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in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
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Tuesday to Sunday
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Sunday, July 5th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Trad jazz blow out with the
Buena Vista Jazz Band
Why are they called “Buena Vista?” Why, it’s just ’cause they look so damned good! And they play good too! Modeled on Eddie Condon’s band that held forth in New York in the 30s and 40s, the Buena Vista Jazz Band plays the original American chamber music, birthed by black musicians in New Orleans at…
Saturday, July 4th – 7:30-10 pm
Smith Dobson & Danny Brown
tenor saxes
Two of the City’s premiere young saxophonists — Smith Dobson V and Downtown Danny Brown — go head to head at jazz club for the 4th of July — with bassist John Wiitala and drummer Tony Johnson stoking the fire. Scale the heights of San Francisco jazz as it’s played in 2015!
Friday, July 3rd – 5:30-8:00 pm
Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble
jazz in the bookshop every Friday, 5:30-8:00 pm Friday, July 3rd: Â SeaBop Trio Don Prell, bass –Â Scott Foster, guitar –Â Eugene Pliner, piano The 1st Friday of every month, Don Prell brings in an aggregation he calls The SeaBop Ensemble, kicking off another round of Fridays. Â The co-founders of Bird & Beckett’s long running jazz series…
Saturday, June 27th
jazz club! when lights are low…
note the time shift: 7:30-10pm!
The Vinnie Rodriguez Quartet
Drummer Vinnie Rodriguez puts together a combo on the fourth Saturday of every month.  For his June date, he’s got Dan Magay on reeds; Neil Kelly on guitar; and Aaron Germain on bass.  Vinnie reports: “Neil’ s got a few original modern jazz tunes, plus Mingus, Kenny Kirkland, Sonny Rollins’ ‘The Bridge,’  hard stuff.” Born in…
Friday, June 26th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Chuck Peterson Quintet
Every Friday evening at Bird & Beckett, the neighborhood — and folks from foreign climes and Bay Area aeries — assemble “after work” to enjoy each other’s company and the work of some of the fine jazz musicians who call the Bay Area home. The tradition here started in late 2002, when tenor player Chuck…
Thursday, June 25th – 7 pm
Poets Lewis Warsh, Toni Mirosevich & Tod Thilleman read in
Avery Burns’ Murmuration series
Tod Thilleman, originally from Wisconsin, has been based in New York since the early 1980s, active in art and poetry there with a long list of associations, readings and exhibitions. Â Throughout the 1990s, he was a co-editor of the journal “Poetry New York.” Â He also produced a series of what he termed Strophaic transcriptions (strophaic…
Holly Coley: Suggested Reading Wednesday, June 24th 7–9 pm
Gallery Opening
Join us Wednesday, June 24th from 7 to 9pm for the opening reception of Holly Coley: Suggested Reading, featuring painting, ceramic sculpture, and a library curated by the artist. See more of her work at hollycoley.com Show runs through the end of July, open daily 11–7. Gallery Ex Libris is located deep in the back of…
Sunday, June 21st – 2 pm
A Celebration for
Poet Neeli Cherkovski’s
The Crow & I
with honored guest Diane di Prima
Neeli Cherkovski’s newest volume of poetry, The Crow and I (R.L. Crow Publications, 2015) — following two works from the same publisher: Leaning Against Time (2004, PEN Award winner) and From the Canyon Outward (2009) — “again opens the window to the self as (Cherkovski) takes us deeper into his search for time, reason, redemption and love.” Joining Neeli…
Sunday, June 21st – 4:30 to 6:30 pm
EaR Candy Quartet!
Reedman Ralph Carney is pret’ near legendary, and plays around here and near and far with a multitude of projects. This one — EaR Candy Quartet — is constituted to test the proposition that “to steal from one artist is plagiarism but to steal from everybody is research.” Ralph goes on to say that EaR Candy…
Saturday, June 20th – 8-11 pm
The Panhandlers
Funky New Orleans Jazz & Blues
jazz club! when lights are low… Every Saturday night at Bird & Beckett Aaron Leese, piano & vocals, and Chris Lauf, drums, enlist trumpeter Dave Shaff, guitarist Scott Foster and bassist Kurt Ribak for three rocking sets of funky New Orleans style jazz and blues. If you like your musical gumbo with a kick, you’re…