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Bird & Beckett in full jazz flight
Check out Joel Sackett’s article and photographs in Wingspan magazine– the inflight magazine of All Nippon Airlines. Â Book your ticket and you’ll find it in the pocket of the seat back in front of you. Or click here! Bird & Beckett leads off the list of “Hot Spots & Cool Groups” and a pic…
Sunday, April 2nd – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio, featuring Sylvia Cuenca
Grant Levin, piano Giulio Cetto, bass Sylvia Cuenca, drums  New York-based for the past decade and a half, Sylvia Cuenca was born and raised in San Jose and got her start in jazz in the Bay Area before making her way east, where she’s toured with Joe Henderson and Clark Terry. She’s making…
Monday, February 6, 2017 – 7:30 pm
Kahil El’Zabar and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
Kahil El’Zabar – African drums and trap set Corey Wilkes – trumpet Alex Harding – saxophone Internationally renowned percussionist and composer Kahil El’Zabar is considered one of the most prolific jazz innovators of his generation. Indeed El’Zabar is a true “Renaissance Man,” with a musical style and content that flows from ancient Africa to the…
Sunday, February 5th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Grant Levin Trio
Grant Levin Trio with Chris Amberger & Mark Lee
Sunday, February 5th – 2-3 pm
Bay Area writer John Goins reads
from his San Francisco-based mystery:
Coptic Cross
The protagonist of Coptic Cross, Bill Haywood, is a black man who embodies “friends, relatives, people in my neighborhood when I was growing up…trying to survive in a nation that has only wanted us as slaves or servants, but never as full citizens. Bill is aware of this and knows that his very presence, for…
Saturday, February 4th – 7:30-10 pm
Debbie Poryes Trio with Peter Barshay and David Rokeach
jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night
Debbie has performed, taught and recorded internationally. Critics have noted that her playing is ““crystal clear, with the swinging elegance of Tommy Flanagan combined with the depth of Bill Evans.†A natural born musician, Debbie Poryes took to the piano at five years old, playing show tunes and studying classical music. Hearing Monk and Miles…
Thursday, February 2nd – 8-10 pm
Emily Hayes with the Randy Lee Odell Trio
and special guest guitarist Mark Holzinger
Randy Lee Odell presents… Every 1st Thursday in Bird & Beckett’s “canyon moonlight” series Thursday, February 2nd – 8-10pm: Emily Hayes Singer Emily Hayes draws on a repertoire ranging from blues to country to jazz, rich in the work of singers from Bessie Smith to Nina Simone to Patsy Cline. Raised in New England, Emily…
Sunday, January 29nd – 4:30-6:30 pm
Jon Frank Jazz Quintet plays Coltrane & Shorter
which way west Sunday concert series
Brilliant young reed player Eli Maliwan is the centerpiece of this exploration of the jazz saxophone canon, prominently featuring the work of John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter. Her close associate, trumpeter Noah Frank, shares the front line for what is sure to be an exciting and enlightening two sets of music. Drummer Jon Frank leads…
Sunday, January 29th – 2:30-4 pm
Walker Talks!
William Blake – the primordial man of the left
We rely on Walker Brents III for rumination on topics subject to deep interpretation and widely ranging association. How he does it, we’ll never know! But we’re ever grateful that he does. Today, he finds in the poet, printmaker and painter and printmaker William Blake (1757-1827) the kernel of modern humanist and progressive political and…