BIRD & BECKETT CULTURAL LEGACY PROJECT
The Don Alberts Quartet
with Ian Carey, trumpet
Stu Pilorz, trombone
Aaron Cohn, bass
Top flight bebop, standards and originals…
with guest Jeff Kaliss reading some of Don’s poetry
Don Alberts is a triple threat, as a jazzman, poet and novelist.
Add jazz historian for his valuable compilation of oral interviews called Diary of the Underdogs: Jazz in the 1960s in San Francisco.
Born and bred in the Bay Area, with a long stint on the Portland jazz scene, he was house pianist at Jimbo’s Bop City in the early 1960s, played Pearls in North Beach, Ronnie’s Soulville in the Fillmore, and all manner of other clubs up and down the coast. Â A key figure in jazz piano as it’s been played in these parts for five decades!