$10-20 suggested donation; $5 for students / musicians / low income Talk about your San Francisco jazz… On the fourth Friday of each month, our weekly jazz in the bookshop series features the 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band — aka The Chuck Peterson Quintet, named for the guy who started it all…

Vocalist Kati Pienimäki Schenker and bassist Noah Schenker perform a range of material from jazz standards to pop tunes to Finnish tango and more. They are joined by Keith Saunders on piano and Jon Arkin on drums

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. This year, 22 musicians in their freshman and sophmore years. Amazing talent! For 100 years, the Conservatory kept jazz at bay. No longer! No cover charge. Donations to support the…

Mary Ratcliffe, Editor of the San Franciso Bay View Newspaper, says: “Leroy Franklin Moore, Jr., aka The Black Kripple, the Champion of Disabled People in the Media, loves the least of us. Who is more maligned, more ignored and downtrodden than Black disabled people? Leroy’s love is fierce and uncompromsing. He roars like a lion on behalf of his…

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$10 requested donation; $5 for students / musicians / low income. $20 if you can afford it and truly believe in the value of this music and its treasured proponents! Pianist Larry Vuckovich, having played throughout the years with so many of the jazz greats, has acquired an extensive repertoire of stories about these legendary…

$10-20 suggested donation; $5 for students / musicians / low income. Joe Goldmark , pedal steel guitar; Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocals; Hank Maninger, bass guitar and vocals; Kenny Owen, drums. The Seducers have had a monthly gig at Bird & Beckett for nearly three years, playing classic, outlaw and honky tonk songs by…

$10 suggested donation $5 suggested for students/musicians/low income Supercalifornographic singer-songslinger Maurice Tani pulls all the angst of life right to the surface of his songs. His redemption songs and his wry commentary on life in the sidestreets and cheap rooms of the American dream are never really overstated. Bassist Mike Anderson, with his years of experience…

$20 cover charge; $10 for students / musicians / low income.   B3B4 is a long-awaited musical conversation between Bay Area jazz veterans Tom Griesser (tenor sax), Scott Foster (guitar), Kevin Gerzevits (organ) and Dan Foltz (drums). The band combines the soulful growl of the Hammond B3 organ, the resonant bite of the tenor saxophone,…