Francis Vanek, sax Grant Levin, piano Giulio Xavier, bass Jeff Minnieweather, drums

SLUGish Ensemble is an amoeba-like musical gathering of saxophones, trumpets, trombones, guitars & rhythm section. It’s music utilizes traditional acoustic instruments to create layers of pocketed-grooves and melodies that blur the lines between pop, rhythm & blues, jazz improvisation & minimalism.         Steven Lugerner – Bass Clarinet & Baritone Saxophone     …

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 — once known as The Chuck Peterson Quintet — five musicians whose individual histories on the local jazz scene date back to the 1950s. The…

The Agitator: William Bailey and the First American Uprising Against Nazism is Peter Duffy’s account of the 1935 action led by the young Merchant Marine Seaman Bill Bailey when the SS Bremen, the flagship of Hitler’s commercial fleet, arrived in New York Harbor flying the Nazi flag, just days after violent anti-Semitic riots rocked Berlin….

Homenagem Brasileira! sorry, this date has been postponed due to illness!  a new date will be announced soon Vocalist Sandy Cressman leads a stellar band embracing the diversity of Brazil’s musical traditions. Featuring Jeff Cressman on trombone, Murray Low on piano, David Belove on bass and Dillon Vado on drums. Cressman is well known for…

The Dave Parker Septet performs three newly commissioned works by JAB, plus masterpieces by Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman & more. View composer JAB’s CV at this link: http://heardmusic.com/bio/jabs_cv Jerry Logas, baritone sax Hal Richards, tenor sax Henry Hung, trumpet Charles Hamilton, trombone Karl Evangelista, guitar Pepe Jacobo, drums Dave Parker, bass JAB, composer Long-time Glen Park…

Trumpet player Kenny Warren touring from his base New York City is joined by San Francisco players Raffi Garabedian, sax; Miles Wick, bass; Jon Arkin, drums. $10-20 sliding scale cover charge. Kenny Warren has been active in New York’s improvised music scene since 2006. His quartet’s 2017 release “Thank You for Coming to Life” on…

  Tom Griesser on sax and clarinet Scott Foster on guitar Scott Chapek on bass   Musical associations that date back many years for Scott… …as he says, it’ll be like old times, good times! $10-20 suggested donation  

At the legendary Sun Studios in February 2017, two sidemen on a recording session bonded over 1950s rock’n’roll music.  Returning to New York, they discovered they were Harlem neighbors, and the Harlem River Noise was born. Kyle Lacy & Cody Gibson, Harlem River Noise, take the stage with a quartet at Bird & Beckett Thursday…

Cosmopolitan pillars of the North Beach poetry scene, Ronald Sauer and Agneta Falk have riveted poetry audiences in cafes and auditoriums, on outdoor festival stages, in vast amphitheaters and narrow alleyways… they return to Bird & Beckett with poems in hand… Agneta Falk was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1946. She is a poet, visual…