Archive for September 2016
Postcards for Democracy! Swing those Electoral College voters to reason! Monday, 11/21, 6pm to 9pm
Concurrent with a poetry reading, and in the same shared bookshop space, we’re providing ten stamped postcards to each person interested in sending an appeal to Electoral College members in swing states. Â Respect the poetry reading going on this evening, but that shouldn’t stop you from writing a brief message and addressing a handful…
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Monday, November 21st – 7-9 pm
Poets Charles Curtis Blackwell and Ronald Sauer
followed by an open mic
Charles Curtis Blackwell’s poetry is suffused with soul, drenched with blues, sparked by jazz. His painting and drawing is likewise deep and personal. He’s one of a handful of poets we know whose articulations of joy, pain and insight always jump from the page, and from his mouth when he reads his work before an…
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Sunday, November 20th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Charles Thomas Quartet!
Bassist Charles Thomas covers jazz, R&B, funk, classical and many points in the musical spectrum, but it’s clearly jazz that absorbs him most fully, and never more fully than when he’s in the company of pianist Grant Levin and drummer Mark Lee. No better way to spend your Sunday afternoon than to be at Bird…
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Dean Reilly Jazz Trio
live at Bird & Beckett’s Saturday night jazz club
November 19th, 7:30-10 pm, $10 cover charge
Dean Reilly was right at the center of the wave of San Francisco jazz that came out of North Beach in the 1950s, playing bass in Vince Guaraldi’s first trio starting in 1956. In 1962, he went on the road with the Kingston Trio and that lasted for a couple of decades, helping put Dean’s…
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A Life in Jazz! An intimate evening with bassist Walter Savage
Wednesday, November 16th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Walter Savage turns 75 on November 16th, and his musical life dates back 65 years to the age of ten. Â Tonight, we’ll celebrate his birthday and his life in jazz, as Walter takes to the stage by himself for the first half of the evening to play some music and tell stories. In the…
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Sunday, November 13th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Eric Shifrin & The In Crowd!
the original line-up!
Bassist Bing Nathan and drummer Dennis Norby have been associated with pianist Eric Shifrin for decades, and the three made up the first iteration of The In Crowd, a good time trio steeped in jazz and more eclectic material that grew up in the time of the 1990s San Francisco swing dance scene. The In…
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