Start your weekend out at Bird & Beckett Friday evening with the relaxed bop & swing of the 230 Jones Street Band, then grab a taco and come back for the late show, when Beth Custer and Stephen Kent’s Trance Mission deploys clarinets, didgeridoo and percussion to take you there… Saturday morning, Andre Custodio’s Audible…

$20 cover charge; $10 for students / musicians / low income Ian Carey, trumpet Keith Saunders, piano Robb Fisher, bass Ron Marabuto, drums [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlTxPby7eaQ” /] The North Berkeley Jazz Quartet comprises veteran professionals drawn together about five years ago by geographic proximity, common long experience in top-level gigging on the national and international stage, plenty…

$15 cover charge. $10 for the merely curious. $5 for students / musicians / low income Didjeridu, percussion and cello-sintir meets, for the n-thousandth time, B flat, alto and bass clarinets and percussion in the original formulation of Trance Mission. Notable performances of the duo and its descendants include Maybeck Studio, Live Oak Festival, Freight &…

$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…