Posts by Heather World

JAZZphoria Quintet Jean Fineberg – tenor saxophone/flute Erika Oba – keyboards/flute/piccolo Nancy Wenstrom – guitar Jodi Durst – basses Jeremy Steinkoler – drums/percussion Bandleader and saxophonist Jean Fineberg has toured and recorded with Melba Liston, David Bowie, Laura Nyro, Chic, Sister Sledge (We Are Family)and was featured on Marian McPartland’s iconic Piano Jazz radio show.…

Drummer Tony Johnson brings in a quartet on the fourth Friday of each month Tonight, with a night dedicated to Chuck Peterson, it’s the 230 Jones Street Band, with Charlie McCarthy, saxophone & flute Glen Deardorff, guitar Al Obidinski, bass Tony Johnson, drums. Four old pros, and long-time friends, swingin’. $20 cash cover charge; proof…

Walker Brents III considers Jeffers, casting a cold eye upon our wicked world from the craggy house he built in Carmel in the years following the first World War. Poet of the world’s edge. Candle bearer amidst elemental wave-roar. A mind holding its own, a prophetic eye of focused sight. A thinker whose thoughts give…

It was an extraordinary night of beautiful, intriguing night of music Saturday night at Bird & Beckett. Dahveed Behroozi, piano Shay Salhov, saxophone Jason Lewis, drums Dahveed Behroozi, Shay Salhov and Jason Lewis, with the late bassist John Shifflett, began in 2014 the development of a remarkable jazz quartet focused on original compositions and steeped…

David Boyce, saxophones Scott Foster, guitar Charles Thomas, bass Cairo McCockran, drums Electronorhythmoharmonic music of the spheres. Live in the shop, $20 cash cover, proof of vax, masks. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Catch it in the live stream on the Bird & Beckett YouTube channel or Facebook page. Watching online? Donate per the information on…

Maurice Tani has been called a “cartographer of the human heart” (Scott Bloom, in The Bay Twang). Henry Salvia is all heart, with a winsome view of romance and a facility on keyboard that’s made him the cornerstone of countless bands traveling the backroads of country & R&B music. As Maurice’s record company, Little Village…