Parlor Tricks is: Eddie Scher, National resonator guitar; Melina Selverston, sultry vocals; Jeff Bruner, contrabass and Fabio Reis, drums — a self-styled “industrial ragtime” band, doing for syncopation what Led Zepplin did for the theremin and what Lady Gaga did for bubbles! Parlor Tricks is the world’s first and foremost industrial ragtime band, scratching that…

4-6 pm: Grant Levin, piano and Ricardo Diaz, bass weave a web of jazz at once delicate and indestructible. Really! You’ll like it. Feed that tip jar generously!!! 7:30-10 pm: Grant Levin leads a quartet, featuring Jonathan Bautista on tenor sax, Walter Savage on bass and Malachi Whitson on drums. This date will knock your…

jazz in the bookshop is our weekly Friday after work jazz party. Trumpeter Henry Hung brings in a quartet this week, with Jordan Samuels on guitar and Otto Huber on drums. Henry is a lyrical player whose grace is unmistakable, with charm and musical intelligence to spare. You’ll be pleased, we’re sure. He’s also the…

This Sunday night, Eric Shifrin and Ralph Carney lead the eclectic and rollicking quartet they call EaR Candy… with Joe Kyle, Jr. on bass and Randy Odell on drums. EaR Candy operates on the principle that to steal from one artist is plagiarism, but to steal from everyone is research!  Music from Duke Ellington to…

Avotcja, named 2015 Jazz Hero by the Bay Area Chapter of the Jazz Journalists Association last July, is a jazz musician with deep roots, a riveting poet, an imaginative and ruminative prose writer, a pioneer, an individualist, a fierce champion of her fellow musicians, poets and artists.  She leads the group named Best Jazz Group of…

Saturday, January 2nd at Bird & Beckett 7:30-10:00 pm THE SMITH DOBSON QUARTET originals and chestnuts Richard Sears, piano Doug Stuart, bass Tim Angulo, drums jazz club!  when lights are low $10 cover

Count on bassist Don Prell and his confreres to keep the jazz ball rolling at Bird & Beckett right into 2016!  We’ve never missed a Friday jazz date since the series began back in late 2002, so we’re well into our 14th year… nearly 700 consecutive Fridays and counting! Don got his start in LA…

It’s a lovely and low key thing, with two veteran jazz guitarists in solo and duo combination, passing a sweet Sunday afternoon at the end of the year, with you in their company.