Posts by Eric
Sunday, November 16th – 5-7pm
The Vince Lateano Trio
with tenor saxophonist Bob Kenmotsu
Vince Lateano has been a mainstay of San Francisco jazz culture since he rousted out of the Army in 1965! His trio with bassist Peter Barshay and pianist Ben Stolorow has been making beautiful music together for years. Come and enjoy one of Bird & Beckett’s long running, and truly great, jazz residencies. Every third…
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Saturday, November 15th – 7:30pm
The Rumi Abe Quartet
Rumi Abe, piano. Armen Krakirian, trumpet. Joshua Thurston-Milgrom, bass. Miles Turk, drums. $20 cover charge at the door (cash please). byob. Students, $10; kids free. For a seat reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Rumi Abe has made a big mark in a very short time on the San Francisco jazz scene. Hailing from Japan,…
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Saturday, November 15th – 4:30pm
A reading for Woman Life Freedom:
Poems for the Iranian Revolution
Bänoo Zan & Cy Strom, co-editors of Woman Life Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution, have invited poet Summer Brenner to join them in a reading of poems from their recently published anthology, which marks a world-historical moment: the first ever feminist revolution. Woman Life Freedom is the slogan chanted by the demonstrators in Iran.…
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Friday, November 14th – 8:30-10pm
Robert Heirendt’s Name & Form Ensemble
Robert Heirendt brings his “Name & Form” Ensemble to celebrate it’s just-released album. You’ll encounter original conceptions/compositions for mbira and saxophone, based on the meeting of traditional Zimbabwean trance music with modern improvisational jazz. The evening will feature Robert on mbira (Zimbabwean kalimba) and two alto saxophonists, Randy McKean and Dan Plonsey, with special guest…
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Friday, November 14th – Two Shows!
Eric & the In Crowd at 6pm
Robert Heirendt’s Name & Form Ensemble
Album Release Concert at 8:30pm
Bring something to sip and a twenty for each band to either or both shows! Call ahead for a seat reservation — 415-586-3733. We’re a bookshop during the day and a venue for music and poetry in the evenings, with events four to six nights a week, especially through the weekends. Eric & the In…
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Wednesday, November 12th – 6:30pm
During a Time of Upheaval:
Love, Lineage and Landscape
Poets Xochiquetzal Candelaria,
Caroline M. Mar & Camille Roy
Three distinguished poets present poems “during a time of upheaval.” Xochi Candelaria hails from San Juan Bautista and has taught at City College of San Francisco since 2008, with two books of poems and publication in a number of magazines to her credit. “When I entered the poetic field of Xochiquetzal Candelria’s words, I did…
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