Posts by Eric
June 19th to 22nd at Bird & Beckett
Jaime de Angulo to Caroline Cabading
Alturas to the Autonomous Region
jazz & poetry… los goodtimes…
Thursday, June 19th, 7:30-9pm: Walker Talks! In his monthly live stream, Walker Brents III plumbs a sliver of Jaime de Angulo’s storied career—cowpoke, daemonic scholar, gatherer of mystic word-lore among the Achumawi around Alturas, he-who-rolled-in-ditches-with-shamans. Legendary bohemian bay area presence, Big Sur hermit and socialite. Aged Chinatown cross dresser, Robert Duncan his amanuensis. Inspirer of…
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Friday, June 20th – 6pm
The Scott Foster Quartet
features music from the early-1960s
collaboration of Art Farmer and Jim Hall
Henry Hung, trumpet & flugelhorn. Scott Foster, guitar. John Wiitala, bass. Dan Foltz, drums. Adults – $20 / byob. Teens/undergrads – $10. Cash, please! Kids free. For a reservation and information, please call the shop at 415-586-3733. Tonight, the Scott Foster Quartet channels the Jim Hall/Art Farmer collaborations, with Scott on guitar joined by Henry…
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Friday, June 20th – 8:30pm
The Fred Randolph Quintet
The Fred Randolph Quintet! Bassist Fred Randolph summons the troops to occupy your jazz head: Ian Carey, trumpet; Sheldon Brown, saxes/flute; Murray Low, piano; Brian Fishler, drums. 90 high octane minutes of jazz from a clever & nimble composer & first-call bassist cum bandleader, fronting a first-class quintet for the first night of summer! Adults:…
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Poets Saturday & Sunday at 5pm
June 20th, Art Goodtimes
June 21st, Julie Rogers, Lisbet Bailey, Cathleen Williams, Sarah Menefee
First up, Art Goodtimes, poet/farmer/county commissioner (five terms, ret., Dem turned Green)/mycelliust/madcap, visits Bird & Beckett for a reading Saturday at 5pm. Art is down from Cloud Acre on Wrights Mesa near Norwood, Colorado, near Telluride, visiting his daughter in Glen Park and celebrating his 80th birthday! Want a little perspective? Check out this article…
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Saturday, June 21st – 8:30pm
The Jinx Jones Trio
Music is a universal language, and guitarist Jinx Jones is one of its great polyglots. His rockabilly guitar genius is widely acclaimed and well-ingrained in the West Coast & North Beach San Francisco consciousness, but it’s his abiding affection for jazz that we at Bird & Beckett love most. Audiences far and wide can now…
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Sunday, June 22nd – 7pm
Caroline Julia Cabading
& the Autonomous Region
kulintang inflected jazz
Caroline Julia Cabading, vocals. Raymond Bambao, bass. Harold Ohashi, drums. Chris Planas, guitar. Roy Brown, piano. $25 cover charge, cash or venmo / byob. Students and teens $10. Kids free. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. The Autonomous Region was founded in the spring of 2015 as the house band for the International…
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