birdbeckett
Saturday, March 29th – 7:30-9:30pm
An unnamable quartet plays ineffable jazz
Marc Caparone, cornet and trumpet. Dan Barrett, trombone and cornet. Jeff Hamilton, piano. Mikiya Matsuda, bass. $25 cover charge for adults / byob. Teens and students, $10. Kids free. The sweetest, most joyful, most satisfying, most rambunctious music you’ll ever hear is the creole jazz that flowered in New Orleans and floated up and down…
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Friday, March 28th – 8:30-10pm
The Aaron Germain Quartet
Jesse Levit, saxophone. Matt Clark, piano. Aaron Germain, bass. Isaac Schwartz, drums. $20 cover charge per adult / byob. Student rate $10-15 sliding scale. cash or venmo; no credit cards. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Aaron Germain, a unique voice on bass with a flexibility beyond compare, is well into his third decade working…
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Friday, March 28th – 6-8pm
The Tony Johnson Quartet
Bob Kenmotsu, saxophone. Keith Saunders, piano. Eric Markowitz, bass. Tony Johnson, drums. $20 suggested donation per adult / byob. Teens and students, $10. Kids free. Tony Johnson has been a cornerstone of the San Francisco jazz scene since he hit town in 1959. Tony recorded on Riverside Records with singer Bev Kelly and saxophonist Pony…
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Thursday, March 27th – 7pm
Chandru Murthi reads from his novel
The Doctor from Madras
Sweeping across generations, continents, and cultures, The Doctor from Madras (Flexible Press, 2025; paper $19) is the epic story of one family and the collision between old ways and a changing world, the debut novel by Chandru Murthi. “In this multi-generational saga, Chandru Murthi weaves together a patchwork quilt of stories involving agonizing family secrets,…
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This weekend
Friday 3/28-Sunday 3/30
good times in Glen Park
five shows at Bird & Beckett
Plenty to see and hear at Bird & Beckett this weekend. Open noon to six for browsing the books, and then, there’s music… Friday the 28th, there’s a 6-8pm show (The Tony Johnson Quartet returns! – $20 cover charge), then an 8:30-10pm show (The Aaron Germain Quartet – $20 cover charge). Saturday at 7:30, we…
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Sunday, March 23rd – 8-10pm
Allan Harris – “The Poetry of Jazz”
with Freddie Bryant & Sylvia Cuenca
Allan Harris is on tour out of NYC, and meets up with fellow New Yorker/acclaimed guitarist Freddie Bryant and bi-coastal drummer Sylvia Cuenca–with the estimable Doug Miller on bass–for two sets of poetry inflected jazz and jazz inflected poetry… $30 cover charge; byob. Call the shop to reserve. Harris, long acclaimed for his vocalese, is…
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