Archive for April 2015
Sunday, May 31st – 4:30-6:30 pm
Suddenly It’s Spring!
Sherri Roberts sings songs of spring
It may be windy and foggy and cold outside, but the calendar still says May — and that means Spring. For twenty years now, Sherri has curated an intriguing set list of tunes befitting everyone’s favorite season — swinging from the familiar to the obscure, from Clifford Brown and Tad Dameron to Rodgers and Hammerstein,…
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Poet Latif Harris
Barter Within the Bark of Trees
Sunday, May 31st – 2 pm
Poet Latif Harris examines aging and the tricks memory plays on the instrument of the mind in his new collection of poems, to be presented at Bird & Beckett on May 31st at 2 pm. The book, Barter Within the Bark of Trees, has just been published by Duende Press — which published his first book…
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Saturday, May 30th – 8-11 pm
jazz club… when lights are low
Kurt Ribak Quartet
Bassist Kurt Ribak crosses genres between gigs with seemingly no effort, as comfortable in a rockabilly gig as in a gypsy jazz setting or a bebop date.  Here, we can count on Kurt to deliver “music for the jazz impurist.†Writing about Kurt’s recent CD I Got One More!, the long-time Bay Area music critic Lee Hildebrand…
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Friday, May 29th – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
The Dave Parker Quintet
For his Bird & Beckett 5th Friday “jazz in the bookshop” date, bassist Dave Parker brings in a quintet… Clifford Brown III, trumpet; Charles Hamilton, trombone; Jerry Logas, sax; Dave Parker, bass; Greg German, drums. Music of Mingus, Dolphy, Coltrane, Davis & more!
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Sunday, May 24th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west? Sunday concert series
Hamir Atwal Trio
Bassist John Wiitala and guitarist Jeffrey Burr join drummer Hamir Atwal to play you some jazz standards. You’ll never hear them better played. One more peak experience for our Bird & Beckett regulars, and you, if you’re not one yet.  After a couple sets in their company this afternoon, you likely soon will be…
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Sunday, May 24th – 2 pm
Poet Alexandra Teague
reads poems of a curious and
twisted American trajectory
Alexandra returns to present her new collection of poems. Â She’s an award winning poet, late of the Bay Area (she was a Stegner fellow here from 2006-2008 and a 2011 NEA fellow), now teaching at the University of Idaho. Her new collection is said to be “a chilling exploration of American progress and its consequences,…
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