Don Beck, trumpet Tammy Lynne Hall, piano Ravi Abcarian, bass Jack Dorsey, drums BYOB, a mask and $20 cash for the cover charge. Doors open at 7:20pm for the 7:30 show. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. We’ll hold your seat ’til showtime. Can’t make it to the show? Check it out in the live…

Urban School Band director & Performing Arts Department Chair Scott Foster — a cornerstone of Bird & Beckett’s Friday jazz programming for two decades — brings in an 11-piece student ensemble. Come hear what the youth can do! A jam session led by drummer Akira Tana follows. With Michael Zisman on bass and Keith Saunders,…

The Sun’s Not Broken A Cloud’s Just In the Way – 2nd Edition. Early childhood educator & long-time social justice advocate Sydney Gurwitz Clemens — a Glen Park neighbor for many decades — brings a lifetime of progressive philosophy and experience to bear when encountering the youngest children, meeting them on their own turf, offering…

Noel Jewkes is a legend among Bay Area jazz cognoscenti for his 6+ decades on the scene as a master of the tenor saxophone and a number of allied instrument, a disciple of the great Lester Young, an expert in swing. Come hear him with a rhythm section comprising long-time associates, among the best in…

Henry Miller, the great novelist and essayist of mid-century (20th) American letters, Brooklyn-Paris-Big Sur, wrote prolifically on poets, particularly D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound (Henry’s crazy brilliant essay on Money and How It Got That Way is a reply to Pound) and of Arthur Rimbaud. Walker will ponder Miller’s thoughts, working Dante into the equation in…

Jazz musicians, this one’s for you. Drummer Vince Lateano leads the session with Peter Barshay on bass and Ben Stolorow on piano. No fee to play. Audience, bring a $20 to help us pay the rhythm section. BYOB Find the live stream on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. Donate per the info…

Jessy Spino has toured through a couple of times in the past five years from Los Angeles with the band Girl Fry, playing  music she characterizes as melodic punk, centered on the guitar and charango, an Andean lute, plus bass guitar. Jessy is coming through solo this time to play with artist and musician Tasya…

This afternoon at Bird & Beckett, Patrick James Dunagan calls to assembly a beatific crew to celebrate a legendary and ’til now unpublished work by poet David Meltzer.  Julie Rogers, Marina Lazzara,  Micah Ballard, Garrett Caples, Neeli Cherkovski, Gene Berson, Agneta Falk Hirschman, Sarah Menefee and Genny Lim read on the occasion of the publication…

Always a good time when the In Crowd gathers at Bird & Beckett. Eric Shifrin, piano Rick Brown, trombone Chuck Bennett, bass Mark Lee, drums $20 cash cover charge; BYOB; proof of vaccination, a mask. Doors open at 7:20pm. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Can’t make it to the show? Check it out in…

Solid, swingin’, straight ahead jazz & hard bop. Tony Johnson leads our fourth Friday jazz dates in the bookshop, has for many years! But tonight, we’re subbing in the estimable Smith Dobson V for Tony since he took a major spill on that bike he still rides in his eighth decade. He’ll be mending for…