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Sunday, August 27th – 4:30-6:30 pm
George Sams Quintet
which way west? Sunday concertÂ
George Sams – brass Eric Mandat – clarinet India Cooke – violin Andre St. James – bass Donald Robinson -drums with special guest, poet Gerald Nicosia George Sams has deep Bay Area connections (see the article linked and quoted below), but he now calls St. Louis home, where he was born and raised. Â Eric…
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Sunday, August 27th – 2:30-4 pm
Walker Talks!
Intellectual & Spiritual Investigations of Alan Watts
From the potpourri of the various counter-cultural/human potential movements of the latter half of the 20th century, certain character-figures remain exemplary, offering timeless fields of study to which we can return again and again, in different ways each time. Alan Watts is one such individual, whose thought, co-emergent with its own unique times, continues to…
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Saturday, August 26th – 7:30-10:00 pm
The Bernal Jazz Quintet
jazz club! when lights are low…Â
The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… The Bernal Jazz Quintet Michael Gold, sax Derek James, trombone Jim Zimmerman, vibes Larry Epstein, bass Curt Moore, drums
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Friday, August 25th – 5:30-8 pm
230 Jones Street, Local 6, Literary Jazz Band
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002
Talk about your San Francisco jazz… On the fourth Friday of each month, our weekly jazz in the bookshop series features The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band — featuring reed players Ray Loeckle and Jerry Logas, guitarist Glen Deardorff, bassist Dean Reilly and drummer Tony Johnson — five musicians whose history on…
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POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, August 21st – 7-9 pm
A comic novelist and a poet – Byron Spooner + Judith Ayn Bernhard
followed by an open mic
Jerry Ferraz, m.c.
Poets Judith Ayn Bernhard and Byron Spooner, read, followed by an open mic. Judith Ayn Bernhard is a former Berlitz School of Languages instructor and translator. She is a founding member of The Marin Poetry Center and a current member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Byron Spooner,…
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Sunday, August 20th – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio
featuring Joe McKinley, bass, and Pepe Jacobo, drums
$15 cover charge
Grant Levin Trio with Joe McKinley, bass, and Pepe Jacobo, drums.
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