Judith Ayn Bernhard and Aung Taik read from their work, followed by an open mic. Jerry Ferraz carries the day as m.c., as he has since the beginning– which may have been in 12th century Provence.

In tribute to some of the giants of the saxophone, Michael Zilber performs all original music from his new cd, “Originals for the ORIGINALS,” written in homage to John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, Sonny Rollins, Paul Desmond and Joe Henderson. Hailed by jazz critics including Andrew Gilbert and Bill Milkowski as superb, Zilber’s 11th release as a leader features New York jazz greats Dave Kikoski on piano, James Genus on bass, and Clarence Penn on drums, and has been widely described as his best and most personal recording.. For this Bird & Beckett performance, Michael is joined by Matt Clark on piano; Peter Barshay on bass and Jason Lewis on drums. You couldn’t ask for better!

Poet Arturo Mantecón presents a reading from the work of three late 20th century Spanish language poets/writers — Francisco Ferrer Lerín, Leopoldo María Panero and Mario Santiago Papasquiaro.  Mantecón is joined on the program by Gilberto Rodriguez, who will declaim poems of Panero, and by musicians Dylan Morgan and Arturo Balderrama. Mantecón’s translations include poems of Ferrer Lerín as well as poetry and prose of the mad Spanish poeta maldito, Leopoldo María Panero (Like an Eye in the Hand of a Beggar, Editions Michel Eyquem, 2013). He is currently translating work of the Mexican infrarrealista poet Mario Santiago Papasquiaro. Mantecón was born in Laredo, Texas and raised in Detroit, Michigan. His poetry has appeared in La Ventana Abierta, Poetry Now and various anthologies. A collection of his short stories, Memories, Cuentos Verídicos, y Otras Outright Lies, was published by En Casa in 2014.  Mantecón’s notes with regard to today’s program follow:…

Cuban style son with timba and folkloric strains cooked up by percussionist Sandor Moss y su mecanica…  From Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba — Fito Reinoso, tres & vocals “El Niche” Romero, trumpet & vocals From Havana, Cuba – Vladimir Cepeda, congas From Bolivia — Gabriel Navia, bass From Nicaragua — Sandor Moss, drumset A proud Mariel, Fito Reinoso has been in the states since 1980 and in San Francisco for thirty years or more.  With a voice reminiscent of Beny Moré, Fito handles timba, son and the latest Havana grooves with equal mastery.  He has worked with top players through a long professional career that began at age 12 in Candekaria, Pinar Del Rio, which has seen him playing with such legends as Francisco Aguabella, Armando Peraza, Carlos “Patato” Valdez and Israel Lopez “Cachao”, Mayquel Gonvalez and Jose Luis Gomez, among many others. Dileivys “El Niche” Romero — like Fito, coming from…

Time to revisit some music released in that fabled year, 1967! Lincoln Adler, sax Scott Foster, guitar Mike Bordelon, bass Dan Foltz, drums Unbelievably wonderful jazz guaranteed

ARCANA BOIL! – Concert and Reading in celebration of the Shuffle Boil Special Issue of AMERARCANA – featuring Hafez Modirzadeh, David Boyce, Marshall Trammell. The latest issue of AMERARCANA is guest edited by poets Steve Dickison and the late, great David Meltzer, erstwhile editors of SHUFFLE BOIL: A Magazine of Poets and Music, and consists of 160 pages of writing by Bill Berkson, David Boyce, Brandon Brown, Gerald Bryant (interviewed by Julie Rogers), Garrett Caples, Ornette Coleman (interviewed by Howard Shore and Zan Stewart), Justin Desmangles, Steve Dickison, Patrick James Dunagan, Howard Eiland, Stephen Emerson, Owen Hill, Ted Joans, Alastair Johnston, Andrew Joron, Ava Koohbor, Oliver Lake, Marina Lazzara, Brian Lucas, Francois Luong, Nathaniel Mackey, Jake Marmer, David Meltzer, Hafez Modirzadeh, Jason Morris, Joseph Noble, Linda Norton, Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, Julien Poirier, Rod Roland, Chris Stroffolino, and Marshall R. Trammell; with artwork by Alex Cruz, George Herms, and Julie Ezelle…

  Classic, Outlaw & Honky Tonk Music by legends of the Bay Area country scene   Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocal Hank Maninger, bass guitar and vocal Kenny Owen, drums    

Drummer Otto Huber brought us this project, his organ trio sans organ this afternoon, with Sean Williams on guitar and Parker Grant on piano, swinging hard on material that echoes the work of such jazz legends as John Patton, George Benson and Jack McDuff. Otto was raised in Chicago and early on steered to the Jazz Showcase in the Blackstone Hotel, where he heard countless top flight jazz performers. He became serious about drumming and started studying orchestral percussion to prepare himself for studies at Northern Illinois University where he received a Bachelor of Music. Otto drove into Oakland CA in 1998, and says he’s been a happy local ever since. Here, he’s played with the likes of Cody Anderson, Brenda Boykin, Jamie Brewer, Gary Brown, Steve Carter, Michael Coleman, Delta Wires, Tod Dickow, Sharman Duran, Brandon Essex, Lorenzo Farrell, Ben Flint, Jesse Foster, Evan Francis, Herb Geller, Aaron Germain,…