A very special show tonight, as John Calloway — jazz flautist and composer, latin jazz specialist, former SF Arts Commissioner and a deeply respected educator — will front an ensemble featuring several former members of the Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco (LJYE) who are now playing professionally in the Bay Area. Formed in 2001 by Arturo…

Saxophonist David Boyce and guitarist Scott Foster have developed a knack for fantastic musical interaction when it’s just the two of them on the bandstand. Tonight, they’ll carry their dialog further and deeper. $10-15 suggested donation. $5-10 for students / musicians / low income.

2nd year! The new kids in town meet the founding crew! 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. The program was founded just last year, and the first crop of brilliant musicians, who arrived on the scene…

Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocals Hank Maninger, bass guitar and vocals Kenny Owen, drums

Michael Zisman, mandolin; Jason Vanderford and Scott Foster, guitars;Joe Kyle, Jr., bass. Certainly the darlings of all San Franciscans who’ve ever witnessed their family ruckus at the Deluxe, the Americano Social Club is led by Michael Zisman on mandolin and features guitarists Jason Vanderford and Scott Foster and bassist Joe Kyle, Jr.   They play music for…

$25 cover charge. $10 for students, musicians, low income. Jeff Sanford leads a madcap batch of nine fine musicians through the music of Raymond Scott, John Kirby and other geniuses of mid-20th century classical cartoon compositions — with some works that spring from more modern-day classics as well! Presented by the Jazz Philanthropists Union and the Bird…

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…