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…

This Sunday night, Eric Shifrin and Ralph Carney lead the eclectic and rollicking quartet they call EaR Candy… with Joe Kyle, Jr. on bass and Randy Odell on drums. EaR Candy operates on the principle that to steal from one artist is plagiarism, but to steal from everyone is research!  Music from Duke Ellington to…

Avotcja, named 2015 Jazz Hero by the Bay Area Chapter of the Jazz Journalists Association last July, is a jazz musician with deep roots, a riveting poet, an imaginative and ruminative prose writer, a pioneer, an individualist, a fierce champion of her fellow musicians, poets and artists.  She leads the group named Best Jazz Group of…

Saturday, January 2nd at Bird & Beckett 7:30-10:00 pm THE SMITH DOBSON QUARTET originals and chestnuts Richard Sears, piano Doug Stuart, bass Tim Angulo, drums jazz club!  when lights are low $10 cover