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Saturday, May 14th – 4-6 pm
Grant Levin / Danny Brown Duo
Two supremely talented young players go toe to toe for two sets of live duo jazz. Â What a way to spend a little time on a San Francisco Saturday afternoon. Besides being an accomplished leader, Grant Levin is in high demand as a sideman for live and recorded gigs around the region. Likewise, Danny Brown…
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Sunday, May 15th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Sheldon Brown/Ben Goldberg Quartet
which way west? Sunday concert series
every Sunday afternoon, since 2008
 Live jazz lives in San Francisco! Sheldon Brown – Alto Saxophone Ben Goldberg – Clarinet John Shifflett – Bass Jason Lewis – Drums Thelonious Monk + Herbie Nichols + Originals! Sheldon writes: Ben and I have been making music together in a variety of groups for almost 25 years, as members of Clarinet Thing (led…
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Saturday, May 7th – 7:30-10pm
The Smith Dobson Quartet
Expect a generous portion of Lester  Young-inspired tenor sax playing from one of the very best sax players in the Bay Area, when Smith Dobson V is joined by drummer Tony Johnson, bassist Miles Wick & pianist Adam Shulman!
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Friday, May 6th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble feat. Al Molina
plays jazz in the bookshop
Al Molina, trumpet Jerry Logas, sax and clarinet Don Prell, bass Vinnie Rodriguez, drums Jazz history right here folks! Bebop, lovely standards, a little trad… bass-sax-drums -Â from “Ornithology” to “Doxy” — from “For All We Know” to “St. James Infirmary.” Bassist Don Prell is about 85 and he shows no sign of flagging. None that…
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Tuesday, May 3rd – 7 pm
Nachoem Wijnberg reads
from his novel, The Jews
Dutch poet and novelist Nachoem M. Wijnberg, acclaimed as one of the foremost Dutch authors of the last decades, will visit San Francisco in May to read from his recent novel, The Jews (punctum books, 2016, tr. Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei) and Divan of Ghalib (White Pine Press, 2016, tr. David Colmer). Bird & Beckett is…
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Monday, May 2nd – 7-9 pm
Poets Ron Sauer and Dan De Vries
open mic follows, Jerry Ferraz hosts
Ron Sauer Ron Sauer is a native New Yorker and a leading light of the North Beach art and poetry scene, known for trenchant social satires and poignant love poems and for translations of Baudelaire, Aloysius Betrand, and Jacques Prevert. A troubadour of urban America, Sauer is a musician, collagist, art collector, teacher of film…
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