Posts by Eric

[arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7MuMSND-iE” /] Guitarist Duncan James and vibes & harmonica player Jon Eriksen have been playing in various configurations for more than thirty years, and bassist Rich Girard has played with both of them in different situations for that long or longer. These three musicians have a deep and eclectic common repertoire to draw on,…

Five first call jazz players join forces for two sets of straight ahead jazz and bebop: Lyle Link, alto sax; Bob Kenmotsu, tenor sax; Keith Saunders, piano; Adam Gay, bass; James Gallagher, drums.

We’ve been held in thrall by pianist Grant Levin ever since he first graced the Bird & Beckett bandstand in a couple different units in 2011 and 2012 (Home Spun Trio and Hawkeye), then in extensive collaboration with the late Houston, Texas alto saxophonist Terrance Tony (a veteran of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers); in groups led by…

Walker Brents III has been musing on topics of his choosing monthly at Bird & Beckett for fifteen years or more — thoughts on individual poets, philosophers, seers… bits of mythology…  There are wonderful reasons that he’s got a loyal coterie of fans, and not just at the bookshop, but at storytelling festivals, in schoolyards…

The sound of tomorrow’s jazz today!  Drummer Christian Kyle Burgs arrived in San Francisco out of Houston last September to enroll in the inaugural class of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s undergraduate degree program in “roots, jazz & American music” (read: JAZZ!). Bassist Cris Carrera and tenor player Jayden Clark turned up at the…