Sunday, June 9 at 3:00 p.m.
Afro-Cuban poet & essayist
Nancy Morejon
Nancy Morejon is likely the best known and most widely translated woman poet of post-revolutionary Cuba. Born in 1944 in Havana to a militant dock worker and a trade-unionist seamstress, Morejón graduated from…
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Pugsley Buzzard is Back!
Stride Piano Champ from Down Under
Sunday June 2nd, 4:30-6:30 pm
Don’t miss the rockin’ wonder from Down Under known as Pugsley Buzzard, playing his third solo show at Bird & Beckett.. Pugs is at once a rollicking stride piano master and a…
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Friday, May 31, 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop 5th Friday
The Dave Parker Quartet
Remember the halcyon days when Dave Parker’s jazzmen burned bright at the Red Rock Lounge down at the corner of Chenery & Diamond Street every Friday night! Jerry Logas, tenor…
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Saturday, June 15th, 3 to 5 pm
Harry Nilsson B’Day Fest!
Christopher Gray and J. Raoul Brody join forces with a crew of like-minded friends to pay birthday tribute to — and sing the songs of — Harry Nilsson! A delightfully…
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Sunday, June 9th, 4:30-6:30 pm:
Terry Rodriguez Trio
which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, June 9th – 4:30-6:30…
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Friday, May 10th, 5:30 to 8:00 pm:
The Jimmy Ryan Quintet
On the second Friday of each month, jazz in the bookshop features The Jimmy Ryan Quintet. Drummer Ryan learned the trade in L.A. in the ’50s as well, and hit…
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Sunday, May 26th, 4:30-6:30 pm:
Pacific Jazz Connection
which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. May 26th – 4:30-6:30 pm:…
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Sunday, May 19th
Jimmy Gallagher Quartet
feat. Warren Gale
Sunday, May 19, 4:30-6:30 pm which way west? Sunday concert series never a cover charge, but your donations help us pay the musicians! Trumpet player Warren Gale has had a…
Read MoreDon Alberts, piano
A Bay Area native, active throughout the region in the early 1960s, with time served as house pianist at Jimbo’s Bop City from 19__ to 19__ in the company of…
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Mothers Day!
Pure New Orleans R&B plus
a mother-daughter poetry reading
We’ve got it all today, mother & daughter writers… New Orleans R&B… it’s all yours! Consider it our gift, in honor of the mothers we’ve got and the ones we…
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