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Sunday, Sept. 21 – 2 pm
Poets Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
+ Robert Thomas
Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet’s The Greenhouse, published this month by Bull City Press, won the 2014 Frost Place Chapbook Contest.  Judge David Baker praised The Greenhouse “for its interplay of restlessness and patience, its mapping of an interiority both shared and dearly personal, and its lyric and maternal primacy. Primacy is the circumstance, yet doubleness is the story, the double birth…
Friday, September 19th
Art Pepper Tribute
A Live Jazz & Book Event
Laurie Pepper in person!
music 5:30 to 8:00;
Laurie’s reading at 8:30
Art Pepper was without question one of the most sublimely beautiful alto sax players who ever graced the jazz scene, in his music and visage both… The dozen records that bear his name as leader are testament to his incredible art, and his autobiography, Straight Life —Â a collaboration with his wife Laurie Pepper — is…
Thursday, Sept. 18 — 7:00 pm
Nancy Morejón, Cuban writer,
in a farewell reading and
70th birthday celebration!
Nancy Morejón is a highly regarded Cuban poet, essayist and literary critic, past president of the Writers’ Section of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC).  Her work has been translated into numerous languages.  In 2001, she was winner of the National Literature Prize in Cuba. She’s been in the Bay Area for the…
Monday, September 15th – 7 pm
Poet Ed Mycue + open mic
Jerry Ferraz, m.c.
plus Thurs., Sept. 18 @ 7pm writer Nancy Morejon, from Cuba. Sun., Sept. 21 @ 2pm poets Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet & Robert Thomas. Tues., Sept. 23rd @ 7pm poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan. and in October Sun., Oct. 5 @ 2pm Taurean Horn 40th Anniversary Reading Thurs, Oct. 16 @ 7:30 pm a Bird & Beckett Litquake…
Friday, Saturday & Sunday
September 12, 13 & 14
live jazz 3 nights running!
Sunday “which way west “series always 4:30-6:30 pm Today, September 14th, THE LOST TRIO celebrates the release of their new cd, MONKWORK Phillip Greenlief, sax Dan Seamans – bass Tom Hassett – drums Join us to hear one of the Bay Area’s longest standing trios (now celebrating 20 years!) perform works from their newest CD, featuring an all-Thelonious Monk…
Saturday, Sept. 6th – 8-11 pm
jazz club:The Smith Dobson Ensemble
Smith Dobson V — widely regarded a key young musician on the San Francisco jazz scene on vibes, drums and sax — leads Bird & Beckett’s first Saturday jazz club dates. He is heir to several generations of jazz talent — his father, Smith Dobson IV, was one of the very best jazz pianists in…
Monday, September 1st – 7 pm
POETS! Charles Curtis Blackwell
open mic follows – Jerry Ferraz, mc
Charles Curtis Blackwell, though his vision is profoundly impaired, is a renowned painter as well as an incredible poet, steeped in jazz.  His books include Lou Next Door and Is, the Color of Mississippi Mud.  Just out is the latest poetry collection, title to follow. An exhibition of Charles’ paintings — “The Mood, The Music, The Passion…
August 29, 30 and 31… jazz trifecta!
Live music from the Bird & Beckett bandstand three nights a week, EVERY week! Fridays, it’s “jazz in the bookshop” from 5:30 to 8:00 pm. Saturdays, “jazz club” from 8 to 11. Sundays, our “which way west?” concert series from 4:30 to 6:30 pm — mostly jazz, plus a few other things to broaden our…
Friday, August 29th – 5:30-8:00 pm
CD Release! “Jazz is My Religion”
Recorded LIVE! at Bird & Beckett
The Dave Parker Quartet
Join us for a Friday evening celebration of a fantastic recording! Â The Dave Parker Quartet — with Dave on bass, Charles Hamlton on trombone, Jerry Logas on baritone sax, guest artist Hal Richards on soprano sax and Bob Marshall on drums will convene at Bird & Beckett to celebrate the quartet’s live CD — “Jazz…
Monday, August 18th – 7:00 pm
POETS! Ayo Khensu-Ra
with saxophonist Ra-Ta
open mic follows, Jerry Ferraz m.c.
A voice in poetry like Ayo’s does not come along often.  Attend to it and see what you find there.  Ayo’s father, Ra-Ta, will ride along on saxophone.  “some kind of poetic musical endeavor…” says Ayo… “or musical poetic endeavor…whatever. Me reading, my dad playing etc. Come on down, invite a friend, have a drink…