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653 Chenery Street in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
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phone: 1-415-586-3733 email: [email protected]
Sunday, January 21st – 4:30-6:30 pm
wordWind chorus
performance and celebration of QR Hand’s 81st birthday!Â
wordWind is QR Hand, Lewis Jordan and Brian Auerbach — 3 poets, with Lewis Jordan doubling on saxophone. Two very special guests will also be on hand — trumpeter George Sams and poet Tongo Eisen-Martin. q.r. hand, jr., voice and poetry, moved to the SF Bay Area from NYC about forty years ago. Originally published…
Saturday, January 20th– 7:30-10:00 pm
James Mahone Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low… Â
The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Â James Mahone, tenor saxophone; Ian Carey, trumpet; Josh Thurston-Milgrom, bass; Mike Mitchell, drums Â
Friday, January 19th – 8:30-10:30 pm
Reinhart-Hamilton-Young-Matsuda Quartet
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Chestnuts of early jazz & popular music Robert Young, saxophone, cornet & vocals Jeff Hamilton, piano & vocals Bill Reinhart, guitar & banjo Mikiya Matsuda, bass
Friday, January 19th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Trio: A Blues Reset for 2018
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002
$10 suggested donation
Scott Foster, guitar Lorenzo Farrell, organ Dan Foltz, drums Taking it down to the fundamental blues base of jazz, in myriad forms.
Sunday, January 14th – 7:30-10:00 pm
The Seducers
Classic, Outlaw & Honky Tonk Country Music
Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar Hank Maninger, lead guitar and vocals Tim Wager, bass guitar and vocals Kenny Owen, drums [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S2j5JvYm6M” /]
Sunday, January 14th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Craig and MacGregorÂ
which way west? Sunday concert series
$10 suggested donation
Randy Craig and Robbie MacGregor convene a revolving cast of characters, veteran players all, at the Marsh in Berkeley on a regular basis, for a romp through a cavalcade of rock, jazz and pop tunes. Tonight they bring their show to Bird & Beckett! [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifP0KU5qslg” /]
Saturday, January 13th– 7:30-10:00 pm
Cartoon Jazz Octet
jazz club! when lights are low…
The Cartoon Jazz Octet plays classic tunes from the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s by Raymond Scott & John Kirby plus a slew of originals! Jeff Sanford, reeds Eric Wayne, trumpet Hal Richards, reeds Andy Ostwald, piano Randy Johnson, guitar, banjo & vocals Zachariah Spellman, tuba Simon Planting, bass Mark Rosengarden, drums
Friday, January 12th – 9:00 pm
Reasons for Moving
Reasons for Moving Darren Johnston, trumpet Larry Ochs, sax Fred Frith, guitar Allison Miller, drums This all-improvised concert at Bird & Beckett by the group “Reasons for Moving” is in preparation for a 2018 tour of Europe starting at the Jazzdor festival in France, and will feature a first meeting of core members Frith/Ochs/Johnston with…