Archive for December 2016
Sunday, March 26th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Macy Blackman & Bing Nathan
play songs of Irma Thomas & Allan Toussaint
which way west? Sunday concert series
Cool little duo – Macy Blackman on piano and Bing Nathan on bass – doing some massively wonderful music by the King & Queen of New Orleans Soul. Macy and his full band just put out a new cd of this material. You’re in for a guided tour of what you’ll hear if you…
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Sunday, March 26th – 2:30-4 pm
Walker Talks!
Kerouac and Lamantia: A Poetics of the Inner Self
Walker Brents III gives a talk at Bird & Beckett on the last Sunday of each month… always a fascinating excursion through topics literary, philosophical and otherwise.
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Saturday, March 25th – 7:30-10 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Smith Dobson Quartet plays the music of Charlie Parker
Smith Dobson Quintet plays the music of Charlie Parker, surely the most influential musician in modern jazz history– and the “Bird” in Bird & Beckett. Smith Dobson, sax Erik Jekabson, trumpet Keith Saunders, piano John Wiitala, bass Evan Hughes, drums
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Saturday, March 25th – 4-6 pm
Grant Levin Duo
with bassist Giulio Cetto
Pianist Levin and bassist Cetto have been developing a rich collaboration over the past several months, growing deeper with each outing. Grant’s twice-monthly duo dates — every second and fourth Saturday afternoon — offer the pianist an opportunity for intimate conversation with colleagues on the bandstand that never fails to lavishly reward the attention of…
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Friday, March 24th – 5:30-8 pm
230 Jones Street Jazz Band
jazz and bebop in the bookshop every Friday since 2002
Talk about your San Francisco jazz… On the fourth Friday of each month, our weekly jazz in the bookshop series features The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band — professional musicians whose history on the local jazz scene dates back 60 years, to the very early 1950s. Ray Loeckle and Jerry Logas on…
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Monday, March 20th – 7-9 pm
POETS!
Judith Ayn Bernhard and Aung Taik read from their work, followed by an open mic. Jerry Ferraz carries the day as m.c., as he has since the beginning– which may have been in 12th century Provence.
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