At the legendary Sun Studios in February 2017, two sidemen on a recording session bonded over 1950s rock’n’roll music.  Returning to New York, they discovered they were Harlem neighbors, and the Harlem River Noise was born. Kyle Lacy & Cody Gibson, Harlem River Noise, take the stage with a quartet at Bird & Beckett Thursday…

Cosmopolitan pillars of the North Beach poetry scene, Ronald Sauer and Agneta Falk have riveted poetry audiences in cafes and auditoriums, on outdoor festival stages, in vast amphitheaters and narrow alleyways… they return to Bird & Beckett with poems in hand… Agneta Falk was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1946. She is a poet, visual…

The Seducers have had a monthly gig at Bird & Beckett for three years, playing classic, outlaw and honky tonk songs by the likes of Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Bobby Bare, plus originals and a few from left field. Look for the Seducers every second Sunday in San Francisco’s premier little bookshop/listening room….

Lewis Jordan (saxophone and vocal) Sandi Poindexter (violin) Karl Evangelista (guitar) Erich Olen Hunt (bass) Jimmy Biala (drums and percussion) Lewis Jordan…plays a mean sax, sweet and mellow, sharp and staccato, richly complex, as the mood demands.  Jordan is a triple threat– a virtuoso on alto saxophone, a deft and ingratiating comic actor and a…

Publisher Lucille Lang Day and poet Joan Gelfand are joined by several Bay Area colleagues who are among the 150 contributors throughout the state whose poems make up Fire & Rain: Ecopoetry of California (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2018).  Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan, is not only…

James Mahone Quartet James Mahone, saxophone Grant Levin, piano Aaron Cohn, bass Hamir Atwal, drums Two sets of jazz standards by four of the Bay Area’s best

Each year since his death in 2011, Eddie Marshall’s working band has reunited to play his compositions, with his son, Alcide, in the drum chair. This year the group will be presenting a treasure trove of “new” gems, tunes Eddie left behind when he passed. The group has been decoding, reconstructing, and rehearsing them, and…

Grant Levin, piano Chris Amberger, bass Mark Lee, drums

2nd year! Students in the SF Conservatory of Music’s “Roots, Jazz & American Music” BMUS degree program host their peers from Bay Area colleges and high schools. No cover charge. Donations to support the bookshop that supports the students are very much appreciated.

Brittany Biala, saxophone, leads a trio featuring Helen Orzel, keyboard, and Jonny Kaminek, bass. With 14 years of experience, Brittany graduated with a BM in Jazz Studies on tenor saxophone in 2017. Her sound has been uniquely shaped by her father’s vast collection of vintage American horns and early exposure to funk, as well as…