Posts by Eric
Sunday, May 3rd – 5pm
Student-Centric Jazz Jam
hosted by the Yoav Konig RASOTA/SFCM-RJAM Quartet
Mark your calendar for tomorrow’s jazz today at Bird & Beckett on the first Sunday of each month from 5 to 7pm! And consider becoming a sponsor of the next generation of jazz greats! Ask us how! Each month, on the first Sunday of the month from 5 to 7pm, we present a jam session…
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Saturday, May 2nd – 7:30pm
Cantos de mi Tierra
Laura Ramos & Edu González, vocals Armando Fox, piano Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, guitar Anastasia Preston, bass Ryan Friedman, percussion $25 cover charge / adult; byob. Students, $10; kids free. Formed in the summer of 2023, the latin cabaret ensemble Cantos di mi Tierra had its first public performances in October 2023 with three sold-out shows…
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Friday, May 1st – 8:30pm
Ramya Shankar & the Human Experience
Ramya Shankar, vocals Prasant Radakrishnan, saxophone Unpil Baek, piano Peter Barshay, bass Varun Pattabhiraman, mridangam Barbara Nerness, biosignal researcher/composer $25 cover students $10 For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733 Ramya Shankar is a genre-blurring sound artist and vocalist whose voice flows from deep Carnatic and folk roots of India into jazz and global…
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Friday, May 1st – 6pm
THE TRIO: Berthiaume-Bennett-Moore
Denny Berthiaume, piano. Chuck Bennett, bass. Curt Moore, drums. $20 suggested / adult; byob. (pay what you can). Students, $10; kids free. A classic piano trio date. Pianist Denny Berthiaume, bassist Chuck Bennett and drummer Curt Moore, three veterans of the Bay Area jazz scene, have been plying these waters together for many years, all…
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A little backstory on
Friday “jazz in the bookshop”
~~our jazz happy hour~~
continuous since 2002
growing from roots planted in 1999
Here’s a little backstory, to get us to where we now stand… in re: the Fridays, anyway… Read on! And thanks for being part of the Bird & Beckett story in the present day. /s/Eric Whittington, proprietor, since 1999 Once upon a time, in the late spring of 1999, Bird & Beckett opened its…
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Tuesday, April 28th – 7pm
Author Event: Jeanne Carstensen
A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis
Join PEN Award finalist Jeanne Carstensen, in conversation with Frances Dinkelspiel, for the paperback launch party for A GREEK TRAGEDY, with live rebetika music. The author: Jeanne Carstensen, in conversation with Frances Dinkelspiel The book: A Greek Tragedy: One Day, A Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis (Atria/One Signal,…
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