Scott Foster on electric guitar Spencer Murray on electric bass Ricky Carter on drums           Scott Foster has been a keystone of Bird & Beckett’s Friday-after-work weekly jazz party ever since it started, way back in October of 2002!           This time out, as we mark the…

Free Litquake event! Salon magazine founder David Talbot is not only a bestselling author of books like Season of the Witch and The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America’s Secret Government; he’s also a great defender of San Francisco in all its glories and disappointments.  In conversation with writer and…

3rd 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.

$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Coltrane, Dolphy Monk. Billy Higgins, Shirley Horne, Billie Holiday, Sun Ra, Nina Simone and more geniuses of jazz are evoked in a newly published book that combines the poetry of Genny Lim and the linocuts of artist Nina Mera. This afternoon will feature a performance of the material by…

$20 cover charge; sliding scale available Gail Dobson, vocals and percussion Chloe Scott Jones, flute Luis Salcedo, guitar Matt Montgomery, bass Eric Garland, drums/percussion plus some of Gail’s amazing vocal students   The Gail Dobson’s Vocals for Kids with the Gail Dobson Band is a remarkable group of young singers and musicians who will feature…

$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Paul Mindrup – piano Scott Chapek – bass Tom Hassett – drums Times Three has been a unit since the late 1990s, releasing their debut, eponymous cd in 2006 and a second cd, entitled “Off the Grid” in 2014. Their long association has allowed them to develop a high…

Ron Johnson, whose most recent collection is  White Ghost Dance (Wasteland Press, 2018), has taught at CCSF and once had a bookshop in the Haight. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Bowling Green State University (1972).  His books include DNA Poems (Black Book Press, 1979), Once Upon a Time in Babylon (Wasteland Press, 2012)…

$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated A Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund Date! The Zan Stewart Band! Zan Stewart, saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Peter Barshay, bass Ron Marabuto, drums Zan’s band will play engaging originals as well as gems from the jazz and pop repertoires from the 1930s through 1960s–music that swings, that has a feel-good…

Disruptive Play is all about tricking power into performing acts of love. Shepherd Siegel will be talking, listening, singing, dancing, appearing and disappearing at Bird and Beckett  on Sunday, October 6th at 2 p.m. Siegel is the author of the mind-bending book, Disruptive Play: The Trickster in Politics and Culture. Disruptive Play journeys from ancient folkloric appearances of Tricksters…

$20 cover charge; sliding scale available Jules Broussard, reeds Grant Levin, piano Chris Amberger, bass Al Marshall, drums Grant Levin’s legion of fans know him as a fantastic pianist who plays with incredible brio and unbelievable chops — which almost, but not quite, masks the fact that he’s an unmatchable ensemble player, digging deeply into…