This week, Smith shares the front line with fellow tenor player Raffi Garabedian (once a Bay Area player who’s been plying his trade in NYC for a good stretch) with bassist Noah Schenker and drummer Jon Arkin providing the foundation, the pulse and much fine filigree.

It may be windy and foggy and cold outside, but the calendar still says May — and that means Spring. For twenty years now, Sherri has curated an intriguing set list of tunes befitting everyone’s favorite season — swinging from the familiar to the obscure, from Clifford Brown and Tad Dameron to Rodgers and Hammerstein,…

Poet Latif Harris examines aging and the tricks memory plays on the instrument of the mind in his new collection of poems, to be presented at Bird & Beckett on May 31st at 2 pm. The book, Barter Within the Bark of Trees, has just been published by Duende Press — which published his first book…

Alexandra returns to present her new collection of poems.  She’s an award winning poet, late of the Bay Area (she was a Stegner fellow here from 2006-2008 and a 2011 NEA fellow), now teaching at the University of Idaho. Her new collection is said to be “a chilling exploration of American progress and its consequences,…