Bird & Beckett is excited and pleased to host a free listening party with musician and bandleader Idris Ackamoor in anticipation of the upcoming concerts with his full seven-piece band, The Pyramids, augmented by a string quartet and an additional horn section at the Presidio Theater in mid-March, as well as the impending release of…

Come out for an hour’s duo set by two musicians with a long history of collaboration. Guitarist John Stowell is in town for a few days and joins his friend and colleague, the saxophonist Michael Zilber to continue a conversation in jazz which we last encountered at Bird & Beckett in August 2022. $15 cover…

Charlie McCarthy, saxophones and flute Si Perkoff, piano Glen Deardorff, guitar Chuck Bennett, bass Tony Johnson, drums with guest vocalist Darlene Langston Bassist Al Obidinski, a wonderfully funny, droll, down to earth & supremely hip bass player, one of the great human beings, passed away last month. We’re more than sad that he’s gone. This…

The tradition resumes! The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble travels out of Chicago each February for a tour with stops all around the country. Percussionist Kahil El’Zabar leads the trio, featuring Corey Wilkes on trumpet and Alex Harding on baritone sax. The EHE first visited Bird & Beckett in February 2017 and made stops here in February…

Black Fire This Time An Ensemble of Jazz & Poetry Poets Avotcja Venus Jones Shizue Seigel Christl Rikka Perkins Zakiyyah G.E. Capehart Nazela Jamison Bryant Bolling Dondi Dancy Music Avotcja, small percussion Heshima Mark Williams, bass Heather Buchanan, piano Readings with jazz, from contributors to the new and acclaimed anthology from Willow Press — Black…

The mind of Ibn Arabi, says Walker, is like a mountain range, from which vast ecosystems of thought are continuously created.  He’ll assay to take you there to have a look at the nearness of this mind to us, in time-and-space terms, as well as take in a bit of the distance involved, as it…

Wayne de Silva, saxophone Brad Buethe, guitar Peter Barshay, bass Brian Melvin, drums $20 cash cover charge at the door. BYOB. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Brian Melvin remembers when he was 5 years old in San Francisco fascinated by Ringo Starr’s swing on the drum kit with the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan…

On the third Sunday of each month, we’re delighted to present the Vince Lateano Trio playing two sets, for the pure pleasure of it. Vince Lateano, drums Peter Barshay, bass Ben Stolorow, piano byob and a twenty for the trio! Vince Lateano has been a marvelous presence on the San Francisco scene since he came…

Jane Lenoir, flute Ricardo Peixoto, 7-string guitar Brian Rice, pandeiro with special guest Paul Hanson, bassoon $20 cash cover charge at the door, byob Reservations, call (415) 586-3733 The Berkeley Choro Ensemble (pronounced “shoro”) is a group of world-class musicians from the SF Bay Area that made its debut in January, 2010 at the Berkeley…

Filling in for Scott Foster on his traditional third Friday booking at Bird & Beckett, we offer a stellar trio of drummer Sylvia Cuenca, bassist Peter Barshay and pianist Ben Stolorow, performing for you from 5:30 to 8:00pm.    Peter and Ben are stalwart members of Vince Lateano’s trio, which has a third-Sundays residency at…