With a lot of help from you, the audience, from neighborhood donors to the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project, a 501(c)3 organization, and from  Jazz in the Neighborhood’s Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund, we’ll pay this quartet a “living wage” of $150 per musician this evening! That’s a lot of heavy lifting for the bookshop…

Preeti Vangani is an Indian poet & essayist. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of San Francisco. Her work has been published in BOAAT, Noble/Gas Qtrly and Juked, among other journals. She is the winner of the Raedleaf Poetry Prize and has a debut book of poems titled Mother Tongue Apologize forthcoming…

$20 cover charge Darren Johnston, trumpet Larry Ochs, saxophone Fred Frith, guitar Jason Hoopes, electric bass Jordan Glenn, drums Many will remember the music Reasons for Moving made when they played Bird & Beckett with Allison Miller on drums this back in January. In early November, Johnston, Frith and Ochs, with bassist Jason Hoopes and…

The danger with expressions like “Why do bad things happen to good people?” is — always viewing ourselves as the good people, when sometimes we are the bad things. Comfort is always good, but at times we need to change. As writers, Andi Frederick & Joseph TinGin seek to be honest in their compositions, to…

This ‘sampling’ from the work of 2nd century AD Roman poet Martialis covers some of the usual suspects, epigrams, verse tags, scurrilous and otherwise, but it also includes a number of poems from the Liber Spectaculorum, the Book of Spectacles, devoted to poems on the Games at the Colosseum and, often, in praise of Caesar….

$20 cover charge; $10 for students/musicians/low income.   San Francisco Bay Area bassist, composer and bandleader Lisa Mezzacappa and her band, the Lisa Mezzacappa Six, premiere a new suite for jazz sextet, “Cosmicomics 2018,” inspired by Italian novelist Italo Calvino’s beloved “Cosmicomics” stories, which humanize various scientific, astronomical and biological phenomena into poignant and playful fables….

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Great jazz music from the traditions of New Orleans, Chicago, New York and San Francisco. Al Molina, trumpet Jerry Logas, reeds & vocal Jeffrey Burr, guitar Dean Reilly, bass Vince Lateano, drums Al Molina was born to a musical family in San Francisco in 1935. He made his mark on the local jazz scene in…

Johnny Escobedo – guitar & vocals Mario Vega – flute & sax Norman Downing – percussion & vocals Cuban son, boleros y guajiras, the sounds of Havana and the Cuban countryside–and more!  El Guajiro plays the gamut of popular music from Latin America. With this personnel, the same configuration as heard at Bird & Beckett…