Archive for February 2016
Saturday, May 7th – 7:30-10pm
The Smith Dobson Quartet
Expect a generous portion of Lester  Young-inspired tenor sax playing from one of the very best sax players in the Bay Area, when Smith Dobson V is joined by drummer Tony Johnson, bassist Miles Wick & pianist Adam Shulman!
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Friday, May 6th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble feat. Al Molina
plays jazz in the bookshop
Al Molina, trumpet Jerry Logas, sax and clarinet Don Prell, bass Vinnie Rodriguez, drums Jazz history right here folks! Bebop, lovely standards, a little trad… bass-sax-drums -Â from “Ornithology” to “Doxy” — from “For All We Know” to “St. James Infirmary.” Bassist Don Prell is about 85 and he shows no sign of flagging. None that…
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Tuesday, May 3rd – 7 pm
Nachoem Wijnberg reads
from his novel, The Jews
Dutch poet and novelist Nachoem M. Wijnberg, acclaimed as one of the foremost Dutch authors of the last decades, will visit San Francisco in May to read from his recent novel, The Jews (punctum books, 2016, tr. Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei) and Divan of Ghalib (White Pine Press, 2016, tr. David Colmer). Bird & Beckett is…
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Monday, May 2nd – 7-9 pm
Poets Ron Sauer and Dan De Vries
open mic follows, Jerry Ferraz hosts
Ron Sauer Ron Sauer is a native New Yorker and a leading light of the North Beach art and poetry scene, known for trenchant social satires and poignant love poems and for translations of Baudelaire, Aloysius Betrand, and Jacques Prevert. A troubadour of urban America, Sauer is a musician, collagist, art collector, teacher of film…
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Sunday, May 1st – 7:30-10:00 pm
Eric Shifrin & the In Crowd
canyon moonlight music series, every Sunday night
Get in with the In Crowd Pianist Eric Shifrin & Friends Tom Griesser, sax; Paul Smith, bass; Randy Odell, drums Sunday, May 1st – 7:30-10:00 pm No cover charge
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Sunday, May 1st – 4:30-6:30 pm
Vocalist Marianna August with Howie Dudune & Co.
which way west? Sunday concert series
Marianna August first really indulged her life-long affection for music and singing through eight years of classical vocal training, and she’s continued her vocal studies ever since, though she’s used that training in recent years in an embrace of the Broadway sounds of musical theater and cabaret, specializing now in standards of the 1930s and…
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