Saturday, August 13th
Grant Levin – Charles Thomas Duo , 4-6 pm
Grant Levin Quartet featuring Jesse Levit, 7:30-10 pm
Grant Levin never fails to astonish when he takes to the piano at Bird & Beckett as he does several times each month. Â 2nd & 4th Saturday afternoons showcase Grant…
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Friday, August 12th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Renaissance man Don Alberts on the keys
jazz at the bookshop every Friday!
Don Alberts is unstoppable! He’s a bop cat from the earliest ’60s still wailing five and a half decades on. A lyrical romanticist, too, playing with all the lush eloquence…
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August 12th to 15th in preview
7 events in 4 days
jazz – comedy – Ameri-kinda-alt-everything – country – poetry – jazz!
Saturday, 8/13 – 4-6 pm: The Grant Levin – Charles Thomas Duo. 7:30-10 pm: The Grant Levin Quartet featuring alto sax player Jesse Levit. Grant never fails to astonish when…
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Thursday, August 11th – 7-9 pm
Bird & Beckett Book Club discusses
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, by Laurie King
Thursday, 8/11 – 7-9 pm: The Bird & Beckett Book Club discusses The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, by Laurie King. Come one, come all — call us at the shop to reserve…
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Sunday, August 7th – 7:30-10 pm
The In Crowd
King of the San Francisco saloon and salon pianists, Eric Shifrin sings too and rolls with the In Crowd through material from Cole Porter to Hoagy Carmichael to Gene Autry.  He’s…
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Sunday, August 7th – 2 pm
A Benefit for the 3300 Club
Poets & Friends read to support a crucial bar & its staff,
closed down by a massive fire
Poets read for the 3300! Thanks to the poets listed below, and the many folks who showed up to support the 3300, we raised $980 this afternoon! It’s not too…
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Saturday, August 6th – 7:30-10 pm
Good Vibes! The Smith Dobson Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low…
Tonight at Bird & Beckett: Smith Dobson V, vibes; Jack Tone Riordan, guitar; Justin Carney, bass; Evan Hughes, drums. The burnished sound of Milt Jackson & the MJQ finds its…
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Friday, August 5th – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble feat. Al Molina
Al Molina, trumpet Jerry Logas, sax and clarinet Don Prell, bass Vinnie Rodriguez, drums Jazz history right here! Bebop, lovely standards, fragments of old New Orleans… from “Ornithology” to “Doxy”…
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Thursday, August 4th & Sunday, August 28th – 7:30-10 pm
The Howard Alden Trio (8/4) & Duo (8/28)
$20 cover charge
Howard Alden is considered among the very best jazz guitarists in the nation, for good reason. We’ve been fortunate to host Howard twice in the past, and welcome him again this…
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Monday, August 1st – 7-9 pm
Poets Nancy Keane and Jeanne Powell
followed by an open mic
POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday, hosted by Jerry Ferraz
Nancy Keane grew up in San Francisco in the 1940s and ’50s in a big family, and several of the girls developed into wonderful writers, notably including the poet Geri…
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