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…

Pianist Grant Levin leads duo, trio and quartet dates on the 2nd, 3rd & 4th Sundays of each month, respectively. Tonight, he’s collaborating with bassist Kash Killion in a duo, their third encounter in three months, building on the rapport built last October here at Bird & Beckett. This sequence will go down in the…

Eric Nakanishi – sax Matt Wong – piano Logan Kane – bass Ben Ring – drums All four musicians on today’s date were born within a year or two of each other and raised  in the East Bay or San Francisco, and all four are pursuing B.A.s in music and are about half-way through —…

Carlos Suarez reads from his new collection of poems and short prose pieces. Carlos was born in Paraná, Argentina, in the province of Entre Ríos, though he traveled early and widely over a span of many decades and has for some years lived in San Francisco. He has been a photojournalist, a cultural anthropologist, a translator…

The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… The Graham Bruce Quintet Graham Bruce – trumpet Madaline Duran – tenor sax Grant Levin – piano Fred Randolph – bass Andy Dillard – drums Graham Bruce, with the music genes of his father (a semi-pro pianist), played drums as a child– until he inherited his mom’s father’s trumpet. Through…

Don Prell leads the charge… with Al Molina on trumpet and Jerry Logas on reeds, they’re a sure bet! Kris Gustafson’s on the skins and all bodes well. Come and join San Francisco’s longest running weekly neighborhood jazz party — jazz in the bookshop every Friday evening, 5:30-8:00 pm. But BYOB! The State in its…

A 5-piece group led by Chicago native Ray Skjelbred, this band includes Skjelbred on piano, Kim Cusack on clarinet, Katie Cavera on guitar, Clint Baker on bass and Jeff Hamilton on drums. $20 cover charge. All but Hamilton share the vocal duties in this band, and do so with elan! The Cubs are on a…

Grant Levin, piano Chris Amberger, bass Rodney Ruckus, drums Grant Levin’s three-Sundays-a-month residency at Bird & Beckett is into its second month, and will roll through the end of the year. Don’t miss a chance to hear one of San Francisco’s most remarkably talented jazz pianists in an intimate setting where he is completely at…