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Fred Martin has devoted the last twenty years to research on Abraham Lincoln and served two terms as President of The Abraham Lincoln Institute in Washington, D.C. His research has been conducted at the Library of Congress, the National Archibves, state historical societies, archieves and libraries across the nation. His book Abraham Lincoln’s Path to…

Reed player Noel Jewkes is featured at jazz club! when pianist Grant Levin leads his quartet through two sets of classic and contemporary small combo repertoire.  Bassist Chris Amberger and drummer Malachi Whitson keep the pulse strong! jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night at Bird & Beckett, 7:30-10 pm.  Grant leads the band…

Noah Schenker, one of San Francisco’s premier bassists, fields a quartet featuring some of the Bay Area’s finest jazz musicians — guitarist Jack Riordan, pianist Adam Shulman and drummer Jon Arkin — keeping the jazz flame burning at San Francisco’s longest running weekly jazz party.  Never a missed Friday since late 2002, and still going strong!…

Mississippi delta blues by a master guitarist fronting a terrific band.  Come celebrate the release of Bill’s new cd, “Parade.” A reviewer for the German publication “Blues News” had this to say this time last year:  “I hear Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb’s montone bass and Junior Kimbroughs Mississippi Juke Joint blues in Phillippe’s playing.”

Bird & Beckett started in business in May of 1999… and in October of 2002, 13+ years ago, we started presenting live jazz every single Friday evening after work. We’re still doing it, and more… but every so often the necktie gets a little tight — you all know how it is… So, on Friday,…