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BYOB and a twenty for the band– and a penchant for a good time. Bring friends, neighbors, kids, parents, parrots, whatever ya got. Unwind at the end of the thing we used to call the “work week” by settling into the cozy confines of your neighborhood bookshop, and enjoy jazz & good company with a…

Three great jazz players, teachers as well as instrumentalists, convene under the “Billy Higgins Legacy” moniker to deliver two sets of powerful music. Saxophonist Richard Howell is Guardian of the Groove, transmitting the deep history of jazz in his work and bringing the musicians he works with into communion with the tradition’s profound art and…

A singer songwriter of prodigious talent, with a wry, dark observational streak, delivers two sets of narrative gems, modern myths and fables, in the company of his long-time associate Mike Anderson on bass, and the great bassist Pam Brandon leaving that chore to Mike while she sings like nobody’s business alongside the pewter-throated Mr. Tani!…

Denver awardee as The Jazz Journalists Association’s 2023 Jazz Hero! Here in the Bay for jazz business, with a trio date at Bird & Beckett as a bonus! Ravi Abcarian on bass Brother Khalil Abdullah on guitar Here’s her recent Bird & Beckett engagement with her Denver trio! TNT at B&B 8/9/22

Book release reading & celebration!   Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)’s new volume of poems God in Her Ruffled Dress (What Books Press, 10/23) appears 34 years after publication of her debut full-length poetry book The Transparent Body (Wesleyan University Press).  Her poems have appeared in more than 60 anthologies and periodicals, including City Lights Review,…

Poets Sarah Menefee and Patrick Dunagan read tonight to celebrate the release of “There You Are,” Sarah’s chapbook just published by Bird & Beckett. An accomplished poet with deep roots in the San Francisco tradition of political activism, Sarah is a homeless rights activist, a founding member of Homes Not Jails and First they came…