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Pianist Grant Levin and his stalwart ally, bassist Chris Amberger converse in jazz over two generous sets of music.  Bring $10 if you can afford it to help pay these fine musicians.

Swing and bop by long-time masters of the music… the core Bird & Beckett jazz experience.  Not to be underestimated! Chuck Peterson & Howie Dudune, reeds; Glen Deardorff, guitar; Dean Reilly, bass; Tony Johnson, drums, with vocalist Dorothy Lefkovits.

Jerry Ferraz hosts Bird & Beckett’s bi-monthly poetry reading and open mic, this week featuring Zigi Lowenberg working with Oakland pianist Bill Crossman. An open mic follows. Lowenberg was raised in Queens and then relocated to the Bay Area from East Village in Manhattan, and now she’s back in NYC. She’s traveling west in January to read…

Jinx Jones, hot shot rockabilly guitarist with a jazz habit, brings his trio — Joe Kyle, Jr. on bass and Ken Owen on drums — to Bird & Beckett, mixing some Monk, Bird & Bud into the locomotive beast that drives audiences to a frenzy up in North Beach at the Saloon and Tupelo, your…

The Lost Trio, comprising Phillip Greenlief (reeds), Dan Seamans (bass) and Tom Hassett (drums), performed at Bird & Beckett in July 2015 with guitarist Scott Foster at Scott’s invitation. It was a beautiful occasion, and now the Lost Trio is returning the favor.  You should be here for this! Greenlief is one of the top…

Bassist John Wiitala and drummer Greg Wyser-Pratt join Canadian pianist/vocalist Gaea Schell, who’s been making her mark on the San Francisco jazz scene since arriving a couple years ago.             In the judgment of Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath, Gaea “plays the heck out of the piano with them small hands.” Known…