BIRD & BECKETT CULTURAL LEGACY PROJECT
Friday, November 3rd – 8:30-10pm
Grant Levin / Gaea Schell Duo
piano + flute
Two great San Francisco-based jazz artists unite for two sets of flute & piano duo work. $15 cover charge (cash or Venmo at the door, please), byob. An intimate and thrilling evening of music guaranteed. Gaea Schell’s new album “In Your Own Sweet Way” (Saphu Records, 2023) prominently features her flute work and vocals alongside…
Friday, November 3rd – 6-8pm
have guitar, will travel!
From NYC: Amanda Monaco Quartet
“A cliché-free, inventive player who doesn’t neatly fit into any of the usual modes of contemporary jazz guitar playing.” —Jazz Times. Amanda Monaco, guitar. Jason Gillenwater, tenor sax. Lisa Mezzacappa, bass. Jeff Davis, drums. $20 suggested (cash or Venmo at the door, please). BYOB. Acclaimed guitarist Amanda Monaco is traveling from NYC out to the…
Thursday, Nov 2nd – 7-9pm: Poetry Post Jerry!
Michael Koch Carries On
Featured poets Keith Felton & Andrena Zawinski read their work, with an open mic to follow
Back in 1999, the year we opened Bird & Beckett, Jerry Ferraz was on the first poetry reading we presented, alongside Justin Desmangles and Dan Richman. He’s remained at the center of our poetry presentations ever since. Until now. Jerry has been saying for years that his “compass points North” and now he’s done it,…
Sunday, October 29th – 5-7pm
Vince Lateano’s Doggone Jam Session
Pay what you can, and enjoy the process whereby musicians find their way among their peers, without specific preparation and preconceptions, just years of learning their craft and learning to listen and learning to respond to the moment, to the tradition and to the next musical idea. It’s fascinating and vastly entertaining, and Bird &…
Friday, October 27th – 6-8pm
Tony Johnson’s 230 Jones Street
Local 6 Literary Jazz Band
Max Perkoff, trombone and piano Charlie McCarthy, tenor sax and flute Chuck Metcalf, bass Tony Johnson, drums $20 suggested donation; byob In the late 1950s and 1960s, 230 Jones Street in San Francisco was the headquarters of the San Francisco Musicians Union, Local 6 of the American Federation of Musicians, covering the counties of San…
Thursday, October 26th – 7-9pm
A reading to celebrate the new issue of the
Haight Ashbury Literary Journal
in memorium Indigo Joanne Hotchkiss
Indigo Joanne Hotchkiss, to whom this reading is dedicated, was a co-founder in 1979 of the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. Co-editors Alice Elizabeth Rogoff and César Love co-host and participate in this reading, which will feature local poets who have poems in the current issue — Ed Mycue, Kitty Costello, Nellie Wong, Karen Melander-Magoon, Rafael…
Tuesday, October 24th – 7pm
Poet Robin Michel book release reading
with Kevin Dublin & Michael McNevin
Join us for a celebration of Robin Michel’s new collection of poems, Beneath a Strawberry Night Sky (Raven & Wren Press, 2023). Free. Refreshments provided. “It has taken nearly three decades to get this book ready for prime time,” says R0bin. “Earlier versions of these poems, with the exception of two, were written during…
Sunday, October 22nd – 4pm to 6pm
A Tribute to George DiQuattro
Vocalist David Gonzalez has pulled in a couple worthy associates from his late ’60s & ’70s gang — drummer Vince Lateano and bassist Peter Barshay — to celebrate a piano player who was central to the hip ‘n happenin’ latin jazz funk rock world of the Bay Area in the era, with young Matt Clark…
Saturday, October 21st – 7:30-9:30pm
Saúl Sierra Latin Jazz Quartet
Four master musicians perform iconic classics and standards of the Afro Latin repertoire. Marco Díaz – piano , trumpet Julio Pérez – percussion Carlos Caro – percussion Saúl Sierra – bass $20 cover charge (cash please) reservations: 415-586-3733 byob click here to hear Saúl’s last Bird & Beckett outting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRB5kOu1ST4 Saúl Sierra was born and…
Friday late show, October 20th – 8:30-10pm
The Peter Zak Trio
Peter Zak, piano Marcos Varela, bass Sylvia Cuenca, drums $20 cover charge, byob Peter’s newly released recording, One Mind, is a close collaboration with bassist Marcos Varela, in a quartet that includes Billy Drummond on drums and acclaimed saxophonist Seamus Blake. The album features several new compositions and arrangements, and veers into some surprising musical…