Archive for November 2013
Once Upon a Time in Babylon
Poet Ron Johnson – Sun. 11/24 1:30pm
“…once upon a time in Babylon we all breathed pure imagination our only master & our mistress who tore men’s mind asunder and dazzled Heaven’s Queen O! Once upon a time in holy Babylon!” Ron Johnson reads at Bird & Beckett Sunday, November the twenty fourth, one thirty post meridian time
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Thursday, November 21st, 7 pm
Featured Poets plus Open Mic
Third Thursday of Every Month at 7 p.m.
Thursday, November 21st, 7:00 p.m. Featured poets Dan Richman and Sally King Open mic follows. Jerry Ferraz hosts. Sally King is an artist and writer. Her recently published debut poetry collection, A Tale of Two Heads, is a series of phantasmagorically compressed dream lyrics, one extraordinary poem linked to another in a progression that is, for a reader,…
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Sunday, November 17th – two events:
poets Hummel/Smith at 2 p.m.
+ Homespun jazz trio from 4:30 to 6:30
2 pm: Maria Hummel (House and Fire, American Poetry Review) and Austin Smith (Almanac, Princeton) read from their recent poetry collections. 4:30 pm: Homespun, with Grant Levin (piano), Fred Randolph (bass) and Bryan Bowman (drums) – two sets of elegant & lovely live jazz — from their gorgeous repertoire of standards and originals..
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jazz in the bookshop
The Scott Foster Ensemble
featuring David Boyce
Friday, Nov. 15th, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Scott Foster’s group this Friday includes David Boyce, co-founder of Broun Fellinis, on saxophone, plus bassist Noah Schenker and drummer Dave Mihaly. All three of Scott’s sidemen on this date have extensive experience on the San Francisco jazz & related improvised music scene.  Each month, Scott enlists some of the most talented musicians around for his Bird…
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Lee Morgan Tribute!
This Sunday, Nov. 10, 4:30-6:30 pm
Orion Edmondson, drums, leads a quintet tribute to Philadelphia-born trumpeter Lee Morgan — famed for a hip, soulful, hard bop jazz output during the late 1950s and 1960s that became a significant soundtrack for the times. From New York, trumpeter Justin Smith handles the duties evoking Morgan’s sound and persona, while fellow bandmates Ruben Salcido on…
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jazz in the bookshop
The Bird & Beckett Bebop Band
Friday, Nov. 8, 5:30-8:00 pm
(plus, a Marcus Books update)
jazz in the bookshop is our long-running Friday evening jazz shindig… now celebrating it’s 12th year! Nearly 600 consecutive Fridays of live jazz in an intimate independent book shop. Since the beginning, drummer Jimmy Ryan has been on the scene, and he now leads a sizzling jazz quintet — the Bird & Beckett Bebop Band — on…
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