Posts by Eric
Sunday, March 16th – 5-7pm
The Vince Lateano Trio
with Tri Pham sitting in on guitar
The Vince Lateano Trio plays jazz in the bookshop on the third Sunday of every month. Make it a habit! You never know who’s going to drop in! Drummer Vince Lateano has been a mainstay of the San Francisco jazz scene since the mid-1960s, and also toured in those early years with Woody Herman, Vince…
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Saturday, March 15th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Deep End
a quintet
jazz club, when lights are low…
The Deep End started out as a rehearsal band of five long-time Bay Area musicians who hoped to make the best of the pandemic, to explore lesser known music that would be more fun, interesting, and challenging than what we often played at the usual gigs. Drawn to innovative composers—classic giants such as Shorter, Dameron,…
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Friday, March 14th – 8:30-10pm
The Ahmad Jamal Project
Charles Chen / Mikiya Matsuda / Benny Amón
Out of Pittsburgh, Ahmad Jamal made the most exquisite piano trio jazz that’s ever been heard. On piano, Charles Chen evokes that music and adds his own sensibilities in unity with drummer Benny Amón and bassist Mikiya Matsuda. Here’s video of the trio’s last Bird & Beckett outing…
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Tonight! Friday, March 14th – 6-8pm
Eric & the In Crowd
play jazz in the bookshop
For decades, Eric Shifrin has been wowing the swells and the swindlers, the singers and the swingers, the rowdy and the restless and the resolute barflies in dives, penthouses, lounges and lobbies and swank supper clubs — wherever he plays, that’s where you’ll find the in crowd. Standards, chestnuts, curios. He’s a gruff stylist with…
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Thursday, March 13th – 7:30pm
Jugalbandi Concert
Bruce Hamm, sarod / Joanna Mack, sitar
This concert features a Jugalbandi (duet) presentation of traditional North Indian classical stringed instruments. Bruce Hamm (sarod) is a disciple of the revered maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. He has pursued a serious and continuous study of classical instrumental and vocal music over nearly 4 decades. Bruce accompanied his Guru Ali Akbar Khan onstage on…
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Sunday, March 9th – 5-7pm
Mitch Polzak & the Royal Deuces
It’s all jazz at Bird & Beckett– except when it’s lit’rature, poetry, philosophy, belles lettres– or… ROCKABILLY RAVE-UPS & COUNTRY CROONING! CLASSIC BALLADS OF WINE, WOMEN, SONG AND LONG-HAUL TRUCKING! TODAY FROM 5-7PM!! Mitch Polzac & the Royal Deuces featuring pedal steel master Joe Goldmark! Bring a twenty for the band and…
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