Bird & Beckett Books & Records
653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood

415-586-3733

1-1/2 blocks from
Glen Park BART station

The Bird & Beckett
Cultural Legacy Project
presents

Friday, July 3rd - 5:30 pm
Don Prell's Seabop Ensemble
with
Dan Brown, tenor sax
Michael Parsons, piano
Don Prell, bass
Chris Bjorkbom, drums

Sunday, July 5 -- 4:30 pm
which way west?
celebrates the birth of jazz and blues
in the Mississipi Delta back in the days of
Louis Armstrong & Sydney Bechet
with
The Lazy Levee Loungers
Leon Oakley, cornet
Larry Stein, clarinet & soprano sax
Clint Baker, guitar
Marty Eggers, bass

Monday, July 6th -- 7:00 pm
Poets David Meltzer
& Paula Hackett
explore the territory
where poetry and jazz co-mingle
An open mic follows

July 12 (3:00) - Lian Gouw reads from
and signs Only a Girl,
her novel following three generations of Chinese women across a tumultuous period of Indonesia's history, from 1930 to 1952-- through colonial, revolutionary and post-colonial periods.
(click here for info on Lian and her book)

Sunday, July 12 -- 4:30 pm
which way west? presents
well-traveled roots rocker
Jeffrey Halford
who has shared stages with a truly
impressive bunch of musicans.
He's playing acoustic here, between stops
with his full band, The Healers,
at Rancho Nicasio and Cafe du Nord...
(click here to read up on Jeffrey's music
and to link to some terrific samples)
This show's dedicated to the railbirds
of tracks gone by, and to Milton...

Friday, July 17th at 8:30 pm
(following our regular jazz set)
Poets David Meltzer
and Clark Coolidge
-- on guitar and drums --
with bassist Don Prell
David & Clark were prime movers in the
psychedelic jazz-drenched poets' rock band
"The Serpent Power"
back in the halcyon days of San Francisco's beat/hippie era. David has long been rightfully considered one of the key beat poets, while Clark might be looked at as a language poet,
or much more;
any way you cut it, this is big!
(click here for the historical perspective)

and further on down the road...

July 19 (3:00) - Vincent Louis Carrella
reads and signs his novel of Appalachia,
Serpent Box
Vincent read from this at Bird & Beckett when it was still a work in progress, six or eight years ago, when he still lived in the neighborhood. He's covered some ground since then, and the book has been brought out by HarperCollins
(click here for a
glimpse of his book)

July 19 (4:30) - which way west?
.........The Ragtime Skedaddlers
(click here)

July 20 (7:00) - Poets Julia Vinograd
..............................and Mel C. Thompson

July 24 (8:30) - Legendary beat poet
ruth weiss & jazz duo
....................Doug O'Connor (bass)
...............................& Hal Davis (drum)

August 3 (7:00) - Poets Tony Seymour
........................... (The Jeff Beck Session!)
............................... and Charles Curtis Blackwell

come get a full schedule at the store!

NO ONE BUT NO ONE
DOES WHAT BIRD & BECKETT DOES
(DO THEY?)
WE SELL BOOKS
AND WE EDIFY THE COMMUNITY
WITH 18-20 MUSIC & LITERARY EVENTS
EVERY SINGLE MONTH
GIVE US YOUR SUPPORT,
AND WE'LL PAY YOU BACK IN SPADES!

The 10th year benefits scoop:

First off, there was
Samuel Beckett's birthday, on Monday, April 13th (he was born on Friday the 13th in the year of 1906, making him 103 this year). Starting at 10 a.m. that day, the proprietor of Bird & Beckett sat down on a chair at the lip of the Bird & Beckett stage and started reading aloud from the first word of the first sentence of Beckett's novel, Watt. $138 was donated to the cause -- an effort to toss the banks a few bones to convince them to lower the 30% interest rates several of them recently hit us with...

Then, May 11th, the store's ten-year mark,
we celebrated with
A daylong cascade
of Charlie Parker's music
LIVE JAM SESSION ALL DAY!
from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Full line up and set lists below.
We raised $3,000 to help us negotiate with the banks! Thanks for your unbelievable support!

And then, on June 16, Bloomsday, we'll read from James Joyce's Ulysses itself! We'll need all the help we can muster, so turn out and tackle the masters words... And donate to the effort to clear out that debt!!

Saturday, August 29th
Charlie Parker's Birthday!!
BIG BASH AT THE CLUBHOUSE #3
Join us to celebrate ten years
in business and a bright future!

MUSIC, FOOD & HIGH HILARITY
1 PM TO DUSK

AT THE MIRALOMA CLUBHOUSE
350 O'Shaughnessey at Del Val
(on the road that runs up toward Portola
from Glen Park alongside Glen Canyon)
All talent and help generously donated by Bird & Beckett's great friends and loyal supporters!
proceeds will help us beat the banks!

What some folks missed:

A BOOKSTORE BENEFIT
ALL-DAY ALL-BIRD
MARATHON JAM SESSION
from opening to closing!
10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Monday, May 11th

the finest bop practitioners of San Francisco
(32 musicians, by our count)
gathered to help Bird & Beckett
beat the banks!

read below for the line ups
and the set lists!

$3,000 was donated by our amazing patrons, giving us ample ammunition to approach the banks for a much needed break from those 30% interest rates several of them have recently confronted us with.

May we say that
we love you madly
& that we thank you sincerely
for your ample loyalty and support!

We do still need help:
in particular,
if you're a banker or a CPA
or a journalist who wants to help us
win against the system, call us!

We need strategies that
you may know better than anyone!

Culture will beat commerce
in the end, but it'll take a joint effort!

rhythm sections and soloists
that performed on May 11 at the
"All Day All Bird" jam session,
and the tunes that were performed,
were as follows:

10-12:30
Michael Parsons/Don Prell/Chris Bjorkbom
with Harvey Robb on tenor sax
joined by Stu Pilorz on trombone
and Glen Iwaoka sitting in for Chris on drums
Now's the Time -- Just Friends -- Anthropology -- Star Eyes -- Yardbird Suite -- Billie's Bounce -- Lover Man

12:30-2:00
Michael Parsons/Bishu Chatterjee/Jimmy Ryan
w/Bishop Norman Williams on alto sax;
Stu Pilorz, trombone; and Steve Stein, guitar;
Tina Marzell, vocal
Blues for Alice -- Blue Suede Shoes -- Red Cross -- Body & Soul -- Confirmation -- Softly as in a Morning Sunrise -- Milestones

2:00-3:00
Michael Parsons/Don Prell/Chris Bjorkbom
with Scott Foster on guitar
joined by Bishop Norman Williams on alto,
and then Adam Gay on bass (for DP)
and Steve Stein on piano (for MP),
Michael Parsons back in (for SS )
and then, Steve Stein back in on guitar (for SF)
Scrapple from the Apple -- All the Things
You Are -- Barbados -- Klacktoveededstene --
I Can't Get Started -- Indiana -- Savoy --
Out of Nowhere

3:00-5:30
Eugene Pliner/Chuck Metcalf/Orion Edmonson
with Bishop Norman Williiams on alto
joined by Don Prell on prello, Dorothy Lefkovits, vocal; Dean Reilly on pocket trumpet; Steve Stein on piano (for EP), Alan Klein on guitar, Miranda Jones, vocal, John King on piano (for SS), Steve Stein on guitar , Jon Frank on drums, Jim Grantham on tenor
Buzzy -- All the Things You Are --
Now's the Time -- Mean to Me --
It Had to be You -- All of Me -- Ornithology --
Warming up a Riff -- Sans Souci -- Stella by Starlight, Scrapple from the Apple -- Giant Steps

5:30-8:00
Don Alberts/Don Russo/Art Lewis
Danny Bitker, baritone sax; Jim Grantham, tenor sax; Stu Pilorz, trombone; Alan Klein, guitar; Ruth Keady, vocal
Solar, Falling in Love with Love,
Midnight Blue, Rescue Me,
Dewey Square, Yardbird Suite,
Little Suede Shoes


8:00-9:00
Michael Parsons/Don Prell/Chris Bjorkbom
Danny Grewen and Stu Pilorz, trombone; Jerry Logas, Jim Grantham, Melvin Bell, tenor sax; Alan Klein, Steve Stein, Mark Reynolds, guitar; Joe Orimo, drums
Au Privav, Moose the Mooch,
Quasimodo, Chi Chi, Confirmation

The musicians donated their
talents to help the store gather
cash to pay down its debt
and continue bringing this music
to appreciative audiences.
Thanks to one and all!!!

no cover charge for the music
in our jazz in the bookshop
and which way west? music series--
BUT! we can't hire these bands
without your donations--
so please don't stint!

$10 per adult suggested...
but $5 ok too, and don't let a lack
of funds keep you away...
kids very much welcome,
and very much free

Think what it costs you to
go to the movies or buy lunch
at the taqueria, and then
think about that money
going to help musicians and
writers ply their craft!

It's a good investment,
in the careers of our valued
cultural workers, in a time
when good investments are
a mite hard to come by!


The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project
presents:

-- jazz every Friday evening from 5:30 to 8:00 pm

-- a book club on the 1st Wed. of each month
(next meeting, July 1st at 7 pm, discussing
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai)

-- another book club on the 2nd Thursdays
(next meeting July 9th at 7 pm, discussing
The Years of Talking Dangerously
by Geoffrey Nunberg)

-- an open reading from the great writers
on the 4th Thursdays
(next meeting July 23rd at 7 pm)

-- open mic poetry readings
on the 1st & 3rd Mondays at 7 pm

-- music of all stripes every Sunday afternoon
from 4:30 to 6:30 pm