Archive for January 2018
Monday, March 12th – 7:30 pm
RJAM JAM SESSION! (Monthly every 2nd Monday)
Students from the SFCM Roots, Jazz & American Music Program
host young Bay Area talent
Jam session every 2nd Monday! 7:30 to 9:30 pm Free Hosted by the first-year students in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s brand new Roots, Jazz & American Music (“RJAM”) undergraduate program. College & high school students welcome. Free
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Friday, March 9th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Grant Levin Quartet
featuring Francis Vanek, Chris Amberger and Rodney Ruckus
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since October 2002
$10-20 suggested donation; students $5
Francis Vanek, saxophone; Grant Levin, piano; Chris Amberger, bass;Â Rodney Ruckus, drums. This quartet reflects a web of personal and musical connections that is both immediate (Chris and Grant started working with Ruckus just a few short months ago) and long-term (Chris and Francis go way back). In the solid midrange, Chris (a veteran player…
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Friday, March 9th – 9:00-11:00 pm
Vocalist Denise Perrier – late show!
$20 cover charge
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March 9th – 9 pm $20 cover charge. San Francisco’s Preeminent Jazz Vocalist ~~ Denise Perrier ~~ In residence at Bird & Beckett through May! Grant Levin, piano, Ollie Dudek, bass, Greg Wyser-Pratt, drums. Mark your calendar now for April 13 and May 18
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POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, March 5th – 7-9 pm
A Reading for Al-Mutanabbi Street
An open mic follows
Jessica Loos, organizer and m.c.
March 5th, 2018, at 7 pm, Bird & Beckett Books in San Francisco will join with others around the world to host a poetry reading in observance of the 11th anniversary of the bombing of Baghdad’s Al Mutanabbi Street. Featured readers will be followed by an open mic, in which all who wish to participate will…
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Sunday, March 4th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Patrick Wolff Quintet
$10-$20 suggested donation; students $5Â
Mike Olmos, trumpet; Patrick Wolff, tenor sax; Keith Saunders, piano; Eric Markowitz, bass; Evan Hughes, drums Five of the City’s top jazz musicians convene to play music composed by jazz greats Kenny Dorham, Clifford Jordan and Horace Silver, and a few originals as well!
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Sunday, March 11th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Achyutan & Barbara Hunter Quartet
$10-20 suggested donation; students $5Â
Barbara Hunter, flute and sax Bliss Rodriguez, piano Richard Saunders, bass Achyutan, drums Achyutan has been a professional drummer for over 40 years, with musical roots that go back to Kansas City where he studied at the Kansas City Conservatory of Music and played drums for five years with the legendary Jay McShann. Achyutan has…
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