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Thursday, May 21st – 7 pm
Gallery Ex Libris Opening Reception
City College Book Arts Class Projects
They’re doing some fine work over at City College.  Always have.  And the book arts class taught by Grendl Löfkvist has resonated with many people we’ve mentioned it to. Gallery Ex Libris director Jack Whittington has invited his classmates and Professor Löfkvist to show their work from May 23rd through the end of June. We…
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Vinnie Rodriguez’s quartet pays tribute to Horace Silver in tonight’s broadcast of a recent live performance at Bird & Beckett.  With Erik Jekabson, trumpet; Keith Saunders, piano; Adam Gay, bass; and Vinnie Rodriguez, drums. Recording engineer Jim Bennett’s weekly show on KCSM 91.1fm, “In the Moment,” airs the quartet’s March 28th Bird & Beckett date tonight,…
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Wednesday, May 20th – 7 pm
Murmurations Reading Series
Poets Tiff Dressen & Nico Peck
Come to the 2nd installment of Murmurations reading series (Avery Burns’ occasional series at Bird & Beckett) for an evening of Delphic proportions. What does that mean? Here are two poets wholly engaged with the idea “Know thyself”. Each explores this terrain thru the lens of the contemporary lyric adding to its potential and continued…
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Monday, May 18th – 7 pm
POETS! 1st & 3rd Mondays
Tonight, Patti Trimble,
with musician Peter Whitehead
Poet Patti Trimble shares the bill on May 18th with musician and instrument builder Peter Whitehead in our twice-monthly series, hosted by Jerry Ferraz with an open mic to follow. Patti recently put out a cd called “In The Middle of the Night of the Road of My Life I Found Myself in a Tangled…
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Sunday, June 7th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west? Sunday concert series
The Gerald Beckett Quartet
Gerald Beckett – flute Gary Zellerbach – guitar Trevor Murphy – bass Greg German – drums  Originally from Texas, flutist Gerald Beckett is now a stalwart of the San Francisco music scene. Eight years of classical training at the San Francisco Conservatory, combined with extensive jazz studies with some of the leading teachers in…
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Sunday, May 17th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west? Sunday concert series
Mean to Me – Ben Slater, Judy Butterfield, Dave Shaff + 3
Mean to Me resurrects jazz of the 1920s through 1940s–sometimes twisted by the more modern stylings of Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, and Ahmad Jamal–and an eclectic variety of soul-jazz and latin-jazz. This mix reflects the interests of its three core members: Judy, who trained as a cabaret singer but whose love is for soul music; Ben,…
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