Posts by Eric
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002!
Friday, May 22nd – 5:30-8:00pm
Eric Shifrin plays jazz piano
live streamed to you!
Click here to view and listen on YouTube! King of the San Francisco saloon and salon pianists, Eric Shifrin sings too, and rolls through material from Cole Porter to Hoagy Carmichael to Gene Autry. Â He’s been charming the swells, swindlers and stand-up guys in bars and bistros from the Barbary Coast to Nob Hill…
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Sunday, May 17th – 7:00 pm
vocalist Sherri Roberts and pianist David Udolf
a jazz live stream from Bird & Beckett
Vocalist Sherri Roberts and pianist David Udolf are collaborators in music and life and household chores, including much dog walking. Incidentally, they’re wonderful musicians, both! They’ll present an evening of jazz standards, familiar and surprising, charming and impeccably performed. Settle in for a cozy hour of lovely music. Sherri has several albums to her…
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EXTINCT ANIMALS OF THE ICE AGE!
Sunday, May 17th at 2pm
The Tar Pits Cantos Author Greg Harmon reads for the kids & their parents
Join us online at Bird & Beckett this afternoon, Sunday, May 17 at 2pm for a reading by the proprietor’s eldest son’s childhood baseball coach Greg Harmon now a distinguished and acclaimed writer for youngsters and author of The Tar Pits Cantos a poetic reimagining of a long gone world swallowed up in the glorious…
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Friday, May 15th – sets at 5:30 and 7:00 pm
Saxophonist David Boyce
plays solo jazz, live streamed
from Bird & Beckett
A long-time force on the Bay Area jazz/hip hop/afro-funk music scene, David Boyce is revered for his work since the mid-1990s as a founding member of the Broun Fellinis as much as for his connection with the soprano saxophone genius of New Orleans jazz pioneer Sydney Bechet, aand so many points along the jazz journey.…
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Sunday, May 10 – 7:30 pm
Nashville Honeymoon
live streamed from Bird & Beckett
Come to Bird & Beckett via our live stream to celebrate with Nashville Honeymoon. Lynne Maes and Hank Maninger are the Tammy Wynette and George Jones of our time and place, though with much less alcohol. Two voices, two guitars, two songwriters. Cohabitating and so contagious! Remember while you’re here to pay the cover charge,…
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Friday, May 8th – 5:30pm
Pianist Walter Earl
live streamed from Bird & Beckett
Pianist / improviser composer / producer Walter Earl The music flows from Walter’s huge heart through his hands and the instrument to create a soulful experience you won’t be able to, and won’t want to shake. Help us help Walter meet the bills in this time of few gigs and short bread! If…
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