Posts by Eric

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…

Bassist Joe McKinley has rounded up some prime suspects to perform at Bird & Beckett on June 16th. Veteran players all, trumpeter Mack Rucks, saxophonist Jim Grantham and pianist Muziki Robinson round out his quartet, dubbed the OG’s… the old guys… Prepare for some solid grooves shaped by musicians who know what they’re up to…

Darren Johnston, trumpet Matt Renzi, reeds Adam Shulman, piano Eric Vogler, bass Darren & Co. emerge from the shed with a sizzling pot of nicely spiced modern jazz drawing on classic recipes from Bach to Bartok, Shostakovich to Sibelius… Darren says his ‘n Amy’s cats know these cats as the “Noisy Strangers,” but we know…

James Mahone, tenor sax, joins guitarist Scott Foster, bassist Aaron Cohn and drummer Omar Aran for two sets of straight-ahead jazz ‘n bebop! Bird & his confreres live on at Bird & Beckett! Never a missed Friday evening of jazz since it started in earnest nearly 16 years ago, and Scott’s been on it from…

Rodney Ruckus kicks it up with two pros up from L.A. — Detroit native DeSean Jones on tenor sax and, originally from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, the bassist Tabari Lake. Oh, and on drums? That would be RUCKUS!