Posts by Eric

  Darren Johnston, trumpet Cory Wright & Stephen Lugerner, bass clarinets [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_pAJpwTRY0″ /]  

The legacy band! Chuck Peterson put this unit together several years ago, as a fresh iteration in a direct line of evolution from the earliest days of Bird & Beckett Friday evening jazz… Now, its core line-up sports Ray Loeckle on tenor sax; Jerry Logas on baritone sax, clarinet and vocals; Glen Deardorff on guitar;…

Berkeley-raised (from the age of 7), Berkeley USD-trained (on trumpet; BHS Class of 1980), multi-instrumentalist Peck Allmond has been Brooklyn-based since 1993. The last few years when he’s traveled out to the Bay Area, he’s commonly been found in the company of these sidemen, local luminaries all: Keith Saunders, piano; John Wiitala, bass; Vince Lateano,…

Click through to watch this incredible slice of a documentary on Charles Curtis Blackwell! [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUCGz7bkYck” /]

Honky tonk revisionists out of Oakland, Crying Time plays straight-up country and western music, from Bob Wills to Glen Campbell with whistle stops in between. Their original songs sit pretty in the mix – you’ll think you heard these tunes on your daddy’s stereo when you were little. Jill Rogers is a singer’s singer with…

Mike Wolf’s got a story to tell. Just a punk rock kid out of Pass Christian, Mississippi once upon a time, he’s a big piece of our heart. Come out to Bird & Beckett Sunday and hear him out. Help me pay this handsome fella handsomely! Bring a twenty & drop yr ducat in the…