We’re pleased and proud tonight to present San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck as a featured reader in our ongoing bimonthly poetry series, sharing the podium and spotlight with her colleague and friend, Jerry Ferraz. An open mic, hosted by Jerry, will follow. This dual feature/open mic format seems particularly fitting, as Kim, named San…

And here we are at the end of a beautiful ride. Come be a part of it. On this third Sunday in December, Pianist Grant Levin collaborates in a trio date with bassist Doug Stuart and drummer Jeff Minnieweather to finish out seven months of duo, trio and quartet work! 2, 3, 4… Count it…

One of the most delightful dates we’ve hosted at the bookshop was just this last October, when Friends of Old Puppy played from their eclectic bag of tunes. By popular demand, here they come again! Just the thing for a Sunday afternoon in the midst of the holiday maddness. Steven Strauss, ukulele Greg Pratt, guitar…

Denise Perrier is known for her elegant contralto, for her phrasing and swing, for her unparalleled interpretation of tunes drawn from the “Great American Songbook” — the timeless popular music that poured out of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and the little offices and garrets of songwriters across the land from the teens and ’20s through…

Saxophonist Rob Sudduth — whose credits include work with everyone from Norah Jones to Huey Lewis (a lot of work with Huey Lewis) to Ben Goldberg and Graham Connah — joins guitarist Scott Foster, bassist Dan Seamans and drummer Tom Hassett.          

An early music celebration of Christmas, with a joyous nod to the swinging 1960s. Vocals and instrumental performances on lute and harp by Doris Williams, a valued musician on the Bay Area early music scene since the late 1980s. Doris is joined on the program by  viola da gamba player Kit Robberson and classical guitarist Steve…

Hey, where’s the snare?! Jaz & Giulio make it happen. Grant sets the stage. The music at Bird & Beckett doesn’t stop.

Drummer Greg Gotelli brings in his merry six piece Chicago-style jazz band with vocalist Darlene Langston for two sets of chesnuts to roast on your open fire!    

Wendy DeWitt is the Queen of Boogie Woogie! and Blues & You Name It! You ain’t heard nothing, ’til you’ve heard Wendy rip it up! Wendy DeWitt, piano Takezo Takeda, guitar Kirk Harwood, drums The boogie woogie notes that fly out of Wendy DeWitt’s fingers connect you so passionately with her that you walk out of…

Smith Dobson, saxophones Jeffrey Burr, guitar Doug Stuart, bass Jon Arkin, drums Some Ellington, some Monk, some more… through the lens of the work of the great saxophonist Paul Desmond, a long-time associate of Dave Brubeck and a player known for a tone that evokes a fine dry martini… interpreted by some of San Francisco’s…