Archive for April 2017
Saturday, September 9th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Harvey Wainapel Trio
jazz club! when lights are low…
$15 cover charge
The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Harvey Wainapel, reeds John Wiitala, bass Bryan Bowman, drums
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Friday, September 8th – 9-11 pm
Art Lande and Friends – $20 cover charge
Art Lande, piano; Paul McCandless, saxophone; Erik Jekabson, trumpet; Peter Barshay, bass; Alan Hall, drums We thank Erik Jekabson for bringing Art Lande and Paul McCandless to Bird & Beckett in the company of Peter Barshay and Alan Hall. We’re honored, pleased and excited. About advance reservations/tickets: Because the store is small, it’s not…
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Friday, September 8th – 5:30-8 pm
Mark Levine Trio
jazz in the bookshop
SF’s longest running neighborhood jazz party
Mark Levine, piano Robb Fisher, bass Ron Marabuto, drums Robb Fisher joined Cal Tjader’s group in 1976, playing alongside percussionist Poncho Sanchez. It was an association that lasted over six years and a key highlight in Robb’s career. “Cal was a mentor to all his sidemen,†say Robb, “and his lyrical ballads and love of Afro…
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Thursday, September 7th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Randy Lee Odell presents…
Paul Griffiths & the Scofflaws + Meredith Edgar
Paul Griffiths is a singer/songwriter known and widely admired for such timeless classics as “Headless Body in a Topless Bar.” Tonight, his Scofflaws include Charlie Hancock, Sean Silverman and Randy Lee Odell. Meredith Edgar plies the same trade, writing and performing her songs about bittersweet love, drowning, mistakes, the ocean, and the dark underbelly of…
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Sunday, September 3rd – 7:30-10:00 pm
Mitch Polzak & The Royal Deuces
Bring $10 for the band and $10 for hurricane relief – through the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund established by Houston mayor Sylvester Turner and administered by the Greater Houston Community Foundation. Mitch Polzak is one swingin’ cat! Wait ’til you hear him smoke that pig with lightning speed. His trio is the toast of rockabilly festivals, county…
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Sunday, September 3rd – 4:30-6:30 pm
wordwind chorus
which way west? Sunday concert seriesÂ
Bring $10 for the band and $10 for hurricane relief – through the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund established by Houston mayor Sylvester Turner and administered by the Greater Houston Community Foundation. wordwind chorus comprises the poets q.r. hand, brian auerbach and lewis jordan, and, safe in heaven dead (to quote Jack Kerouac), the late great reginald lockett.…
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