Craig Handy, saxophone Peter Horvath, piano Essiet Okon Essiet, bass Sylvia Cuenca, drums $20 cash cover charge collected at the door. For a reservation, call 415-586-3733. Reservations are honored until showtime. BYOB if you want to have something to sip. By all rights, jazz is the people’s music. A sliding scale if needed is available…

Catch a key player in the Bay Area’s Latin Jazz scene in a return to Bird & Beckett with his quintet! Marco Díaz – piano , trumpet Charlie Gurke – saxes Julio Pérez – percussion Ahkeel Mestayer – percussion Saul Sierra- bass ~~~ BYOB and $25 for the quintet, and enjoy live music at Bird…

Johnny Lonely has a repertoire of originals, standards, and songs improvised off audience suggestions that paint a picture both tragic and hilarious. Johnny (a figment of Brian Lohmann’s tragi-comic imagination) and accompanist Joshua Raoul Brody (a Bird & Beckett regular, known for his work in the Rick & Ruby Show, The Residents and so much…

Piano professor & all around good time guy Eric Shifrin has been calling the in crowd to assembly all over this town for decades — in bars and boites, saloons and salons, dives, diners and, as it turns out, the deep piney woods of Santa Cruz. If you come out to Glen Park tonight, you’re…

Renowned guitarist Paul Mehling is in with the In Crowd tonight, along with Dexter Williams on bass! A return engagement! ~~~ BYOB and a twenty for the trio, and enjoy live music at Bird & Beckett! ~~~ Enjoy this video from last August, and make plans to spend a 2.5 hour happy hour at Bird…

  Who doesn’t know “Time Has Come Today,” the massive hit single by The Chambers Brothers that made the charts in the fall of 1968? Co-written by Lester’s brothers Willie and Joe Chambers, it’s seared into the collective memory of the nation and the world, busting out as it did in the turmoil of the…

Before Kim Shuck was the 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco, she was an open mic host and she just can’t shake the habit. On the 2nd Monday of every month Shuck invites two poets to feature longer readings of their work before a no-intros/one-poem-per-reader open mic. On the 4th Monday the rules are the…

Wednesday, April 19th at 7:30pm, tune in to our live stream to catch Walker Brents III’s monthy talk., this time out on the American Magus Otherwise Known As Harry Smith. The historian of unspeakableness. The cartographer of the ungraspable. The anthologist of the collection of songs that inspired the 20th century left wing poetic archetype….

Remembering Marty Williams, and exploring the future. With Ruth Davies on bass and Jack Dorsey on drums, and the great Kristen Strom playing saxophones, guitarist Eric Swinderman leads a brilliant quartet through two sets of originals and standards. byob and a twenty to help us pay the quartet! These musicians appear regularly in the Friday…