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Friday, February 7th – 8:30pm
Vernaculars
Wong/Evangelista/Trinidad/Biala
Francis Wong, saxophone. Karl Evangelista, guitar. Chris Trinidad, bass. Jimmy Biala, drums. $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Modern jazz with a Filipino folk inflection. Top players all, collectively engaged in the music at this juncture in our urgent historical moment.
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Friday, February 7th – 6pm
Jazz, Joy & Justice
The Doug Goodkin Trio
Doug Goodkin – piano. Marty Wehner – trombone. Sam Heminger – bass. $20 suggested donation per adult; byob. Teens and students – $10 suggested. Kids, free. Celebrating Doug’s new book Jazz, Joy and Justice. Doug Goodkin, as well as being a wonderful musician himself, is a celebrated educator, loved for his work by generations of…
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Thursday, February 6th – 7pm
Spoken Duets:
Poets Susan Dambroff and Chris Kammler
open mic follows
In Spoken Duets, Chris Kammler and Susan Dambroff collage words into a riff, a rumble, and a rant, and speak them in syncopated and unsyncopated time. They surf through the day-to-day of these tsunami times with poetic and improvisational collaborations. They attempt to untwist and untangle language weaving in and out of the personal and…
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Wednesday, February 5th – 7pm
Poet Michelle Matz reads from
Acoustic Shadow
Come out and join the friends and neighbors of Glen Park’s own Michelle Matz, to hear her read & celebrate her new poetry collection, Acoustic Shadow. A fine Wednesday evening in Glen Park at its own little bookshop is guaranteed. “Michelle Matz’s Acoustic Shadow treads the solitary space between love and grief with…
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Sunday, February 2nd – 8:00-10pm
The Noel Jewkes Quartet
featuring vocalist Kay Kostopoulos
$25 cover charge; byob. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. https://www.facebook.com/bird.and.beckett/videos/563350992916034 sound starts at the 1:42 mark… fabulous to the end! The towering master of tenor saxophone (and many another instrument), Noel Jewkes brings his fine quartet featuring vocalist Kay Kostopoulos, with Grant Levin on piano, Chris Amberger on bass and Al Marshall…
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Sunday, February 2nd – 5-7pm
Young players strut their stuff:
Urban School Bebop Combo + Jam Session
The first Sunday of each month, with some pauses during school breaks, we present a jazz ensemble from a local school and follow it with a jam session specially tuned to emerging young talent from the region’s many wonderful jazz education programs. This time out, San Francisco’s Urban School once again sends its Bebop Combo,…
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