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Sunday, May 5th – 5-8pm
Two jazz combos from
Ruth Asawa School of the Arts
jam session with the Akira Tana Trio follows
Bird & Beckett makes way for the next generation on the first Sunday of each month! On the first Sunday of each month, you’ll hear what youth well schooled in jazz can do. The musicianship on display is always amazing, delightful and fills us with confidence in the future of the culture. This time out,…
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Friday, May 3rd – 8:30-10pm
Macy Blackman’s Mighty Fine Trio
Macy Blackman, piano and vocals; Bing Nathan, bass; Jon Otis, drums. The late show! $20 cover charge cash or venmo at the door for a reservation, call 415-586-3733 Macy Blackman has been steeped in rhythm & blues since he was a youngster in Delaware. Born in 1948, by his high school years he…
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Thursday 5/2 to Sunday 5/5
Poetry & jazz kicking off
Bird & Beckett’s 25th Anniversary Month!
founded May 1999!
Thursday 5/2 at 7pm: Poets James Cagney and Thomas Dunn, followed by an open mic hosted by Jerry Ferraz and Michael Koch. Featured poets and an open mic presented monthly since 1999. Free to all, though donations are always appreciated. James Cagney is the author of Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour Of Chaos Theory,…
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Sunday, April 28th – 5-9pm
Jam session with the Vince Lateano Trio
and jazzy SFCM RJAM end-of-semester party!
Join the precociously talented undergrads from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s B.Mus. “Roots, Jazz & American Music’ program to help celebrate the end of another semester. Some will be back next year, some will head for the bright lights of another big city… it’s the now that counts! Bring a donation to help us…
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Saturday, April 27th – 7:30-9:30pm
Phillip Greenlief – Scott Amendola Duo
30 years of spontaneous collaboration! No reason to stop now! $20 at the door. Doors open at 7:15pm. Showtime 7:30. BYOB. Scott Amendola and Phillip Greenlief celebrate 30 years of collaboration with the release of STAY WITH IT on clean feed records. The two musicians began playing together when Greenlief moved back to the SF…
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Saturday, April 27th – 4pm
Book Launch Party!
Glen Park Writer Jason K. Friedman
presents Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and the Civil War from University of South Carolina Press
Jason Friedman has lived up the way for quite a few years, but hails from Savannah, Georgia, and when he and his partner Jeffrey bought a flat in a building on Liberty Street in Savannah a few years ago, Jason began to dive into the archives to see what he could learn about the family…
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