Posts by Eric
Gaea Schell + John Wiitala Duo played Jazz in the Bookshop, Friday, March 20, 2020 – making for about 910 consecutive Fridays since October 2002!
 Glen Park has never been without live jazz on a Friday night since the Chuck Peterson Trio got the ball rolling! This time, with Gaea Schell on piano and John Wiitala on bass, for the first time in the store’s 20-year history or presenting live jazz by the Bay Area’s fantastic musicians, we had no…
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Sunday, March 15, 2020 – 4:30-6:00pm
Rebecca Kleinmann / Julio Lemos Duo
Rebecca Kleinmann is an acclaimed flutist, singer, and composer with a twenty year professional career marked by diversity and improvisation. In the words of Latin Grammy Nominated pianist and composer, Jovino Santos Neto, “Rebecca plays flute with the passion of a flamenco dancer.†An explorer at heart, she rockets and flows between genres, one day leading The Rebecca…
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Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here:
a reading to commemorate the March 5th, 2007 destruction of Baghdad’s Bookseller’s Street
Thursday, March 5th, 2020 – 7pm
“The only war is the war on the imagination” – Diane di Prima Tehmina Khan, Priscilla Wathington, Farzaneh Safavi, Beau Beausoleil, Walker Brents III and Jerry Ferraz read poems in commemoration of the March 5, 2007 destruction by car bomb of Al-Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad’s bookseller’s street, named for the 10th century Iraqi poet. This tragedy,…
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Come out on Leap Day,
Saturday, February 29th!
All Day Celebration & Fundraiser
for Bird & Beckett, Jazz in the Neighborhood and an Independent Musicians Alliance
On Leap Day 2020, celebrate jazz in San Francisco at Bird & Beckett! Support the organizations that support the musicians! 2020 is a leap year, and leap day, February 29, 2020, is a Saturday. What better day to set aside for a celebration of your local bookshop cum jazz club… and its ally Jazz in…
Read MoreAB5: Assessing its implications, impact and the impetus for fair wage progress. Is an Independent Musicians Alliance part of the solution???
Gigging jazz musicians convened in a “town hall” discussion at the bookshop on February 25th to discuss the prospects for an “Independent Musicians Alliance” – a solidarity organization without dues or meetings – to encourage a free flow of information among musicians that might facilitate collective action seeking overall improvement in wages, benefits and working…
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Sunday, Feburary 16th – 4:30pm
The Waller Brothers & Sandy Rothman
which way west?
Sunday concert series
$20 suggested donation / pay what you can In the tradition of brother vocal duets and the classic bluegrass trio, three veteran bluegrass musicians grace the stage this afternoon.
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