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…

David Boyce, saxophones Scott Foster, guitar Charles Thomas, bass Cairo McCockran, drums Electronorhythmoharmonic music of the spheres. Live in the shop, $20 cash cover, proof of vax, masks. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Catch it in the live stream on the Bird & Beckett YouTube channel or Facebook page. Watching online? Donate per the information on…

On February 14th, VirtualPoets! celebrates the work of Elana Dykewomon. Lesbian activist, writer, organizer Dykewomon has contributed significantly to the literary communities of the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work will be read by Avotcja, Jewelle Gomez, Lourdes Figueroa, Norma Smith and our host Kim Shuck. The celebration will be followed by the usual open…

Up on holiday from his Central California Coast hacienda, guitarslinger Bruce Forman, creator of the cowbop genre and late of the Jazz at Pearl’s house band back in its 1980s heyday — when Vince Lateano anchored the scene from his drumkit — rides into town for a trio date with Vince on drums and Al…

Maurice Tani has been called a “cartographer of the human heart” (Scott Bloom, in The Bay Twang). Henry Salvia is all heart, with a winsome view of romance and a facility on keyboard that’s made him the cornerstone of countless bands traveling the backroads of country & R&B music. As Maurice’s record company, Little Village…

They’re Super Great! And so are you! Come down to the shop at 2pm for an hour of love! Kendra O’Dwyer & Angie Bennett two singers with two ukuleles and a passel of songs, for you! Live in the shop, gratis. Proof of vax, masks required. Find the live stream on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube…