Archive for April 2017
POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, September 18th – 7-9 pm
Michael Koch & Ronald Sauer
followed by an open mic
Jerry Ferraz, m.c.
Michael? First time Jerry booked him, I mentioned it to a couple regulars. Michael Koch!? Now I know what they mean. You’ll like this reading, so come out…. open mic follows. Jerry Ferraz runs the whole shebang. Ronald Sauer, nb surrealist, pinch hits for Robert Anbian tonight. Welcome to Birdnbeckettlandia!
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Sunday, September 17th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Todd Swenson & This Side Up
Welcome to funky soulville!
which way west? Sunday concert series
Soul singer Derek Evans, with wicked Todd Swenson on guitar, Willie Riser on bass and Larry Vann on drums! Yeah, you bet! You don’t want to miss this.
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Sunday, September 17th – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio
$15 cover charge
Grant Levin, piano. Chris Amberger, bass. Jeff Minnieweather, drums. . . . 2, 3, 4 Count it off with Grant Levin! Duos, trios, quartets… every 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sunday of the month
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Sunday, September 17th – 2-3:30 pm
Magra Books Reading
Celebrating the first two seasons of titles from the independent publisher, Magra Books (magrabooks.com). Gillian Conoley will read from her just published chapbook, Preparing One’s Consciousness for the Avatar, along with Martha Ronk reading from her 2016 title, Unfamiliar Familiar; Art Beck from his new translation, Martial, Epigrams; Dennis Phillips from his Desert Sequence chapbook;…
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Saturday, September 16th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Gaea Schell Trio
jazz club! when lights are low…Â
Gaea Schell, piano and vocals; James Mahone, tenor sax; Aaron Cohn, bass. The art of the trio! “Gaea Schell plays the heck out of the piano with them small hands.” – drummer Albert “Tootie” Heath. Her colleagues on the date are hugely talented as well. You’re in for some wonderful music. $15 cover charge.
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Friday, September 15th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet plays the music of Lee Morgan
At 9pm, a talk by jazz writer Larry Reni Thomas
(The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan) follows the music!
Henry Hung, trumpet Scott Foster, guitar Eric Markowitz, bass Omar Aran, drums The Scott Foster Quartet plays the music of Lee Morgan! Lee Morgan was one of the top jazz trumpet stars of the late 1950s and 1960s, recording prolifically on Blue Note and other labels –featured on John Coltrane’s “Blue Trane” (1957) and Art…
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