The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Jesse Levit, sax & EWI Adam Shulman, piano Josh Thurston-Milgrom, bass Lorca Hart, drums A native of Oakland, California, Jesse Levit started playing saxophone and piano at the age of seven. After winning numerous honors and holding the lead alto chair in both the SFJAZZ High School All-Star Band and…

Tammy Hall Trio Tammy Lynne Hall, piano Ravi Abcarian, bass Ruthie Price, drums $15 cover charge Tammy Lynne Hall is among the premier pianists in the Bay Area, with a richly deserved international reputation and audience. Her playing is steeped in jazz, gospel and classical influences. “A musician who has much to offer in the…

Guitarist Scott Foster will be fresh back from Havana for tonight’s show, so he’s enlisted bassist Adam Gay and drummer Omar Aran to play two sets of music drawing on his experience there!  

Delta blues juggernaut… a howling wind of sound and rhythm Joshua Howell gtr, harp, vocal Pete Devine drums, washboard, jug Joe Kyle, Jr. bass Read up on the band here  http://www.howelldevine.com/about.html Seek out their records read about those here Then come hear them live. You’ll never be the same again!

Nancy Calef is best known in North Beach and internationally as a painter–for good reason, witness the canvas above! She’s also a songwriter and singer and clearly much more. Jerry Ferraz is a modern troubadour, uncanny in his channeling of a tradition that reaches back centuries and across continents. He’s also been the host of…

Nova Jazz is Daniel Heffez, saxophone Bob Brumbeloe, guitar Ollie Dudek, bass Omar Aran, drums This afternoon they’re joined by some of our favorite poets — Jennifer Barone, Ingrid Kerr, Pablo Rosales and James Ellis — for a rich feast of music and the word! Visit this link to listen to the Nova Jazz album…

Larry Dunlap, piano Chuck Bennett, bass Akira Tana, drums feat. Bobbe Norris, vocal $15 cover charge. Larry Dunlap and Bobbe Norris have been performing together since the late 1970s (and have been married since about the same time).  Born in the Bay Area, Bobbe was sitting in at the Fillmore District’s Bop City in the 1950s while…

Henry Hung, trumpet; Grant Levin, piano; Josh Tower, bass; Omar Aran, drums. jazz at bird & beckett wouldn’t be what it is without the musicians who kicked it into gear and kept it going for years! R.I.P,  Jimmy! Jimmy Ryan passed away in July 2015 and will always be missed! Henry Hung will make sure…

Joe Cunningham, Christopher Gray and J. Raoul Brody sing songs of ramshackle urban disjuncture. Cheerfully enough! It all started with their fixation on the Kinks’ album, “Muswell Hillbillies,” memorably evoked in performances at Bird & Beckett and other fine venues a year or so ago… but there’s plenty more modern desolation to feed the preoccupations…