Posts by Eric
Saturday, August 3rd – 7:30-9:30pm
The Dred Scott Trio
Dred Scott, a Bay Area to NYC transplant, is known for his stylistically reckless repertoire and a penchant for covering pop tunes. Since moving to NYC from the Bay Area, he’s gained a reputation on both coasts as an innovative and eclectic pianist and multi-instrumentalist. Dred has been based in NYC for 23 years and is…
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Sunday, August 4th – 3pm
A reading by
Stephen Vincent & Michael Wolfe
Stephen Vincent reads from Sleeping with Sappho and The Golden Book. Michael Wolfe reads from Cut These Words Into Stone. Sleeping With Sappho is the enigmatic title of Stephen Vincent’s poems that imagine and explore the dramas that emerge from a radical re-making of Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho, If Not, Winter. Peter Manson, the Scottish poet…
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Sunday, August 4th – 5pm
Author Jeff Kaliss presents
I Want to Take You Higher:
The Life & Times of Sly & the Family Stone
Music journalist Jeff Kaliss returns to Bird & Beckett to present his deep dive into the world of Sly Stone and his band, revised & updated for a new edition just published by Backbeat Books, with George Clinton’s preface and a new forward by Ricky Vincent. From his anthemic early hits (“I Want to Take…
Read MoreThe Cape: a talk and visual presentation by artist/activist Patricia Diart
coming up in August…
August dates will include the Dred Scott Trio…the Ron Vincent Trio…Maurice Tani with American bassist Mike Anderson…The Elé Salif Howell Quartet…Eytan & Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman…Brian Melvin…a Two Way Mirror reading …Rojai in the Pocket…Duncan James’ George Barnes Experience…Hafez Modirzadeh…Sharman Duran’s Alternate Realities…and more!
Read More25th Anniversary Fundraising Push!
We have so many plans, so many commitments and so little to rely on save hard work, luck and fate! Make your mark on the culture by staking us to our plans, schemes, habits and dreams! Jazz and poetry don’t pay well in this alternative reality we call capitalism! It’s the hardscrabble commitment of the…
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