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Thursday, April 9th – 7pm
A poets’ conclave
Stephen Vincent, Hilton Obenzinger
& Jerry Martien
read poems, new and selected
On the occasion of a trip by Jerry Martien down to Monterey to present his book Waveshock: Ed Ricketts, The Voyage of the Grampus, and Our Biopoetic Future, long-time friends Hilton Obenzinger, driving up from Palo Alto, and Stephen Vincent, hosting on his San Francisco home turf, converge on the bookshop to read poems and…
Friday, April 10th – 6pm
Finito!
Eric & the In Crowd
play tunes starting with the letter “F”
and say farewell to the 6pm Happy Hour routine!
Our 24-year old Friday happy hour tradition at Bird & Beckett ends this month, starting with tonight’s Eric & the In Crowd date. It’s fitting that it’s all about the letter “F”! Finito! Next month and going forward, Eric & the In Crowd’s 2nd Fridays residency will start at 7:30pm, a more comfortable hour, we…
4 concerts + 2 literary events: 4/9-4/12
Brazilian Guitars, Classical Flutes, Nahuat, Poetry, Jazzx2 _____ Thursday, April 9, 7:00pm Jerry Martien, Hilton Obenzinger, Steve Vincent [Free] _____ Friday, April 10, 6:00pm Eric & The In Crowd [$20] _____ Friday, April 10, 8:30 pm Fred Randolph Quartet [$20] _____ Saturday, April 11, 7:30pm Ricardo Peixoto & Carlos Oliveira [$20] _____ Sunday, April 12,…
Friday, April 24th – 8:30pm
solo guitar + duo guitar/bass
guitarist George Cotsirilos
with bassist Robb Fisher
Bay Area guitarist George Cotsirilos returns to the intimate language of solo nylon-string guitar on In the Wee Hours, due for release by OA2 Records on May 15th, performed live for you at Bird & Beckett on Friday, April 24th. Illuminating beloved standards and two original compositions with patience and depth, George recorded these tunes…
Water under the bridge…
The posts that follow show you what’s come and gone. Search the videos on our youtube channel or facebook page to find evidence of what you remember, or what you missed! Then, make sure you catch the next thing that catches your fancy. The live streams are great, but live music in a room with…
A little backstory on
Friday “jazz in the bookshop”
~~our jazz happy hour~~
continuous since 2002
growing from roots planted in 1999
Here’s a little backstory, to get us to where we now stand… in re: the Fridays, anyway… Read on! And thanks for being part of the Bird & Beckett story in the present day. /s/Eric Whittington, proprietor, since 1999 Once upon a time, in the late spring of 1999, Bird & Beckett opened its…
Sunday, April 5th – 7:30pm
Cellist Rosalyn Zhang with the
Billy Higgins Legacy Band
featuring saxophonist Richard Howell
Prepare yourself for a magnificent union of Rosy Zhang, North York Concert Orchestra principal cello, with the jazz titans comprising drummer Myron Cohen’s Billy Higgins Legacy Band. $30 cover charge / byob; students $10. Cash at the door, please! Call ahead for a reservation (415) 586-3733, but keep in mind — we’re busy selling books…
Sunday, April 5th – 5pm
Next Generation Jam Session
hosted by the UC Jazz Quintet
Trumpet player Jeremy Kemmerer brings a jazz quintet from UC Berkeley for a set, followed by our monthly first-Sundays jam session especially open to young and young-at-heart jazz musicians still learning the ropes of this hoary tradition! Jeremy Kemmerer, trumpet. Sam Malekzadeh, tenor saxophone. Chris Cook, piano. Benny Goldenberg, bass. Lucas Quan, drums. No charge…
Sunday, April 5th – 1pm
Poet Sunnylyn Thibodeaux
reads from her new collection,
Lucky Charms
New and Selected Poems, 2000-2025
Sunnylyn Thibodeaux’s Lucky Charms: New and Selected Poems, 2000–2025 is fresh out from City Lights Books this spring, No. 26 in its Spotlight Series, edited by Garrett Caples. Her previous books include The World Exactly (Cuneiform, 2020), Universal Fall Precautions (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017), As Water Sounds (Bootstrap, 2014) and Palm to Pine (Bootstrap, 2011). She is…