Archive for August 2017
Saturday, November 18th – 7:30-10:00 pm
The Jim Grantham Jazz Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low…
$20 cover charge
Jim Grantham, saxophone stylist, bandleader and composer, plays tenor and soprano saxes and flute. His music springs from the tradition of melodic lyricism associated with such composers and instrumentalists as Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter, and he has performed with many fine musicians including Bobby McFerrin, George Cables, Eddie…
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Friday, November 17th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Further Conversations:
Scott Foster/David Boyce
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002
Tuesday, November 14th – 7 pm
Poets Carolyne Wright & Andrena Zawinski
 read their work
Carolyne Wright’s new book is entitled This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems (Lost Horse Press, 2017).  Her ground-breaking anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace (Lost Horse Press, 2015), received ten Pushcart Prize nominations and was a finalist in the Foreword Review’s Book of the Year Awards. She has nine earlier poetry volumes, five books of poetry in…
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Monday, November 13th – 7:30 pm
RJAM JAM SESSION! (Monthly every 2nd Monday)
SFCM Roots, Jazz & American Music Program
Bird & Beckett hosts a monthly jam session with the inaugural class of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s brand new jazz BMUS (Bachelor of Music) degree program. The session is open to high school and college students who want to take the stage. This is the present and future of jazz! Come down to…
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Sunday, November 12th – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Grant Levin / Joe McKinley Duo
The art of the duo… The last two months of the Grant Levin residency at Bird & Beckett that started in June are underway! In November, we continue it with a duo on the 2nd Tuesday, a trio on the 3rd, a quartet on the 4th. Tonight it’s bassist Joe McKinley making the music with Grant. Joe…
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Sunday, November 12th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Albatross Clarinet QuartetÂ
which way west? Sunday concert series —
Dave Tidball (clarinet, bass clarinet) Jim Dukey (clarinet, bass clarinet) Dick Mathias (clarinet, bass clarinet) Charlie Keagle (clarinet) Here we go again! With this concert, the Albatross Clarinet Quartet will no doubt present an array of new music, plenty of it conceived and arranged very recently indeed. They’re known to go off on tangents, very productively. Bebop to polytonal…
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