Posts by Eric
Saturday, March 1st – 7:30-9:30pm
Benny Amón’s New Orleans Pearls
Marc Caparone, trumpet. Jeff Hamilton, piano. Sam Rocha, bass. Benny Amón, drums. $25 cover charge; byob. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Jazz in the Neighborhood (a 501(c)3 nonprofit funded by folks like you) has offered to subsidize this date, augmenting your $20 cover charge to help us pay the musicians a guaranteed…
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Friday, February 28th – 8:30pm
Larry Ochs + Tales End
a musical collective featuring
Lisa Mezzacappa,
Darren Johnston & Ben Davis
Ben Davis – cello. Darren Johnston – trumpet. Lisa Mezzacappa – acoustic bass. Larry Ochs – tenor and sopranino saxophones. $20 cover charge; byob. For a reservation, call 415-586-3733. Jazz in the Neighborhood (a 501(c)3 nonprofit funded by folks like you) has offered to subsidize this date, augmenting your $20 cover charge to help us…
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Friday, February 28th – 6-8pm
Tony Johnson’s 230 Jones Street
Local 6 Literary Jazz Band
Bird & Beckett’s legacy band! Charlie McCarthy, saxophone; Sam Cady, piano; Chuck Bennett, bass; & Tony Johnson, drums continue a 23-year tradition of jazz in the bookshop! $20 suggested donation helps us pay these long-time professionals a decent guaranteed wage for the night’s work. BYOB. It’s a cheap night out, and high quality, we assure…
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Thursday, February 27th – 7:30pm
The Good War, Great Sounds!
a benefit for Outsound New Music Summit
with Elizabeth Costello,
Rent Romus & Suki O’Kane
The Good War is just out, and writer Elizabeth Costello has invited Rent Romus and Suki O’Kane to share the stage to raise funds for Romus’s most excellent Outsound New Music Summit and to celebrate Elizabeth’s debut as a novelist. Suggested donation for the event, $20 cash/venmo. BYOB. Bring your checkbook or the digital equivalent…
Read MoreO Pioneers of the Cosmostream! We’ve been vaccinating you against the plague of boredom and the scourge of demagoguery with a mighty river of live streamed events since March 2020, when it all came down!
Hungry to hear some of Bird & Beckett’s past live streams? On the home page you can scroll down to read the individual posts for the shows we’ve mounted in the past several months, a hint of what’s gone down since the pandemic lock-down began. In more amazing times, it would take you right back…
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Sunday, February 23rd – 8-10pm
Hail the Conquering Hero
Keyboardist David K. Mathews Quartet
David K. Mathews, piano Wayne de Silva, tenor saxophone John Wiitala, bass Akira Tana, drums $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733 20 years with Santana after 15 years with Etta James, Dave Mathews first made his mark with three years in Tower of Power. Once he left Tower Of Power he worked on that playing…
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