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 &…

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…