A fine guitarist who has shifted his focus to education and composition, Camilo Moreiro Coro is a summa cum laude graduate of the Cuba’s top performing arts school University of the Arts (ISA) where he was recognized by the faculty as the best student-teacher of his graduating class. Since 2010, he’s been teaching harmony, composition,…

Amy Farah Weiss will come to Bird & Beckett on Tuesday, the 27th, to discuss her mayoral campaign and to specifically address how ranked choice voting can assure that a progressive candidate takes the Mayor’s office in the upcoming June election. She’ll also talk about a tool she has developed to evaluate the performance of…

Sandi Poindexter, violin; David Udolf, piano; Ron Belcher, bass; Myron Cohen, drums.   “Billy Higgins used to say you have to get inside the music…listen,use your ears, and play from your heart, as you have people’s feelings in your hands… Also make the other musicians on the bandstand feel good so they can get their…

Grant Levin, piano David Ewell, bass Jeff Minnieweather, drums Grant Levin has been one of the top jazz pianists in the Bay Area since arriving on the scene. His talent seems to have no limitations. We’ve been pleased to present him dozens of times at Bird & Beckett. His playing never fails to thrill the…

Walker Brents III plumbs the poetic psyche of Gary Snyder.

Four giants of San Francisco jazz, setting the standard: Ian Carey, trumpet; James Mahone, saxophone; Adam Shulman, piano; Vijay Anderson, drums.   Supported by Jazz in the Neighborhood’s Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund.  

Friday at the Late Show! Tonight, it’s a trio version of Sandor y su Mecanica! Pianist Eduardo Corzo from Havana, Cuba joins bassist David Pinto from Lima, Peru & the Nicaraguan/American drummer Sandor Moss from the Richmond District! About Eduardo Corzo: Born in “el Vedado”, neighborhood of Havana, Cuba, Corzo began his musical study with his…

Tonight, bassist Al Obidinski sits in for 230 Jones Street regular Dean Reilly, with Ray Loeckle and Jerry Logas on reeds, Glen Deardorff on guitar and Tony Johnson on drums.

Neeli Cherkovski, born Neeli Cherry in San Bernardino California in 1945. was an integral part of the mid-1960s Los Angeles poetry scene, edited a literary magazine there with Charles Bukowski called “Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns” and came up to San Francisco in the early 1970s. Throughout those years and ever since, he…

“ “Father Harry,” Msgr. Harry G. Schlitt, got his start in the rock & roll side of the Catholic Church (or maybe created it) in the 1970s in Springfield, Missouri. He’ll tell a sliver of the tale and sign books at Bird & Beckett March 22nd from 5:30-6:30 pm. Read up on Father Schlitt’s Springfield…