Posts by Eric

Terese Taylor joins Andre Custodio Saturday morning through the noon hour to create a tapestry of improvised ambient sound.  $5 suggested donation if you come for the music. A buck or two is nice if you just happen to be browsing & don’t mind supporting the arts. Saturday mornings through November 24th, Andre Custodio presents a series…

Guitarist Jordan Samuel’s quartet, featuring bassist John Wiitala, drummer Lorca Hart and trumpeter Henry Hung, will be performing a variety of jazz standards.   In honor of the upcoming Halloween holiday, the band will be playing scarier selections than normal such as “Friday the 13th”, “Witchcraft”, “Old Devil Moon” and others.  We hope to see you…

The 230 Jones Street Band represents a continuous line of descent from the earliest days of Friday evening jazz in the bookshop! Saxophonists Jerry Logas and Ray Loeckle, guitarist Glenn Deardorf, bassist Dean Reilly and drummer Tony Johnson play great jazz from swing to bop and beyond every fourth Friday at Bird & Beckett. They make up…

$20 cover charge. $10 for students / musicians / low income. Michael Dease, trombone Jason Hainsworth, tenor saxophone Spencer Hoefert, guitar Cris Carrera, bass Robert Chapa, drums Jason Hainsworth, Assistant Director of the Roots, Jazz & American Music program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (to initiates, the SFCM RJAM), welcomes long-time running-buddy-in-jazz Michael…

Bill Glassley returns to Bird & Beckett to present his newly published book, A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice (Bellevue Literary Press, 2018). In A Wilder Time, Glassley, a surfer turned geologist at the University of California at Davis and an emeritus researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark, retraces his…

Rural blues from the San Francisco masters of the form HowellDevine Joshua Howell, harp, guitar, vocals Pete Devine, traps, washboard, percussion, jug Joe Kyle, Jr., bass