$20 cover charge; $10 for students / musicians / low income. Vocalist Rebecca Kilgore on tour from Portland, with Grammy-nominated pianist Randy Porter and bassist Tom Wakeling. With more than two dozen albums under her own name and dozens more in other combinations, Rebecca Kilgore is regarded as one of the foremost American interpreters of…

$15 cover charge; $10 for students, musicians, low income. Come out to hear one of San Francisco’s most amazing jazz pianists, the very great Walter Earl! With bassist Arlington Houston and JPaul the Drummer. [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyqMdLmkvGM” /]

Guitarist Scott Foster, a cornerstone of the Bird & Beckett jazz edifice since the beginning, brings in drummer Chris Gamper, whose Bay Area Jazz Documentation Project has been catching great musicians in the act of creating fantastic music from whole cloth for several years now! Tonight, with Dann Zinn on saxophone and Adam Lowdermilk on…

Author Terry Tarnoff discusses his novel The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker with special focus on the story of the Spear of Longinus. Nothing makes much sense in Tobias Parker’s life. He walks an ever-tightening circle through San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, where foxes fall out of trees, parachutes drop from the skies and mysterious boxes appear…

$15 cover charge; $5 for students/musicians/low income. This stellar trio is playing several dates around the Bay Area in early September, celebrating the release of the acclaimed cd, “Introspection” (Jazzheads) With Introspection, guitarist Roni Ben-Hur and bassist Harvie S present a captivating album of classic material presented in rare versions for guitar trio. The album…

Sharon Doubiago notes: Wild Ocean Press has published Bill Bradd’s brilliant book-length poem, “Continent of Ghosts”. He’s a great reader who has lived for decades north of Fort Bragg on the Pacific mouth of 10 Mile River and while well-known and active there as a poet, he’s barely known elsewhere. Sharon Doubiago, on the other hand, is…

$10-20 suggested donation; $5-10 for students / musicians / low income. Nashville Honeymoon’s music is a modern reworking of the classic country sounds of the 50s and 60s. Their songwriting draws on country, rockabilly, and honky tonk traditions. Hank and Lynne bring the best of traditional country duets to life, reminding listeners of George and…

$10 suggested donation; $5 for students / musicians / low income. Don’t you just know it? Piano professor Macy Blackman’s got the rockin’ pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu, and is feeling strangely good! Why wouldn’t he, with bassist Bing Nathan sharing the stage, letting the good times roll?

Genny Lim will share the bill with Jerry Ferraz today. Her work as a playwright, poet and performing artist has been widely respected in San Francisco and further afield for four decades. Who’s that trumping over my bridge??? Jerry Ferraz reads his Trump poem, completed!   [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSLXyaE5Dwk” /]

$20 cover charge. $10 for students / musicians / low income. Jason Hayashi – tenor saxophone Andrew Weitz – piano Jelani Banfield – bass Ryan Higley – drum Jelani Banfield is a formidable voice on bass already at the age of 20… Now a bona fide veteran (i.e., a sophomore) in Sam Clam’s Disco and…