$20 cover charge. $10 for students/musicians/fixed income. Erik Jekabson, trumpet. Matt Renzi, reeds. Dave Mac Nab, guitar. Peter Barshay, bass. Hamir Atwal, drums. Towering talents of San Francisco jazz!

$10-20 suggested donation. $5 suggested for students/musicians/fixed income. Jules Broussard, saxophone Grant Levin, piano Chris Amberger, bass Louis Sweatt, drums Derek Evans, vocals Jules Broussard. born in Louisiana, was organizing bands and playing lead saxophone for audiences in and around his hometown by the age of 12. After a stint in the US Air Force and then traveling throughout the US, Europe and Asia, Jules arrived in San Francisco in 1960, taking jobs at Bop City and Jack’s, playing ’til 1 a.m. and on weekends ’til 6 in the morning. In 1966 he went with Ray Charles’ band for a six-month run, and his seven-year tenure leading the house band at Mill Valley’s Sweetwater from that club’s founding in 1972 is legendary. Along the way, he worked with Carlos Santana, Boz Scaggs, Van Morrison, Earl Grant, Elvin Bishop, Art Garfunkel and Doctor Hook. He’s been a Bay Area favorite for nearly sixty years.…

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$10-20 suggested donation; $5 for students/musicians/low income. 1947: When bebop was hitting its peak and American jazz was newly energized! Bird, Diz, Monk, Bud, Max, Kenny… Guitarist Scott Foster leads a superb quartet through the paces, tracing 1947 as it unfurled before a few galvanized souls in a nation narcoticized by a consumerist fog that blanketed the land.  In other words, a time much like our own! But with amazing music! Joining Scott are Danny Brown on tenor sax; Eric Markowitz on bass; and Vince Lateano on drums. Special guest Terry Tarnoff, North Beach novelist, joins the band towards the end of the first set to read passages from his novel The Chronicle of Stolen Dreams – a road novel and bildungsroman unfurling as Chicago blues, bebop and alien encounters shape the emerging mid-century modern America. David Amram, long-time collaborator with Jack Kerouac, says, “Terry Tarnoff is a writer whose every word,…

No charge. Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of Leaving Tulsa, (2013) and Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), both published by the University of Arizona Press. She earned her PhD in English and Literary Arts from the University of Denver and her MFA from the Vermont College of the Fine Arts. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. Jennifer teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Low-Residency Program and co-directs For Girls Becoming, an arts mentorship program for Mvskoke youth in Oklahoma. Of Jen’s latest book of poetry, “Bright Raft in the Afterweather,” Joy Harjo says, “We are adrift in mythic waters that hold the possibility of rebirth even as they float the remains of human destruction. We could be in San Francisco, within the…

$10-20 suggested donation. $5 for students/musicians/fixed income. Derek Evans on vocals. Todd Swenson on guitar. Marc Levine on bass. Ken Owen on drums. Soulville

$20 cover charge. $10 for students/musicians/fixed income. The steaming Mediterranean meets cool California, wrapped in the elegant saxophone of Noel Jewkes. Vocalists Kay Kostopoulos, Dima, Wanda Stafford and Valeriana Quevedo, fondly dubbed the “Salt ‘n Peppa Gals” and well known to audiences at Noel’s weekly showcase at Sausalito’s Seahorse Restaurant, take their turns at the mic through the course of two sets of exquisite jazz! Keith Saunders (piano), Chris Amberger (bass) and Mark Lee (drums) add their considerable talents to keep it swingin’!  

$15 cover charge. $5 for students/musicians/fixed income. Scott Foster, guitar. Lorenzo Farrell, organ. Bob Scott, drums. Three great musicians navigating the classic organ trio sounds of Jimmy Smith, Larry Young and other masters of the 1950s and ’60s.

Exquisite music is being played live at Bird & Beckett 27 times this month in Glen Park. And there’s poetry too. Monday, for instance. What are you waiting for?? Love ya! Get down here! (oh, and jazz club! on Saturday night? That’s actually 7:30 to 10 pm. Don’t be a dope! Get hip! Membership open to all & sundry! All ya gotta do is come down!)

$20 cover charge; $10 for students/musicians/low income. The Lost Trio — Phillip Greenlief, saxophone; Dan Seamans, bass; Tom Hassett, drums — has a continuous 25-year history of close collaboration in creative music, “redefining the jazz standard” by way of excursions through tunes by Hank Williams and Herbie Nichols, Billy Strayhorn and Nino Rota, Irving Berlin and Joni Mitchell, Monk, Beck and Bjork. With a repertoire of 600 pieces, including originals by all three members, The Lost Trio finds itself intrigued and engaged exploring any terrain you can imagine. For their engagement tonight at Bird & Beckett, The Lost Trio has invited the saxophonist and composer Beth Schenck to join them. Since arriving in the Bay Area a few years ago, Beth has been heard doing beautiful work with a host of the Bay Area’s most adventurous musicians, in aggregations that include the Guthrie Project, House of Faern, the Social Stutter Saxophone…

$10-20 suggested donation. $5 suggested for students/musicians/fixed income. John Calloway returns to Bird & Beckett with his quartet (David Flores – drums and percussion; Alex Farrell – acoustic bass; Jordan Samuels – guitar), featuring vocalist Angie Doctor. From Flute Bay Area (www.flutebayarea.com): “Virtuoso jazz flutist John Calloway has earned stature among the elites of Latin jazz and Afro-Cuban music, through three decades of distinguished contributions as a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in San Francisco in 1959, John Calloway began performing in the city’s Mission District as a teenager. In the 1970’s, Latin Beat Magazine says, “Calloway’s flute helped to spark a Caribbean musical renaissance, as part of the neo-traditionalist band Tipica Cienfuegos” with John Santos, Greg Landau, and Anthony Blea. In the early 1980’s, Calloway moved to New York, where he performed with Manny Oquendo & Libre, Charanga 76, Oscar Hernandez, Jimmy Bosch and others, while working toward a…

Join us for a celebration of Lori’s new cd, “A Dream or Two” Lori Carsillo, vocals Jeffrey Burr, guitar Eric Markowitz, bass Vince Lateano, drums “A Dream or Two” features six stunning jazz gems and an original song co-written with the guitarist and arranger on the session, Jeffrey Burr.   Eric Markowitz, the bassist on the cd session, joins Lori and Jeff for this late night Bird & Beckett date, along with jazz veteran Vince Lateano, handling the situation for session drummer James Gallagher, newly departed for New York. Beautiful music is about to be heard from this sterling combo and supremely talented vocalist! Lori has been praised as a singer with “superb phrasing, an impressive range” (Christopher Loudon, JazzTimes), and Scott Yanow, jazz historian and author, has observed that “Lori floats above ensembles, digs deep into the words that she interprets, and usually has a smile in her voice. The…

$10-20 suggested donation. $5 suggested for students/musicians/fixed income. Drew Cranfill, violin, with pianist Manu Petaiua, will perform Bach Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor Mozart Violin Sonata in B-flat MajorBeethoven Violin Sonata No. 8 Opus 30Phillip Glass Violin Sonata Drew Cranfill, a native of North Carolina, was educated by the Alexander String Quartet at San Francisco State University, achieving a Masters in solo violin performance. Drew lives in Glen Park with his wife and two children. Manu Petaiua, San Francisco native son, is currently pursuing his Masters in classical piano performance in Southern California. Cranfill and Petaiua have six years’ experience in collaboration.

$20 cover charge. $10 for students/musicians/fixed income. NYC saxophonist Caroline Davis returns to Bird & Beckett with a quartet featuring fellow New Yorkers Carmen Staaf on piano and Noah Garabedian on bass, and Evan Hughes on drums. New York Times critic Giovanni Russonello added Caroline’s tune “Footloose and Fancy Free” from her new release “Heart Tonic” to the Times’ March 23, 2018 weekly “Playlist” (alongside the release from the vault of a 1960 live date in Europe by Miles Davis and John Coltrane). He writes that her “cerebral, modern jazz…has a convincing pulse and a wide berth for fetching improvisations.” [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCpguyAPN7E” /] Mobile since her birth in Singapore, composer, saxophonist, and educator Caroline Davis now lives in Brooklyn, New York. After making her mark on the Chicago jazz community during her 8-year stint there, she moved to New York in 2013, and has proven to be an active leader and…

$15 cover charge. $5 for students/musicians/fixed income. One of Bird & Beckett’s favorite tango quartets returns to one of its favorite used bookstores! Tango No. 9 (violinist Catharine Clune, trombonist Greg Stephens, tenor Zoltan diBartolo, and pianist Joshua Raoul Brody) serve up a potpourri of classic tango, Astor Piazzolla’s tango nuevo, a smattering of waltzes and milongas, a soupçon of art song and a handful of originals — something for everyone! This is the band’s final appearance of the summer! Don’t miss it!