Archive for January 2015
Saturday, February 21st – 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Destiny Muhammad Trio
Heshima Mark Williams presents the Destiny Muhammad Jazz Trio. Destiny Muhammad, harp Alex Baum, bass Jack Dorsey, drums Destiny Muhammad’s genre ‘Celtic to Coltrane’ is cool and eclectic with a feel of jazz & storytelling to round out the sonic experience. Destiny has opened for the Oakland East Bay Symphony, shared the stage with Jazz…
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Friday, February 20th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Ensemble
plays from a 1970s bag
Scott Foster leads his quartet through territory not so often explored on the Bird & Beckett bandstand.  Remember the 1970s?!? Jim Peterson, reeds; Mike Bordelon on bass; and Ricky Carter on drums join the guitarist a freaky little expedition into a time, a place and an expanded frame of mind…
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Monday, February 16th – 7 pm
Poets Ronald Sauer & Robert Anbian
open mic follows
Ron Sauer is a native New Yorker and a leading light of the North Beach art and poetry scene, known for trenchant social satires and poignant love poems and for translations of Baudelaire, Aloysius Betrand, and Jacques Prevert. Â A troubadour of urban America, Sauer is a musician, collagist, art collector, teacher of film history and…
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Sunday, February 15th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Ouroboros
With Clark Coolidge on drums and Andrew Joron on theremin, Ouroboros is definitely a poets’ band, but the music is the thing for sure. Â Sheldon Brown, one of the very top sax players on the free improv scene, who can swing in a big band setting like nobody’s business, certainly insures that this is so.…
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Sunday, February 15th – 2:00 pm
Poet Kim Shuck celebrates her new collection, Clouds Running In
Kim Shuck presents poems from her new collection, Clouds Running In, (Taurean Horn Press, 2014). Kim Shuck is a poet, weaver, educator doer of piles of laundry, planter of seeds, traveler and child wrangler. She was born in her mother’s hometown of San Francisco, one hill away from where she now lives. Her ancestors were…
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Saturday, February 14th – 8-11 pm
jazz club… when lights are low
The Grant Levin Quartet
featuring Noel Jewkes
jazz club…   when lights are low every Saturday night from 8 to 11 pm Noel Jewkes –saxophone Grant Levin –piano Joe McKinley –bass Hamir Atwal — drums Grant Levin’s beautifully supple mastery of the piano, his feel for melody and unusual harmonies and his deep skill in jazz improvisation and composition place him among…
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