Jerry Ferraz hosts Bird & Beckett’s bi-monthly poetry reading and open mic, this week featuring Zigi Lowenberg working with Oakland pianist Bill Crossman. An open mic follows. Lowenberg was raised in Queens and then relocated to the Bay Area from East Village in Manhattan, and now she’s back in NYC. She’s traveling west in January to read…

Jinx Jones, hot shot rockabilly guitarist with a jazz habit, brings his trio — Joe Kyle, Jr. on bass and Ken Owen on drums — to Bird & Beckett, mixing some Monk, Bird & Bud into the locomotive beast that drives audiences to a frenzy up in North Beach at the Saloon and Tupelo, your…

The Lost Trio, comprising Phillip Greenlief (reeds), Dan Seamans (bass) and Tom Hassett (drums), performed at Bird & Beckett in July 2015 with guitarist Scott Foster at Scott’s invitation. It was a beautiful occasion, and now the Lost Trio is returning the favor.  You should be here for this! Greenlief is one of the top…

Bassist John Wiitala and drummer Greg Wyser-Pratt join Canadian pianist/vocalist Gaea Schell, who’s been making her mark on the San Francisco jazz scene since arriving a couple years ago.             In the judgment of Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath, Gaea “plays the heck out of the piano with them small hands.” Known…

Lorenzo Farrell on organ and Eric Garland on drums join guitarist Scott Foster to roll out two sets of blues & jazz to redirect your energies for the new year!

The Seducers play every Second Sunday in Bird & Beckett’s weekly “Canyon Moonlight Music” series. The band features pedal steel guitarist Joe Goldmark, singer and bassist Eddie Kendrick, and drummer Kenny Owen. Tonight, original member Hank Maninger is subbing for the band’s current frontman, Mitch Polzak. Classic country music for a moonlit winter night hard…

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…