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phone: 1-415-586-3733 email: [email protected]
Friday, March 27th – 6pm
The Tony Johnson Quartet
Drummer Tony Johnson’s residency at Bird & Beckett continues, this month with his quartet featuring Bob Kenmotsu on tenor saxophone, Keith Saunders on piano and Eric Markowitz on bass. Tony swam ashore from Australia in 1959 and hit North Beach swingin’. The singer Bev Kelly led a date at the Coffee Gallery in October 1960…
Thursday, March 26th – 7:30pm
WORDPlay: An Arts for More benefit
for Options Recovery Systems
An Evening with Poet Kim Addonizio
with Danny Caron, guitar
& Peter Barshay, bass
Arts for More and Bird & Beckett present an intimate evening of poetry and music with acclaimed writer Kim Addonizio, joined by accomplished jazz and blues guitarist Danny Caron and bassist Peter Barshay. No charge at the door, but it’s a benefit! Bring your checkbook and support a valuable institution while enjoying the immense talents…
Monday, March 23rd – 5pm
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
Forgive but Never Forget
On March 5th, 2007, a car bomb destroyed blocks of a street in Baghdad with a history dating back to the 8th century as a site where booksellers displayed their wares and people gathered to exchange ideas. The street has since been repaired, rebuilt and reopened. The world remains besieged by violence. Memory and…
Sunday, March 22nd – 7:30pm
Ralph Alessi Quartet
Ralph Alessi, trumpet. Adam Benjamin, piano. Richard Giddens, bass. Mark Ferber, drums. $20 cover charge (cash at the door, please). BYOB. Students, $10. Trumpeter Ralph Alessi–ECM recording artist and acclaimed instrumentalist, composer, and educator known for his distinctive and innovative approach to jazz improvisation and composition–returns to his Northern California roots, on tour out of…
Sunday, March 22nd – 5pm
Matthew Perifano: Shakespeare Dharma
a monologue with music
Shakespeare Dharma recounts Matthew Perifano’s rich and strange journey with Shakespeare that began with a reading group that approached Shakespeare as mind/body practice rather than as theater. Eventually, this reading group would form Birnam Wood Musical Shakespeare Co. and Matthew would discover his facility for setting Shakespeare’s verse to music. As Matthew became more knowledgeable…
Saturday, March 21st – 7:30pm
Vernaculars pay tribute to
guitarist Sonny Sharrock
Encore: Vernaculars Plays Sonny Sharrock’s Ask the Ages Karl Evangelista, guitar David James, guitar Francis Wong, sax Chris Trinidad, bass Jimmy Biala, drums $25 cover charge (cash at the door please) / byob. Students $10. For a reservation, all the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Fresh from an SRO performance at The Back Room in Berkeley…
Friday, March 20th – 8:30pm
The Scott Amendola Trio
Kasey Knudsen, saxophones Mat Muntz, bass Scott Amendola, drums $20 cover charge (cash at the door, please) / byob. Students $10. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. __________________ “Nobody fuses like Scott Amendola – he’s not pandering, he just loves to rock, and freak out, and write actual tunes, and improvise, and devise…
Friday, March 20th – 6pm
Mutant Audio
David Boyce / Scott Foster / PC Muñoz
Exploring the tonal and atonal universe on a daring journey into the unknown. $20 suggested donation / byob. Students $10. Kids free
Thursday, March 19th – 7:30pm
Walker Talks… a monthly live stream
Tonight: 13th century Sufi poet Hafez
Hafez, the global poet, keeper of spinning planets in their places, dweller upon the threshold of taverns. Hafez lived in Shiraz at the same time as Chaucer lived in England. His command of the intricate poetic form known as the “ghazal,” within which he compressed, like open secrets, the elusive signs and concepts of God’s…
March 19th to 22nd
Four Concerts & Two Talks in Four Days
Talk, Jazz, Jazz, & Jazz, <br>then, More Talk & More Jazz! _____ Thursday, March 19, 7:30pm – livestream only Walker Talks…on Sufi poet Hafez _____ Friday, March 20, 6:00pm Mutant Audio with David Boyce {$20} _____ Friday, March 20, 8:30pm Amendola / Knudsen / Muntz {$20} _____ Saturday, March 21, 7:30pm Vernaculars play Sonny…