Aaron Cohn, bass, leads the charge, with pianist Gaea Schell on the first set only, and guitarist Scott Foster, tenor saxophonist Danny Brown and drummer Omar Aran throughout!  Two sets of top flight jazz by first drawer San Franciscan jazz musicians! We present jazz in the bookshop every Friday evening, 5:30-8:00 – just like we’ve…

You heard them at the sun-drenched Glen Park Festival at the tail end of April… now dig them in the cool half-light of your favorite neighborhood bookshop. Steeped in genres ranging from rock, New Orleans funk and blues to bluegrass and jazz, Fog Swamp’s members have toured the world, having shared stages with The Meters,…

Joe Goldmark , pedal steel guitar; Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocals; Hank Maninger, bass guitar and vocals; Kenny Owens, drums. The Seducers play Bird & Beckett on the first Sunday of each month! Classic songs by Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Bobby Bare, plus originals and a few from left field. It all makes…

Eddie Jefferson Lives! And David Byrd channels the spirit! Eddie Jefferson was the founder of vocalese (putting great recorded solos to words, blazing to fame with the groundbreaking “Moody’s Mood for Love”). Chicago saxophonist David Byrd was at Jefferson’s last gig, at Joe Segal’s Jazz Showcase in the Windy City. and engaged Jefferson in conversation…

A reading from a new anthology, Truth to Power, with contributors Almaz Abinader, Connie Post, Dean Rader, William Pitt Root, Natasha Singh and Pam Uschuck. Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts has assembled and published this collection of works, as powerful, compelling and incisive as they are timely. Individually and collectively, the pieces in this…

Jim Grantham, tenor saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Justin Carney, bass Jack Dorsey, drums Consummate pros share the bandstand tonight. Jim Grantham was on the scene at San Francisco’s famous jazz club Keystone Korner in that club’s late 1970s-1980s heyday, playing there and in other Bay Area jazz venues with key musicians including Bobby McFerrin, George…

Trumpeter Al Molina and reed player Jerry Logas are at the core of bassist Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble these days, with drummer Steve Nelson joining the group this Friday. Bassist Prell got his start in L.A. in the 1950s, traveling for several years as a member of the Bud Shank Quartet. He’s been a cornerstone…

At midnight, anything can happen. Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight creates and podcasts original “radio” dramas of mystery, suspense, and horror! They’ll create one before your eyes and ears at Bird & Beckett tonight, with a live score performed by the Kurt Ribak Trio!

Tony Robles, born and raised in San Francisco, is co-editor and a revolutionary worker scholar of Poor magazine, and recently published Cool Don’t Live Here No More: A Letter to San Francisco. In 2010 he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Mythium Literary Journal for his short story, “In My Country.” Robles is also a…

Bruno Pelletier, guitar Matt Renzi, saxophone Ken Lenga, bass Tom Hassett, drums Bruno Pelletier-Bacquaert was born in Paris, France in 1960. He says, “I grew up in a musical family and was encouraged at an early age to develop a talent as a composer and instrumentalist.” Note: Bruno asserts, “It has been said that my dad…