Archive for April 2016
Saturday, May 14th – 7:30-10:00 pm
jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night
Sylvia Cuenca-Paul Bollenback-Wil Blades Organ Trio
Catch Sylvia Cuenca leading a fabulous trio with Wil Blades on organ and Paul Bollenback on guitar, mid-way through a four date Bay Area run– Cafe Stritch in San Jose on Thursday and Friday, Bird & Beckett Saturday night, and Chez Hanny Sunday afternoon. Read E. “Doc” Smith’s BeyondChron article on the date here! …
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Saturday, May 14th – 2 pm – Reading!
Cross Strokes: Poetry Between L.A. and San Francisco
Join us for the San Francisco Launch Party for the anthology Cross Strokes, Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco on Saturday, May 14th from 2 to 4 pm. Readings by: Neeli Cherkovski Tim Donnelly Sharon Doubiago Patrick James Dunagan Bill Mohr Paul Vangelisti Maw Shein Win Plus readings of work by Francisco X. Alarcon,…
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Friday, May 13th – 5:30-8:00
Aaron Cohn-Luke Westbrook-Gaea Schell Trio
play jazz in the bookshop
San Francisco’s longest running weekly jazz party!
and you’re invited…
      Aaron Cohn, bass      Gaea Schell, piano        Luke Westbrook, guitar jazz in the bookshop, every Friday night $10 per adult if you can…
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Thursday, May 12th – 7-9 pm
Bird & Beckett Book Club
Every second Thursday, gather with a bookish batch of your neighbors to yak up the books… this month, it’s Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior… next month, God’s Hotel by Victoria Sweet… July, Some Luck by Jane Smiley. The folks love to see new faces, and to solicit their input on future books to read. So don’t…
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Sunday, May 8th – 4:30-6:30 pm – Happy Mothers Day!
Gail Dobson Band
a jazz matriarch and her progeny!
Gail Dobson has been a jazz singer for decades, inspiring and inspired by a family of musicians, immediate and extended — Mas Koga, shakuhachi, flute and saxophone and Smith Dobson V, vibes and sax… Alan Hall, drums… Luke Westbook, guitar… Sam Bevan, bass have been the core of her band for a good long…
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Saturday, May 14th – 4-6 pm
Grant Levin / Danny Brown Duo
Two supremely talented young players go toe to toe for two sets of live duo jazz. Â What a way to spend a little time on a San Francisco Saturday afternoon. Besides being an accomplished leader, Grant Levin is in high demand as a sideman for live and recorded gigs around the region. Likewise, Danny Brown…
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