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Thanksgiving weekend
at Bird & Beckett…
shows Friday, Saturday, Sunday
The New Squatoolas play Friday from 6-9pm The Robb Fisher Trio plays Saturday, 7:30-9:30pm The Cottontails play Sunday, 4:30-6:30pm Bring $25 and your own beverage Friday and Sunday Bring $20 & yob on Saturday! Thank you to our indigenous hosts for tolerating us in this unceded territory, the one they borrowed from and shared with…
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Monday, November 25th – 8-10pm
Elé Salif Howell Quartet
Elé Salif Howell, drums, leads a fantastic quartet of young phenoms through two sets of jazz music — Kazemde George, saxophone; Kai Lyons, guitar; Giulio Xavier Cetto, bass. $25 cover charge / byob. Elé synthesizes the multirhythms of Tony Williams, the power and drive of Elvin Jones, and the intuitive complexity of African drumming, and…
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Sunday, November 24th – 5-7pm
Jam Session with the
Vince Lateano Trio
Sunday, 11/24 at 5pm, it’s our last-Sunday-of-the-month jam session hosted by the Vince Lateano Trio. If you’re not working a gig, drop in. If you just want to hear some in-the-moment jazz, drop in. $20 helps us pay the trio — Ben Stolorow, piano; Peter Barshay, bass; Vince Lateano, drums — three of the great…
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Saturday, November 23rd – 7:30-9:30pm
On tour from Bordeaux
Rachael Magidson’s West Coast Jazz Quartet
Saturday, 11/23 at 7:30pm, Rachael Magidson’s West Coast Jazz Quartet, direct from the Atlantic seaport of Bordeaux in Southwestern France. Rachael migrated to France from the Bay Area a number of years ago, and many will remember her group Sophisticated Ladies holding forth at the Bliss Bar in Noe Valley many years back. Read the…
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Friday, November 22nd – 6pm and 8:30 pm
two shows: Tony Johnson Quartet at 6
Gurkestra at 8:30
Friday, 11/22 at 6pm, the Tony Johnson Quartet holds forth, playing bebop, hardbop and classic jazz standards from across the spectrum as befits their mood. Bob Kenmotsu, tenor sax; Keith Saunders, piano; Eric Markowitz, bass; Tony Johnson, drums. $20/byob….. Friday, 11/22 at 8:30pm, the Gurkestra, a small combo flexible in repertoire with a…
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Thursday, November 21 — 7:30pm
Walker Brents III talks on the subject of
Democratic Creativity: From Whitman to You.
Walker Brents III, our resident philosopher & spiritual advisor, builds on thoughts begun in his October talk on Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas. Tonight’s talk is entitled “Democratic Creativity: From Whitman to You.” Inspiration in challenging times has been a constant and perennial theme. What forms has literature taken as communities, societies and individuals evolve amidst…
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