Friday, June 26th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Chuck Peterson Quintet

Every Friday evening at Bird & Beckett, the neighborhood — and folks from foreign climes and Bay Area aeries — assemble “after work” to enjoy each other’s company and the work of some of the fine jazz musicians who call the Bay Area home. The tradition here started in late 2002, when tenor player Chuck…

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Thursday, June 18th – 7-10 pm
The Michael Parsons/Ulf Bjorkbom Quartet

Here on a brief visit from Paris and Oslo, pianist Michael Parsons and drummer Ulf Bjorkbom, with sax player Danny Brown and bassist Noah Schenker — all familiar faces on the Bird & Beckett bandstand — return to Bird & Beckett! Besides celebrating Paris & Oslo & all that jazz, we’ll be celebrating the proprietor’s…

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Saturday, May 30th – 8-11 pm
jazz club… when lights are low
Kurt Ribak Quartet

Bassist Kurt Ribak crosses genres between gigs with seemingly no effort, as comfortable in a rockabilly gig as in a gypsy jazz setting or a bebop date.  Here, we can count on Kurt to deliver “music for the jazz impurist.” Writing about Kurt’s recent CD I Got One More!, the long-time Bay Area music critic Lee Hildebrand…

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