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$20 cover charge; $10 for students/musicians/low income. Traveling out of New York City, guitarist Roni Ben-Hur, bassist Harvie S. and drummer Sylvia Cuenca join forces with San Francisco pianist David Udolf and vocalist Sherri Roberts for two sets of jazz! Guitarist Roni Ben-Hur– born in Israel in 1962 but a longtime American citizen, based in…

$10-20 suggested donation; $5 for students/musicians/low income. The volcanic creativity and technique of Grant Levin has been thrilling San Francisco jazz fans for the past decade and shows no signs of abating! Saxophonist Noel Jewkes, bassist Tomoko Funaki and drummer Mark Lee join Grant for two sets of bop, latin & straight ahead jazz.

“We were still in the boundless void, striped here and there by a streak or two of hydrogen around the vortexes of the first constellations. I admit it required very complicated deductions to foresee the Mesopotamian plains black with men and horses and arrows and trumpets, but, since I had nothing else to do, I…

M + M + M + M 4 Poets at Bird & Beckett A mellifluous evening of poetry by Miriam Bird Greenberg, Margaret Stawowy, Melissa Stein & Maw Shein Win Macaroons, meringue & merlot will be served Miriam Bird Greenberg is the author of In the Volcano’s Mouth, which won the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett…

With the commencement of their second year, the sophomore class of students in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s new “Roots, Jazz & American Music” Bachelor’s degree program hosts the incoming SFCM RJAM freshman class and peers from colleges and high schools throughout the Bay Area in a monthly jam session! This is an exciting opportunity to watch and…

$10-20 suggested donation; $5-10 for students / musicians / low income. Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar; Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocals; Hank Maninger, bass guitar and vocals; Kenny Owen, drums. The Seducers have had a monthly gig at Bird & Beckett for nearly three years, playing classic, outlaw and honky tonk songs by the likes of…