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$10-20 suggested donation. $5 suggested for students/musicians/fixed income. Drew Cranfill, violin, with pianist Manu Petaiua, will perform Bach Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor Mozart Violin Sonata in B-flat MajorBeethoven Violin Sonata No. 8 Opus 30Phillip Glass Violin Sonata Drew Cranfill, a native of North Carolina, was educated by the Alexander String Quartet at…

$20 cover charge. $10 for students/musicians/fixed income. NYC saxophonist Caroline Davis returns to Bird & Beckett with a quartet featuring fellow New Yorkers Carmen Staaf on piano and Noah Garabedian on bass, and Evan Hughes on drums. New York Times critic Giovanni Russonello added Caroline’s tune “Footloose and Fancy Free” from her new release “Heart…

$15 cover charge. $5 for students/musicians/fixed income. One of Bird & Beckett’s favorite tango quartets returns to one of its favorite used bookstores! Tango No. 9 (violinist Catharine Clune, trombonist Greg Stephens, tenor Zoltan diBartolo, and pianist Joshua Raoul Brody) serve up a potpourri of classic tango, Astor Piazzolla’s tango nuevo, a smattering of waltzes and milongas, a soupçon of art…

$10-20 suggested donation. $5 suggested for students/musicians/fixed income. The legacy band! Chuck Peterson put this unit together several years ago, as a fresh iteration in a direct line of evolution from the earliest days of Bird & Beckett’s Friday evening jazz party. What Chuck started in 2002 with a trio playing weekly has grown like…

Traveling out of New York City, multi-instrumentalist Aaron Johnson (sax, clarinet, flute) joins San Francisco’s own Smith Dobson, a multi-instrumentalist himself (reeds, drums, vibes). On this date, Dobson will go head to head with Johnson on tenor and soprano sax. The rhythm section will comprise NY-based bassist Hans Glawischnig and local heroes Keith Saunders on piano…

Karina DeNike, vocals; Michael McIntosh, piano; Tom Griesser, saxophones; Joe Kyle, Jr., bass; Randy Lee Odell, drums. The Cottontails wail in a wide range of styles, from 20’/30’s Gatsby-era jazz, to classic 40’s swing, to vintage 50’s/60’s R&B.