Beau Beausoleil reads poems in response to Russia’s war on Ukraine. In Ukraine: Poems Audience welcome. Also live streamed on our YouTube channel or Facebook page.

live streamed on our YouTube channel or Facebook page. Donate if you value Walker’s work! The Pacific Rim is a meeting-place of many forms of life. Oral literatures speak to the mind’s inner structures in ways more basic than time can tell. In his May talk, Walker Brents III will approach further dimensions of this mystery, contemplating…

Bird & Beckett, in association with Jazz in the Neighborhood and the Independent Musicians’ Alliance, presents a jazz jam session for young players on the first Sunday of each month, starting always at 5pm with a student ensemble from one of the Bay Area’s many fine jazz education programs, from post-secondary down to the high…

Tony Peebles, saxophone Christian Tumalan, piano Aaron Germain, bass Brian Andres, drums $20 cash cover charge; doors open at 7:20 for the 7:30 show. BYOB and a mask. Live in the shop! You can also take it in live streamed on our YouTube channel or Facebook page. Donate if you can! With Tony Peebles and Christian Tumalan,…

Ben Davis, cello Erik Jekabson, trumpet Jordan Glenn, drums Compositional structures, lines and wild loose grooves are gauged open and explored in impassioned play between instruments—gut-wrenching dissonance to sonorous deep tones. This new Bay Area group was brought together by cellist Ben Davis to probe the thin line between composition and improvisation. The improvs are…

Walker Brents III muses on the presence of divinities in poetic thought processes, implicit and explicit in the myth of the god Hermes. Walker addresses the mysteries of the poets & the gods, the philosophers & the folktellers in a livestream from Bird & Beckett on the last Thursday of each month, August through May……

Legends of San Francisco’s 1980s, ’90s et seq, from the days when Dogpatch was all about the Club Foot, Valencia Street’s Elbo Room had all the elbow room it needed and you could count on a supermodel to buy into a club down on Folsom where they could cook up the acid jazz for the…

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Akira Tana, drums; Peter Barshay, bass; and Ben Stolorow, piano are the rhythm section for a jam session, holding it down for the horn players that make it out and yielding their own instruments to those bold enough to ask. It’s become a last Sunday of the month tradition. Jazz as it’s played in San…

Patrick Wolff has assembled an all-star sextet to assay a bunch of new tunes and arrangements from the pen of PDub himself! Mike Olmos, trumpet Matt Renzi, reeds Patrick Wolff, reeds Richard Sears, piano Marcus Shelby, bass Gerald Cleaver, drums $30 cover charge Call for reservations, 415-586-3733 BYOB and a mask if unvaxxed Read here on…