Friday, January 1st – 5:30-8:00 pm
New Years Day jazz in the bookshop!
Don Prell’s SeaBop Quartet
Count on bassist Don Prell and his confreres to keep the jazz ball rolling at Bird & Beckett right into 2016! Â We’ve never missed a Friday jazz date since the…
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Sunday, December 27th – 4:30-6:30 pm
A year-end Bird & Beckett tradition!
Two guitars: Duncan James & Ray Scott
It’s a lovely and low key thing, with two veteran jazz guitarists in solo and duo combination, passing a sweet Sunday afternoon at the end of the year, with you…
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Friday, December 25th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Grant Levin Trio plays
jazz in the bookshop
on Christmas day!
Charles Thomas on bass and Omar Aran on drums join pianist Grant Levin for two sets of live jazz in San Francisco’s southernmost and foremost outpost of jazz and literary…
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Sunday, December 20th – 7:30-10:0 pm
Eric & the In Crowd
Bird & Beckett’s Canyon Moonlight Music series closes out 2015 and sets the stage for the Christmas and the new year with Eric Shifrin and the In Crowd.   Eric is a…
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Saturday, December 19th – 7:30-10 pm
The Jazzling Twintet
Heshima Mark Williams presents The Jazzling Twintet at Bird & Beckett’s Saturday night jazz club… Vivian Warkentin, violin, is Assistant Concertmaster of Oakland Symphony, and an active freelancer. She’s studied jazz with David…
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Friday, December 18th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet
plays songs of home, friends and family
jazz in the bookshop
Trumpeter Darren Johnston makes his Bird & Beckett debut, with Noah Schenker on bass and Omar Aran on drums. Â Guitarist Scott Foster leads the date, as he does every third…
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Thursday, December 17th – 7 pm
Writer Annette Leddy
Earth Still, a novel
Annette Leddy is a fiction writer and curator. These two vocations converge in her novel Earth Still, which tells the story of Patricia, a museum curator and the mother of a…
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Sunday, December 13th – 7:30 pm
Canyon Moonlight Music
The Seducers
The Seducers play every Second Sunday in Bird & Beckett’s weekly “Canyon Moonlight Music†series.  The band features guitarist and vocalist Mitch Polzak, pedal steel guitarist Joe Goldmark, singer and bassist…
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Sunday, December 13th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Trad Jazz Holiday!
The Buena Vista Jazz Band
A great septet playing the music of New Orleans when jazz was young. Â Andrew Storar, trumpet; John Hunt, trombone; Don Neely, clarinet; Duncan James, guitar; Si Perkoff, piano; Al Obidinski,…
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