$10-20 suggested donation; $5-10 for students/musicians/low income. Lots of fun and great music with this band, from swing to bop and straight ahead to the now! Youngster Jeffrey Burr plays guitar in the company of four jazz vets — drummer Vince Lateano, trumpeter Al Molina, saxophonist Jerry Logas and bassist Dean Reilly. Dean’s the grand old…

    The story of the “hippie trail” through the eyes of a traveler. North Beach writer Terry Tarnoff tells tales of the trail and of some of its more notorious characters. He’ll read passages from his paired memoirs, or are they novels, The Bone Man of Benares and The Reflectionist, and he’ll display artifacts and unspool videos…

Always a good idea to Swing Left when kicking off a little celebration of a well-earned national holiday, don’t you think?! Especially this one! Come down Friday after work to catch Rob Reich & his comrade cultural workers in the big little band called Swings Left. They’ll have your toes tappin’ and your muscles jitterbuggin’,…

Jerry Ferraz and Kim Shuck, San Francisco Poet Laureate, book and host our twice-monthly poetry series. Tonight, we’re pleased to present Charlie Getter and Aqueila M. Ross, with an open mic to follow. Charlie Getter writes poems in San Francisco. He shouted them from a street corner for fifteen years, now he’s practicing being quieter. He’s…

$10-15 suggested donation. $5 for students, musicians and low income. One Sunday afternoon, two rockin’ bands on one bookshop stage!   Jimbo Trout & the Fish People + The Deep Basement Shakers   Aaron Hammerman and Dave Eagle are the Deep Basement Shakers, delivering some primal, joint-rockin’, steady-rollin’ barrelhouse blues n’ boogie from the deep musical…

$20 cover charge; $10 for students, musicians, low income. Grant Levin, piano Jack Tone Riordan, guitar Erik von Buchau, vibes Tomoko Funaki, bass Rick Rivera, drums A piano-guitar-vibes configuration inspired by a stormy day’s immersion in the classic live 1958 George Shearing Quintet recording, “George Shearing on Stage!” That lp featured pianist Shearing in the company…

$20 cover charge; $10 for students, musicians, low income. Mean to Me resurrects classic jazz of the 1920s through ’40s filtered through the unique sensibilities of the band, which boasts a proclivity for bop, soul and latin jazz as well. Think Monk sauntering up Tin Pan Alley and turning onto Bourbon Street… Sweet and low…

$10-20 suggested donation. $5 for students / musicians / low income Rob Reich, piano; Ben Goldberg, clarinet; Andrew Stephens, trumpet; Ollie Dudek, bass; Eric Garland, drums. Rooted in the classic swing music of the late 1930s, Swings Left plays tunes of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Artie Shaw, as well as many of…

$10-20 suggested donation; $5-10 for students, musicians, low income. Singer Darlene Langston is featured with the band, with Noel Weidcamp on cornet, John Hunt on trombone, Don Neely on clarinet, soprano sax and alto sax, Si Perkoff on piano, Duncan James on guitar, Al Obidinski on bass and Greg Gotelli on drums. The BVJB evokes…

Walker’s back from his summer rambles. Come out to hear some of what he’s been ruminating about out there on the road! Walt Whitman, the good grey poet, saeth Walker, “is evermore my guide as I now grow grey. The literary field of action is one of perception and notation, especially related to journeys and rambles…