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Friday, February 28th – 6-8pm
Tony Johnson’s 230 Jones Street
Local 6 Literary Jazz Band
Bird & Beckett’s legacy band! Charlie McCarthy, saxophone; Sam Cady, piano; Chuck Bennett, bass; & Tony Johnson, drums continue a 23-year tradition of jazz in the bookshop! $20 suggested donation helps us pay these long-time professionals a decent guaranteed wage for the night’s work. BYOB. It’s a cheap night out, and high quality, we assure…
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Thursday, February 27th – 7:30pm
The Good War, Great Sounds!
a benefit for Outsound New Music Summit
with Elizabeth Costello,
Rent Romus & Suki O’Kane
The Good War is just out, and writer Elizabeth Costello has invited Rent Romus and Suki O’Kane to share the stage to raise funds for Romus’s most excellent Outsound New Music Summit and to celebrate Elizabeth’s debut as a novelist. Suggested donation for the event, $20 cash/venmo. BYOB. Bring your checkbook or the digital equivalent…
Read MoreO Pioneers of the Cosmostream! We’ve been vaccinating you against the plague of boredom and the scourge of demagoguery with a mighty river of live streamed events since March 2020, when it all came down!
Hungry to hear some of Bird & Beckett’s past live streams? On the home page you can scroll down to read the individual posts for the shows we’ve mounted in the past several months, a hint of what’s gone down since the pandemic lock-down began. In more amazing times, it would take you right back…
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Sunday, February 23rd – 8-10pm
Hail the Conquering Hero
Keyboardist David K. Mathews Quartet
David K. Mathews, piano Wayne de Silva, tenor saxophone John Wiitala, bass Akira Tana, drums $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733 20 years with Santana after 15 years with Etta James, Dave Mathews first made his mark with three years in Tower of Power. Once he left Tower Of Power he worked on that playing…
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Sunday, February 23rd – 5-7pm
Jam Session!
hosted by the Vince Lateano Trio
You never know who might drop in. Maybe you! The Vince Lateano Trio will make you feel right at home! BYOB and a twenty for the trio.
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Saturday, February 22nd – 7:30pm
The Jinx Jones Jazz Trio
Luxurious guitar and exotica. Cool swing and soul with a hot trio. That’s Jinx’s jazz bag! Welcome a true apostle of the many towering gods of the jazz guitar traditions, from Freddie Green to Charlie Christian to Tal Farlow to Wes Montgomery to Barney Kessel to Joe Pass to Kenny Burrell to Grant Green to…
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