Each year the holidays draw home the Buffalo diaspora, and Just Buffalo Literary Center has convinced two celebrated expatriates to take the stage this weekend for an evening of jazz and poetry and celebration. Bassist and composer Juini Booth (pictured left) has been performing and recording for more than 30 years—he started playing professionally at age 16—rubbing elbows with the likes of Art Blakey, Coleman Hawkins, Sun Ra, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner, among others. Pamela Plummer, a poet, social worker, educator and musician, has published two collections of poetry—Skin of My Palms and Meditation on Ironing Boards & Other Blues—and has received numerous awards for her writing. Their performance on Saturday is called, appropriately, Home for the Holidays, and Plummer and Booth say they’ll be meditating on the importance and meaning of “home.” Just Buffalo encourages all to bring holiday cookies and other baked goods—and to wear dancing shoes. This is a party, after all: the return of two prodigious talents.

Saturday, December 9 at 7pm. Langston Hughes Institute, 25 High Street (832-5400, justbuffalo.org). FREE.