birdbeckett
Thursday, May 7th – 8-10 pm
cd release party!
Bryan Bowman’s “Like Minds”
Join drummer Bryan Bowman and his collaborators to celebrate his new CD of original compositions, “Like Minds.” Bryan is among the top echelon of jazz drummers on the San Francisco scene, heard many times in the past at Bird & Beckett in a variety of configurations — and the other musicians on the CD are…
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Wednesday, May 6th – 7 pm
Opening reception – Gallery Ex Libris
Art by The Fogbender
Monday, May 4th – 7 pm
POETS! 1st & 3rd Mondays
Jorge Argueta and Jerry Ferraz
Jorge Argueta and Jerry Ferraz share the featured slots on tonight’s reading — which coincidentally is Jerry’s birthday! Jerry has been hosting our reading series for more than a dozen years, and was on the first bill of poets we ever presented here. Â He’s a native son of the city, and has been wandering the…
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Sunday, May 3rd — 4:30-6:30 pm
The Steve Nelson Sextet
featuring Sharman Duran
Two sets of straight ahead jazz, blues, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban tunes performed by a terrific sextet led by drummer Steve Nelson, with his long-time musical collaborator Sharman Duran on piano and vocals. The sextet will cover ground from Cole Porter to Jobim to Monk and much more.  Though mainly rooted in the jazz, The Steve Nelson…
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Sunday, May 3rd – 2 pm
Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin
Bootstrap Press’s Derek Fenner presents poet Tongo Eisen-Martin with his new book, someone’s dead already. About the book: “Eisen-Martin’s syntax lands somewhere between Sphinx and Thelonious…through poem he makes spare, efficient, wild-eyed jazz…rubs mud and accountability into the pores of the zeros and ones in the glass and steel city. Throughout SOMEONE’S DEAD ALREADY, I…
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Saturday, May 2nd – 8-11 pm
The Smith Dobson Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low…
Smith Dobson, a formidable young tenor sax player, leads off our Saturday “jazz club” series each month, on the first Saturday of the month. Tonight he has a stellar rhythm section — Keith Saunders on piano Eric Markowitz on bass Tony Johnson on drums. V’s Quartet… generations in the making, now!
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