Posts by Eric
Thursday, February 12th – 7:30pm
Poet Julian Poirier & Friends
Mansions My Mouth Made
Copies of Julien Poirier’s Mansions My Mouth Made (Bird & Beckett, 2025) can be had over the counter at the bookshop and via post through the online store of Impart Ink, where the thing was designed, printed, and assembled: 32 pages, hand-sewn in wrappers printed letterpress from Onyx type on Canson papers in a variety of hues. Yours…
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Friday, February 13th – 6pm
Eric & the In Crowd
Eric Shifrin, piano & vocals. Simon Planting, bass. Mark Lee, drums. $20 suggested donation; students $10; kids free. Reservations not required, but larger contingents are advised to call ahead! 415-586-3733. Eric has been working his way through the alphabet lately in his lonh-running 2nd Fridays monthly residency. He’s up to “D”! So expect a slew…
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A little backstory on
Friday “jazz in the bookshop”
~~our jazz happy hour~~
continuous since 2002
growing from roots planted in 1999
Here’s a little backstory, to get us to where we now stand… in re: the Fridays, anyway… Read on! And thanks for being part of the Bird & Beckett story in the present day. /s/Eric Whittington, proprietor, since 1999 Once upon a time, in the late spring of 1999, Bird & Beckett opened its…
Read MoreWater under the bridge…
The posts that follow show you what’s come and gone. Search the videos on our youtube channel or facebook page to find evidence of what you remember, or what you missed! Then, make sure you catch the next thing that catches your fancy. The live streams are great, but live music in a room with…
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Friday, February 6th – 8:30pm
Alon Nechustan Quintet
Matt Renzi, reeds Jesse Levit, saxophone & EWI Alon Nechustan, piano Sam Bevan, bass Isaac Schwartz, drums $25 cover charge; byob. Students, $10. For reservations, call 415-586-3733. Alon Nechushtan’s music has brought him to corners of the globe from the Yokohama ‘Rejoicing Sounds’ Festival in Japan with his contemporary orchestral compositions, to the Manila…
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Friday, February 6th – 6pm
JimBo Trout and the Fishpeople
JimBo Trout, guitar and vocals Steve Neil, bass Ken Owen, drums $20 suggested cover; byob. Students $10; kids free. No reservations typically necessary, but feel free to call if you need more than a couple of seats – 415-586-3733, JimBo knows hundreds of tunes and his trio can handle whatever he pulls out of his…
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