Vibist Dan Neville is home for the holidays, and he’s slipping into Bird & Beckett for a quartet date, joined by pianist Bilge Gunaydin, bassist Aaron Germain and drummer Mike Mitchell! Dan has been studying composition this past semester in the renowned jazz program at William Patterson University back east in New Jersey, and for…

Darren Johnston – trumpet/vocals Ben Goldberg – clarinets Marcus Shelby – bass Dillon Vado – marimba $20 cover / byob / reservations 415-586-3733 Catch the show live streamed on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel or Facebook page if you can’t make it down to the shop to hear them in person. Donate to help recompense…

Two jazz composers meet for the first time.   Beth Schenck, saxophone Scott Foster, guitar Matt Small, bass Jason Levis, drums   $20 cover charge, byob doors open at 7:20 for the 7:30 show for a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733   Catch the show live streamed on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel or…

Bart Schneider’s new book from Kelly’s Cove Press, The Daily Feast, is a joyous and savory collaboration between old friends, Sonoma painter Chester Arnold and Berkeley poet Bart Schneider. All the work focuses on food and drink, from oysters on the half shell to dirty martinis, with an afterword by legendary Napa chef and restaurateur…

                    Featured poets Preeti Vangani and Charlie Getter Preeti Vangani is a poet and personal essayist. Born and raised in Mumbai, she is the author of Mother Tongue Apologize (RLFPA Editions), her first book of poems (selected as the winner of RL India Poetry Prize.) Her…

Americana noir from a master songwriter, with bassist Mike Anderson, Henry Salvia on piano, and special guest vocalist Pamela Brandon. $20 cover charge; byob. Can’t make it to the shop with your cover charge? Donate ten or twenty and watch it in the stream on our YouTube channel or Facebook page!  

San Francisco journalist Denise Sullivan conducts a monthly series of conversations (the second Sunday of each month from 10-11 a.m.) with The City’s activists, educators, arts and cultural leaders and lesser-known workers, the everyday people who help make this place we call home, live streamed from Bird & Beckett Books. December 11 at 10 a.m.,…

Jazz standards and hard bop favorites arranged by Omar Aran in the classic jazz trio style. Adam Shulman, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Omar Aran, drums $20 cover charge, byob. Doors open at 7:20 for the 7:30 show. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Catch the show live streamed on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube…

John Calloway, flute and percussion Hafez Modirzadeh, saxophone Tony Stead – piano Saul Sierra – bass Dillon Vado – drumsJohn Calloway, master musician and educator, is unable to join us tonight due to a positive virus test with minor symptoms, but will return with his ensemble on February 4th, so please mark your calendar and…