Sunday, December 8th – 5-7pm
Trouble Town

San Francisco pickers, Trouble Town boil a hot pot of folk, bluegrass, swing, jazz and rock into a rebel blend of music with a big acoustic sound. The band’s musical chemistry and diverse influences have allowed them to pull from a deep musical well and make it a special stew all their own. Trouble Town…

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Wednesday, December 11th – 6:30pm
Author Event: David Ladensohn
Fly-Fishing with Leonardo Da Vinci

David Ladensohn presents his book, Fly-Fishing with Leonardo da Vinci. Written with the literate fly-fisher in mind, Ladensohn’s book is equally interesting and entertaining to people interested in Leonardo, the flesh and blood man: a gay, God-believing but not really Church-believing, intensely science-obsessed polymath whose art was as much about his interest in optics and…

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Friday, Decsember 13th – 8:30-10pm
Macy Blackman Trio

Macy Blackman, piano Bing Nathan, drums Benny Amon, drums $20 cover charge; byob. A long overdue encounter between the eminent piano professor Macy Blackman, steeped in New Orleans R&B with six decades in the business, and the young drummer Benny Amon, raised in the Sacramento trad jazz community, who spent ten fruitful years in New…

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Saturday, January 14th – 7:30-9:30p[m
MURMUR GARDEN
a quartet collaboration of
pianist Myra Melford, clarinetist Ben Goldberg, cellist Ben Davis and drummer Jordan Glenn

These four much admired musicians have not played together before, so no one can really know what’s going to happen. But individually and in every musical situation each always can be relied on to do their absolute best with logic and other forms of magic. Songs by people in the band and an expansive horizon…

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Sunday, December 15th – 5-7pm
The Vince Lateano Trio

Make it a habit! The Vince Lateano Trio plays the third Sunday of every month at Bird & Beckett! Vince is a 60-year veteran of the San Francisco jazz scene. Born, raised and introduced to jazz in Herb Caen’s home town of Sacramento, Vince rousted out of the Army in 1965 while the Vietnam War…

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