Pianist Caili O’Doherty is out from NYC to teach at the Stanford Jazz Workshop and brings in a quartet that includes Bay Area stalwarts Steven Lugerner on saxophone and Giulio Xavier on bass, with Caili’s fellow New Yorker & running buddy Cory Cox on drums. In March, she completed a 5-night run at Dizzy’s at Lincoln Center…

    The String Herders have constructed a fresh take on Americana – corralling diverse influences such as Bill Frisell, Jim Campilongo and Duke Ellington. Tom Huber & Kurt Stevenson (guitars) Larry Luthi & Huntley Barad (rhythm)

Seventh Avenu (final e optional) makes its third appearance at Bird & Beckett! A North Bay-based septet, Seventh Avenu features vibist Dan Neville and the 4-horn arrangements of trumpeter/bassist Graham Bruce. It’s a seven-piece jazz juggernaut, with a book of original music and great arrangements that’s thick as a brick! Mad Duran, alto, soprano, flute…

  Darren Johnston, trumpet Cory Wright & Stephen Lugerner, bass clarinets [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_pAJpwTRY0″ /]  

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 Friday evening jazz… Now, its core line-up sports Ray Loeckle on tenor sax; Jerry Logas on baritone sax, clarinet and vocals; Glen Deardorff on guitar;…

Berkeley-raised (from the age of 7), Berkeley USD-trained (on trumpet; BHS Class of 1980), multi-instrumentalist Peck Allmond has been Brooklyn-based since 1993. The last few years when he’s traveled out to the Bay Area, he’s commonly been found in the company of these sidemen, local luminaries all: Keith Saunders, piano; John Wiitala, bass; Vince Lateano,…

Click through to watch this incredible slice of a documentary on Charles Curtis Blackwell! [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUCGz7bkYck” /]

Honky tonk revisionists out of Oakland, Crying Time plays straight-up country and western music, from Bob Wills to Glen Campbell with whistle stops in between. Their original songs sit pretty in the mix – you’ll think you heard these tunes on your daddy’s stereo when you were little. Jill Rogers is a singer’s singer with…

Mike Wolf’s got a story to tell. Just a punk rock kid out of Pass Christian, Mississippi once upon a time, he’s a big piece of our heart. Come out to Bird & Beckett Sunday and hear him out. Help me pay this handsome fella handsomely! Bring a twenty & drop yr ducat in the…

Bassist Joe McKinley has rounded up some prime suspects to perform at Bird & Beckett on June 16th. Veteran players all, trumpeter Mack Rucks, saxophonist Jim Grantham and pianist Muziki Robinson round out his quartet, dubbed the OG’s… the old guys… Prepare for some solid grooves shaped by musicians who know what they’re up to…