David Hardiman, Jr., trumpet Charles Hamilton, trombone Hal Richards, tenor sax Cory Wright, baritone sax Karl Evangelista, guitar David Parker, bass Valentino Peeps, drums Come out for the late set at the Bird & the Beckett to get a taste of a deep and moody and slammin’ septet led by bassist David Parker and featuring…

Erik Jekabson, trumpet/flugelhorn Sheldon Brown, saxophones/flutes Murray Low, piano Fred Randolph, bass/compositions Isaac Schwartz, drums $20-25 is suggested for quintets (cash or venmo, please), but no one is turned away for lack of funds. Pay what you can at our Friday evening jazz happy hours! Byob if you think you’re going to get thirsty! Fred…

Sheldon Brown – Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet Ben Goldberg – Bb and Bass Clarinets John Wiitala – Bass Tim Bulkley – Drums $20 cash cover charge; byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733 Sheldon writes: Ben and I have been playing together for longer than he or I can remember. We’ve played together with Clarinet Thing, with Darren…

Ashia Ajani’s position as poet-in-residence at the San Francisco Museum of the African Diaspora was announced just days ago, and her poetry debut Heirloom is newly published by Write Bloody Publishing. Speaking from both a place of restoration and vengeance, Heirloom explores concepts of spiritual nourishment, physical and emotional sacrifice, environmental injustice, sexuality, waste colonialism,…

The intensity of individual, mob and institutional attacks on working journalists and their media outlets is unmistakable in our current age. World Press Freedom Day pushes back. So, too, does the work of many thousands of individuals locally and worldwide who take the tools of journalism in hand to accurately report the news they encounter…

Join your friends from Bird & Beckett this Sunday, April 30th at Keys Jazz Bistro–Broadway at Kearny in North Beach–for a five-hour cavalcade of great San Francisco jazz musicians coming together in the Independent Musicians Alliance to build labor solidarity and jamming to fill the coffers of the IMA’s “Musicians Assistance Fund.” The IMA, born…

Drummer Tony Johnson’s 230 Jones Street Band kicks off the weekend at 5:30pm Friday the 28th, with Bob Kenmotsu, saxophone; Si Perkoff, piano; and Chuck Bennett, long-time veterans of the San Francisco and New York jazz scenes. $20 donation appreciated, byob. Find your happy hour at Bird & Beckett every Friday right up to 8pm,…

Amoranalysis is literary deconstruction for the purpose of interpreting and emanating Amor. So says Ben Bac Sierra… novelist, CCSF writing teacher, lowrider, San Francisco native… He continues, We do not know what life is or where or when it begins or ends, nor do we know what death is or where or when it begins…

Enjoy a classic jazz trio, led by drummer Vince Lateano–a key player on the San Francisco jazz scene since the mid-1960s. Veteran bassist Peter Barshay and the fine young pianist Ben Stolorow join Vince on the third Sunday evening of every month for a deep and pleasurable swing through jazz standards, bop, blues and bossa….

Sam Cady, piano Charlie McCarthy, saxophone Chuck Bennett, bass Mark Lee, drums Sam Cady’s a fine piano player, writer and arranger, a puckish, thoughtful philosopher & buddhist and a pleasure to hear, and he’s in great company with these fine musicians, all familiar and well appreciated from the many times they’ve crossed the Bird &…