Posts by Eric
Sunday, July 21st – 5-7pm
The Vince Lateano Trio, with Brad Buethe, guitar
Ben Stolorow, piano Peter Barshay, bass Vince Lateano, drums Special guest, guitarist Brad Buethe $20 suggested donation Teens, music students – $5-10 sliding scale Kids free One of the great pleasures in jazz is the piano trio. Vince, Peter and Ben — three talented veterans spanning three generations — have been working together in a…
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Sunday, July 21 – 3pm
Poets Kevin Opstedal and Micah Ballard
Come celebrate the release of Dharma Pharmacy & Surf Shop, by Kevin Opstedal, the latest publication from Bird & Beckett, a knock-out pamphlet by the Venice-born and -raised, and long-time Santa Cruz-based poet, publisher, and documenter of the dream. Opstedal’s history of Poetry, Poets and Community in Bolinas, from 1967 to ’80, Dreaming as One, is essential reading, as are the many magazines…
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Saturday, July 20th – 7:30-9:30pm
George Cotsirilos / Robb Fisher Duo
George Cotsriilos, guitar Robb Fisher, bass $20 cover charge (cash or venmo at the door). byob Reservations, call 415-586-3733. George Cotsirilos is a uniquely talented jazz guitarist, composer and bandleader, with countless club and concert performances to his credit as well as seven cds (eight, if you count the Nighthawks quintet date from 1995 that…
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Friday, July 19th – 8:30-10pm
John Coltrane Ascension Day Celebration
Jon Raskin, saxophone. Scott Foster, guirar. Matt Montgomery, bass. Tim Bulkley, drums. $20 cover charge (cash or venmo at the door); byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733 Marking the ascension of John Coltrane on July 18,1967, the quartet will draw on Coltrane’s work in the 1960s as he began to leave song form and flowed into more…
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Friday, July 19th – 6-8pm
The Friday Jazz Happy Hour
Scott Foster with the Larry Vann Band
Larry Vann, drums Tim Landis, guitar Richard Cruze, keyboards A. J. Joyce, bass with Scott Foster, guitar Drummer Larry Vann, the Groove Merchant, has brought his flawless funk to Bird & Beckett through the years with his trio and in other combos including the New Squatoolas and This Side Up. This evening, guitarist Scott Foster…
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Thursday, July 18th – 7pm
Film Screening – Bhatthi (The Kiln)
Mohalla Films (Community Films) proudly presents BHATTHI (THE KILN, 2023), an ecofilm short based on the life of a 21st century potter family who make bhar (earthen teacups) in India. The clay teacups are used once, discarded, retrieved, remade and sent out again to the tea stalls in a generations-old cycle. Will this craft survive…
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