Friday, April 20th – 5:30-8 pm
Don Alberts Trio
jazz and bebop in the bookshop
every Friday since 2002
$10-20 suggested donation; students $5

  Don Alberts, an extraordinary bop-influenced jazz pianist and a prolific writer in many veins – whether music, poetry, fiction,  or cultural history, leads a dynamic trio that loves to swing and is ready to go in any direction afforded by the modern jazz idiom! Drummer Ron Marabuto and bassist Larry Epstein are fully up…

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 Thursday, April 19th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Lisa Mezzacappa Six: COSMICOMICS Salon #1
Bookstore residency! $10 suggested donation
 

New music for jazz sextet by the Lisa Mezzacappa Six, inspired by Italo Calvino’s stories on the history of the universe – developed in a series of salon performances at Bird & Beckett beginning tonight and concluding Saturday, November 3rd. Aaron Bennett, tenor saxJohn Finkbeiner, guitarMark Clifford, vibesTim Perkis, electronicsLisa Mezzacappa, bassJordan Glenn, drumsBookstore Residency…

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Sunday, April 15th – 2:00-3:30 pm
Indigenous language scholar Jenny Davis, poet Bojan Louis
& SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck
read their work

Dineh man, editor, poet. Chickasaw woman, two-spirit, language warrior. Cherokee laureate. Who wouldn’t want to come to Bird & Beckett for that!? (Sorry, but airline problems have interfered with Jenny Davis’s travel plans, and she won’t be able to make the reading on Sunday! So Kim has recruited EK Keith to pinch hit! No tragedy,…

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Saturday, April 14th– 7:30-10:00 pm
Grant Levin Quartet featuring saxophonist Noel Jewkes
jazz club! when lights are low…
Every Saturday night!
$20 cover charge tonight; students $5
  

Noel Jewkes, saxophone Grant Levin, piano Aaron Cohn, bass Mark Lee, drums Bird & Beckett’s Saturday night “jazz club” series kicked off in July of 2014 with a quartet led by the phenomenal young pianist Grant Levin and featuring veteran saxophonist Noel Jewkes. After nearly four years of consecutive Saturdays, we present these wonderful musicians…

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