Friday, January 16th – 5:30-8 pm
jazz in the bookshop — every Friday!
The Scott Foster Trio
Scott Foster, guitar. Lorenzo Farrell, organ. Omar Aran, drums. On the third Friday of each month, Scott Foster puts together an ensemble for our end-of-the-work-week jazz party. Â This month he’s…
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Sunday, January 11th — 4:30-6:30 pm
Craig Ventresco & Meredith Axelrod
ragtime and other early guitar styles
Exuberant music by two masters of styles long forgotten by the popular audience. Craig has had a decades-old obsession with investigating the music he’s found in the grooves of dusty…
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Sunday, January 11th – Noon to 1:30 pm
The B-Stars Trio!
Western Swing at the B&B
Surf-a-billy Swing Time Dance Party
The B-Stars are a San Francisco-based Americana combo that stirs up a hearty stew of honky tonk and hillbilly hits for your listening and dancing pleasure. With nods to the…
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Saturday, January 10th – 8-11 pm
Grant Levin Quartet
jazz club! — when lights are low…
Pianist and composer Grant Levin assembles an ensemble each week to explore the jazz canon and present his own compositions. Â This week, he’s joined by saxophonist Jonathan Bautista, bassist Ollie…
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Thursday, January 8th – 8:00 pm
Novellas-in-Flash: A Reading
Pokrass / Teel / Bower
A reading by contributors to the new anthology, My Very End of the Universe: a celebration and study of an increasingly popular genre: the novella-in-flash, a novella built of standalone flash stories.…
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Monday, January 5th – 7:00 pm
POETS! Julie Rogers, featured poet
with an open mic to follow
Julie Rogers has several chapbooks in print and her book, House of the Unexpected, was released by Wild Ocean Press in 2012. She’s been writing and reading her work in San Francisco on and…
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Sunday, January 4th – 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Avotcja & Modupue
Avotcja & Modupue! Francis Wong, sax and flute. Jon Jang, piano. Heshima Mark Williams, bass. Avotcja is a jazz musician with deep roots, a riveting poet, an imaginative and ruminative…
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jazz club special!
A tribute to pianist Smith Dobson
Gail Dobson & Friends
Saturday, January 3rd, 8-11 pm
Smith Dobson was a key jazz pianist in these parts right up to his untimely death in a car accident in 2001 at the age of 54. Â The eminent jazz…
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which way west? concert series
Sunday, Dec. 28th – 4:30 to 6:30 pm
Two jazz guitarists
Duncan James & Ray Scott
Two veterans of the jazz scuffle perform solo and in duo interplay on the last Sunday of December… closing out another year of our Sunday afternoon concert series called “which…
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Friday, December 19th – 5:30 to 8:00 pm
Don & Art: The Don Alberts/Art Lewis Trio with bassist Aaron Cohn
Two long-time associates — Â both hard driving professionals with 50+ years under their belts — take the bandstand with a young bassist who has become one of the mainstays of…
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