Archive for March 2017
Saturday, July 15th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Larry Dunlap Trio featuring vocalist Bobbe Norris
jazz club! when lights are low…
Larry Dunlap, piano Chuck Bennett, bass Akira Tana, drums feat. Bobbe Norris, vocal $15 cover charge. Larry Dunlap and Bobbe Norris have been performing together since the late 1970s (and have been married since about the same time).  Born in the Bay Area, Bobbe was sitting in at the Fillmore District’s Bop City in the 1950s while…
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Friday, July 14th – 5:30-8 pm
Henry Hung plays a date for Jimmy!
Bebop in the bookshop — every Friday since 2002
Henry Hung, trumpet; Grant Levin, piano; Josh Tower, bass; Omar Aran, drums. jazz at bird & beckett wouldn’t be what it is without the musicians who kicked it into gear and kept it going for years! R.I.P, Â Jimmy! Jimmy Ryan passed away in July 2015 and will always be missed! Henry Hung will make sure…
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Thursday, July 13th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Potrero Hillbillies
play Bird & Beckett in the canyon moonlight…
Joe Cunningham, Christopher Gray and J. Raoul Brody sing songs of ramshackle urban disjuncture. Cheerfully enough! It all started with their fixation on the Kinks’ album, “Muswell Hillbillies,” memorably evoked in performances at Bird & Beckett and other fine venues a year or so ago… but there’s plenty more modern desolation to feed the preoccupations…
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Sunday, July 9th – 7:30-9:30 pm –$10 cover
…2,3,4: The Grant Levin Duo feat. Kash Killion, bass
Pianist Grant Levin leads duo, trio and quartet dates on the 2nd, 3rd & 4th Sundays of each month, respectively. Tonight, he’s collaborating with bassist Kash Killion in a duo, their third encounter in three months, building on the rapport built last October here at Bird & Beckett. This sequence will go down in the…
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Sunday, July 9th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Eric Nakanishi Quartet
which way west? Sunday concert series
Eric Nakanishi – sax Matt Wong – piano Logan Kane – bass Ben Ring – drums All four musicians on today’s date were born within a year or two of each other and raised  in the East Bay or San Francisco, and all four are pursuing B.A.s in music and are about half-way through —…
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Sunday, July 9th – 2:00-3:30 pm
Carlos V. Suarez: Rivermarks
Carlos Suarez reads from his new collection of poems and short prose pieces. Carlos was born in Paraná, Argentina, in the province of Entre RÃos, though he traveled early and widely over a span of many decades and has for some years lived in San Francisco. He has been a photojournalist, a cultural anthropologist, a translator…
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