Sunday, May 14th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Adam Schulman Sextet
which way west? Sunday concert series
Mike Olmos, trumpet Patrick Wolff, alto Lyle Link, tenor Adam Shulman, piano Owen Clapp, bass Evan Hughes, drums
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Sunday, May 14th – 2:00-3:30 pm
QR Hand & Tongo Eisen-Martin, poets
Profound and hip poets, at that. Two remarkable intellects; two deep souls.
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Saturday, May 13th – 7:30-10pm
Total Rex
jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night
The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… This is some kind of a band! 7 pieces and a lot of stars. Total REX! Bang that gong! Till it makes a wreck of…
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Fill the Bird & Beckett coffers!
A backyard benefit for Bird & Beckett
at Jerry’s place!
Saturday, May 13th – 1:00 -5:00 pm
It’s time for the 2nd Annual Backyard Benefit Bash for Bird & Beckett at Jerry Ferraz’s place over on Mission Street near Highland. Call the store (415-586-3733) for the address.…
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Friday, May 12th – 5:30-8 pm
Aaron Cohn Quintet/Quartet!
jazz and bebop in the bookshop
every Friday since 2002
Aaron Cohn, bass, leads the charge, with pianist Gaea Schell on the first set only, and guitarist Scott Foster, tenor saxophonist Danny Brown and drummer Omar Aran throughout! Â Two sets…
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Thursday, May 11th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Fog Swamp
You heard them at the sun-drenched Glen Park Festival at the tail end of April… now dig them in the cool half-light of your favorite neighborhood bookshop. Steeped in genres…
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Sunday, May 7th – 7:30-10:00 pm
The Seducers – Classic, Outlaw & Honky Tonk Country Music
Joe Goldmark , pedal steel guitar; Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocals; Hank Maninger, bass guitar and vocals; Kenny Owens, drums. The Seducers play Bird & Beckett on the first…
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Sunday, May 7th – 4:30-6:30 pm
David Byrd’s Eddie Jefferson tribute
which way west? Sunday concert series
Eddie Jefferson Lives! And David Byrd channels the spirit! Eddie Jefferson was the founder of vocalese (putting great recorded solos to words, blazing to fame with the groundbreaking “Moody’s Mood…
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Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear
a reading by contributors
Sunday, May 7th – 2-4 pm
A reading from a new anthology, Truth to Power, with contributors Almaz Abinader, Connie Post, Dean Rader, William Pitt Root, Natasha Singh and Pam Uschuck. Cutthroat, A Journal of the…
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Saturday, May 6th – 7:30-10pm
Jim Grantham Quartet
memories of Keystone Korner
jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night
Jim Grantham, tenor saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Justin Carney, bass Jack Dorsey, drums Consummate pros share the bandstand tonight. Jim Grantham was on the scene at San Francisco’s famous jazz…
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