Bird Lives!
Eddie Duran & Friends
Sunday, Dec. 1st, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Eddie Duran, guitar Chuck Peterson & Mad Duran, saxes Henry Hung, trumpet Dean Reilly, bass Vince Lateano, drums Back in 1952, young Eddie Duran was the house guitarist at San…
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Fifth Friday jazz in the bookshop
November 29th, 5:30 to 8:00 pm
Lipskin – Logas – Ventresco
Echoes of Storyville,
Harlem & Tin Pan Alley
Friday, Nov. 29th – 5:30-8:00 pm: Special Fifth Friday Booking!  Mike Lipskin, acclaimed Harlem stride piano master, teams up with reed player Jerry Logas, whose way with early New Orleans style…
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Sunday, November 24th — 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Music at Large:
The Lewis Jordan Quintet
which way west? Sunday concert series every week, music from the four points of the compass no cover, donations requested Saxophonist Lewis Jordan writes: I began Music at Large in…
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Sunday, November 24th — 2:30 p.m.
Walker Talks! on Rainer Maria Rilke
and the Duino Elegies
Each month, Walker Brents III explores a topic from the realms of literature, mythology, history–wherever his interests take him–and he never fails to take his listeners along on a fascinating…
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Once Upon a Time in Babylon
Poet Ron Johnson – Sun. 11/24 1:30pm
“…once upon a time in Babylon we all breathed pure imagination our only master & our mistress who tore men’s mind asunder and dazzled Heaven’s Queen O! Once upon a…
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Thursday, November 21st, 7 pm
Featured Poets plus Open Mic
Third Thursday of Every Month at 7 p.m.
Thursday, November 21st, 7:00 p.m. Featured poets Dan Richman and Sally King Open mic follows. Jerry Ferraz hosts. Sally King is an artist and writer. Her recently published debut poetry…
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Sunday, November 17th – two events:
poets Hummel/Smith at 2 p.m.
+ Homespun jazz trio from 4:30 to 6:30
2 pm:Â Maria Hummel (House and Fire, American Poetry Review)Â and Austin Smith (Almanac, Princeton)Â read from their recent poetry collections. 4:30 pm:Â Homespun, with Grant Levin (piano), Fred Randolph (bass) and…
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jazz in the bookshop
The Scott Foster Ensemble
featuring David Boyce
Friday, Nov. 15th, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Scott Foster’s group this Friday includes David Boyce, co-founder of Broun Fellinis, on saxophone, plus bassist Noah Schenker and drummer Dave Mihaly. All three of Scott’s sidemen on this date have…
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Lee Morgan Tribute!
This Sunday, Nov. 10, 4:30-6:30 pm
Orion Edmondson, drums, leads a quintet tribute to Philadelphia-born trumpeter Lee Morgan — famed for a hip, soulful, hard bop jazz output during the late 1950s and 1960s that became…
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jazz in the bookshop
The Bird & Beckett Bebop Band
Friday, Nov. 8, 5:30-8:00 pm
(plus, a Marcus Books update)
jazz in the bookshop is our long-running Friday evening jazz shindig… now celebrating it’s 12th year! Nearly 600 consecutive Fridays of live jazz in an intimate independent book shop. Since the…
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