Posts by Eric
Sunday, February 15th – 5pm
The Vince Lateano Trio
with guest Chris Aschman
on trumpet and steelpan
The Vince Lateano trio plays every third Sunday at Bird & Beckett. Make it a habit! BYOB and a twenty for the band! Chris Aschman, guest trumpeter and steelpan player.
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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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Celebrate Valentine’s Day
with the Threetles!
Saturday, February 14th – 7:30pm
Sparky Grinstead’s tunes voiced by his loving bandmates Carole Zingeser & John Rafferty, with guitars, harmonica, melodica & percussive things put to great use! BYOB and a twenty for the trio. Droll lyrics, abundant charm and vast reservoirs of love on stage! Come with your love interest, or just to share the love– It’s what…
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Friday, February 13th – 8:30pm
Kahil El’Zabar
& the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
on tour
Join us for the eighth almost-annual Black History Month tour stop at Bird & Beckett by the fantastic, joyous & profound Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, traveling out of Chicago & Detroit across the nation with forays into our neighboring sovereign nation to the north, Canada! O Canada, we could drink a case of you and still…
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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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