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653 Chenery Street in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
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phone: 1-415-586-3733 email: [email protected]
Tuesday, June 20th – 7:30 pm
Viktorija GeÄytÄ— with the Go Trio
Viktorija GeÄytÄ— is a Lithuania-born jazz singer, based in Paris since 2008. For GeÄytÄ—, singing is nothing less, and nothing more, than musical conversation. She has toured internationally with the American bassist Gene Perla and his Go Trio (Sean Gough on piano and Jon Arkin on drums) every year since 2008, performing for audiences in New York,…
Monday, June 19th – 7-9 pm
POETS! Dan Liberthson and Charles Curtis Blackwell
open mic follows. Jerry Ferraz, m.c.
Dan Liberthson, a San Francisco writer of poetry books about baseball and animals, reads his latest poems, including series about birds and the Pacific Northwest. Charles Curtis Blackwell is a painter and a playwright as well as a poet, heavily influenced by jazz in all of his artistic endeavors. His books include “Is, the Color…
Sunday, June 18th
7:30 pm: …2,3,4: The Grant Levin Trio
4:30 pm: The Erik Jekabson Sextet featuring John Santos
2 pm: mary wants to be a superwoman, erica lewis, poet
At 7:30 pm: Pianist Grant Levin enters the second week of his new series of three dates a month. His third Sunday trio date features Doug Stuart on bass and Michael Mitchell on drums. An open-ended residency that will go down in the annals of Bay Area jazz history. Jazz as it is played in San…
Saturday, June 17th – 7:30-10:00 pm
The Klaxon Mutant Allstars
live at Bird & Beckett’s jazz club! when lights are low…
Fresh from the galactic expanse, the Klaxons are coming! The decks are clear, the power is on, the beam is focused! Playing hits from Robot Invasion and other sounds channeled from their vast universe of musical influences, picked up in a lifetime of travel along the radio waves. the grooves of countless vinyl records and…
Friday, June 16th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet
Alan Williams, trombone; Ollie Dudek, bass; Carson Messer, drums
plays jazz in the bookshop
Live jazz at Bird & Beckett started back in the fall of 2002… coming up on 15 years of Fridays. Â And Scott Foster has been on the gig since the beginning. Bird & Beckett’s favorite guitarist, bar none. Tonight, as he does on the third Friday of each month, Scott has concocted a band to…
Tuesday, June 13th – 7-8:30 pm
Poised for Retirement
Neighborhood writer Louise Nayer presents her new book
Louise Nayer, retired CCSF instructor, will launch her newest book, Poised for Retirement: Moving from Anxiety to Zen, (Central Recovery Press, 2017). A unique narrative on a unique time offering solace to people nearing retirement, Poised for Retirement is not your parents’ retirement guide. It’s not a financial planning guide. Rather, it’s the story of an ordinary…
Sunday, June 11th – 7:30-9:30 pm
…2,3,4: The Grant Levin Duo with Kash Killion
Grant Levin is just one magnificent jazz pianist. We’re always pleased and proud to present him at Bird & Beckett. And bassist Kash Killion is a beautiful and formidable musician, with a career that has spanned decades and continents in fabulous company. Grant and Kash have worked together on many occasions, with a terrific interplay…
Sunday, June 11th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Kurt Ribak Quartet
which way west? Sunday concert series
Lincoln Adler, sax Greg Sankovich, piano Kurt Ribak, bass Randy Lee Odell, drums
Sunday, June 11 – 2-4 pm
Hoopla!
Eight writers from Eclectica Mag share their work!
Eclectica is more than one of the first online literary magazines–it’s an ever-growing community of artists and writers. Join us for a reading at Bird and Beckett in part to celebrate Eclectica’s first 20 years but also to celebrate the written word itself. As Melvin Sterne, founding editor of Carve Magazine, has said, “In another…
Saturday, June 10th – 7:30-10pm
Darren Johnston’s Broken Shadows
jazz club! when lights are low…
every Saturday night
$15 cover
The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Darren Johnston, trumpet Miles Wick, bass Jordan Glenn, drums