Archive for October 2015
Sunday, December 27th – 4:30-6:30 pm
A year-end Bird & Beckett tradition!
Two guitars: Duncan James & Ray Scott
It’s a lovely and low key thing, with two veteran jazz guitarists in solo and duo combination, passing a sweet Sunday afternoon at the end of the year, with you in their company.
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Saturday, December 26th, 7:30-10 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
The Vinnie Rodriguez Quartet
does Donald Byrd!
Friday, December 25th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Grant Levin Trio plays
jazz in the bookshop
on Christmas day!
Charles Thomas on bass and Omar Aran on drums join pianist Grant Levin for two sets of live jazz in San Francisco’s southernmost and foremost outpost of jazz and literary culture! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
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Sunday, December 20th – 7:30-10:0 pm
Eric & the In Crowd
Bird & Beckett’s Canyon Moonlight Music series closes out 2015 and sets the stage for the Christmas and the new year with Eric Shifrin and the In Crowd.   Eric is a San Francisco institution by now… though the Ellis Act is messing with his act.  We’re harboring him just as long as he can hang on,…
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Saturday, December 19th – 7:30-10 pm
The Jazzling Twintet
Heshima Mark Williams presents The Jazzling Twintet at Bird & Beckett’s Saturday night jazz club… Vivian Warkentin, violin, is Assistant Concertmaster of Oakland Symphony, and an active freelancer. She’s studied jazz with David Balakrishnan. Her credits include string section work withBurt Bacharach, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett, Sara Vaughn, Doc Severinsen, Chris Botti,Smokey Robinson, George Benson, Henry Mancini,…
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Friday, December 18th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet
plays songs of home, friends and family
jazz in the bookshop
Trumpeter Darren Johnston makes his Bird & Beckett debut, with Noah Schenker on bass and Omar Aran on drums. Â Guitarist Scott Foster leads the date, as he does every third Friday of the month. Since settling in San Francisco in 1997, Canada-born trumpeter/composer/songwriter Darren Johnston has collaborated and recorded with an extremely diverse cross-section of…
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