Don Prell’s got a trio tonight, with Vinnie Rodriguez on drums and Jerry Logas on tenor — promising many some sublimely beautiful moments along the way.

Michael Marcus Duo “Remembering Morris Atchison Michael Marcus – clarinets Brian Ho – Hammond organ This concert, put together by New York clarinetist Michael Marcus, is a tribute to legendary tenor saxist Morris Atchison, an important player out of Oakland, Ca., working primarily in R&B and blues bands. Atchison toured with Bobby Blue Bland during the 70’s & 80’s & 90’s During part of the era, the band included the leader of this date, clarinetist Michael Marcus. Along the way, Atchison played with any number of great musicians including Johnny Talbot-Albert King-Little Johnny Taylor-Sonny Simmons-Muziki Roberson-Eddie Henderson-Sugar Pie DeSanto-Dottie Ivory-Art Lewis-Wayne Bennett-John Handy-Bobby Forte-Charles Brown-and many more artists of elite stature. Morris was awarded “Blues Saxophonist of the year” by the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame Michael Marcus got his start in the Bay Area in 1970’s playing in the local Bay Area blues scene with Sonny Rhodes-Hi TIde Harris-JJ…

Misisipi Mike is all over the San Francisco country/Americana scene, writing songs left and right, fielding more than a few bands and working in ten more as a hired gun & ringer. Not to mention turning out hundreds of stylish, eyeball pleasing show posters with an alacrity nobody can match — including a lot of your favorite Bird & Beckett posters. Tonight, he’ll take Glen Park on a hayride with Dillbilly — Denise Dill — and other special guests.  It’s another show in our burgeoning series of Sunday night “Canyon Moonlight Music” concerts.  7:30-10:00 pm on occasional Sundays. For as long as it takes to rebuild the Riptide bar out in the Sunset, or ’till the cows come home, whichever comes first, Mike will put together a show for you on the last Sunday of each month.   Read up on the Louisiana Hayride — the prototype for all this goodness…

Trickster & Deities:  Walker Brents discusses native american conceptions of god.

Cole Porter wrote a good portion of the most elegantly clever songs in the halcyon days of Tin Pan Alley. Drummer Vinnie Rodriguez leads a fine quartet through just a few of his most memorable numbers, and a few rediscovered chestnuts. Lyle Link – alto saxBen Stolorow – pianoAdam Gay – bass Vinnie Rodriguez – drums  

Filipino American composer and improviser Karl Evangelista is joined by a slew of Bay Area jazz stalwarts to present Taglish, a musical journey through 21st century immigrant culture. The project synthesizes jazz, American song, 20th century experimentalism, and Filipino folk melody into a sound that is at once universal and starkly personal. This will be the first presentation of the suite since 2014. Karl Evangelista: guitar Rob Ewing: trombone Jordan Glenn: drums John-Carlos Perea: electric bass Rei Scampavia: keys Francis Wong: saxophone Cory Wright: saxophone

Erik Jekabson, trumpet Kasey Knudsen, sax Keith Saunders, piano John Wiitala, bass Hamir Atwal, drums A stellar line up. Two rich sets. Don’t miss out! And be sure to look for the brand new CD, “Cheap Rent,” from the Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, which holds forth at Doc’s Lab under Erik’s leadership on Sunday nights.  A 17 piece big band that wails!

Trumpet player Dave Scott, bassist Andrew Higgins and drummer Omar Aran join guitarist Scott Foster for two sets of jazz standards and originals evoking the season that arrives on the heels of our Indian summer.  Get in the mood just five days ahead of the autumnal equinox. Scott has been a cornerstone of our Friday jazz dates since their inception in the autumn of 2002.  Thirteen years on, he’s still bringing us some of the most soul satisfying music we’ve ever heard from the Bird & Beckett bandstand. You can hear him here with some of San Francisco’s best working jazz musicians on the third Friday of each month.

It’s the second Sunday of the month, so get out of bed and head here at noon for the soul side of the Surf-a-Billy Swing Time Dance Party. So you can MOVE! Guitarist Todd Swenson is up for it, with his trio of solid senders, This Side Up – featuring Endre Tarczy on bass and John Hanes on drums, and a special guest or two. Then loft above the surf on the Albatross Clarinet Quartet‘s draft from 4:30 to 6:30. Three bass clarinet players doubling on regular ol’ clarinet and a clarinet player who steadfastly, for one reason or another, apparently refuses to give in to the siren song of the bass clarinet — Dave Tidball, Jim Dukey, Dick Mathias and Charlie Keagle — play a program of classic and original chamber music and jazz. And as the sun goes down over the Pacific… …come on back to earth and into the fire for pedal steel ace Joe…

DUO: Pianist Grant Levin is in the store with a duo format from 4 to 6 pm, Saturday the 12th, with Pepe Jacobo on drums. It’s a fruitful collaboration that grows more interesting with each outing. Your tips make this a worthwhile endeavor monetarily for the musicians – $5-10 suggested, though it’s really up to you. Do more, if it doesn’t trouble you! QUARTET: Grant Levin is joined in the evening “jazz club” slot by Noel Jewkes on saxophone — truly one of the great saxophone players inhabiting the San Francisco/Bay Area jazz scene, and Kash Killion on bass, a mega talent in his own right, reprising a combination that worked magic back in June. Tonight, he’s adding Rufus Haereiti on drums, an exciting prospect given what we’ve been able to glean about his career and his association with Grant to date. Read a recent article on Noel here, a bit…

Bishu Chatterjee, bass, leads the band this Friday. Bishu has been part of the regular jazz rotation since the beginning, back in late 2002, and has been integral to the second Friday sequence for years. The quintet Bishu has assembled for tonight features Ian Carey on trumpet, Aaron Bennett on sax; John Kiskaddon on piano; and Jeff Weinmann on drums.   Watch also for Bishu’s date at the end of the month, on September 27th, 4:30-6:30 pm, with his group Zejara (zen-jazz-raga), where Indian classical and jazz traditions intersect. That date will include Vivek Anand, voice; Aaron Bennett – sax; Bishu Chatterjee – bass; and Surya Prakash – drums.

It’s a long-standing tradition at Bird & Beckett– Featured local poets and an open mic for locals and visitors to the city alike.  Twice a month, on the first and third Monday of the month.  Jerry Ferraz, a near legendary peripatetic bard & troubadour, hosts the evening, and opens the open mic. Tonight, Alice Rogoff, Kim Shuck and Kristen Jensen are featured. Alice edits the Haight Ashbury Literary Review as well as writing assiduously. Sings in the Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus as well. Kim works in textiles and teaches as well as writing, paying particular attention in all her endeavors to the implications of her Native American roots. Kristen lived in San Francisco eight years, publishing poems in the Haight Ashbury Review and writing a history of the Caffe Trieste and a biographer of its founder, Giovanni Giotta. In 2005 she departed and ended up in Dubai; now she splits her…

Smith Dobson, known for his work on drums, vibes and sax among other pursuits, is happily at work building a new quartet with a new sound, drawing on the tradition of vibes-led groups like the Modern Jazz Quartet. For his date this Saturday, 9/5, he’s got Luke Westbrook on guitar; Miles Wick on bass and Hamir Atwal on drums.