Posts by Eric

The legacy lives on… Chuck Peterson founded our Friday night jazz programming fifteen years ago… That’s him on tenor sax in the accompanying photo. He’s retired now and just comes back once in awhile, but his colleagues carry it on. The 230 Jones Street, Local Six Literary Jazz Band is his concoction. Now it features…

San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck joins students from City College of San Francisco to celebrate the new issue of “Forum” magazine – CCSF’s literary and arts journal, published twice each year. Music will be provided by the CCSF Jazz Musicians Club.

We’re pleased and proud tonight to present San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck as a featured reader in our ongoing bimonthly poetry series, sharing the podium and spotlight with her colleague and friend, Jerry Ferraz. An open mic, hosted by Jerry, will follow. This dual feature/open mic format seems particularly fitting, as Kim, named San…

And here we are at the end of a beautiful ride. Come be a part of it. On this third Sunday in December, Pianist Grant Levin collaborates in a trio date with bassist Doug Stuart and drummer Jeff Minnieweather to finish out seven months of duo, trio and quartet work! 2, 3, 4… Count it…

One of the most delightful dates we’ve hosted at the bookshop was just this last October, when Friends of Old Puppy played from their eclectic bag of tunes. By popular demand, here they come again! Just the thing for a Sunday afternoon in the midst of the holiday maddness. Steven Strauss, ukulele Greg Pratt, guitar…

Denise Perrier is known for her elegant contralto, for her phrasing and swing, for her unparalleled interpretation of tunes drawn from the “Great American Songbook” — the timeless popular music that poured out of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and the little offices and garrets of songwriters across the land from the teens and ’20s through…