Posts by Heather World

The mind of Ibn Arabi, says Walker, is like a mountain range, from which vast ecosystems of thought are continuously created.  He’ll assay to take you there to have a look at the nearness of this mind to us, in time-and-space terms, as well as take in a bit of the distance involved, as it…

Wayne de Silva, saxophone Brad Buethe, guitar Peter Barshay, bass Brian Melvin, drums $20 cash cover charge at the door. BYOB. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Brian Melvin remembers when he was 5 years old in San Francisco fascinated by Ringo Starr’s swing on the drum kit with the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan…

Jane Lenoir, flute Ricardo Peixoto, 7-string guitar Brian Rice, pandeiro with special guest Paul Hanson, bassoon $20 cash cover charge at the door, byob Reservations, call (415) 586-3733 The Berkeley Choro Ensemble (pronounced “shoro”) is a group of world-class musicians from the SF Bay Area that made its debut in January, 2010 at the Berkeley…

Filling in for Scott Foster on his traditional third Friday booking at Bird & Beckett, we offer a stellar trio of drummer Sylvia Cuenca, bassist Peter Barshay and pianist Ben Stolorow, performing for you from 5:30 to 8:00pm.    Peter and Ben are stalwart members of Vince Lateano’s trio, which has a third-Sundays residency at…

BYOB and a twenty for the trio! Doors open at 7:15. Scott Amendola, a drummer, composer and bandleader who’s been a creative force on the Bay Area jazz scene and beyond for four decades, knows all about the power of subtraction. His stripped-down trio SticklerPhonics brings together long-time collaborators Raffi Garabedian on tenor saxophone and…

Tony Saunders on Bass & Vocals Marc Daniels Guitar Tina Bryant Keys Don Schiff Bass Larry Vann Drums $25, byob Advance reservations – 415-586-3733 You can leave your hat on! Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Tony Saunders & Co. and celebrate as well the 89th anniversary of Tony’s late father Merl Saunders’ birth.   Tony grew…