Posts by Eric
This weekend
Friday 3/28-Sunday 3/30
good times in Glen Park
five shows at Bird & Beckett
Plenty to see and hear at Bird & Beckett this weekend. Open noon to six for browsing the books, and then, there’s music… Friday the 28th, there’s a 6-8pm show (The Tony Johnson Quartet returns! – $20 cover charge), then an 8:30-10pm show (The Aaron Germain Quartet – $20 cover charge). Saturday at 7:30, we…
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Sunday, March 23rd – 8-10pm
Allan Harris – “The Poetry of Jazz”
with Freddie Bryant & Sylvia Cuenca
Allan Harris is on tour out of NYC, and meets up with fellow New Yorker/acclaimed guitarist Freddie Bryant and bi-coastal drummer Sylvia Cuenca–with the estimable Doug Miller on bass–for two sets of poetry inflected jazz and jazz inflected poetry… $30 cover charge; byob. Call the shop to reserve. Harris, long acclaimed for his vocalese, is…
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postponed:
Author Jorge Argueta
My First Words in Nahuat
Jorge Argueta is in El Salvador at the moment and can’t be back in time for this reading, previously scheduled for March 23rd. We’ll announce a new date when he returns. My First Words in Nahuat is soon to be published; its author, Jorge Tetl Argueta is a celebrated Salvadoran poet and writer whose bi-lingual…
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Saturday, March 22nd – 7:30-9:30pm
The San Francisco Sextet
Joel Behrman, trumpet Jeff Cressman, trombone Tod Dickow, tenor sax Matt Clark, piano Curtis Aikens, bass Greg Gotelli, drums $25 cover per adult; byob $10 teens and students Kids free Drummer Greg Gotelli fields numerous great bands in the Bay Area, from the SF Quintet with vocalist Darlene Langston to the Buena Vista Jazz Band…
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Friday, March 21st – 8:30-10pm
Kevin Gerzevitz Trio
plays the music of Herbie Nichols
Kevin Gerzevitz, piano. Ari Munkres, bass. Tim Bulkley, drums. $20/byob. Students/teen – $10. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. Herbie Nichols wrote jazz tunes that are unique and compelling in ways highly appreciated by practitioners of the art, players and composers alike, and by fans, of course. “House Party Starting” is one such tune. Hear it here! And…
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Friday, March 21st – 6-8pm
Outward Bound!
Scott Foster invites two avant garde titans
Darren Johnston, trumpet. Bruce Ackley, reeds. Scott Foster, guitar. $20/byob. Students/teens – $10. Kids free. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. Scott steps out! The long-time cornerstone of our Friday jazz in the bookshop since 2002, Scott Foster brings all manner of jazz combos every third Friday, and this time out he’s invited two players whose renown in…
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