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Saturday, April 18th – 8-11pm
Celebrating the Bishop!
Michael Marcus + Heshima + Sharky
Michael Marcus, reeds Heshima Mark Williams, bass Art “Sharky” Lewis, drums celebrate three local legends Bishop Norman Williams   •   B.J. Papa   •   Vince Wallace Saturday, April 18th from 8 to 11 pm – $10 cover Painting by Lewis Bangham – www.lbangham.com
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Friday, April 17th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Trio
considers the influence of trios past…
Guitarist Jim Hall, pianist Herbie Nichols, tenor player Joe Henderson, pianist Bill Evans… these and numerous other jazz artists assembled trios that beguiled and informed the ears of countless jazz cognoscenti and bystanders caught in the beauty of the moment. You don’t have to be steeped in the history of jazz to recognize how beautiful…
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Thursday, April 16th – 7:30 pm
Jack Hirschman: Red Poet
documentary film screening & reading
“Red Poet,” a film about Jack Hirschman, will be screened Thursday, April 16th at Bird & Beckett, with the director and the poet present. Red Poet is Jack Hirschman!  For five years, filmmaker Matthew Furey followed the San Francisco Poet Laureate to café and art gallery, to  poetry readings in Los Angeles and Venice, Italy……
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Sunday, April 12th – 7:30 p.m.
Happy Birthday, Sam!
Raise a glass with us to Samuel Beckett, with our fine friends from PUS Theatre Company, Beckett interpreters extraordinaire and good friends of the enterprise we lovingly call “Bird & Beckett.” Sam claimed to be born on Good Friday, April 13th, but averred he remembered life in the womb, so we’re not adverse to celebrating…
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Sunday, April 12th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Mark Levine Trio
Mark Levine wrote the book on jazz piano… specifically, The Jazz Piano Book (Sher Music, 2005 — but originally published in 1989), and has been instrumental in the education of many thousands of jazz pianists… He himself studied in Boston and New York with legendary figures Hal Overton, Herb Pomeroy and Jaki Byard. Along the…
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Saturday, April 11th – 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Noel Jewkes
with the Grant Levin Quartet
Pianist Grant Levin leads a quartet every 2nd Saturday in our “jazz club” series– 8-11 pm, “when lights are low…” Tonight, Grant will be featuring reed player Noel Jewkes, with the able rhythm section assistance of Joe McKinley on bass and Rick Rivera on drums. Classic small group jazz in an intimate venue where every…
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