Al-Mutannabi Street in Baghdad, a nexus of booksellers for a thousand years, was decimated by a car bomb on March 5, 2007. Fifteen years on, poets around the world read on the anniversary of that sad day, to imagine a better world. The Shabandar Cafe on Al-Mutannabi Street, which opened as a cafe in 1917…

The SticklerPhonics is some special kind of Modern Micro Brass Band… Jazz, Groove, Funk and much more! Drums, saxophone and trombone? Why not? With each player in The SticklerPhonics, the concept of working as a unit is crucial. Playing in the pocket, giving each other space, getting the audience to move… Like nothing you’ve heard….

Agneta Falk, a member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade, was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1946. She’s a poet, visual artist, translator and editor, who’s lived in England for thirty years where she taught Drama and creative writing. She was also a co-director of Word Hoard, a literature development agency, promoting writing in the community…

Such a month, February. The careful, and the brave knew & know that there’s nothing like live taking in some live music and poetry alongside a few friends and companionable strangers. Audience capacity is 20 in the shop for the time being, so call ahead if you want to be sure of a seat, then…

Vince Lateano; Peter Barshay, bass; and Ben Stolorow, piano are the rhythm section for a jam session to conclude an exciting evening at Bird & Beckett, holding it down for the horn players that make it out and yielding their own instruments to those bold enough to ask! We’re making it a last Sunday of…

Three master musicians and an esteemed poet join together in honor of their late colleague and friend Glenn Horiuchi, born February 27, 1955. Horiuchi, who passed on June 3, 2000, was a key figure in the Asian American arts movements & companies that flowered in the San Francisco Bay Area and up and down the…

JAZZphoria Quintet Jean Fineberg – tenor saxophone/flute Erika Oba – keyboards/flute/piccolo Nancy Wenstrom – guitar Jodi Durst – basses Jeremy Steinkoler – drums/percussion Bandleader and saxophonist Jean Fineberg has toured and recorded with Melba Liston, David Bowie, Laura Nyro, Chic, Sister Sledge (We Are Family)and was featured on Marian McPartland’s iconic Piano Jazz radio show….

Drummer Tony Johnson brings in a quartet on the fourth Friday of each month Tonight, with a night dedicated to Chuck Peterson, it’s the 230 Jones Street Band, with Charlie McCarthy, saxophone & flute Glen Deardorff, guitar Al Obidinski, bass Tony Johnson, drums. Four old pros, and long-time friends, swingin’. $20 cash cover charge; proof…

Walker Brents III considers Jeffers, casting a cold eye upon our wicked world from the craggy house he built in Carmel in the years following the first World War. Poet of the world’s edge. Candle bearer amidst elemental wave-roar. A mind holding its own, a prophetic eye of focused sight. A thinker whose thoughts give…

It was an extraordinary night of beautiful, intriguing night of music Saturday night at Bird & Beckett. Dahveed Behroozi, piano Shay Salhov, saxophone Jason Lewis, drums Dahveed Behroozi, Shay Salhov and Jason Lewis, with the late bassist John Shifflett, began in 2014 the development of a remarkable jazz quartet focused on original compositions and steeped…