$15 cover charge. $5 for students/musicians/fixed income. Scott Foster, guitar. Lorenzo Farrell, organ. Bob Scott, drums. Three great musicians navigating the classic organ trio sounds of Jimmy Smith, Larry Young and other masters of the 1950s and ’60s.

Exquisite music is being played live at Bird & Beckett 27 times this month in Glen Park. And there’s poetry too. Monday, for instance. What are you waiting for?? Love ya! Get down here! (oh, and jazz club! on Saturday night? That’s actually 7:30 to 10 pm. Don’t be a dope! Get hip! Membership open…

$20 cover charge; $10 for students/musicians/low income. The Lost Trio — Phillip Greenlief, saxophone; Dan Seamans, bass; Tom Hassett, drums — has a continuous 25-year history of close collaboration in creative music, “redefining the jazz standard” by way of excursions through tunes by Hank Williams and Herbie Nichols, Billy Strayhorn and Nino Rota, Irving Berlin and…

$10-20 suggested donation. $5 suggested for students/musicians/fixed income. John Calloway returns to Bird & Beckett with his quartet (David Flores – drums and percussion; Alex Farrell – acoustic bass; Jordan Samuels – guitar), featuring vocalist Angie Doctor. From Flute Bay Area (www.flutebayarea.com): “Virtuoso jazz flutist John Calloway has earned stature among the elites of Latin jazz and…

Join us for a celebration of Lori’s new cd, “A Dream or Two” Lori Carsillo, vocals Jeffrey Burr, guitar Eric Markowitz, bass Vince Lateano, drums “A Dream or Two” features six stunning jazz gems and an original song co-written with the guitarist and arranger on the session, Jeffrey Burr.   Eric Markowitz, the bassist on…

$10-20 suggested donation. $5 suggested for students/musicians/fixed income. Drew Cranfill, violin, with pianist Manu Petaiua, will perform Bach Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor Mozart Violin Sonata in B-flat MajorBeethoven Violin Sonata No. 8 Opus 30Phillip Glass Violin Sonata Drew Cranfill, a native of North Carolina, was educated by the Alexander String Quartet at…

$20 cover charge. $10 for students/musicians/fixed income. NYC saxophonist Caroline Davis returns to Bird & Beckett with a quartet featuring fellow New Yorkers Carmen Staaf on piano and Noah Garabedian on bass, and Evan Hughes on drums. New York Times critic Giovanni Russonello added Caroline’s tune “Footloose and Fancy Free” from her new release “Heart…

$15 cover charge. $5 for students/musicians/fixed income. One of Bird & Beckett’s favorite tango quartets returns to one of its favorite used bookstores! Tango No. 9 (violinist Catharine Clune, trombonist Greg Stephens, tenor Zoltan diBartolo, and pianist Joshua Raoul Brody) serve up a potpourri of classic tango, Astor Piazzolla’s tango nuevo, a smattering of waltzes and milongas, a soupçon of art…

$10-20 suggested donation. $5 suggested for students/musicians/fixed income. The legacy band! Chuck Peterson put this unit together several years ago, as a fresh iteration in a direct line of evolution from the earliest days of Bird & Beckett’s Friday evening jazz party. What Chuck started in 2002 with a trio playing weekly has grown like…

Traveling out of New York City, multi-instrumentalist Aaron Johnson (sax, clarinet, flute) joins San Francisco’s own Smith Dobson, a multi-instrumentalist himself (reeds, drums, vibes). On this date, Dobson will go head to head with Johnson on tenor and soprano sax. The rhythm section will comprise NY-based bassist Hans Glawischnig and local heroes Keith Saunders on piano…