Archive for July 2015
Saturday, August 15th – 7:30-10 pm
Heshima presents!
The Ways & Means Committee
jazz club! when lights are low . . . Heshima Mark Williams presents The Ways & Means Committee, a tight quintet that delves deep into a book of straight-ahead jazz influenced by Herbie Hancock, Jerry Gonzalez, Buster Williams, and Fort Apache Band. For their Bird & Beckett date, this “boppish collective†comprises Dr. Gary Bean,…
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Friday, August 14th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Jimmy Ryan, R.I.P.
The Bird & Beckett Bebop Band
pays tribute!
Sad to say, Jimmy Ryan passed away Wednesday morning, July 8, 2015. Jimmy was long known to Bird & Beckett regulars as the featured drummer in our long-running Friday series of neighborhood jazz parties. On Jimmy’s scheduled August 14th date, from 5:30-8:00 pm, his band will reconvene to pay tribute to this wonderful man and…
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Thursday, August 13th – 7:30 pm
Howard Alden Trio
Guitarist Howard Alden returns to Bird & Beckett for a trio date with bassist Peter Barshay and drummer Vince Lateano. Â $20 suggested donation.
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Sunday, August 9th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Maurice Tani & Mike Anderson
Country Noir
Maurice Tani is a remarkable songwriter, with a deft touch that pulls all the angst of life right to the surface of his songs. Â In bassist Mike Anderson, he has an assured and resonant foil on which to build his delivery of redemption songs and wise, funny and wryly bitter observations. San Francisco-born and bred,…
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Sunday, August 9th – Noon to 1:30 pm
Tin Cup Serenade
plays the Surf-a-Billy
Swing Time Dance Party!
A sweet little trio version of a super five-piece-plus known as Tin Cup Serenade — guitar, trombone and upright bass — playing tunes that create their own sense of an era of not much bread but plenty of optimism despite it all…Â Their recent album is called “Tragic Songs of Hope” and that kind of says…
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Saturday, August 8th – 7:30-10 pm
The Grant Levin Quartet
plays Bird & Beckett’s jazz club
when lights are low…
Rocky Winslow, trumpet Grant Levin, piano Chris Amberger, bass Mark Lee, drums Grant Levin leads a quartet through two sets of originals and standards on the second Saturday of each month. Â He’s just one of the very top young jazz pianists on the local scene, and he never fails to assemble a quartet of top…
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