Friday, June 12th, 5:30 to 8:00 pm
Jimmy Ryan’s
Bird & Beckett Bebop Band
plays jazz in the bookshop
On the second Friday of each month, jazz in the bookshop features The Jimmy Ryan Quintet aka The Bird & Beckett Bebop Band! In June, Jimmy’s band features Stu Pilorz, trombone…
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Sunday, June 7th – 2 pm
Reading by Sons of Noir Contributors
San Francisco Book Launch and Reading! Sons Of Noir: Murder and Mayhem by San Francisco North Bay Writers, edited by Ed Coletti and David Madgalene Contributors: David Beckman, Gary Brandt,…
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Saturday, June 6th – 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Smith Dobson Quartet
This week, Smith shares the front line with fellow tenor player Raffi Garabedian (once a Bay Area player who’s been plying his trade in NYC for a good stretch) with…
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Monday, June 1st – 7-9 pm
POETS!
Dan Liberthson
+ poetry of David Hallstrom
followed by an open mic
Dan Liberthson crafts poems from his thoughts on family, animals, baseball… all the things that tease his curious mind. Â A storyteller as well as a wordsmith, his belief in the…
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Sunday, May 31st – 4:30-6:30 pm
Suddenly It’s Spring!
Sherri Roberts sings songs of spring
It may be windy and foggy and cold outside, but the calendar still says May — and that means Spring. For twenty years now, Sherri has curated an intriguing set…
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Poet Latif Harris
Barter Within the Bark of Trees
Sunday, May 31st – 2 pm
Poet Latif Harris examines aging and the tricks memory plays on the instrument of the mind in his new collection of poems, to be presented at Bird & Beckett on May…
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Saturday, May 30th – 8-11 pm
jazz club… when lights are low
Kurt Ribak Quartet
Bassist Kurt Ribak crosses genres between gigs with seemingly no effort, as comfortable in a rockabilly gig as in a gypsy jazz setting or a bebop date.  Here, we can count…
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Friday, May 29th – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
The Dave Parker Quintet
For his Bird & Beckett 5th Friday “jazz in the bookshop” date, bassist Dave Parker brings in a quintet… Clifford Brown III, trumpet; Charles Hamilton, trombone; Jerry Logas, sax; Dave…
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Sunday, May 24th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west? Sunday concert series
Hamir Atwal Trio
Bassist John Wiitala and guitarist Jeffrey Burr join drummer Hamir Atwal to play you some jazz standards. You’ll never hear them better played. One more peak experience for our Bird &…
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