Check out Joel Sackett’s article and photographs in Wingspan magazine– the inflight magazine of All Nippon Airlines.  

Book your ticket and you’ll find it in the pocket of the seat back in front of you.

Or click here!

Bird & Beckett leads off the list of “Hot Spots & Cool Groups” and a pic of Grant Levin’s quartet date at Bird & Beckett a few months back (Walter Savage on bass, Malachi Whitson on drums & Jonathan Bautista on sax) finishes off the six-page article by photographer Joel Sackett, who was ushered through town recently by his long-time SFAI buddy Dennis Hearne, North Beach photographer extraordinaire!

Though the pix below are from various venues, virtually every one includes musicians who play often at the shop, from Ulf Bjorkbom, to HowellDevine, Danny Brown & Joe Kyle, Jr., to Lavay Smith & Noel Jewkes, to Jeffrey Burr & Ned Boynton…

Page after page, the San Francisco jazz scene is shown in all its richness.
Though what you see here is just the top of it! It’s deep like the deep blue sea!

Jazz lives in San Francisco in 2016!!!