Archive for January 2017

  Viktorija GečytÄ— is a Lithuania-born jazz singer, based in Paris since 2008. For GečytÄ—, singing is nothing less, and nothing more, than musical conversation. She has toured internationally with the American bassist Gene Perla and his Go Trio (Sean Gough on piano and Jon Arkin on drums) every year since 2008, performing for audiences in New York,…

Dan Liberthson, a San Francisco writer of poetry books about baseball and animals, reads his latest poems, including series about birds and the Pacific Northwest. Charles Curtis Blackwell is a painter and a playwright as well as a poet, heavily influenced by jazz in all of his artistic endeavors. His books include “Is, the Color…

At 7:30 pm: Pianist Grant Levin enters the second week of his new series of three dates a month. His third Sunday trio date features Doug Stuart on bass and Michael Mitchell on drums. An open-ended residency that will go down in the annals of Bay Area jazz history. Jazz as it is played in San…

Fresh from the galactic expanse, the Klaxons are coming! The decks are clear, the power is on, the beam is focused! Playing hits from Robot Invasion and other sounds channeled from their vast universe of musical influences, picked up in a lifetime of travel along the radio waves. the grooves of countless vinyl records and…

Live jazz at Bird & Beckett started back in the fall of 2002… coming up on 15 years of Fridays.  And Scott Foster has been on the gig since the beginning. Bird & Beckett’s favorite guitarist, bar none. Tonight, as he does on the third Friday of each month, Scott has concocted a band to…