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SUMMARY:Next Gen Jam w/ Dylan Acker Quartet
DESCRIPTION:On the 1st Sunday of every month\, bands of local youth\, often fielded from one or another of the many fine music programs in colleges and high schools in San Francisco and around the bay\, perform a set\, then host a student-centric jam session for their peers\, with financial support from Jazz in the Neighborhood. \nThis month features the Dylan Acker Quartet. Trumpet player Dylan Acker\, a senior at Ruth Asawa School or the Arts\, brings a quartet this month to play a set and conduct a jam session. The quartet includes guitarist Dexter Dryg\, a RASOTA graduate on his way to NYC; Julian Deery\, from Nueva School\, on bass; and Amaru Duran\, also at RASOTA\, on drums. \nAll welcome\, particularly high school and college students. No charge. Donate what you can! \nSUNDAY HAPPY HOUR! Grab your partner! Gather your kids! Call a friend! Come on down to the bookshop to get a bit better acquainted with your neighbors and just have a ball before the start of another long hard work week!
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/next-gen-jam_2026-09-06/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books & Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Happy Hour,Jam Session,Live Music
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SUMMARY:Danny Bittker Quintet
DESCRIPTION:Danny Bittker\, reeds; Dave Casini\, vibraphone; Michael Price\, bass; Mark Fishman and Annette A Aguilar\, percussion; with guest vocalists Carol Belcher and Lee Heuermann. \nDanny Bittker has performed worldwide with diverse ensembles including Mo’ Fone\, Mitch Woods\, Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums\, the Rova Saxophone Quartet\, and artists such as Bonnie Raitt and Grover Washington Jr. Based in the Bay Area since 1981\, he was a founding member of the Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet and has contributed to recordings spanning jazz\, blues\, and world music genres. It’s always a pleasure when Danny brings his kaleidoscopic road show to Bird & Beckett. \n$25 cover charge; byob\nStudents $10 \nFor a reservation\, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/danny-bittker_2026-09-05/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books & Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Hal Richards Quintet w/ Hung\, Abe\, Belcher & Foltz
DESCRIPTION:Hal Richards\, reeds; Henry Hung\, trumpet ; Rumi Abe\, piano ; Ron Belcher\, bass; Dan Foltz\, drums. \nHal Richards is a versatile woodwind specialist — saxophones\, flutes\, clarinets\, oboe and bassoon — who has been performing and recording with many of the Bay Areas finest musicians since 1976 — currently including Jeff Sanford’s Cartoon Jazz Orchestra and Septet\, The Berkeley Saxophone Quartet\, The Dave Parker Quintet\, The California Pops Orchestra\, and the Golden Gate Park Band. He has also appeared with Carol Channing\, Terry Gibbs\, Eric Marienthal\, Bill Perkins\, Bob Florence\, Omar Clay\, Lenny Niehaus\, Fred Radke\, and at The North Beach Jazz Festival. Hal’s theater experience includes musical productions\, television soundtracks\, the Bay Area Revels\, San Francisco Children’s Opera\, San Francisco Mime Troupe\, Magic Theater\, San Francisco Playhouse\, Broadway By the Bay\, Marines Memorial Theater\, Berkeley Playhouse\, Contra Costa Musical Theater and the Peninsula Civic Light Opera. Classical endeavors have included various chamber groups\, Bay Area orchestras\, Verismo Opera and a stint with The Guadalajara Symphony Orchestra. He recently retired after a long and distinguished career as an instrumental music teacher in the San Francisco Public Schools. His dates at Bird & Beckett include chestnuts\, novelty numbers\, originals and most always at least one new Lenny Carlson composition\, and attract a friends\, family and fans of long standing. \n$25 cover charge; byob\nStudents $10 \nFor a reservation\, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/hal-richards_2026-09-04/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books & Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:POETS! Tate Swindell & Shane King Zackery + Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Shane King Zackery is a queer black poet\, filmmaker\, and technologist who has lived in the Bay for over 10 years. They like to sit in the river and talk in circles about being human. Occasionally\, they write something down about the nature of time\, space\, and love. \nArchivist\, Editor\, Poet and Photographer\, Tate Swindell is the founder of Unrequited Records\, which specializes in poetry records released on the vinyl format. Editor of On Valencia Street: Poems and Ephemera by Jack Micheline (Lithic Press\, 2019). Co-editor of the Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman for City Lights Books (2019). Tate\, and his brother Todd\, worked extensively on the Harold Norse archives\, which were donated to the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. He is currently writing short stories about his experiences in the San Francisco medical cannabis movement. Previous collections of writings include Palpitations; The Creation of Deadlines; Fotopomes and the most recent SOLAR HITS (Lithic Press\, 2025). \nMichael Koch and Jerry Ferraz host Bird & Beckett’s 1st Thursdays poetry series. The reading starts at 7pm with two to three featured readers\, with an open mic following after a short break. \nThe reading\, including the open mic\, is welcomes all comers at no cost\, although tips to augment the small honorarium awarded the featured readers by the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project are encouraged and welcome at the break before the open mic commences. BYOB. \nTo help underwrite this 25-year tradition at Bird & Beckett\, please consider a sustaining donation to the Cultural Legacy Project\, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization charged with presenting\, documenting and archiving the work of the region’s crucial corps of dedicated poets and musicians. Information can be found here: Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/poets-open-mic_2026-09-03/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books & Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading
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