Sunday, May 24th – 5-7pm
Innuendo plays French cabaret tunes
Big Lou, accordion Kit Robberson, viola da gamba David Golia, guitar Bing Nathan, bass $20 adults / $10 students / kids free Playing such old French music hall tunes as “The Poor People of Paris”, aka “La Goualante de Pauvre Jean,” and “El Choclo,” Innuendo invites you to listen and savor the romance of yesteryear…
May 23rd – 7:30pm
Kata Vento Reunion Concert
The compositions of Carlos Oliveira
Carlos Oliveira, guitar and compositions Chloe Scott, Rebecca Kleinmann, and Sonia Caltvedt, flutes Brian Rice, percussion $25-30 sliding scale cover charge / students $10 For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733 Original tunes inspired by northeastern Brazil.
Friday, May 22nd – 7:30pm
Tony Johnson’s 230 Jones Street Band
Smith Dobson, saxophone Sam Cady, piano Chuck Bennett, bass Tony Johnson, drums $20 cover charge; students $10; kids free For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-373 The 230 Jones Street Band is Bird & Beckett’s legacy combo. Its roots are in the Chuck Peterson Trio’s weekly Friday happy hour that kicked off jazz in…
Thursday, May 21st – 7:30 a.m. – a livestream
Walker Brents III on Bob Dylan
Walker Talks: On Bob Dylan. (Free, but your donations help us pay Walker for his work). Says Walker, “Bob Dylan, our beneficial preceptor, beckoning to us through the smoke and mirrors of his fame, kindly teaching us by his living example, of what our common language can do, woven deftly into song, performance, stagecraft, literature, philosophy and,…
Sunday 5pm Happy Hour Every Week!
The Vince Lateano Trio plays Bird & Beckett
on the 3rd Sunday of every other month
May 17th, vocalist Ernest East
is the trio’s special guest
5/17/26, Sunday, 5pm: The Vince Lateano Trio with guest vocalist Ernest East. ($20 suggested donation, students $10 suggested; pay what you can). Singer Ernest East has been on the scene off and on for five decades and never fails to charm; we’re always glad to invite him back. Come discover a hidden treasure! As for…
The Scott Foster Quartet
Friday, May 15th – 7:30pm
Jim Peterson, saxophones Scott Foster, guitar Dan Seamans, bass Tom Hassett, drums What began several years ago, in 2022, as the “Tom Hassett Experiment” has become a solid quartet with a repertoire and approach of its own. Guitarist Scott Foster helms the group, bringing a career’s worth of immersion in jazz beyond the genres. Drummer…
Novelist K.S. Haddock
Imagine My Surprise!
Keith Haddock & friends present his new novel. A drug kingpin is murdered by his henchmen. Imagine his surprise when he is reincarnated, fully-conscious, into a newborn boy. Revenge has to wait while he’s raised by two hapless millennials in the suburbs. A black comedy-meets-crime story wrapped in sardonic magical realism. Have fun! “Sharp, witty…
Tuesday, May 13th – 7:30pm
Ray Skjelbred and the Hot Corner
Ray Skjelbred, piano Andy Schumm, clarinet & tenor sax Katie Cavera, guitar Clint Baker, bass Riley Baker, drums The Hot Corner assembled in Oakland for a recording session on the 12th and made their way to Bird & Beckett on the 13th for two sets of hot Chicago style jazz, the way Ray Skjelbred has…
No Land & Oliver Ray, poetry and guitar from NY + Tucson – plus four more Naropa poets – in the centennial of Allen Ginsberg
Tuesday, May 12th
5/12/26, Tuesday, 8pm: Allen Ginsberg 100th Centennial gathering – guitarist/essayist Oliver Ray and poets No Land, Aubrey Gates King, Madeline Rose Hernandez, Nica, Swanee Astrid. ($10-$20 donation requested for the poets to share).