Archive for August 2017

An early music celebration of Christmas, with a joyous nod to the swinging 1960s. Vocals and instrumental performances on lute and harp by Doris Williams, a valued musician on the Bay Area early music scene since the late 1980s. Doris is joined on the program by  viola da gamba player Kit Robberson and classical guitarist Steve…

Hey, where’s the snare?! Jaz & Giulio make it happen. Grant sets the stage. The music at Bird & Beckett doesn’t stop.

Drummer Greg Gotelli brings in his merry six piece Chicago-style jazz band with vocalist Darlene Langston for two sets of chesnuts to roast on your open fire!    

Wendy DeWitt is the Queen of Boogie Woogie! and Blues & You Name It! You ain’t heard nothing, ’til you’ve heard Wendy rip it up! Wendy DeWitt, piano Takezo Takeda, guitar Kirk Harwood, drums The boogie woogie notes that fly out of Wendy DeWitt’s fingers connect you so passionately with her that you walk out of…

Smith Dobson, saxophones Jeffrey Burr, guitar Doug Stuart, bass Jon Arkin, drums Some Ellington, some Monk, some more… through the lens of the work of the great saxophonist Paul Desmond, a long-time associate of Dave Brubeck and a player known for a tone that evokes a fine dry martini… interpreted by some of San Francisco’s…

Jill Tracy is a San Francisco-based singer/pianist, storyteller, and “sonic archeologist” who has garnered multiple awards and a passionate following for her beautifully haunting, cinematic music, sophisticated lyrics, old-world glamour—and curious passion for strange tales. Hailed a “femme fatale for the thinking man” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Jill Tracy was described by NPR’s All…