Posts by Heather World

Live music occupied by indigenous culture! Dysfunktional is a new funk/jazz/pop quintet serving up improvised music from classic standards to funky fan favorites. Their repertoire includes personal takes on Stevie Wonder,  Bill Withers, Vulfpeck, Lawrence, D’Angelo (the band’s favorite), and much, much more. Consisting of San Francisco’s most beloved tech workers and two jaded graduate…

Lewis Jordan, reeds, poetry Bruce Ackley, reeds Sandra Poindexter, violin, voice Ollen Erich Hunt, bass Jimmy Biala, drums, percussion Lewis Jordan presents Music at Large, a Bay Area ensemble that brings music, poetry and an open spirit of improvisation. Saxophones, violin, bass, percussion and drums come with a large helping of original material. The group…

Bob Kenmotsu, saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Tony Johnson, drums Bebop to bossa, and always swingin’ $20 cash cover charge – doors open at 7:20 for the 7:30 show BYOB and a mask, as covid still stalks the fringes of the land… capacity is just 25 at the moment to make for some…

Judith Serin’s Gravity, a collection of short stories and the title novella, has just been brought out by Eyewear Publishing.  Her collection of poetry, Hiding in the World, was published by Diane di Prima’s Eidolon Editions, and her Days Without (Sky): A Poem Tarot, seventy-eight short prose poems in the form of a tarot deck…

The Joel Frahm Trio presents music from the new album The Bright Side (Anzic Records, 2021) Joel Frahm, tenor saxophone Dan Loomis, bass Ernesto Cervini, drums $20 cover charge at the door (cash please) byob and a mask reservations: 415-586-3733 Coming off nine consecutive bookings in Europe in April (with dates in France, Germany, the…

Kathryn Waddell Takara, visiting from Hawaii & celebrating the release of her new collection Seasons in Haiku, will read this evening together with Bay Area poets Karla Brundage, Lucille Lang Day, Shizue Seigel, Amos White and, Maw Shein Win If you’re unable to make it down to Bird & Beckett this evening, you can view…