Posts by Eric
Thursday, July 11th – 7pm
Author Event
Bruce Neuburger presents Postcards to Hitler: A German Jew’s Defiance in a Time of Terror
Postcards to Hitler (Monthly Review Press, 2024) is San Francisco author Bruce Neuburger’s intimate and dramatic narrative history of Munich residents Benno and Anna Neuburger and their circle of relatives and friends. In the 1920s, Benno, Anna and their children lived as close neighbors to the demagogue who was to become the Nazi leader. A…
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Monday, July l9th – 7pm
ON ZOOM
Kim Shuck hosts poets Tehmina Khan and Tureeda Mikell, plus an open mic
Kim Shuck, San Francisco Poet Laureate Emirtus, hosts poetry readings on Zoom twice a month. The second Monday of each month, there are featured readers followed by an open mic. The fourth Sunday of each month, it’s all open mic. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84350265713?pwd=eE84V3BYdWxiSFBHNHhmdUt1WTUzdz09 Meeting ID: 843 5026 5713 Passcode: 244211 This month, the featured…
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Saturday, July 6th – 7:30-9:30pm
Ray Skjelbred and the Hot Corner
Ray Skjelbred, piano Marc Caparone, trumpet Nathan Tokunaga, clarinet Jeff Hamilton, drums $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. Ray Skjelbred’s roots are in the early Chicago piano styles, with an affinity for the likes of Jess Stacy, Joe Sullivan, Jimmy Yancey and Art Hodes, not to mention a host of others from Earl Hines,…
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Friday, July 5th – 8:30-10pm
Byrds of a Feather
David Byrd, saxophone. Eli Goldlink, keyboards. Ollie Dudek, bass. Michael Spencer, drums. $20 cover charge; byob. Byrds of a Feather is an All-Star quartet with top ranking musicians, well loved and often heard in spots throughout Northern California, honoring the great jazz masters while doing it their own unique jazzreggae way. Besides its reggae inflection, Byrds…
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Friday, July 5th – 6-8pm
The Luke Westbrook Trio
Luke Westbrook, guitar. Matt Montgomery, bass. Smith Dobson, drums. $20 suggested cover for adults; Teens and music students, $5-10 sliding scale; kids free. Reservations, call the store at 415-586-3733. BYOB. This trio of musician friends has been performing together since 2007. These days the group plays repertoire mainly from the Great American Songbook (jazz standards)…
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Sunday, June 30th – 5-7pm
Jam session hosted by the Vince Lateano Trio
Drummer Vince Lateano, an MVP of the San Francisco jazz scene for decades, hosts a jam session at Bird & Beckett on the last Sunday of each month with Ben Stolorow on piano and Peter Barshay on bass, each uniquely talented and at home on our stage. If you want to hear that lovely trio…
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