Every second Saturday, we’re blessed with a pair of performances by pianist Grant Levin — first a duo outing in the late afternoon, and then after a dinner break, a quartet with some of the finest players the bay area has to offer.  In this instance, the duo pairs up Grant with the wonderful bassist…

July 8 marks the anniversary of drummer Jimmy Ryan’s passing. And though he’s sorely missed, the momentum he gave to our 2nd Fridays carries on! Tonight, Trombonists Stu Pilorz and Rick Elmore, pianist Don Alberts, bassist Aaron Cohn join forces with drummer Ron Marabuto to call some tunes that Jimmy would have called. Jimmy always…

    Lucie Vítková is a composer, improviser and performer (accordion, harmonica, voice and tap dance) from the Czech Republic. Her compositions focus on sonification (compositions based on abstract models derived from physical objects), while her improvisation practice explores characteristics of discrete spaces through the interaction between sound and movement. In her recent work, she…

The GG Amos Trio with Lincoln Adler on sax, Greg Sankovich on keyboards and bass and Randy Odell on drums celebrate the Independence Day weekend. Guitarist / Vocalist GG Amos is an artist in the West Coast Blues tradition, raised in Sacramento and now based in San Francisco.  She’s honed her craft as a songwriter and…

To us, nothing suits the 4th of July weekend as well as a trad jazz party, and few can rival the Buena Vista Jazz Band in bringing that spirit to life. Singer Darlene Langston is featured, with Noel Weidcamp on cornet, John Hunt on trombone, Don Neely on clarinet, soprano sax and alto sax, Si…

Two top Bay Area tenor sax players meet up on the Bird & Beckett stage, with a fine rhythm section.  Miles Wick, bass, and Evan Hughes, drums, add their own excitement to the proceedings.

Friday, 5:30-8 pm, September 30. Phillip Greenlief, sax Dan Seamans, bass Tom Hassett, drums Hank Williams and Herbie Nichols, Billy Strayhorn and Nino Rota, Irving Berlin and Joni Mitchell, Beck and Bjork.  And that was just where they stood five years ago. You’ll hear where they’re going these days when you get in here on…

Guy  Clark (November 6, 1941 – May 17, 2016) was dubbed a “king of the Texas troubadours” by that humble southern rag, the New York Times, and they were likely right on the mark. Misisipi Mike and a few great friends from the San Francisco Americana music scene will gather Sunday night, June 26th to pick…

Music industry veterans–country rockers–gifted songwriters–guitar pickers–vocalists adept at working in tandem to create harmonic magic, this band grew out of a winter of music and many more nights spent in front of living room fires, glowing with stories of music industry horrors, tales of perils of the road, memories of old alliances and changing times….