Archive for January 2017

Eddie Jefferson Lives! And David Byrd channels the spirit! Eddie Jefferson was the founder of vocalese (putting great recorded solos to words, blazing to fame with the groundbreaking “Moody’s Mood for Love”). Chicago saxophonist David Byrd was at Jefferson’s last gig, at Joe Segal’s Jazz Showcase in the Windy City. and engaged Jefferson in conversation…

A reading from a new anthology, Truth to Power, with contributors Almaz Abinader, Connie Post, Dean Rader, William Pitt Root, Natasha Singh and Pam Uschuck. Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts has assembled and published this collection of works, as powerful, compelling and incisive as they are timely. Individually and collectively, the pieces in this…

Jim Grantham, tenor saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Justin Carney, bass Jack Dorsey, drums Consummate pros share the bandstand tonight. Jim Grantham was on the scene at San Francisco’s famous jazz club Keystone Korner in that club’s late 1970s-1980s heyday, playing there and in other Bay Area jazz venues with key musicians including Bobby McFerrin, George…

Trumpeter Al Molina and reed player Jerry Logas are at the core of bassist Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble these days, with drummer Steve Nelson joining the group this Friday. Bassist Prell got his start in L.A. in the 1950s, traveling for several years as a member of the Bud Shank Quartet. He’s been a cornerstone…

At midnight, anything can happen. Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight creates and podcasts original “radio” dramas of mystery, suspense, and horror! They’ll create one before your eyes and ears at Bird & Beckett tonight, with a live score performed by the Kurt Ribak Trio!

Tony Robles, born and raised in San Francisco, is co-editor and a revolutionary worker scholar of Poor magazine, and recently published Cool Don’t Live Here No More: A Letter to San Francisco. In 2010 he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Mythium Literary Journal for his short story, “In My Country.” Robles is also a…