Archive for April 2015
Saturday, June 13th – 8-11pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
The Grant Levin Quartet
Pianist Grant Levin enlists master reed player Noel Jewkes, bassist Kash Killion and drummer Mark Lee for three sets of small combo work. Each of these players is a seasoned pro with a stellar reputation in the Bay Area. All welcome!  $10 cover charge; $7 for members of “jazz club!” ($75 annual dues).
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R.I.P. Ornette Coleman, who gave us the shape of jazz to come
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Friday, June 12th, 5:30 to 8:00 pm
Jimmy Ryan’s
Bird & Beckett Bebop Band
plays jazz in the bookshop
On the second Friday of each month, jazz in the bookshop features The Jimmy Ryan Quintet aka The Bird & Beckett Bebop Band! In June, Jimmy’s band features Stu Pilorz, trombone Joe Cohen, tenor sax Don Alberts, piano Bishu Chatterjee, bass Jimmy Ryan, drums Jimmy learned his trade in L.A. in the ’50s, and hit the…
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Sunday, June 7th – 2 pm
Reading by Sons of Noir Contributors
San Francisco Book Launch and Reading! Sons Of Noir: Murder and Mayhem by San Francisco North Bay Writers, edited by Ed Coletti and David Madgalene Contributors: David Beckman, Gary Brandt, Ed Coletti, David Madgalene, Pat Nolan, Jonah Raskin and Waights Taylor, Jr. Publisher: Round Barn Press, Santa Rosa, CA (June 7, 2015)
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Saturday, June 6th – 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Smith Dobson Quartet
This week, Smith shares the front line with fellow tenor player Raffi Garabedian (once a Bay Area player who’s been plying his trade in NYC for a good stretch) with bassist Noah Schenker and drummer Jon Arkin providing the foundation, the pulse and much fine filigree.
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Monday, June 1st – 7-9 pm
POETS!
Dan Liberthson
+ poetry of David Hallstrom
followed by an open mic
Dan Liberthson crafts poems from his thoughts on family, animals, baseball… all the things that tease his curious mind.  A storyteller as well as a wordsmith, his belief in the power and utility of narrative and language never flags.  He has several collections to his name, the latest being Morning, and Begin Again (self-published, 2012). David…
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