BIRD & BECKETT CULTURAL LEGACY PROJECT
Hundreds of live Bird & Beckett performances are preserved for posterity, and are yours for the browsing on our youtube channel and facebook page. If you’re a scholar, you might want to dig in. Just give us a call! https://www.youtube.com/@bird_beckett/streams
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Angel Adedokun, vocals Jelani Noble, keys Chanelle Ignant, guitar Michael Reed, drums. A bilingual, multi-genre artist known for her ethereal vocals and raw, confessional songwriting, Angel Adedokun blends rock, jazz, salsa, cumbia, pop, soul, and funk, brings two sets of powerful music to the stage. $20 cover. Students $10. Angel Adedokun is a bilingual, multi-genre artist known for her ethereal vocals and raw, confessional songwriting. Blending Rock, Jazz, Salsa, Cumbia, Pop, Soul, and Funk, her unique and sultry sound captivates audiences, aiming to tell the truth and bring people together through her art. Influenced by the greats including Prince, Selena Quintanilla, Michael Jackson, Celia Cruz, Steve Perry, and more…her artistic expression knows no bounds. Local performances include BottleRock in Napa, Yoshi’s in Oakland, and Mr. Tipple’s in San Francisco. In addition to her music, Angel is an accomplished actor, dancer, choreographer, vinyl DJ, and educator with credits like Nollywood Dreams, Hairspray, and Jesus…
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Henry Hung, trumpet; Kasey Knudsen, saxophone; John Wiitala, bass; Lorca Hart, drums. The brilliant compositions of two jazz masters, pianists both. But not a pianist in sight on this engagement. Bring your posse! Enjoy some brilliant jazz. $20 cover. Students $10.
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Bruce Williamson, saxophone Brad Buethe, guitar Noah Schencker, bass Ron Vincent, drums $20 cover. Students $10. Drummer Ron Vincent graduated from Berklee in Boston in 1973, toured for six years, then spent three years in Kansas City. Since 1982, he’s been ensconced in the New York jazz scene, including seven years in the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and Mulligan’s Re-Birth of the Cool Tentet (a band that included trumpeter Wallace Roney, alto player Phil Woods, pianist John Lewis and vocalist Mel Torme). In recent years, Ron has become more bi-coastal, with a home back east and another just down the coast. Ron’s colleagues on his Bird & Beckett gig tonight are long established and talented professionals. Saxophonist Bruce Williamson left San Francisco for New York in the mid-1980s and has had a high level career in jazz all along the way. Brad Buethe had his New York chapter in the…
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Kenny Warren, trumpet Liberty Ellman, guitar Raffi Garabedian, saxophone Ben Goldberg, clarinet. $20 cover. Students $10. Whoo boy! Big fun!
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Sunday, August 23rd, 5pm: Echo’s Bones + Evidence Trio. It’s Happy Hour. Pay what you will! That said, we have six professional musicians here, so pay $30 if you can. But donate whatever suits you. Students $10, or what you can manage. Beckett greets Monk, and more — if that’s even possible! Best damned avant garde players around! Echo’s Bones Sheldon Brown – clarinet, bass clarinet, alto flute, bass flute Amber Lamprecht – oboe, English horn, alto flute Joseph Noble – flute, alto flute, bass flute Evidence Trio Kersti Abrams – saxophone, flute Andrew Joron – theremin Michael Wilcox – electric bass
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Soren Lee, guitar; John Wiitala, bass; Brian Melvin, drums. $20 cover. Students $10. Brian is here from Estonia, Soren is here from Denmark, and John Wiitala is just here. Was great. _____
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What is Threeocracy without saxophonist Tom Griesser? It’s an amazing duo of the trio’s guitar and bass players — Scott Foster and Scott Chapek. Making art from a tricky situation…
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Every Sunday at 5pm, it’s our happy hour show… bring some cash for the band and enjoy yourselves! if you’re not hurtin’ for money, let it flow so those who are squeezin’ every dollar till the eagle grins can relax and enjoy the music too, and the musicians can go home well paid… it’ll make everybody happy! Stay for a tune, stay for two sets… contribute and amount that fits your pocketbook… byob and food if you like, for yourself or to share… we have some fine hetch hetchy water for you, and jazz from swing to bop! Today it’s our legacy band with its roots in the original jazz in the bookshop weekly tradition — The 230 Jones Street, Local Six Literary Jazz Band, in direct line of descent from the 2002 Chuck Peterson Trio, now led by drummer Tony Johnson with Charlie McCarthy, saxophone; Art Khu, piano; and…
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Nathan Tokunaga, reeds. Charles Chen, piano. Mikiya Matsuda, bass. Benny Amon, drums. $20 cover. Students $10. Nathan Tokunaga spent the first years of the pandemic at home with his clarinet (and his mom, Sunny), immersed in YouTube recordings of classic jazz from the earliest years of recorded music, roughly 1910-1920 et seq. He was about 14 when he emerged as an old soul talent of the first magnitude and was taken under the collective wings of the Bay Area’s finest trad practitioners including Clint Baker, Jeff Hamilton and others. He’s now chasing his B.Mus. degree back east, and is wrapping up his summer vacation with this concert before returning to his studies.
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Dean Mermell, vocals. Tom Griesser, tenor sax. Kymry Esainko, piano. Joe Kyle, Jr., bass. Eric Garland, drums. $25 cover / byob. Students $10. Mose Allison recorded 19 fabulous bluesy jazz trio and quartet albums in the 16 years following his 1956 debut, featuring his lyrics, vocals and piano work, primarily on Prestige and Atlantic, as well as Columbia and Epic. In the 30 years that followed, he recorded another baker’s dozen albums, primarily on Elektra and Blue Note, including the 1996 album on Verve, “Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison” with Van Morrison, Georgie Fame and Ben Sidran, which hit No. 1 on the jazz charts. _____
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Brazilian choro by São Paulo Allstars! Alessandro Penezzi, guitar Alexandre Ribeiro, clarinet Roberta Valente, pandeiro Jane Lenoir, flute $25-$35 sliding scale cover.
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Kay Kostopoulos celebrates her new album, “All This is Possible,” in the company of the marvelous saxophonist Noel Jewkes, arranger/pianist John DiMartino, bassist Carla Kaufman and drummer Mark Lee. She caresses a set of jazz standards from the album with her own exotic flair, and augments those numbers with spoken excerpts from Homer’s Odyssey and jazz songs featuring heroines including Calypso, Circe, and Penelope, incorporating Mediterranean rhythms accented with Turkish finger cymbals. Lash yourself to the mast; Kay’s siren song is bewitching. $25 cover charge (cash at the door, please) /byob. For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Seating is limited.
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Maurice Tani, guitar and vocals. Pam Brandon, vocals. Henry Salvia, piano. Greg Kehret, bass. Kenny Owen, drums. $25 suggested; pay what you will! It’s Happy Hour at Bird & Beckett! BYOB. Born and raised in San Francisco, Maurice Tani has spent five decades on the California alt-country/Americana scene. Fronting his own bands including 77 El Deora and Calamity & Main, he’s produced numerous albums for himself and others. As a singer songwriter guitar slinger, he’s built a deep repertoire of wryly humorous, darkly romantic songs occupying a genre he’s referred to by many names–Oblique Americana, Twang-Noir… Tani calls it all “Supercalifornographic.” Maurice was a shade too young for the Summer of Love, but the California culture that gave the world surf guitar, country rock and psychedelia was a profound influence on him. Barely into his twenties and hungry for experience, he moved to central Texas to work the hardcore country,…
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A new trio, UFO Pilots is made up of Vincent Maclauchlan on guitar, Aidan McCarthy on bass and Nadav Beary on drums. All three were born and raised in the East Bay and all three now reside in New York. “We all live within a five minute walk from each other in Brooklyn, so we started jamming, blending our love for East Bay funk with some jazz, blues, and pop music. The trio formed truly from the love of friendship and music, creating and inspiring to find new sounds while keeping the groove alive.” $20 cover charge / byob. Students, $10.
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