Friday, July 18th – 8:30-10pm
Lisa Mezzacappa 5(ish), a Sextet
Cosmicomics Revisited
Aaron Bennett, tenor sax. Mark Clifford, vibraphone. Kyle Bruckmann, modular synth. Brett Carson, keyboard. Jordan Glenn, drums. Lisa Mezzacappa, bass. $20-$40 sliding scale; byob. $10 for students; kids free. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s nerdy, hilarious, lewd, poignant collection of short stories, the Cosmicomics, Lisa Mezzacappa ‘s suite…
Friday, July 18th – 6pm
Scott Foster / Ollie Dudek Duo
Scott Foster, guitar. Ollie Dudek, bass. $15/adults; $5/students; kids/free. Bird & Beckett’s favorite jazz guitarist brings in a fresh aggregation of local jazz greats on the third Friday of every month. Scott has been the cornerstone of the Bird & Beckett jazz scene for nearly a quarter century, ever since the Friday happy hour show…
Wednesday, July 16th – 7:30pm
Laborfest Writers Group
Poetry, memoir, fiction and nonfiction by rabble-rousers, activists, leftist radicals, union members, immigrants, native-born and plain old trouble-makers. The group, formed in 2005, includes Alice Elizabeth Rogoff, Barbara Saunders, Jerry Path, Keith David Cooley, Margaret Cooley, Nellie Wong, Robert Eugenio Rubino and Susan Ford.
Sunday, July 13th – 7:30pm
S.E. Willis & the Willing
blues, boogie, zydeco & country
S.E. Willis & the Willing. $20/adults; $10/students; kids/free. S.E. Willis, piano, accordion, harmonica & vocals. additional personnel to be recruited from the available willing, including the Excelsior’s own guitar wizard Takezo Takeda. S.E. plays classic and original blues, boogie, rock, zydeco and country, all with soul, conviction and authenticity–to paraphrase S.E. himself and the late,…
Sunday, July 13th – Livestream at 10a.m.
Journalist Denise Sullivan
in conversation with Ingrid Valdez
on grief, loss, suicide prevention
and emotional support
SF Lives/Live Talk
SF Lives/Live Talks on the second Sunday of each month via our livestream. Find it on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel or Facebook page. Independent reporter Denise Sullivan brings the SF Lives series to Bird & Beckett for a Sunday morning livestream: This month’s guest is Ingrid Valdez, BCBA, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst…
Saturday, July 12th – 7:30pm
The Ron Marabuto Quartet
Ron Marabuto Quartet. $20/adults; $10/students; kids/free. Bob Kenmotsu, tenor sax. Ben Stolorow, piano. Ravi Abcarian, bass. Ron Marabuto, drums. Ron Marabuto, the son of John Marabuto, a key Bay Area pianist/arranger throughout the 1950s-1990s, was raised in the East Bay, graduated from UC Berkeley, and spent over a decade in New York City working extensively…
Friday, July 11th – 8:30-10pm
Genius Wesley Quartet
Luis Peralta, piano Jed Holtman, guitar Isaac Coyle, bass Genius Wesley, drums Genius Lee Wesley auditioned on drums for Oaktown Jazz Workshops at the age of eight, launching his education in jazz and building relationships at OJW and through the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars with the members of the quartet you’ll hear tonight. By age…
Friday, July 11th – 6pm
GG Amos Band
west coast blues
GG Amos Band plays post-war west coast blues. $20/adults; $10/students; kids/free. GG Amos, guitar and vocals Kevin Gerzevitz, organ and piano Vicky Grossi, bass Randy Lee Odell, drums GG has learned the lessons from all the great blues records, countless gigs leading her own bands, and personal experience in the bands of legendary and obscure…
Thursday, July 10th – 7pm
Owen Hill & Andrew Levy: A reading
Novelist/poet/wobbly organizer/book scout Owen Hill & drummer/poet Andrew Levy. Hill reads from Poison Begets Poison. Levy reads from Artifice in the Calm Damages. Also on the docket, Hill’s crime fiction omnibus edition just out from PM Press: The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story The Giveaway collects the Blackburn novels The Chandler Apartments (2002), The Incredible…
Sunday, July 6th – 5pm
The Yoav Konig Sextet + Jam Session
On the first Sunday of each month, with donor support and the help of a small but avid audience, Bird & Beckett pays a modest stipend to young players still deeply in the process of acquiring an education in jazz. They may be young and they may be still learning the ropes, but their skills…