"Jazz in the Garden": The Deshannon Higa Quartet performs 6 p.m. Friday at the Honolulu Academy of Arts before that day's jazz film begins. Admission $15 (includes film "Let's Get Lost"). Call 532-8700. Azure McCall, Tennyson Stevens and friends perform Feb. 28, before "Straight No Chaser."
"Sock It To Me '60s": Karaoke contest with KRATER 96 radio, 7 p.m. Friday and Feb. 21, Windward Mall. To register, call 296-9696.
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown on tour: Brown and his band play blues, Cajun, zydeco and Texas swing, 8:30 p.m. Friday, Hawaiian Hut. Tickets $20 and $25. Call 239-8112.
On the Big Island, they play the Pahoa Lounge 9 p.m. Saturday and the Kona Surf Resort's Poi Pounder Room 8 p.m. Sunday. Tickets $18 advance and $20 general for Pahoa show; $20 for Kona show. Call 965-0065 for the Lounge or 322-3411 for the Poi Pounder Room. Big Island information line is 885-5002.
Piano classes: Robert Laughlin demonstrates the chord approach to playing, as opposed to reading music notation, Saturday and Sunday. His three workshops are Chord Approach to Piano, Blues Piano Styles and Piano by Ear. Tuition $79 includes materials; or sign up for all three for $217. Call the University of Hawaii-Manoa at 956-8244.
Chamber music concert: "Fireworks for Brass," with the Honolulu Brass, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Academy Theater. Program includes music by Handel, Rimsky-Korsakov and Lovelock. Tickets $15 general, $13 seniors, $10 students. Call 947-1975.
Performance series: Borders, Ward Centre, observes African American History Month with free performances co-sponsored by Rainey and Rainey Productions, 7 p.m. Wednesdays. Singers LaPlace Satterfield, Wilfred Chong and Yesmeen Sulieman, poet Paula Gibson and rap group Down South Connection appear Feb. 12.
Enjoy the talents of the band Just-US, gospel singer T.C. Horton and poet Jumoke, Feb. 19.
Feb. 26 features Cornel Jones' tribute to Marvin Gaye, gospel music from Gwen Johnson and Walter Viverette, rock songs from Angela Holloway and blues by Star Williams.
Call 591-8995.