Reed player Noel Jewkes is featured at jazz club! when pianist Grant Levin leads his quartet through two sets of classic and contemporary small combo repertoire.  Bassist Chris Amberger and drummer Malachi Whitson keep the pulse strong! jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night at Bird & Beckett, 7:30-10 pm.  Grant leads the band…

Noah Schenker, one of San Francisco’s premier bassists, fields a quartet featuring some of the Bay Area’s finest jazz musicians — guitarist Jack Riordan, pianist Adam Shulman and drummer Jon Arkin — keeping the jazz flame burning at San Francisco’s longest running weekly jazz party.  Never a missed Friday since late 2002, and still going strong!…

Mississippi delta blues by a master guitarist fronting a terrific band.  Come celebrate the release of Bill’s new cd, “Parade.” A reviewer for the German publication “Blues News” had this to say this time last year:  “I hear Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb’s montone bass and Junior Kimbroughs Mississippi Juke Joint blues in Phillippe’s playing.”

Bird & Beckett started in business in May of 1999… and in October of 2002, 13+ years ago, we started presenting live jazz every single Friday evening after work. We’re still doing it, and more… but every so often the necktie gets a little tight — you all know how it is… So, on Friday,…

Please attend an informational meeting at Bird & Beckett with Amy Farah Weiss of the Saint Francis Homelessness Challenge She will address: •  what can be done to achieve secure sleep, hygienic toileting and services for San Francisco’s unhoused neighbors •  the innovations already being put into play •  the public policies that can make a difference. 7,000 people live on…

Gerard Sarnat reads from Melting the Ice King, his fourth collection of poems; over 75 of these poems have been published in various magazines. His first was Homeless Chronicles: From Abraham to Burning Man (2010). He has been a professor at Stanford Medical School and has built and staffed clinics for the marginalized and homeless….

  The GG Amos Band with Greg Sankovich on keyboards and Randy Odell on drums takes the stage this Sunday in our Canyon Moonlight series… 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…

Smith Dobson breaks out the vibes for tonight’s date with Jack Tone Riordan on guitar, Miles Wick on bass and Evan Hughes on drums. Originals and Milt Jackson/Modern Jazz Quartet material will carry the day! Always a good band with Smith at the helm!