Posts by Eric

$10-20 suggested donation; $5-10 for students/musicians/low income. Lots of fun and great music with this band, from swing to bop and straight ahead to the now! Youngster Jeffrey Burr plays guitar in the company of four jazz vets — drummer Vince Lateano, trumpeter Al Molina, saxophonist Jerry Logas and bassist Dean Reilly. Dean’s the grand old…

    The story of the “hippie trail” through the eyes of a traveler. North Beach writer Terry Tarnoff tells tales of the trail and of some of its more notorious characters. He’ll read passages from his paired memoirs, or are they novels, The Bone Man of Benares and The Reflectionist, and he’ll display artifacts and unspool videos…

Always a good idea to Swing Left when kicking off a little celebration of a well-earned national holiday, don’t you think?! Especially this one! Come down Friday after work to catch Rob Reich & his comrade cultural workers in the big little band called Swings Left. They’ll have your toes tappin’ and your muscles jitterbuggin’,…

Jerry Ferraz and Kim Shuck, San Francisco Poet Laureate, book and host our twice-monthly poetry series. Tonight, we’re pleased to present Charlie Getter and Aqueila M. Ross, with an open mic to follow. Charlie Getter writes poems in San Francisco. He shouted them from a street corner for fifteen years, now he’s practicing being quieter. He’s…

$10-15 suggested donation. $5 for students, musicians and low income. One Sunday afternoon, two rockin’ bands on one bookshop stage!   Jimbo Trout & the Fish People + The Deep Basement Shakers   Aaron Hammerman and Dave Eagle are the Deep Basement Shakers, delivering some primal, joint-rockin’, steady-rollin’ barrelhouse blues n’ boogie from the deep musical…

$20 cover charge; $10 for students, musicians, low income. Grant Levin, piano Jack Tone Riordan, guitar Erik von Buchau, vibes Tomoko Funaki, bass Rick Rivera, drums A piano-guitar-vibes configuration inspired by a stormy day’s immersion in the classic live 1958 George Shearing Quintet recording, “George Shearing on Stage!” That lp featured pianist Shearing in the company…