Al Molina, trumpet Jerry Logas, sax and clarinet Don Prell, bass Vinnie Rodriguez, drums Jazz history right here! Bebop, lovely standards, fragments of old New Orleans… from “Ornithology” to “Doxy” — from “For All We Know” to “St. James Infirmary.” Bassist Don Prell just turned 87 on August 4th, and shows no sign of flagging….

  Howard Alden is considered among the very best jazz guitarists in the nation, for good reason. We’ve been fortunate to host Howard twice in the past, and welcome him again this August — first on Thursday, August 4th joined in a trio by bassist Peter Barshay and drummer Vince Lateano, and again near the end of…

Nancy Keane grew up in San Francisco in the 1940s and ’50s in a big family, and several of the girls developed into wonderful writers, notably including the poet Geri Digiorno up in Petaluma. For years, Nancy has run the 3300 Club, a neighborhood bar par excellence at 29th & Mission. Somewhere along line she…

Certified Country Music Star Misisipi Mike, singer/bassist Glen Earl Brown, Jr., slide guitarist Ian Taylor Sutton and drummer Kenny Owen deliver a truckload of classic country songs by Ray Price, Merle Haggard, Johnny Paycheck, Waylon Jennings and more.

The Bay Area’s premier young trumpet player leads his fine quintet through their paces… Erik Jekabson, trumpet Kasey Knudsen, saxophone Matt Clark, piano John Wiitala, bass Hamir Atwal, drums Here are a few minutes from the quintet’s last appearance at Bird & Beckett, in December 2015.  

Entwined is the remarkable story of “outsider” artist Judith Scott, who was institutionalized for more than thirty years before being reunited with her sister, Joyce Wallace Scott, who will be on hand today to present her book and engage in discussion with the audience. From birth, fraternal twins Judith and Joyce Scott lived as if…