Posts by Heather World

Noel Jewkes is a legend among Bay Area jazz cognoscenti for his 6+ decades on the scene as a master of the tenor saxophone and a number of allied instrument,…

Henry Miller, the great novelist and essayist of mid-century (20th) American letters, Brooklyn-Paris-Big Sur, wrote prolifically on poets, particularly D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound (Henry’s crazy brilliant essay on Money and…

Jazz musicians, this one’s for you. Drummer Vince Lateano leads the session with Peter Barshay on bass and Ben Stolorow on piano. No fee to play. Audience, bring a $20…

Jessy Spino has toured through a couple of times in the past five years from Los Angeles with the band Girl Fry, playing  music she characterizes as melodic punk, centered…

This afternoon at Bird & Beckett, Patrick James Dunagan calls to assembly a beatific crew to celebrate a legendary and ’til now unpublished work by poet David Meltzer.  Julie Rogers,…

Always a good time when the In Crowd gathers at Bird & Beckett. Eric Shifrin, piano Rick Brown, trombone Chuck Bennett, bass Mark Lee, drums $20 cash cover charge; BYOB;…