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Canyon Moonlight Music Series
Sunday nights ’til The Riptide returns!
January 3rd – 7:30-10 pm: EaR Candy
This Sunday night, Eric Shifrin and Ralph Carney lead the eclectic and rollicking quartet they call EaR Candy… with Joe Kyle, Jr. on bass and Randy Odell on drums. EaR Candy operates on the principle that to steal from one artist is plagiarism, but to steal from everyone is research! Â Music from Duke Ellington to…
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Sunday, January 3rd – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west? Sunday concert series
Avotcja! and Modupue
Avotcja, named 2015 Jazz Hero by the Bay Area Chapter of the Jazz Journalists Association last July, is a jazz musician with deep roots, a riveting poet, an imaginative and ruminative prose writer, a pioneer, an individualist, a fierce champion of her fellow musicians, poets and artists.  She leads the group named Best Jazz Group of…
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Saturday, January 2nd – 7:30-10 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
The Smith Dobson Quartet
Saturday, January 2nd at Bird & Beckett 7:30-10:00 pm THE SMITH DOBSON QUARTET originals and chestnuts Richard Sears, piano Doug Stuart, bass Tim Angulo, drums jazz club! when lights are low $10 cover
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Friday, January 1st – 5:30-8:00 pm
New Years Day jazz in the bookshop!
Don Prell’s SeaBop Quartet
Count on bassist Don Prell and his confreres to keep the jazz ball rolling at Bird & Beckett right into 2016! Â We’ve never missed a Friday jazz date since the series began back in late 2002, so we’re well into our 14th year… nearly 700 consecutive Fridays and counting! Don got his start in LA…
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Sunday, December 27th – 4:30-6:30 pm
A year-end Bird & Beckett tradition!
Two guitars: Duncan James & Ray Scott
It’s a lovely and low key thing, with two veteran jazz guitarists in solo and duo combination, passing a sweet Sunday afternoon at the end of the year, with you in their company.
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