jazz in the bookshop

jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002! all ages welcome! $10 per adult suggested donation Friday, October 21st, 5:30 to 8:00 pm Aran-Foster-Peterson-Prell The third Friday of each month, three founders of our nine-year old series of Friday jazz parties join forces with a guest drummer to keep the bebop flame burning bright on…

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Meltzer on Stage

Sunday, October 16 – 2 pm Maestro David Meltzer The Stuntman! Interviewed on  the Bird & Beckett stage by Gerry Fialka David just wowed ’em in the Mission, at our Litquake reading at Kaleidoscope, trading “fours” with his new bride Julie Rogers and then dazzling ’em all with his fleet-footed delivery of the newly penned…

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Parlor Tricks

Sunday, October 16th, 4:30 & 5:30 pm (two sets) Suggested donation $10 per adult kids always free! Parlor Tricks Industrial Ragtime Band which way west? Sunday concert series Imagine a New  York Sunday morning in the spring of 1904, the electric streetlights winking off and Reverend Edward Martin Waller making his way from the maternity…

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Litquake – B&B at Kaleidoscope

Thursday, October 13th, 7:00 pm Six at Kaleidoscope: San Francisco Poets For the Ages Buddhists, Beats & Beyond! Bird & Beckett at Litquake (offsite at 24th St & Folsom) Bird & Beckett takes its show to the Mission District to meet Litquake on its own turf! Poets David Meltzer, Neeli Cherkovski, Latif Harris, Julie Rogers,…

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Litquake – Micah Ballard & Alli Warren

Monday, October 10th, 7 pm Micah Ballard + Alli Warren – POETS! Litquake at Bird & Beckett Litquake and Bird & Beckett both got their start in San Francisco in 1999, and we’re proud to be participating in that amazing city-wide literary festival for the first time with two events this week! First off, tonight…

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Don Prell’s SeaBop Ensemble

jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002! Friday, October 7th, 5:30 to 8:00 pm Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble The first Friday of each month, bassist Don Prell puts together a combo and puts them through their paces, chasing down the bebop changes that continue to intrigue and delight us. This week, reed & flute…

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