Jazzx4 + 1 Lit Talk

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Tuesday, February 17, 7:30pm
{$20}
Jerome Sabbagh Trio
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Thursday, February 19, 7:30pm, a live stream
{Free}
Walker Talks, on Ella Young
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Friday, February 20, 6:00pm
{$20}
Scott Foster/David Phillips/Andrew Higgins/David Rokeach
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Saturday, February 21, 7:30pm
{$20}
Levy / Campilongo Guitar Duo

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Sunday, February 22, 5:00pm
{$20}
Jam session
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Reserve a seat by calling the bookshop at (415) 586-3733. We’ll hold your reservation until the music starts. No advance ticket sales; plan to pay with cash at the door, and byob.

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MORE DETAILS:

Tuesday, February 17, 7:30pm – $20 cover/byob
Jerome Sabbagh Trio
Jerome Sabbagh, tenor sax; Essiet Okon Essiet, bass; Sylvia Cuenca, drums…

Thursday, February 19, 7:30pm – donations welcome
Walker Talks, a monthly live stream from the bowels of the darkened bookshop.
This month, Ella Young—a California presence.  An Irish revolutionary, visionary mystic, immigrant, scholar, poet and storyteller.  She lectured in Celtic Studies at UC Berkeley for ten years or so, in the 1920s.  She was involved with the artistic life of Carmel and Big Sur and also the bohemian theosophist artist’s colony at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, some of whose work inspired Ursula Le Guin.  Ansel Adams photographed her.  The avant-garde composer Harry Partch was a fellow creative worker.  Her books, such as “Celtic Wonder Tales, “Flowering Dusk” and “The Tangle Coated Horse” are classics of imaginative wisdom.

Friday, February 20, 6:00pm – $20 cover / byob; students $10, kids free.
Scott Foster Quartet featuring pedal steel player David Phillips, with bassist Andrew Higgins and drummer David Rokeach. $20 cover/byob; students $10; kids free.
Guitarist Scott Foster brings in a constellation of Bay Area musicians on the third Friday of each month. Always a fresh take on American music, jazz and otherwise. He’s been a key component of Bird & Beckett’s calendar since 2002.
“David (Phillips) is probably the busiest steeler in the S.F. area. He has amazing control of a 12 string Universal guitar, and loves to play out of the box, but can play straight country also.”–Joe Goldmark.
David has played with rockers including James Hetfield from Metallica and Jerry Cantrell of Alice In Chains, and with unclassifiable artists like Les Claypool and Tom Waits (“Bone Machine, 1992) as well as Charlie Hunter, Mr. Bungle, John Wesley Harding, Jim Campilongo and Johnny Paycheck. He’s played with the San Francisco, San Jose and Berkeley Symphonies. He’s music director for Margaret Belton’s Patsy Cline tribute show “Always… Patsy Cline,” performs with Chris Kee and Jane Selkye in Springhouse, and regularly adds his talents to such bands local country/twang/alt music staples Houston Jones, Jinx Jones, 77 El Deora and Calamity & Main.

Saturday, February 21, 7:30pm – $20 cover / byob.
Levy / Campilongo Guitar Duo
Adam Levy & Jim Campilongo, guitars

Sunday, February 22, 5:00 pm – donations welcome and appreciated.
Jam session, hosted by the Vince Lateano Trio
Ben Stolorow, piano; Peter Barshay, bass; Vince Lateano, drums