birdbeckett
Tuesday, December 3rd – 7:00 pm
CD release!
Colonels of Truth
Hailing from way up in Miraloma Park, Robert Mueller leads this Americana/roots country rock outfit with Rick Santos, both contributing original songs, guitar work and vocals. With the stellar work of string wonder Peter Dominguez (dobro, banjo & guitars) and bassist/producer David Sands, the band is complete. Their tremendous, haunting & wry “Songs of Love,…
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Bird Lives!
Eddie Duran & Friends
Sunday, Dec. 1st, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Eddie Duran, guitar Chuck Peterson & Mad Duran, saxes Henry Hung, trumpet Dean Reilly, bass Vince Lateano, drums Back in 1952, young Eddie Duran was the house guitarist at San Francisco’s Say When Club on Bush Street when Charlie Parker was brought in for a two-week booking with co-headliner Flip Phillips.  Flip quit the gig after a week and…
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Fifth Friday jazz in the bookshop
November 29th, 5:30 to 8:00 pm
Lipskin – Logas – Ventresco
Echoes of Storyville,
Harlem & Tin Pan Alley
Friday, Nov. 29th – 5:30-8:00 pm: Special Fifth Friday Booking!  Mike Lipskin, acclaimed Harlem stride piano master, teams up with reed player Jerry Logas, whose way with early New Orleans style clarinet is exquisite, and world-class ragtime guitar specialist Craig Ventresco. Born in New York, Mike Lipskin was digging his father’s Fats Waller records by the age of…
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Sunday, November 24th — 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Music at Large:
The Lewis Jordan Quintet
which way west? Sunday concert series every week, music from the four points of the compass no cover, donations requested Saxophonist Lewis Jordan writes: I began Music at Large in 1976, dedicated to interdisciplinary and multicultural productions, with presentations incorporating music, theater, dance, poetry and visual art. Since that time, Music at Large has been…
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Sunday, November 24th — 2:30 p.m.
Walker Talks! on Rainer Maria Rilke
and the Duino Elegies
Each month, Walker Brents III explores a topic from the realms of literature, mythology, history–wherever his interests take him–and he never fails to take his listeners along on a fascinating excursion deep into his subjects. This month he discusses a poet and a work of poetry which has held great fascination for him for decades, plumbing the…
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Once Upon a Time in Babylon
Poet Ron Johnson – Sun. 11/24 1:30pm
“…once upon a time in Babylon we all breathed pure imagination our only master & our mistress who tore men’s mind asunder and dazzled Heaven’s Queen O! Once upon a time in holy Babylon!” Ron Johnson reads at Bird & Beckett Sunday, November the twenty fourth, one thirty post meridian time
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