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in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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Sunday, October 9th – 4:30-6:30 pm
LITQUAKE COMES TO BIRD & BECKETT!!
Smooth Toad: Twisted Roots, Cast Iron Crooning & the L’try Stuff!
Smooth Toad presents the dusty American folk ragas of surrealist/dada poet G. P. Skratz, romantic fiddler/bard Hal Hughes, and legendary theater artist Bob Ernst. The trio weaves an authentic collaboration that conjures original hymns wherein Captain Beefheart meets Lord Byron. Their words and tunes explode into a whole new art form: think nightingale on…
Saturday, October 8th – 7:30-10pm
The Smith Dobson Quartet
plays Bird & Beckett’s “jazz club”
every Saturday night, when lights are low…
Smith Dobson is a triple jazz threat, a respected and much sought player on saxophone, vibes and drums. He’s heir to several generations of family talent — his father was a top pianist on the scene through his untimely death in 2001, and his mother is a jazz singer and teacher of repute. Tonight, Smith…
The Art of the Duo
Pianist Grant Levin meets bassist Kash Killion
Saturday afternoon, Oct. 8th – 4-6 pm
Two sets of interplay between one of the best young jazz piano players we’ve ever heard, and a bassist whose skills, talent and reputation have been solidly established in these parts for decades. Kash Killion is a San Francisco based cellist, bassist, sarangist, vocalist, and composer, who began his professional music career at age ten….
Friday, October 7th – 5:30-8 pm
Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble
Trumpet player Al Molina, reed player Jerry Logas and drummer Vinnie Rodriguez join bassist Don Prell for two generous sets of live jazz. Decades of professional experience and tons of improvisational skill on the bandstand tonight. Don first made his mark on the jazz scene in the 1950s, when he was an integral part of…
Thursday, October 6th – 8-10pm
GG3 plays West Coast Blues
Thursday, October 6th, 8-10 pm. Parris Bertolucci on keys and Randy Lee Odell on drums join phenomenal guitarist, singer and blues composer, GG Amos for two sets of blues solidly in the West Coast tradition. West Coast blues was spawned in the 1940s by an African American population influx to the West Coast, drawn by…
Monday, October 3rd – 7-9 pm
Stars of Bay Area Poetry turn out to benefit KPFA!
Avotcja Jerry Ferraz Francisco Herrera Genny Lim Kaylah Marin Kim Shuck Bill Vartnaw Nellie Wong plus open mic! Stars of Bay Area Poetry read to benefit KPFA! More headliners as they confirm, so stay tuned! Don’t touch that dial! KPFA is crucial always, particularly in these trying times. Help them get through a…
Grant Levin Trio
Sunday night, 8-10 pm. October 2nd No cover charge on Sundays, but please bring your money anyway. Musicians must eat, cover charge or no. Lavish them with your cash, it can’t hurt! In this instance,  accompanying picture notwithstanding, no horn. R.I.P. Terrance. Tell Howie we said “hi.” Count Bill in on that sentiment, I bet. Henry doing…
Invisible Guy
7:30-10 pm. Saturday, October 1st. $10 cover charge. “Melody is the knife that cuts through to truth. Then there is the importance of breath, and personal expression.†— Michael Coleman. In the early 1990s, Ben Goldberg made a mark with his New Klezmer Trio (which included Dan Seamans– see last night’s Lost Trio booking). He’s…
Monday, September 26th – 7-9 pm
Omertapalooza!
poets & jazzers shuffleboil together
Meltzer/Crossman/Rogers/Stewart
Of course you don’t know what to make of it! Even David’s just guessing! But get down here and find out!! Take it from San Francisco Poet Laureate emeritus Diane di Prima, who calls Meltzer “one of the secret treasures on our planet. Great poet, musician, comic; mystic unsurpassed, performer with few peers.†Few peers,…
