One of the very great jazz pianists on the Bay Area scene, Glen Pearson leads a fine quartet with saxophonist Robert Stewart, bassist Heshima Mark Williams and drummer Ruthie Price. $20 cover charge / sliding scale available. Pianist Glen Pearson currently tours in Count Basie’s chair with the Count Basie Orchestra. He also heads the…

Five great musicians in one lovely band… Ray Loeckle, tenor sax Jerry Logas, bari sax, clarinet, flute and vocal Glen Deardorff, guitar Dean Reilly, bass Tony Johnson, drums In direct line of succession from Bird & Beckett’s earliest foray into weekly jazz parties! It all started in late 2002 when neighborhood jazz veteran Chuck Peterson…

          Come out for some fun with the City Jazz Ensemble, performing original compositions as well as beloved classics in celebration of a successful spring semester at CCSF! The band includes: Vocalists, Adina Pernell and Helen Palma Violins, David Wallace and Madeline Baker Trumpet, Freddy Lee Alto sax, Ferdinand Hartanto Tenor…

20 years down, now embarking on the next 20! Plenty more ahead, of course, through the end of the  month, including: — City  Jazz – CCSF Jazz Club’s big combo – coming in on Wednesday the 22nd to celebrate the end of the term with a blowout jam & party, 7pm — The 230 Jones…

Son of the shop Nicholas James Whittington reads his work, alongside Rod Roland and Micah Ballard in a celebration of their recent collections, No Right Words and Daily Vigs, respectively, the latest pamphlets from Bird & Beckett — a press, of which we are inordinately proud, that owes everything to our aforementioned progeny from the…

A classic piano quartet, led by the most remarkable pianist we know. And that’s saying a lot in a region boasting dozens of fantastic jazz pianists.  The volcanic creativity and technique of Grant Levin has been thrilling San Francisco jazz fans for the past decade and shows no signs of abating!  Lyle Link, saxophone Grant…

$20 cover tonight; sliding scale available. The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Invisible Guy Ben Goldberg, clarinet Michael Coleman, piano Hamir Atwal, drums The return to Bird & Beckett of a sublimely intelligent and intuitive trio “in strict pursuit of beautiful melody.” Michael Coleman says: “Melody is the knife that cuts through to truth. Then there…

Geechi Taylor, trumpet; David Boyce and James Mahone, reeds; Grant Levin, piano; Scott Foster, guitar; David Ewell, bass; Cairo McCockran, drums. Now, if that ain’t something… well, then, we just don’t know! But we think we know. That’s something! Happy anniversary to us! Bring dough for the musicians! Big dough if you’ve got it! $20…

Michael Boughn worked in the Teamsters for nearly 10 years before returning to university to earn a PhD in 1986 after studying with poets John Clarke and Robert Creeley. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Iterations of the Diagonal, Dislocations in Crystal, 22 Skidoo / SubTractions, and Great Canadian Poems for the Aged Vol….

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