Ray Skjelbred, piano and vocals; Clint Baker, bass and vocals; Riley Baker, drums. Ray’s roots are in the blues and pianists like Joe Sullivan, Earl Hines and Art Hodes, and he plays like an angel. He’s a legend in the world of traditional jazz, traveling the circuit from his base in Seattle. Catch the…

In association with Bird & Beckett, Fanny Renoir presents The Kentucky Twisters   The Kentucky Twisters is a six-piece bluegrass band. All six musicians are members of the California Bluegrass Association  and have been playing together for some ten years entertaining folks here in the Bay Area. They say they’re “what you would call a Strictly…

Two sets of high octane honky tonk from a supergroup that calls Bird & Beckett home every second Sunday. Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocals Hank Maninger, bass guitar and vocals Kenny Owen, drums

Noah Frank, trumpet Eli Maliwan, tenor sax Greg Jacobs, piano Curtis Aikens, bass Joe Kelner, drums With a sound and approach flexibly fitted to the space and the time, Sueños fuses hip-hop & R&B rhythms, blending modal with gospel harmonies, flowing with bebop-tinged horns over the top of a tight rhythm section that knows no…

Dan Neville vibes Destiny Muhammad harp Rebecca Kleinmann alto flute Gaea Schell piano Sam Bevan bass Pepe Jacobo drums The Golden Circle Sextet, led by the acclaimed young vibraphonist Dan Neville, features the unique timbre of the concert harp with vibraphone and alto flute. This sextet combines elements of Jazz, Afro Cuban, Spanish and Norwegian street…

Bliss Rodriguez, piano Erik von Buchau, vibes Myron Cohen, drums Pianist Bliss Rodriguez was born in NYC on April 2, 1945 to Dominican immigrant parents. He grew up in Hamilton Heights, between Harlem and Washington Heights, on the west side. Bliss was born visually impaired, having no vision in his right eye and partial sight…

Lyle Link, saxophone Adam Shulman, piano John Wiitala, bass James Gallagher, drums Adam Shulman has been a staple of the San Francisco jazz scene since he moved to the city in 2002. Before the move, Adam was a student at UC Santa Cruz where he studied with the great pianist Smith Dobson and the trumpeter/arranger…

The spot where the moon was lowest, as she went by, was off the Zinc Cliffs. We used to go out with those little rowing boats they had in those days, round and flat, made of cork. They held quite a few of us: me, Captain Vhd Vhd, his wife, my deaf cousin, and sometimes…