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Two poets who matter. It’s a bloody, inhuman mess out there, and it bears thinking about. And speaking. JB Frame and Dee Allen read their work. An open mic follows. Jerry Ferraz hosts. In re: Jim Frame — Conceived by the Greatest Generation as an antidote to axis victory in WWII. Raised in Sonoma. Vietnam…

Joe Goldmark, pedal steel, leads a country music supergroup, with Mitch Polzak on lead guitar and vocals, Hank Maninger on bass guitar and vocals, and Kenny Owen, the Haiku Cowboy, on drums. Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams and a fistful of wonderful originals by Joe & Mitch. 20 shows so far in the past…

Rob Zuckerman, saxes and flute Greg Jacobs, piano Charles Thomas, bass and vocals Mark Lee, drums Bassist Charles Thomas covers jazz, R&B, funk, classical and many points in the musical spectrum, but it’s clearly jazz that absorbs him most fully. No better way to spend your Sunday afternoon than to be at Bird & Beckett…

Spindlermühle ((Czechoslovakia), 1930s So clear that night and still, only the sound of the horse’s hooves on packed snow and the sleigh’s bells broke the silence, our breaths mingled with the horse’s steam as we huddled under a heavy blanket my parents and I alert to the brightness of moon-lit sky, so young, so long…

 Graham Bruce writes and arranges for this seven-piece jazz juggernaut, with a book of original music thick as a brick! Mad Duran, alto, soprano, flute Dave Schrader, tenor, soprano Ruth Ahlers, bari Steve Weaver, trombone Dan Neville, vibraphone Graham Bruce, bass Andy Dillard, drums

The Jazz Commissioner is on the job! Latin jazz specialist John Calloway brings in a quartet that’s representative of the Bay Area’s best and brightest — Marco Diaz on piano, Alex Farrell on bass and Adam Coopersmith on drums. Latin, straight-ahead, bebop and beyond! John’s most recent album, “Asere Ko,” was recorded in Cuba and…