$10-20 donation requested; $5 for students / musicians / low income. Actually Strictly Clarinets! We’ve got nothing against bluegrass and its allied arts, but today we’ll stay sweetly oblivious to the throng in Golden Gate Park Sunday, listening to this conclave… We rather imagine they could kick ass on some bluegrass if they had a mind to. But we can’t tell these musicians what to do! Why would we? Come and be entranced, enthralled… well-entertained and thoroughly charmed, at the very least! Dave Tidball, clarinet and bass clarinet Charlie Keagle, clarinet Dick Mathias, clarinet and bass clarinet Jim Dukey, clarinet and bass clarinet The ACQ plays original compositions and arrangements by the quartet members for various combinations of soprano and bass clarinets, covering a wide range of styles from early jazz to contemporary concert music, with stopping points between. Original arrangements of: Bix Beiderbecke’s “Betcha I Getcha” Horace Silver’s “Moon Rays”…

A book of paintings of gone and almost-gone south of market San Francisco icons by Richard Louis Perri, aka “Lucky” Perri Above portrait of Richard L. Perri by fellow artist Bob Gerbracht BORN - Rockville Centre, New York 1944 EDUCATION - College of Santa Fe 1963-4 Arizona State University 1967 BA San Francisco Art Institute 1977-78 VOCATION – Fine Arts Painter http://www.richardlperri.com/index.html   Visit Lucky’s website for some insight, take a spin through what used to be, then come down to the shop Sunday and hang out… he’ll talk a bit at you, and then with you.  

The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Kat Parra, vocal; Mas Koga, saxophone; Murray Low, piano; Aaron Germain, bass In addition to singing fluently in English, Spanish and Portuguese, Kat Parra sings also in the dying language of Ladino, or Judeo-Espanyol, which enables her to interpret Sephardic music (Music of the Spanish Jews) faithfully. “This is the language of the Spanish Jews, an antiquated form of Castilian that also includes words from Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish and many other languages. It is an amalgamation of the Sephardic Diaspora, and it is my small way of helping to preserve this language. It is still spoken, but in very few places and mainly by the older generations in Turkey, Israel and in homes across the globe.” http://katparra.com/musica/ Masaru Koga is a young Japanese-American saxophonist of extraordinary sensitivity and power; pianist Murray Low has been a key player in Latin and jazz music in this region for…

[arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcPDCBwQO5Y” /]   $20 cover charge. $10 for students / musicians / low income. “GOD, CAN THIS WOMAN SING! It’s as if a vocalist from the great post-war blues and jazz combos had been transported to the end of the century.” Blues Access Magazine “Kim Nalley has pipes to burn and works the stage like she means it.” San Francisco Chronicle “If Dinah Washington had lived in the soul era, she’d sound like Kim Nalley” New York Press Magazine Kim Nalley exudes the aura of a diva from a by-gone era, and packs a 3-1/2 octave range that can go from operatic to gritty blues on a dime, with projection that can whisper a ballad and fill a room without a mic. She rivets audiences with blistering scat solos that swing with intensity like no other. She possesses an unforced instrument with unmatched clarity, jazzy musicality and effortless delivery, and sports a sensational…

Al Molina, trumpet; Jerry Logas, reeds, flute & vocal; Jeff Burr, guitar; Dean Reilly, bass; Vince Lateano, drums. Swing to bop. They do it in three-month runs at B&B… September-October-November and March-April-May… Don’t miss out! Consummate musicians doing what they do so well! The heat will be on!

Anybody can play uke! And it’s nothing but wholesome fun, that can be put into service to fight the power, relieve the stress of our times or just have a blast. It’s the latter that will be topmost on everybody’s minds Tuesday night! Bring your uke and join in on some simple tunes, or bust out a virtuoso piece of your own… or just come to sing or hum along… The Aloha Uke Squad is kindly organizing the festivities and collecting funds to benefit the bookshop. Throw in five or ten bucks if you can, or fifty if you’ve got the scratch. It all helps… Below, members of the Ukulele Resistance Brigade  at an in-store recording session of “Kids in Cages” and “You Poor Racist.” Marching on! [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvZn1uf3FqE” /]  

Barbara Hunter, saxophone Bliss Rodriguez, piano Richard Saunders, bass Achyutan, drums

The soul of socialism.

$20 cover charge. $10 for students / musicians / low income. Pianist Larry Vuckovich and bassist Jeff Chambers often work in a duo format, producing a close jazz dialogue, infusing the music with soulful emotion, strong swing and sophistication, and playing with consummate craft. Vuckovich stresses that from the time jazz was first in its heyday, audiences knew the value of coming back repeatedly to hear the same musicians go deeper into the music and take it in new directions with each outing. By coming back, audiences knew they would keep on being uplifted. This duo works in that way, to uplift the spirit in today’s times. With fewer and fewer jazz veterans left on the scene today, it’s more valuable than ever to attend to their explorations and collaborations. Vuckovich and Chambers possess a wide-ranging repertoire that surprises, delights and enriches us at every turn.

$20 cover charge; $10 for students / musician / low income. Muse and Music Series: Jill Tracy in concert! Hailed by LA Weekly as ‘“the cult darling of the Underworld,” Jill Tracy’s seductive, shadowy compositions have become synonymous with the beautiful dark— featured on Showtime’s DEXTER, CBS-TV Navy NCIS; and movies like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Other Madnesses. Her piano music and smoky vocals will transport you into an elegant netherworld full of hidden passageways, wonder cabinets, and opium dens. Of monsters, marvels and mayhem. You know it’s not safe here; but with Jill Tracy as your guide, you’ll be in no hurry to leave. Read more at:  http://jilltracy.com/jt/ Joined by master percussionist/drummer Randy Odell, and a rare appearance by Chapman Stick player Alex Nahas, whose unusual stylings appear on her acclaimed album “The Bittersweet Constrain.” The now NYC-based Brown (known for work in LaughingStock and Bright Brown) will…

Pay what you can! $10-20 suggested; $5-10 for students / musicians / low income. Jazz every Friday after work since late 2002… never a missed Friday in all those years. Figure 52 weeks x 16 years, and a few more… 850 shows, give or take… and still going strong. And that’s just the Fridays! The 230 Jones Street, Local  6 Literary Jazz Band was put together years ago by multi-instrumentalist Chuck Peterson (tenor sax, baritone sax, flute) — a union activist in his prime years (the 1950s and 1960s), hence  his nod to the address of Local 6 of the American Federation of Musicians, where he and his cohorts made sure they could make a decent living at their craft by banding together and defining and defending their rights. It was Chuck who got jazz in the bookshop going on a weekly basis in October 2002. He volunteered that he’d provide…

No cover charge; donations greatly appreciated! “Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight” takes you back to a time before flickering tv screens took over the living rooms of homes across the land, when we were held night after night in the thrall of mysterious and often terrifying stories tuned in from invisible radio waves, with just the glow of the radio’s vacuum tubes illuminating the room. A palpable relief would arise as the suspense subsided, a table lamp was lit, someone began to tickle the ivories of the piano that was a ubiquitous presence in everyone’s parlor, and singers grew bold enough to finally dispel the almost unbearable tension. Tonight at Bird & Beckett, diving deep into the radio frequencies of “the past and the past present,” Twelve Chimes’ creator Aimee Pavy, together with writer, musician and all-around lothario Brett Stillo, presents an evening of chilling plays live on stage, voiced by…