Ritmojito features vocalist Sandra Aran, with Richard Nelson Hall on piano, Dean Muench on bass and Dan Foltz, drums. Superbly crafted songs with deep latin jazz grooves, salsa to ska to samba. This is a date you won’t want to miss!

Last chance this school year to catch the RJAM Jam! Students from local colleges and high schools hosted by the freshman class at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s brand new “Roots, Jazz & American Music” undergraduate degree program! They’ll be dispersing for the summer right after finals in May, but will come back in…

Two sets of high octane honky tonk from a supergroup that’s happy to call 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

The Chet Baker Project Revisited featuring Al Molina on trumpet & Dima on vocals Larry Chinn, piano; Ron Belcher, bass; Jim Zimmerman, drums Covering music associated with Chet Baker from his beginnings in the early 1950s to his death in 1988, this ensemble showcases through music and lyric an etching of the feeling and the…

Three on a Match: The New, Improved Reading Series!         This round with Kim Addonizio, Paul Fericano and Peter Cherches Need a break from the insanity and anxiety of our times? Come join us at Bird & Beckett for an afternoon of reason, rascality and resistance. Join Bay Area favorites Kim Addonizio…

Sony Holland, in duo with guitarist and songwriter Jerry Holland, sings jazz standards, classic bossa novas, modern folk and originals from a collection of  songs she’s been compiling for years, delivering the material with vulnerability, confidence and cool passion, showcasing her love for great songwriters and their work. Released in 2017, Sony’s cd “Soft POWER” presents…

  Al Molina, trumpet and flugelhorn Jerry Logas, flute and reeds Jeffrey Burr, guitar Dean Reilly, bass Vince Lateano, drums    

 Xxavier Edward Carter is an artist and writer from Dallas, Texas. His written work is heavily influenced by the poetry of Amiri Baraka, the artistic works of Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries, and a love for the plays of Shakespeare. In middle school you could catch him reading Aristotle’s Metaphysics one day, Anna Deavere Smith…

The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project and the Jazz Philanthropists Union, with financial support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, present Alternative Acts: Seeking Truth Above #F a series of six concerts beginning April Fools Day and concluding May 20th   April Fools Day: Ourboros Sheldon Brown, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone and clarinet Clark Coolidge,…