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Sunday, February 22nd – 2:30 pm
Walker Talks!
the gifts of the nine muses…
Walker Brents III weaves a fascinating web of insight, association, speculation and delight the last Sunday of every month, following his muse where it takes him on topics divers — from epic literature to mythological tales to the enigmas of poetry and the profundities of philosophy and religion. This afternoon, Walker takes a personal and historical…
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Sunday, February 22nd – 4:30-6:30 pm
Denise Perrier / Tammy Hall Trio
w/bassist Gary Brown
Vocalist Denise Perrier was born in Louisiana but moved with her family to the East Bay Area at the age of five, and has had a thirty-year career performing in the Bay Area and touring Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Along the way, she’s been dubbed “The Voice with a Heart” and Jazz Times magazine reviewer Harvey…
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Saturday, February 21st – 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Destiny Muhammad Trio
Heshima Mark Williams presents the Destiny Muhammad Jazz Trio. Destiny Muhammad, harp Alex Baum, bass Jack Dorsey, drums Destiny Muhammad’s genre ‘Celtic to Coltrane’ is cool and eclectic with a feel of jazz & storytelling to round out the sonic experience. Destiny has opened for the Oakland East Bay Symphony, shared the stage with Jazz…
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Friday, February 20th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Ensemble
plays from a 1970s bag
Scott Foster leads his quartet through territory not so often explored on the Bird & Beckett bandstand.  Remember the 1970s?!? Jim Peterson, reeds; Mike Bordelon on bass; and Ricky Carter on drums join the guitarist a freaky little expedition into a time, a place and an expanded frame of mind…
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Monday, February 16th – 7 pm
Poets Ronald Sauer & Robert Anbian
open mic follows
Ron Sauer is a native New Yorker and a leading light of the North Beach art and poetry scene, known for trenchant social satires and poignant love poems and for translations of Baudelaire, Aloysius Betrand, and Jacques Prevert. Â A troubadour of urban America, Sauer is a musician, collagist, art collector, teacher of film history and…
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Sunday, February 15th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Ouroboros
With Clark Coolidge on drums and Andrew Joron on theremin, Ouroboros is definitely a poets’ band, but the music is the thing for sure. Â Sheldon Brown, one of the very top sax players on the free improv scene, who can swing in a big band setting like nobody’s business, certainly insures that this is so.…
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