Archive for August 2016
Friday, October 28th – 5:30-8 pm
The Chuck Peterson Quintet plays jazz in the bookshop
and pays its respects to Howie Dudune, may he rest in peace!
For several years until his untimely death last month, Howard Dudune shared the front line in the Chuck Peterson Quintet each fourth Friday at Bird & Beckett. Chuck and Howie both played tenor sax, with Howie doubling on clarinet and Chuck doubling on flute. Their friendship, mutual respect and musical collaboration dates back to the…
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Thursday, October 27th – 8-10 pm
Jinx Jones Rockin Billy Boogie! The Daredevil Show!!
Sunday, October 23rd – 4:30-6:30 pm
Robert Kennedy Quartet
Robert Kennedy, on organ, leads a quartet with James Moran on guitar, Lyle Link on sax and Cody Rhodes on drums. Â Centered on the hard bop and soul jazz of the Hammond organ’s heyday in the 1950s and 1960s and extending to blues, jazz standards and modern originals, the Robert Kennedy Quartet’s repertoire brings you…
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2 pm
Poet Kim Shuck and friends pay tribute to the late Susan Sibbet
Great Blue, a posthumous collection of poems by Susan Herron Sibbet, spans three decades, from her first published works to her death in 2013. Today at Bird & Beckett, poet Kim Shuck, a San Francisco original and treasure, has invited a bunch of wonderful bay area poets to read and to pay homage to Susan. The…
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Eddie Duran & Friends!
Saturday, October 22nd – 7:30-10 pm
jazz club! when light are low…
Guitarist Eddie Duran leads the date. 92 years old and a San Franciscan by birth and upbringing, he released his debut album on Fantasy in 1956, a gorgeous and swinging quartet outing that epitomized the small combo jazz of the day. Â Howie Dudune played reeds on the date, Dean Reilly played bass, and Johnny Markham,…
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Saturday, October 22nd – 4-6 pm
The Art of the Duo:
Pianist Grant Levin & Bassist Charles Thomas
Grant Levin and Charles Thomas have developed a rapport on the bandstand that ensures a strikingly vital collaboration when they have the space to themselves. Come enjoy the dialogue that develops between two musicians who are masters of their instruments and their craft.
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