Posts by Eric
Friday, April 13th – 9:00-11:00 pm
The Voice with a Heart!
Vocalist Denise Perrier – the late show!
$20 cover charge
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Denise Perrier is celebrated from Havana to St. Petersburg and here at home for her elegant contralto, for her phrasing and swing, for her unparalleled interpretation of tunes drawn from the jazz canon and the Great American Songbook — the timeless popular music that poured out of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and the little offices…
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Friday, April 13th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Ritmojito
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002
$10-20 suggested donation; students $5
Ritmojito features vocalist Sandra Aran, with Richard Nelson Hall on piano, Dean Muench on bass and Dan Foltz, drums. Superbly crafted songs with deep latin jazz grooves, salsa to ska to samba. This is a date you won’t want to miss!
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Monday, April 9th – 7:30 pm
RJAM JAM SESSION! (Monthly every 2nd Monday)
Students from the SFCM Roots, Jazz & American Music Program
host young Bay Area talent
Last chance this school year to catch the RJAM Jam! Students from local colleges and high schools hosted by the freshman class at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s brand new “Roots, Jazz & American Music” undergraduate degree program! They’ll be dispersing for the summer right after finals in May, but will come back in…
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Sunday, April 8th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Take a Wacky Walk with the Seducers
Classic, Outlaw & Honky Tonk Country Music
$10 suggested donation
Two sets of high octane honky tonk from a supergroup that’s happy to call Bird & Beckett home every second Sunday. Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocals Hank Maninger, bass guitar and vocals Kenny Owen, drums
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Sunday, April 8th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Dima with the Al Molina Quartet
$10-15 suggested donation; students $5
The Chet Baker Project Revisited featuring Al Molina on trumpet & Dima on vocals Larry Chinn, piano; Ron Belcher, bass; Jim Zimmerman, drums Covering music associated with Chet Baker from his beginnings in the early 1950s to his death in 1988, this ensemble showcases through music and lyric an etching of the feeling and the…
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Sunday, April 8th – 2:00 pm
Joseph Maviglia – mostly words without music, and some with
essayist, poet, singer/songwriter
Canadian poet, guitarist and songwriter Joseph Maviglia’s visit to Bird & Beckett has been four years in the making! His collection, Critics Who Know Jack (Urban Myths, Media and Rock and Roll) was published in Guernica Editions’ “Essential Essays” series in 2014 when the conversation started. Now, he’ll read a bit from the book, do…
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