Posts by Eric
Friday, April 26th – 6-8pm
The 230 Jones Street Band
remembers Si Perkoff (1937-2024)
With its roots in the Friday-after-work jazz party started by veteran tenor player Chuck Peterson as a trio back in 2002, the 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band is the legacy band at Bird & Beckett. It’s been led in recent years by drummer Tony Johnson, with pianist Si Perkoff joining up a…
Read MoreThis weekend at Bird & Beckett
Students frame the pros this weekend, with a cavalcade of SFSU creative arts students converging for a poetry and music revue Thursday evening and a gaggle of jazz students from SFCM celebrating the impending end of the semester Sunday afternoon. In between, on Friday and Saturday, we present three significant jazz concerts and a book…
Read MoreO Pioneers of the Cosmostream! We’ve been vaccinating you against the plague of boredom and the scourge of demagoguery with live streamed events twice a week and more since March 2020, when it all came down!
Hungry to hear some of Bird & Beckett’s past live streams? On the home page you can scroll down to read the individual posts for the shows we’ve mounted in the past several months, a hint of what’s gone down since the pandemic lock-down began. In more amazing times, it would take you right back…
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Yes! Believe your five senses–
shows for in-store audiences
resumed in mid-June 2021,
and continue apace
Bird & Beckett’s events open to the public have been back since mid-June 2021. Mask up if you’re inclined, and do come in! (Not vaxxed? Please get vaxxed and be safer!) Jazz, poetry & more live in the shop and live streamed Come to 653 Chenery if you’re in town! Doors open at 7:20 for…
Read MoreWater under the bridge…
The posts that follow show you what’s come and gone. Search the videos on our youtube channel or facebook page to find evidence of what you remember, or what you missed! Then, make sure you catch the next thing that catches your fancy. The live streams are great, but live music in a room with…
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Sunday, April 21st – 5-7pm
Vince Lateano Trio
Ben Stolorow, piano Peter Barshay, bass Vince Lateano, drums $20 suggested; pay what you can. b.y.o.b. Bebop to bossa. A delightful trio with a long-running third-Sunday-of-the-month residency at Bird & Beckett.
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