Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era (University of Wisconsin Press, 2016) A newly annotated edition of a landmark 1926 collection of lumberjack song published by pioneering song collector Franz Rickaby, augmented by a biographical essay and additional songs. “Franz Rickaby was the first to put the singing lumberjack into an adequate record and…

Beginning June 11th in a duo with Kash Killion, Grant has embarked on an open ended sequence of duo, trio and quartet dates, every corresponding Sunday evening. June 18th, Grant’s trio included bassist Doug Stuart and drummer Michael Mitchell. Tonight, June 25th, a quartet with Francis Vanek on saxophone, Chris Amberger on bass and Jeff…

Vocalist Dima sings from the heart with a voice and style reminiscent of the early 1950s. She is known for her command of the lyric, beautiful, soothing tone and carefully chosen repertoire. Dima began to develop her style as a jazz singer while studying with Merrill Hoover, a well known jazz pianist best known for…

Swing Fever declares, “The music is our passion. Rhythmic, romantic, torrid and witty, we’re crazy for it. Tunes from the 1930s and ’40s have inspired Swing Fever for decades. We learned from the originators of the genre, which gives our performance authenticity. We not only play the music, we talk about it too – colorful…

  Viktorija GečytÄ— is a Lithuania-born jazz singer, based in Paris since 2008. For GečytÄ—, singing is nothing less, and nothing more, than musical conversation. She has toured internationally with the American bassist Gene Perla and his Go Trio (Sean Gough on piano and Jon Arkin on drums) every year since 2008, performing for audiences in New York,…

Dan Liberthson, a San Francisco writer of poetry books about baseball and animals, reads his latest poems, including series about birds and the Pacific Northwest. Charles Curtis Blackwell is a painter and a playwright as well as a poet, heavily influenced by jazz in all of his artistic endeavors. His books include “Is, the Color…

At 7:30 pm: Pianist Grant Levin enters the second week of his new series of three dates a month. His third Sunday trio date features Doug Stuart on bass and Michael Mitchell on drums. An open-ended residency that will go down in the annals of Bay Area jazz history. Jazz as it is played in San…

Fresh from the galactic expanse, the Klaxons are coming! The decks are clear, the power is on, the beam is focused! Playing hits from Robot Invasion and other sounds channeled from their vast universe of musical influences, picked up in a lifetime of travel along the radio waves. the grooves of countless vinyl records and…

Live jazz at Bird & Beckett started back in the fall of 2002… coming up on 15 years of Fridays.  And Scott Foster has been on the gig since the beginning. Bird & Beckett’s favorite guitarist, bar none. Tonight, as he does on the third Friday of each month, Scott has concocted a band to…