North Beach Brass Band is both a traditional brass band playing early jazz and golden standards with forays into bebop and an electrified funky jazz act playing classic blues, Motown and soul tunes The band covers almost every American genre, from Louis Armstrong’s favorites to danceable covers of Seventies hits from legends like Aretha Franklin,…

“HowellDevine plays The Music with the original feel, intent and spirit, and you can tell they love the music while delivering some real blues in their own way. The singing and playing is never strained and they play with easy confidence…they don’t have to prove anything. There’s tasty slide, harp and rhythm with relaxed vocals…

Join us on an excursion through some major turning points in the history of the jazz trumpet. Dave Gibbons, piano; Rob Woodcock, bass; and Jon Frank, drums join forces behind the young trumpeter Noah Frank and sax player Ely Strauss to consider jazz trumpet artistry from Louis Armstrong to Terrance Blanchard and Roy Hargrove. Concerts…

Every Saturday night at Bird & Beckett… jazz club! 7:30-10pm. $10 cover. On a San Francisco foray from his base in Seattle, Anton Schwartz plays Bird & Beckett in the company of Adam Shulman on piano and Robb Fisher on bass in drummer Vinnie Rodriguez’s quartet. Schwartz committed himself to music at age 27, when…

Pianist Grant Levin and his stalwart ally, bassist Chris Amberger converse in jazz over two generous sets of music.  Bring $10 if you can afford it to help pay these fine musicians.

Swing and bop by long-time masters of the music… the core Bird & Beckett jazz experience.  Not to be underestimated! Chuck Peterson & Howie Dudune, reeds; Glen Deardorff, guitar; Dean Reilly, bass; Tony Johnson, drums, with vocalist Dorothy Lefkovits.

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…