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Wednesday, December 9th – 7 pm
AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review
Issue SIX Release Party
The long overdue SIXTH issue of AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review is now available, featuring art by Will Yackulic and writing by Garrett Caples, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Derek Fenner, Jackqueline Frost, Evan Kennedy, Frank Lima, Jason Morris, Rod Roland, Aaron Shurin, Cedar Sigo, Syd Staiti, Richard Tagett, Tara Thomas, and the editor, Nicholas James Whittington, along with…
Sunday, December 6th – 7:30 pm
Potrero Hillbillies do the Kinks!
Joshua Raoul Brody Christopher Gray Joe Cunningham are The Potrero Hillbillies! Joshua Raoul Brody writes:  Everybody loves the Kinks. Not everybody loves their widely overlooked album Muswell Hillbillies, and that is a shame: it’s one of those albums (like, in this writer’s opinion, Revolver, Loaded (what an interesting juxtaposition!), the Band’s 2nd album,Smiley Smile, Loudon Wainwright’s High…
Sunday, December 6th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Denise Perrier & the Jerry Logas Project!
Denise Perrier, vocals Jerry Logas, saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Adam Gay, bass Tony Johnson, drums “Denise has this wonderfully warm voice….Listening to her is like sipping the best glass of wine you ever had in your life. You savor every note that comes out of her mouth.†– Dee Spencer, pianist and professor of music….
Saturday, December 5th – 7:30-10 pm
Smith Dobson Quartet
plays Ornette!
Smith Dobson, alto saxophone, leads a quartet that includes trumpeter Henry Hung, bassist Miles Wick and drummer Evan Hughes in an exploration of Ornette Coleman’s music. Coleman had a remarkable influence on the shape of jazz to come for so many generations of musicians that followed. Says Smith, “Ornette’s music started to liberate me from…
jazz in the bookshop
Friday, December 4th — 5:30 to 8:00 pm
Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble
We’ve been doing it since late 2002 — never missed a Friday — and on it goes! Bassist Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble plays the first Friday of each month in our “jazz in the bookshop” series. This evening: Guitarist Ray Scott joins SeaBop regulars Jerry Logas, reeds; Don Prell, bass; Vinnie Rodriguez, drums. A veteran of the…
Sunday, November 29th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Tom Solinger Quartet
Jazz violinist and vocalist Tom Solinger has assembled a quartet featuring Sue Crosman, piano; John Clark, bass; and Mark Lee, drums. Tom’s time on the San Francisco jazz scene dates back to the 1970s; he’s known John, a first class bassist, since those days. Mark has been a key drummer on the local scene for…
Saturday, November 28th – 7:30-10 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Newk’s time
The Vinnie Rodriguez Quartet
Drummer Vinnie Rodriguez leads the date on an excursion through the music of Sonny Rollins, putting his worthy constituents Jay Sanders (piano), Mike Irwin Johnson (guitar) and Noah Schencker (bass) through their paces. Nary a reed player among them, much less a wind instrument…. Jay’s well known as a trumpeter, but here he navigates the…
Saturday, November 28th – 4-6 pm
Grant Levin Duo
with drummer Pepe Jacobo
Twice a month, on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays, pianist Grant Levin performs with a duo partner at Bird & Beckett. Â Grant is always amazing, and the rapport he builds with his fellow musicians is consistently deep.
November 27th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Chuck Peterson Quintet
jazz in the bookshop every Friday
Talk about your San Francisco jazz…  On the fourth Friday of each month, our weekly jazz in the bookshop series features The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band — aka The Chuck Peterson Quintet — five musicians whose history on the local jazz scene dates back 60 years, to the very early 1950s.. Reed…
Sunday, November 22nd – 4:30 pm
AvantNOIR: Lisa Mezzacappa Project
The crime fiction of Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster inspired bassist Lisa Mezzacappa to cook up this project, which performed the suite recently at SFJazz. Â Thanks to Marty Bigos for helping to underwrite AvantNOIR’s performance today at Bird & Beckett. And thanks to Jean Conner, whose support through the years has made our entire Sunday…