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Saturday, May 30th – 8-11 pm
jazz club… when lights are low
Kurt Ribak Quartet
Bassist Kurt Ribak crosses genres between gigs with seemingly no effort, as comfortable in a rockabilly gig as in a gypsy jazz setting or a bebop date.  Here, we can count on Kurt to deliver “music for the jazz impurist.†Writing about Kurt’s recent CD I Got One More!, the long-time Bay Area music critic Lee Hildebrand…
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Friday, May 29th – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
The Dave Parker Quintet
For his Bird & Beckett 5th Friday “jazz in the bookshop” date, bassist Dave Parker brings in a quintet… Clifford Brown III, trumpet; Charles Hamilton, trombone; Jerry Logas, sax; Dave Parker, bass; Greg German, drums. Music of Mingus, Dolphy, Coltrane, Davis & more!
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Sunday, May 24th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west? Sunday concert series
Hamir Atwal Trio
Bassist John Wiitala and guitarist Jeffrey Burr join drummer Hamir Atwal to play you some jazz standards. You’ll never hear them better played. One more peak experience for our Bird & Beckett regulars, and you, if you’re not one yet.  After a couple sets in their company this afternoon, you likely soon will be…
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Sunday, May 24th – 2 pm
Poet Alexandra Teague
reads poems of a curious and
twisted American trajectory
Alexandra returns to present her new collection of poems. Â She’s an award winning poet, late of the Bay Area (she was a Stegner fellow here from 2006-2008 and a 2011 NEA fellow), now teaching at the University of Idaho. Her new collection is said to be “a chilling exploration of American progress and its consequences,…
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Saturday, May 23rd – 8-11 pm
jazz club… when lights are low
The Vinnie Rodriguez Quartet
Vinnie Rodriguez has assembled an exciting quartet to accompany him on an exploration of the trombone in modern jazz: Scott Larson, Adam Shulman and Robert Overbury. The quartet will be focusing on hard-swingin’ tunes by Blue Note artists including Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd and JJ Johnson from the late ’50s and early ’60s. Trombonist Scott…
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Store Anniversary Celebration!
Friday, May 22nd – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
The Jazz Founders!
Store Anniversary Celebration! Founded in May 1999 at 2788 Diamond, Bird & Beckett is 16 years old this month! Tonight, May 22nd, it’s a special “Founders’ Reunion” of the Friday evening “jazz in the bookshop” series leaders: Chuck Peterson, reeds Scott Foster, guitar Don Prell, bass Jimmy Ryan, drums with special guests Dorothy Lefkovits, vocals…
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