Archive for October 2015
Saturday, January 9th
Grant Levin Duo and Quartet
4-6 pm & 7:30-10 pm
4-6 pm: Grant Levin, piano and Ricardo Diaz, bass weave a web of jazz at once delicate and indestructible. Really! You’ll like it. Feed that tip jar generously!!! 7:30-10 pm: Grant Levin leads a quartet, featuring Jonathan Bautista on tenor sax, Walter Savage on bass and Malachi Whitson on drums. This date will knock your…
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Friday, January 8th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Henry Hung Quartet
jazz in the bookshop is our weekly Friday after work jazz party. Trumpeter Henry Hung brings in a quartet this week, with Jordan Samuels on guitar and Otto Huber on drums. Henry is a lyrical player whose grace is unmistakable, with charm and musical intelligence to spare. You’ll be pleased, we’re sure. He’s also the…
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Canyon Moonlight Music Series
Sunday nights ’til The Riptide returns!
January 3rd – 7:30-10 pm: EaR Candy
This Sunday night, Eric Shifrin and Ralph Carney lead the eclectic and rollicking quartet they call EaR Candy… with Joe Kyle, Jr. on bass and Randy Odell on drums. EaR Candy operates on the principle that to steal from one artist is plagiarism, but to steal from everyone is research! Â Music from Duke Ellington to…
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Sunday, January 3rd – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west? Sunday concert series
Avotcja! and Modupue
Avotcja, named 2015 Jazz Hero by the Bay Area Chapter of the Jazz Journalists Association last July, is a jazz musician with deep roots, a riveting poet, an imaginative and ruminative prose writer, a pioneer, an individualist, a fierce champion of her fellow musicians, poets and artists.  She leads the group named Best Jazz Group of…
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Saturday, January 2nd – 7:30-10 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
The Smith Dobson Quartet
Saturday, January 2nd at Bird & Beckett 7:30-10:00 pm THE SMITH DOBSON QUARTET originals and chestnuts Richard Sears, piano Doug Stuart, bass Tim Angulo, drums jazz club! when lights are low $10 cover
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Friday, January 1st – 5:30-8:00 pm
New Years Day jazz in the bookshop!
Don Prell’s SeaBop Quartet
Count on bassist Don Prell and his confreres to keep the jazz ball rolling at Bird & Beckett right into 2016! Â We’ve never missed a Friday jazz date since the series began back in late 2002, so we’re well into our 14th year… nearly 700 consecutive Fridays and counting! Don got his start in LA…
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