in town, so this is your heads up.

Proxy, 432 Octavia Boulevard, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.

via Proxy