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Join us for our Surf-a-billy Swing Time Dance Party finale!  After a swingin’ 14-month run, who better to wrap it up, tie a ribbon ’round it, and place it under your tree than the dynamo that started it off! Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers Soultet featuring Jules Broussard and Danny Armstrong will thrill…

Duo at 4:00 with Chris Amberger on bass Quartet at 7:30, with Howard Wiley, sax; Chris Amberger, bass and Hamir Atwal, drums

Pianist Don Alberts and bassist Aaron Cohn join trombonist Pilorz for two sets testing the margins where bebop and hard bop constructions encounter harmonic concepts rife with possibility — all in the party atmosphere that we know and love on Friday evenings in San Francisco’s premier & southernmost outpost of literature and jazz — Bird…

The long overdue SIXTH issue of AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review is now available, featuring art by Will Yackulic and writing by Garrett Caples, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Derek Fenner, Jackqueline Frost, Evan Kennedy, Frank Lima, Jason Morris, Rod Roland, Aaron Shurin, Cedar Sigo, Syd Staiti, Richard Tagett, Tara Thomas, and the editor, Nicholas James Whittington, along with…

Joshua Raoul Brody Christopher Gray Joe Cunningham are The Potrero Hillbillies! Joshua Raoul Brody writes:  Everybody loves the Kinks. Not everybody loves their widely overlooked album Muswell Hillbillies, and that is a shame: it’s one of those albums (like, in this writer’s opinion, Revolver, Loaded (what an interesting juxtaposition!), the Band’s 2nd album,Smiley Smile, Loudon Wainwright’s High…