Heshima Mark Williams marks another year, and what better way to do it than to celebrate his birthday, just a little belatedly, with colleagues and friends on the bandstand at Bird & Beckett!  He’ll have Art Khu on piano and Alcide Marshall on drums, with horn players Gary Bean (trumpet) and David Ferrazares (tenor sax)….

April is the cruelest month, and so… Jerry Ferraz is hosting a rent party for Bird & Beckett! It’s in his backyard out on Mission Street, a few blocks south of Cortland Call the bookshop at 415-586-3733 to RSVP & get the address   Saturday, May 21st – 1 pm to 7 pm It’s a…

Bob Kenmotsu, tenor sax Scott Foster, guitar Adam Gay, bass Omar Aran, drums Guitarist Scott Foster, who leads a date at Bird & Beckett on the third Friday of each month, has assembled a quartet the way quartets are generally assembled: get a date booked and start calling around to see who’s available. Come the…

Rosemary Manno has lived in San Francisco since 1983.   She grew up in Buffalo, New York and has lived in Paris whenever possible. She is a published poet, artist, world traveler, lover of foreign tongues, the natural world and revolutionary struggle and is a member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade. Her work has also appeared in numerous…

Wait!! Is Bird & Beckett a jazz venue? a rock-a-billy venue? Is it too early in the month for a jazz-a-billy date? Just what is jazz-a-billy anyway? Exploring that last timeless question, you may want to check out the article linked here and then consider this statement attributed to Jinx from a great San Jose Mercury article that…

Paul Fericano founded the Stoogist movement and, besides being a terrific satirical poet, is the mind behind Yossarian Universal News Service (YU) (why not?). Ellaraine Lockie’s poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize eleven times. Art Beck’s Luxorius Opera Omnia, a Duet for Sitar and Trombone (Otis College, Seismicity Editions) was awarded the 2013…

Catch Sylvia Cuenca leading a fabulous trio with Wil Blades on organ and Paul Bollenback on guitar, mid-way through a four date Bay Area run– Cafe Stritch in San Jose on Thursday and Friday, Bird & Beckett Saturday night, and Chez Hanny Sunday afternoon. Read E. “Doc” Smith’s BeyondChron article on the date here!    …

Join us for the San Francisco Launch Party for the anthology Cross Strokes, Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco on Saturday, May 14th from 2 to 4 pm. Readings by: Neeli Cherkovski Tim Donnelly Sharon Doubiago Patrick James Dunagan Bill Mohr Paul Vangelisti Maw Shein Win Plus readings of work by Francisco X. Alarcon,…

                                          Aaron Cohn, bass           Gaea Schell, piano               Luke Westbrook, guitar jazz in the bookshop, every Friday night $10 per adult if you can…

Every second Thursday, gather with a bookish batch of your neighbors to yak up the books… this month, it’s Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior… next month, God’s Hotel by Victoria Sweet… July, Some Luck by Jane Smiley. The folks love to see new faces, and to solicit their input on future books to read. So don’t…