“Macy is as comfortable rockin’ Ellington and Gershwin as he is swingin’ Joe Turner and Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson,” quoth an article by Andrew Gilbert in Berkeleyside. But it’s New Orleans’ music that’s at the heart of so much of Macy Blackman’s music, ever since the mid 70’s when he began to specialize in New Orleans…

Tenor sax player Bob Kenmotsu leads the band, with Parker Grant on piano, Doug Miller on bass and Ron Marabuto on drums.  Come on out and hear what they’ve got to offer.  This is jazz as it’s played in San Francisco in 2016!  Best jazz on the planet at any given moment, and you can…

  Join us at Bird & Beckett for a freewheeling discussion of North Beach in its current and historical glory by three major writers, each a long-time denizen of San Francisco’s favorite neighborhood, each with a new book: Journalist Ernie Beyl: Sketches from a North Beach Journal Novelist Herb Gold: When A Psychopath Falls in Love Radical…

Heshima Mark Williams marks another year, and what better way to do it than to celebrate his birthday, just a little belatedly, with colleagues and friends on the bandstand at Bird & Beckett!  He’ll have Art Khu on piano and Alcide Marshall on drums, with horn players Gary Bean (trumpet) and David Ferrazares (tenor sax)….

April is the cruelest month, and so… Jerry Ferraz is hosting a rent party for Bird & Beckett! It’s in his backyard out on Mission Street, a few blocks south of Cortland Call the bookshop at 415-586-3733 to RSVP & get the address   Saturday, May 21st – 1 pm to 7 pm It’s a…

Bob Kenmotsu, tenor sax Scott Foster, guitar Adam Gay, bass Omar Aran, drums Guitarist Scott Foster, who leads a date at Bird & Beckett on the third Friday of each month, has assembled a quartet the way quartets are generally assembled: get a date booked and start calling around to see who’s available. Come the…

Rosemary Manno has lived in San Francisco since 1983.   She grew up in Buffalo, New York and has lived in Paris whenever possible. She is a published poet, artist, world traveler, lover of foreign tongues, the natural world and revolutionary struggle and is a member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade. Her work has also appeared in numerous…