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 5/20/18: Kasey Knudsen Quartet Kasey Knudsen, sax; Lorin Benedict, vocals; Ben Goldberg, clarinet; Miles Wick, bass https://www.facebook.com/events/198530430870942/ [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUut7EmasvU” /] The “Alternative Acts” series is devoted to improvised and other avant…

Jane Kim! Jane has been a committed activist, loyal community member and elected official in SF for the last 20 years. She’s supporting universal child care for working families, affordable housing, health care and housing to resolve homelessness, clean streets, and sensible solutions to transit problems. She’s our hope! Please RSVP to Glen Park resident…

“This jazz baby makes the ’20s roar again and swings out ’30s tunes buoyantly enough to float away even the Great Depression…”    San Jose Mercury News  Roberta Donnay & the Prohibition Mob Band wail on 1920-30s swing, blues, and roots music in the jazz tradition. About their just-released cd “My Heart Belongs to Satchmo,”…

Rafael Mandelman will visit Bird & Beckett Saturday the 19th to discuss the issues and his candidacy for the Board of Supervisors District 8 position in this June’s election. The winner in June will run again for a full term in November. Rafael is an attorney specializing in urban development issues and has served on…

The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… The return of flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny! Dmitri Matheny Group JAZZ FROM THE SILVER SCREEN Featuring Matt Clark piano, Ron Belcher bass and Mark Lee drums. Voted “NW Instrumentalist of the Year” in the recent Seattle Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Awards, flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny leads an all-star band in an evening of Jazz From The Silver Screen. Showcasing favorite movie themes…

Tonight, it’s all about Love! Songs of Love…. Lost, Found, Old, New & sometimes Blue Denise Perrier with Grant Levin, piano Chris Amberger, bass       Mark Lee, drums Vocalist Denise Perrier was born in Louisiana, and moved with her family to the Bay Area at the age of five. She’s had a thirty-year career performing…

[arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFgJ0GZ0CrY” /] Jim Peterson, alto sax Rolf Johnson, trumpet and piano Scott Foster, guitar Dennis Criteser, bass Dan Foltz, drums Five San Francisco players celebrate the points of musical contact they’ve had with the township jazz of South Africa.  South African jazz, also called Township Jive and Kwela Jazz, is world renowned in large…

Strength & Vulnerability Tour! Kicking off with this first concert at Bird & Beckett. The first half of the evening will feature ♡ just Suzanne playing her acoustic, original music. The second half is pure jazz standards! She’ll be joined by Greg Sankovich on piano, Doug Pohorski on bass, and Steve La Porta on drums….

Avotcja, an Afro-Nuyorican poet and musician who has had an outsized influence on the Bay Area cultural scene through her poetry, her music with the ensemble called Modupue, and her radio shows on KPOO and KPFA, welcomes her long-time friend, the Puerto Rican poet Ramon Pinero. METAPHORIC MOFONGO & THE HEALING FIRE OF POETIC WORDSONG…