jazz club! every Saturday night, when lights are low…
Saturday, June 25th – 7:30-10 pm: The Vinnie Rodriguez Quintet
Scott Larson – trombone; Scott Barnhill – saxophone; Jeremy Lieber – piano; Adam Gay – bass; Vinnie Rodriguez – drums. Tonight, five solid players under the leadership of drummer Vinnie…
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Friday, July 1st – 5:30-8 pm
jazz in the bookshop
SeaBop!
Bird & Beckett is jazz central on Friday nights… and SeaBop has been entertaining the neighborhood for years on the first Friday of each month. Â Led by bassist Don Prell,…
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Saturday, June 25th – 4-6 pm: Grant Levin Duo
featuring bassist Charles Thomas
Twice a month on a Saturday afternoon (2nd & 4th), one of the Bay Area’s hidden treasurers, pianist Grant Levin, works through two sets of jazz standards and originals with…
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Friday, June 24th – 5:30-8 pm – jazz in the bookshop
Tenor Conclave Madness!
David Boyce & Phillip Greenlief with the Scott Foster Quintet
Two hugely creative and talented tenor players collaborating on two sets of jazz, out on the front line of the Scott Foster Quintet — Scott on guitar, Alex Farrell on…
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Fathers Day – Walter Savage Trio with Grant Levin & Renzell Merritt
Sunday, June 19th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Bassist Walter Savage has returned to the Bay Area — living now up in Vallejo — after a too-lengthy sojourn in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Walter grew up in Watts, where his…
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Fathers Day! Poets David Meltzer & Latif Harris
2pm on June 19th!
Latif Harris and David Meltzer — two poets with deep, deep roots — hold the stage. Each is in his 70s, each dedicated to poetry since the 1950s, each with…
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Fathers Day! Sunday, June 19th
Three divine programs for il papa!
2 pm: Poets Latif Harris and David Meltzer, with Zan Stewart on saxophone. 4:30 pm: Walter Savage Trio, with Grant Levin on piano and Renzell Merritt on drums. 7:30 pm:…
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Bloomsday through Father’s Day and a bit beyond
A new Gallery Ex Libris show  is up through the end of June – hand lettering & book arts in the digital age, by students of the formidable Grendel Lofqvist at…
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Saturday jazz club! when lights are low…
June 18th, 7:30-10pm: The Ways & Means Committee
Before heading out to Europe with Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids this summer, bassist Heshima Mark Williams gets in another session with the Ways & Means Committee, a project of…
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