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Thursday, July 31st – 5pm
Writer Jim O’Brien discusses
Road Maps for the Soul:
An American Journey with Bob Dylan
This book is part-travelogue, part-memoir, and part academic study, which starts in Hibbing, close to the Canadian border and finishes in New Orleans, in the Deep South. The central theme of the book is to compare the life and work of Bob Dylan with that of William Shakespeare. This gives the volume its striking originality.…
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Sunday, July 27th – 7:30pm
The Portrait Gallery of Neeli Cherkovski:
A reading by his friends and fellow writers
from The Portrait Gallery Called Existence
(City Lights Publishing, 2025)
At last! Neeli gets a book from City Lights, posthumously published on July 1, 2025, the 80th anniversary of Neeli’s birth! Neeli Cherkovski, born Neeli Cherry in San Bernardino California on July 1, 1945, passed away in San Francisco on March 19, 2024 at the age of 78, and is sorely missed. But reading from…
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Sunday, July 27th – 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Jam Session with the Vince Lateano Trio
The friendliest session in town! No charge to play, but audiences! bring a twenty to help pay the trio, and whatever you want to sip. Always familiar faces and surprises in store for you at Bird & Beckett.
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Saturday, July 26th – 7:30-9:30pm
Bing Nathan & Kit Robberson present
The Nick Otis Orchestra
A Tribute to Johnny Otis
Check out Willie & the Hand Jive and a whole lot more at about the 21:30 mark in the video above… and don’t miss trumpeter Clora Bryant at 14:20!!! Li’l Bit (Gail Muldrow), guitar & vocals. Jason Thraites, guitar & banjo. Paul Lamb, bass. Nick Otis, drums. $20 cover, byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. Join bassist…
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Friday, July 25th — two shows
The 230 Jones Street Band at 6pm
+ The Left Coast Project at 8:30pm
The 230 Jones Street Band–a quartet with Charlie McCarthy, sax; Sam Cady, piano; Chuck Bennett, bass and Tony Johnson, drums–plays jazz from swing to bop from 6pm to 8pm on Friday the 25th, and the fourth Friday of every month. __________ The Left Coast Project–Eric Scheide, saxophone; Tom Disher, piano; Tom Donald, bass; Ramiro Cairo,…
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Thursday, July 24th – 7:30pm
Rogers/Harwood/Guerin/Simas
Jazz Collective
George Rogers – saxophone. Isaiah Harwood – piano. Graeham Guerin – upright bass. Max Simas – drums & cymbals. $20 cover charge, byob. Students, $10. For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Rogers/Harwood/Guerin/Simas is a collective of contemporary jazz composers and instrumentalists with roots in both the Bay Area and Northeast Ohio. They debuted…
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