The Seducers return to Bird & Beckett this coming Sunday, joined on the bandstand with their regular guitarist Mitch Polzak, who couldn’t be here last month when the band made its Bird & Beckett debut in our Riptide Sunday night “Canyon Moonlight Music” series.  He’s the mayor of Port Costa as well as the hottest…

Safa Shokrai – bass Timothy Orr – drums Rent Romus - alto saxophones/flutes Heikki Koskinen - e-trumpet/flutes Joshua Marshall – tenor saxophone Rent Romus’ Life’s Blood Ensemble presents music from their forthcoming recording entitled “Haven.” Albert Ayler once said  that “music is healing force of the universe”, and through this music, Life’s Blood Ensemble explores that which…

If it’s the second Sunday of the month, it’s time for Bird & Beckett’s Surf-a-billy Swing Time Dance Party– and don’t you know it starts at noon!  So get up, swill your coffee, and jet on down to the shop!  This time out we’ve got guitar god Jinx Jones on the stage with a likely…

jazz club! when lights are low… Grant Levin leads the date every 2nd Saturday night in our weekly “jazz club” series.  A brilliant pianist, Grant assembles terrific ensembles for his time on the Bird & Beckett bandstand, and tonight is no exception.  On saxophone, Howard Wiley will be making his first appearance at Bird & Beckett….

Papa Joe Cohen can’t make it this Friday! There’s his brand new baby girl and other family matters… but bassist Adam Gay will handle the honors, putting together some top notch players to entertain you mightily, don’t you worry. He’s got sax player Lyle Link, pianist Keith Saunders and drummer Omar Aran on the bandstand…

Bassist Bishu Chatterjee, vocalist Vivek Anand, saxophonist Aaron Bennett and drummer Rusty Aceves explore a territory where zen-influenced jazz and Indian classical music interact.  

Finnish trumpet player Heikki Koskinen leads this ensemble, featuring Kati Pienimäki Schenker, vocals; Steve Heckman, saxes, flutes & clarinet; Rent Romus, saxes & flutes & kantele; and Noah Schenker, bass.  Heikki performs on piano, e-trumpet, tenor recorder & kantele. A poll winning jazz trumpet player in the 1970s in his native Finland, Koskinen came to the U.S. to study…

Smith Dobson, highly regarded for his talents on tenor sax, vibes and drums, is picking up the alto for this date — the horn on which Charlie Parker made revolutionary jazz advances through the 1940s and 1950s. Charlie Parker, known as Bird, is the namesake of this little store, so you should know that we’re among…

Don Prell’s got a trio tonight, with Vinnie Rodriguez on drums and Jerry Logas on tenor — promising many some sublimely beautiful moments along the way.