BIRD & BECKETT CULTURAL LEGACY PROJECT

Friday, September 22nd – 5:30-8:00pm
jazz in the bookshop, the happy hour show
The Tony Johnson Quartet

Bob Kenmotsu, tenor saxophone
Keith Saunders, piano
Eric Markowitz, bass
Tony Johnson, drums

$20 suggested donation; byob
for reservations, call 415-586-3733

Drummer Tony Johnson’s monthly 4th Fridays residency continues! His quartet features musicians with long experience in San Francisco, New York, St. Louis and internationally. Tony arrived in San Francisco from Australia in 1959 and hit the ground swingin’, recording in 1960 with vocalist Bev Kelly, live at the Coffee Gallery on Grant Street in North Beach, engineered by Willy Heider, produced by Orrin Keepnews and released by Riverside Records. He’s never stopped since.