BRIEFLY . . .

Nearly a dozen San Diego jazz acts will be presented Saturday in a six-hour tribute to the late Ella Ruth Piggee at the Educational Cultural Complex in Southeast San Diego. The popular local jazz singer died last month after a long bout with cancer. Among the performers featured in the “Jazz is Forever” concert, which starts at noon, are saxophonist (and former Charles Mingus sideman) Charles McPherson, Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatom, Hollis Gentry’s Neon, Fattburger and Allure, fronted by identical twin sisters Nakato and Babidiye Abernathy on lead vocals. The Educational Cultural Complex is at 4343 Ocean View Blvd.