Archive for March 2017
POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, August 21st – 7-9 pm
A comic novelist and a poet – Byron Spooner + Judith Ayn Bernhard
followed by an open mic
Jerry Ferraz, m.c.
Poets Judith Ayn Bernhard and Byron Spooner, read, followed by an open mic. Judith Ayn Bernhard is a former Berlitz School of Languages instructor and translator. She is a founding member of The Marin Poetry Center and a current member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Byron Spooner,…
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Sunday, August 20th – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio
featuring Joe McKinley, bass, and Pepe Jacobo, drums
$15 cover charge
Grant Levin Trio with Joe McKinley, bass, and Pepe Jacobo, drums.
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Sunday, August 20th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Marlina Teich Quartet
which way west? Sunday concert series
Marlina Teich, guitar and vocals Madaline Duran, tenor sax Richard Saunders, bass John Fisher, drums No cover charge; donations requested – that’s how we pay the musicians! Originally from New York City via birthplace, Bayonne, New Jersey, Marlina plays solo, duo and combo, with her regular quartet consisting of Marlina on guitar, Richard Saunders on…
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Saturday, August 19th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Fog – a jazz quartet blankets the pop/rock/jazz landscape
Brian Melvin, drums; Peter Barshay, bass
Brad Buethe, guitar; Matt Renzi, reeds
jazz club! when lights are low…
$15 cover charge
Fog combines the talents of four internationally lauded musicians: three — multi-reed player Matt Renzi, guitarist Brad Buethe and bassist Peter Barshay — resident in San Francisco, and one — drummer/percussionist Brian Melvin — who has for some years resided in Estonia. Â Â Â Over the course of his career, Brian has played and…
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Friday, August 18th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet
plays jazz in the bookshop
no cover charge; but donation requested to help us pay the musicians
Scott Foster, guitar Richard Hall, piano Mike Bordelon, bass Dan Foltz, drums Scott reunites with some old friends to play two sets of jazz, drawing a lot on what he and Richard did together on gigs and in the recording studio in the ’90s. Â About this combination, Scott muses, “fun quartet!” You can always count…
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Thursday, August 17th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Joel Forrester – solo piano
$10 cover charge
A good starting point for thinking about Joel is to consider his time in the apartment of Baroness Nica, taking lessons in a sort of way from Thelonious Monk, as Monk waited out his final years, laying in bed, not venturing out. When  Joel played well enough, or better, the door to the room where…
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