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$20 cover charge; $10 for students / musicians / low income. Vocalist Rebecca Kilgore on tour from Portland, with Grammy-nominated pianist Randy Porter and bassist Tom Wakeling. With more than two dozen albums under her own name and dozens more in other combinations, Rebecca Kilgore is regarded as one of the foremost American interpreters of…

$15 cover charge; $10 for students, musicians, low income. Come out to hear one of San Francisco’s most amazing jazz pianists, the very great Walter Earl! With bassist Arlington Houston and JPaul the Drummer. [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyqMdLmkvGM” /]

Guitarist Scott Foster, a cornerstone of the Bird & Beckett jazz edifice since the beginning, brings in drummer Chris Gamper, whose Bay Area Jazz Documentation Project has been catching great musicians in the act of creating fantastic music from whole cloth for several years now! Tonight, with Dann Zinn on saxophone and Adam Lowdermilk on…

Author Terry Tarnoff discusses his novel The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker with special focus on the story of the Spear of Longinus. Nothing makes much sense in Tobias Parker’s life. He walks an ever-tightening circle through San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, where foxes fall out of trees, parachutes drop from the skies and mysterious boxes appear…

$15 cover charge; $5 for students/musicians/low income. This stellar trio is playing several dates around the Bay Area in early September, celebrating the release of the acclaimed cd, “Introspection” (Jazzheads) With Introspection, guitarist Roni Ben-Hur and bassist Harvie S present a captivating album of classic material presented in rare versions for guitar trio. The album…

Sharon Doubiago notes: Wild Ocean Press has published Bill Bradd’s brilliant book-length poem, “Continent of Ghosts”. He’s a great reader who has lived for decades north of Fort Bragg on the Pacific mouth of 10 Mile River and while well-known and active there as a poet, he’s barely known elsewhere. Sharon Doubiago, on the other hand, is…