Archive for January 2017
Friday, June 9th – 5:30-8 pm
Harvey Wainapel / Sylvia Cuenca Quartet
jazz in the bookshop — every Friday since 2002
Harvey Wainapel, reeds Adam Shulman, piano Peter Barshay, bass Sylvia Cuenca, drums Reuniting two old friends who have rarely played together in recent years, the Harvey Wainapel/Sylvia Cuenca Quartet promises an evening of fresh musical energy and material, with a mix of originals, “standards” and “ought to be standards!” Sylvia (who has played with Joe Henderson, Clark Terry,…
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Wednesday, June 7th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Sylvia Cuenca/Jared Gold Quartet
with Joe Cohen, sax, and Jack Tone Riordan, guitar
$15 cover charge
Sylvia Cuenca, a San Jose native who’s been a first call drummer on the jazz scene in New York City now for several decades, is passing through town and will play Bird & Beckett twice this week — tonight in a quartet with New York organ player Jared Gold and local icons Joe Cohen on…
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Monday, June 5th – 7-9 pm
POETS!
Featured readers followed by an open mic
every 1st & 3rd Monday
Sunday, June 4th – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Seducers
Classic, Outlaw & Honky Tonk Country Music
Sunday, June 4th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Jinx Jones Jazz Trio
which way west? Sunday concert series
Sunday, June 4th – 2-3:30 pm
Bonnie Willdorf reads from Dancing with Cancer
The real time journals of Barry and Bonnie Willdorf, written in parallel and vividly depicting their rollercoaster ride from diagnosis to hope to despair to hope, up and down, over and over again, beginning with Barry’s diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and concluded by Bonnie after his death. In their journals, Bonnie and Barry recount…
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