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November 27th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Chuck Peterson Quintet
jazz in the bookshop every Friday
Talk about your San Francisco jazz…  On the fourth Friday of each month, our weekly jazz in the bookshop series features The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band — aka The Chuck Peterson Quintet — five musicians whose history on the local jazz scene dates back 60 years, to the very early 1950s.. Reed…
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Sunday, November 22nd – 4:30 pm
AvantNOIR: Lisa Mezzacappa Project
The crime fiction of Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster inspired bassist Lisa Mezzacappa to cook up this project, which performed the suite recently at SFJazz. Â Thanks to Marty Bigos for helping to underwrite AvantNOIR’s performance today at Bird & Beckett. And thanks to Jean Conner, whose support through the years has made our entire Sunday…
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Sunday, November 22nd – 2 pm
Author event – Cuba!
To Defend the Revolution
is to Defend Culture
Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt
To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture revisits the circumstances which led to the arts being embraced at the heart of the Cuban Revolution. Introducing the main protagonists to the debate, this previously untold story follows the polemical twists and turns that ensued in the volatile atmosphere of the 1960s and ’70s. The picture…
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Saturday, November 21st – 7:30-10 pm
Rhodessa Jones: Facing Seventy – Heaven Betta Bea Honky-Tonk
There’s no band quite like the bands Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor have been presenting these past several decades, and no concepts quite like their concepts. Tonight, you’ll see how that is. Rhodessa Jones — vocals Idris Ackamoor — alto and tenor sax, percussion David Molina — guitar, ableton computer, percussion Heshima Mark William —…
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Friday, November 20th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet
plumbs the depths of John Scofield
Guitarist Scott Foster is joined this evening by James Mahone, tenor sax; Sam Bevan, bass; and Brandon Etzler, drums, for an excursion through the work of a guitarist that influenced Scott profoundly early on and retains a fascination still. Scofield himself characterizes his music as falling in a continuum of post-bop, funk edged jazz, and R…
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Thursday, November 19th – 7 pm
Mukta Sambrani reads from
Broomrider’s Book of the Dead
Broomrider’s Book of the Dead purports to be “A book in no genre based on found fragments from the notebooks of Anna Albuquar a.k.a. Anna Plum.” By happenstance the first reader of this book comes upon some poems. A tourist, he would like to believe he is in Bombay for work alone. Not pleasure, he is…
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