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in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood

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Saturday, March 2nd – 7:30-9:30pm
Mo’Fone
new album! “3 Skidoo”

Larry De La Cruz, alto saxophone Jim Peterson, baritone saxophone Jeremy Steinkoler, drums $20 cover charge; byob Students 25 and under $10 Kids 12 and under free   With its surprising and highly combustible line-up of two saxmen and one drummer, Mo’Fone has thrilled audiences with some of the funkiest jazz—-and jazziest funk-—being played today. Powering its way through inventive high-energy original compositions, Mo’Fone explores the sonic landscape of its unique instrumentation with a relentless adventurousness, creating a huge sound that belies its compact size.The band is celebrating the release of their 4th album, 3 Skidoo, featuring all original compositions by all 3 members. “If Mo’Fone doesn’t blow your socks off, you’re not paying attention.”  “Snaps and crackles like James Brown’s Famous Flames mixed with a New Orleans second line.” Mo’Fone’s improvisations and concept have twice earned them the award for Best Jazz Group in the East Bay Express Readers’…

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Friday, March 1st – 8:30-10pm
Rob Woodcock Quintet
new album! “GoGo7”

Henry Hung – trumpet Charlie Gurke – bari sax Dave Gibbons – piano Rob Woodcock – bass Evan Williams – drums $20-30 sliding scale cover charge. Help us pay a fair guaranteed wage to these musicians! Students 22 and under, $10 Watching in the live stream? Donate! Come out to the intimate concert space that is Bird & Beckett to hear an exciting combo celebrating the release of their new recording, executing the compositions of bassist and leader Rob Woodcock. http://robwoodcock.com/ Your cover charge at the show helps us guarantee a fair wage to the musicians that work here. Individual donations from a great many generous members of the Bird & Beckett community are also necessary. If you can and haven’t, please join their number. Bird & Beckett will always be a work in progress… Thanks for being part of the solution with your dollars, ears, intellect and loyalty!

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Friday, March 1st – 6-8pm
Klobas/Kesecker Ensemble
new album! “Blues Elixer”

Pat Klobas, bass; Tommy Kesecker, vibes; Terrence Brewer, guitar; David Rokeach, drums. $20 suggested per adult; byob. $10 teens and music students. Kids free. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. The Klobas/Kesecker Ensemble has an exquisite chemistry that makes for a special concert experience, and they arrive at Bird & Beckett with a new cd on the verge of release, their third, called “Blues Elixer.” They promise a delightful mix of original compositions new and old, and a scattering of beautifully conceived arrangements of jazz standards. Regarding their second cd, “Moment’s Notice” it was noted that “the timbre of textures seems unlimited and is applied with artistic savvy. The recording’s title cut, featuring Kesecker on vibes, is done with a new and distinct K/K Ensemble arrangement that cuts across jazz and Brazilian parameters. Kesecker’s vibes, Brewer’s guitar, Klobas’s acoustic bass and Rokeach’s drums are truly an ensemble that stands out as an original…

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Wednesday, February 28th – 7:30-9:30pm
50th Anniversary Tour!
Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
New album releases March 8:
“Open Me: A Higher Consciousness
of Sound & Spirit”

Kahil El’Zabar percussion, kalimba, voice Corey Wilkes trumpet Alex Harding baritone saxophone THE EHE’S ANNUAL BLACK HISTORY MONTH NATIONAL TOUR WRAPPING UP AT BIRD & BECKETT & CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS! $30 cover at the door (cash or venmo) byob reservations, call 415-586-3733 As the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble wraps up its annual Black History Month tour, the Ensemble is sporting a new release, out March 8 from Spiritmuse Records, entitled “Open Me: A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit.” Open Me is a joyous honoring of potent new directions of the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble; it’s a visionary journey into deep roots and future routes, channeling traditions old and new. It mixes El’Zabar’s original compositions with timeless classics by Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, and Eugene McDaniels. Thus, the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble continues affirming their indelible, half-century presence within the continuum of Great Black Music. February 28th marks the EHE’s sixth date at…

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Sunday, February 25th — 5-7pm
Jam Session!

Jam session on the last Sunday of each month from 5 to 7pm! All jazz players welcome. Audience, please donate to help us pay the Vince Lateano Trio to host the jam — Ben Stolorow, piano; Peter Barshay bass, Vince Lateano, drums. Vince Lateano has been an invaluable part of the San Francisco scene since he came to the City in the mid-1960s. He quickly found his place in the local jazz scene, playing, recording and touring with Vince Guaraldi, subbing around town for Johnny Markham when Markham went on the road with Sinatra and other major acts, and working extensively with Cal Tjader, Eddie Duran, Chet Baker, Clare Fisher and a host of others through the years. Later, all through the 1990s ’til it closed as such in 2003, he was the house drummer at Jazz at Pearl’s in North Beach, playing with his own trio several nights a…

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Saturday, February 24th – 7:30-9:30pm
Roy Brown Organ Trio
featuring Bobby Cobb

Roy Brown brings his organ trio back to Bird & Beckett, with Bobby Cobb on guitar and Rusty Aceves on drums. For the last year and a half, Roy has had a weekly solo piano booking at the Adagio Hotel here in San Francisco, and he’s maintained a quartet since 2007 and an organ trio since 2011. Along the way, Roy has worked with singer Frankye Kellye (a three-month engagement in Shanghai in 2006, and festival engagements in Chiapas and Tabasco, Mexico in 2005), vibraphonist Yancy Taylor, saxophonists Jules Broussard and Charles Unger, and a host of other key Bay Area musicians. This year, he’ll be heard on piano on an album being recorded by the Larry Douglas/Jorge Pineda Alltet (Douglas is a long-time member of Roy’s organ trio). BYOB and a twenty to help us pay the band! Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Your cover charge at the…

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Friday, February 23rd – 8:30-10pm
Jeong Lim Yang + Goldberg/Reich/Glenn

The New York City-based, Korea-born bassist Jeong Lim Yang revisits Bird & Beckett in the company of three of San Francisco’s finest improving musicians — Ben Goldberg on clarinets, Rob Reich on accordion and piano, and Jordan Glenn on drums. $20 cover charge / byob call for reservations: 415-586-3733 Below, you’ll find video from Lim’s recent Bird & Beckett concert, performing music from the pen of Mary Lou Williams! Your cover charge at the show helps us guarantee a fair wage to the musicians that work here. Individual donations from a great many generous members of the Bird & Beckett community are also necessary. If you can and haven’t, please join their number. Bird & Beckett will always be a work in progress… Thanks for being part of the solution with your dollars, ears, intellect and loyalty!

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Friday, February 23rd – 6-8pm
Tony Johnson’s 230 Jones Street Band

Friday, 2/23/24 – 6-8pm: Tony Johnson’s 230 Jones Street Band – The Return of Glen Deardorff! Along with drummer Tony Johnson, guitarist Glen Deardorff has been with the 230 Jones Street Band since before its founder — the late saxophonist/flutist Chuck Peterson — began calling it the 230 Jones Street Band (or, more accurately, the 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band). The band was named for the address of the musicians union local where Chuck and his colleagues were active in the 1960s agitating for good contracts and fair wages & working conditions for the region’s professional musicians. Glen has been on hiatus since last February, so we’re more than pleased to have him back! Joining Tony and Glen tonight in the current iteration of the band are Charlie McCarthy on saxophone and flute, Chuck Bennett on bass and Max Perkoff on piano and trombone (sitting in for…

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Sunday, February 18th – 5-7pm
Vocalist Ernest East
with the Vince Lateano Trio

Ben Stolorow, piano Peter Barshay, bass Vince Lateano, drums with guest vocalist Ernest East $20 cover charge; byob Reservations: 415-586-3733 Ernest East, a native San Franciscan, a graduate of Polytechnic High, and a long-time gem of the local jazz scene (also the founder of Miz Lynn’s Pies) is a swingin’ jazz vocalist with five decades’ experience on the local scene. If you’re a veteran of the jam sessions that Vince Lateano led at the Dogpatch Saloon back in the day, the one that became the Doghouse Jam at the Seven Mile House (and that continues to this day on the last Sunday of each month at Bird & Beckett), you’ll remember Ernest. At the end of last month, Ernest made it down to Bird & Beckett to join the trio for a tune or two at the end of each set, reconnecting with Vince after a few decades — bringing…

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Saturday, February 17th – 7:30-9:30pm
Vocalist David Gonzalez

With a crack trio comprising pianist Larry Chinn, bassist Fred Randolph and drummer Vince Lateano, David Gonzales celebrates his 80th birthday with two sets of hard swinging jazz! BYOChampagne! It’s a jazz party with some swingin’ cats who know how. 20 bucks gets you in. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. David’s first professional gig was in 1961 at a place on Polk St. in San Francisco called the Travel Agency. After combining performing and studies at City College of San Francisco and parenthetically, San Francisco State University (plus a stint with the U.S. Army), David became a fixture in a storied roster of popular nightclubs around here including Zanzibar, The Library, Lucky 13 Club, Roland’s, Milestones, Mister E’s, Jazz at Pearl’s, Bach Dynamite & Dancing Society, Shenanigans, Gullivar’s, etc., as well as performing at all the major hotels throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. He wrote lyrics for music composed by Chick…

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Friday, February 16th – 8:30-10pm
Charged Particles

Pianist Murray Low, bassist Fred Randolph and drummer Jon Krosnick are the core tonight of Krosnick’s long-time jazz fusion outfit, Charged Particles. Having recently toured Europe with a project spotlighting the compositions of the late saxophonist Michael Brecker (with Tod Dickow magnificently handling the honors, featured on the band’s latest CD “Live at the Baked Potato”), Charged Particles is supercharged to provide a late evening of exciting music at Bird & Beckett. $20 cover charge; byob. reservations: (415) 586-3733

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Friday, February 16th – 6-8pm
Scott Foster Trio
featuring saxophonist James Mahone

James Mahone took up the saxophone as a youth in Monterey, soaking in the influence of the rich music scene there, and then attended Cal State Northridge to study both classical and jazz saxophone. Remaining in the Los Angeles area after graduation, he co-founded the group Black Note in 1991 with bassist Marcus Shelby and pianist Eric Reed. Black Note won the John Coltrane Young Artist Competition that year and recorded albums for Columbia and GRP/Impulse. As a member of the group, James spent several years performing up and down the West coast, eventually moving on to national and international destinations. He has performed in many major jazz festivals (Montreal, North Sea, Pori, Umbria, etc.) and has worked with many of today’s top-tier musicians. James continued his musical studies in New York City at The New School For Social Research and began teaching saxophone, clarinet and flute. He continued his…

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Tuesday, February 13th – 7pm
Chris Carlsson presents his new novel
When Shells Crumble

Meet one of San Francisco’s most crucial chroniclers! Chris Carlsson has been observing and promulgating the City’s progressive past, present and future for decades. Writer, historian, bicyclist, blogger, photographer and much more, he’s been a core citizen of the City since 1978. You know his work whether you realize it or not — from his books on San Francisco politics, his role in Critical Mass and bicycle culture, his immersion in FoundSF and Shaping San Francisco — he’s had an immense impact on your life, and ours as a collective soul expressed as the urban core of a variegated bioregion. He’s just one of many who have been forging the consciousness of the San Francisco Bay Area and coastal California since the days of Frank Norris, but he’s one who is here now, and he’s irreplaceable. He epitomizes what makes San Francisco uniquely alive and undefeatable. Hear him at Bird…

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Thursday to Saturday, Feb 8-10

STANDARD ISSUE Jazz standards from the depths Thursday, 2/8/24 – 7:30-9:30pm Darren Johnston / Kai Lyons / Marcus Shelby / Jeff Mars ERIC & THE IN CROWD Eric Shifrin / Ari Munkres / Mark Lee Friday, 2/9/24 – 6-8pm The songs of Harry Warren and Fats Waller! Ari Munkes on bass and Mark Lee on drums join Eric “Easifingers” Shifrin for a celebration of the tunes penned by two giants of the 1930s! ZILBER STOWELL DUO Michael Zilber / John Stowell SILVERSOUL CELEBRATION! Friday, 2/9/24 – 8:30-10pm A master saxophonist and a guitar genius continue a long-running conversation in jazz! PURPLE GUMS Bobby Bradford / William Roper / Francis Wong Saturday, 2/10/24 – 7:30-9:30pm The pocket brass band Purple Gums returns to Bird and Beckett! Here’s video for you video part two video part three video part the last Featuring the legendary cornetist Bobby Bradford, tuba virtuoso William Roper, and…

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Friday to Sunday, February 2nd to 4th
four terrific jazz dates!

Sunday, February 4th – 5-8pm, we present our monthly student combo / jam session date. This month, the Advanced Jazz Combo from RASOTA (Ruth Asawa School of the Arts) led by trumpeter Ryan Ancheta opens the evening with a 45-minute set, followed by a jam session conducted by the internationally acclaimed veteran drummer Akira Tana, with pianist Ken Cook and bassist Doug Miller. Jazz students from throughout the region to turn out to play! Tonight, we’re joined by students from the Hillsborough High jazz program. RASOTA Advanced Band Combo + Jam Session – Live Music @ B&B RASOTA Advanced Band Combo + Jam Session – Live Music @ B&BJam Session Host:The Akira Tana TrioKen Cook, pianoDoug Miller, bassAkira Tana, drumsFebruary 4, 2024Bird & Beckett BooksSan FranciscoPlease like and subscribe/follow for notifications!Presented by the nonprofit Bird and Beckett Cultural Legacy Project. We are a small independent bookstore in San Francisco with…

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Friday to Sunday
January 26th-28th
five shows…
jazz, jazz, jazz
British songs of political reform
jazz…

The jazz starts Friday the 26th at 6pm, with Aussie Tony Johnson, shipwrecked on the Barbary Coast in 1959, leading his quartet with Nautical Bob Kenmotsu on saxophone, Cap’n Keith Saunders on piano and Eric the Pirate Markowitz on bass playing the revolutionary oceanic bebop of 52nd Street and its many sub-rebellions and tributaries. At 8:30pm, Friday, Rent Romus stages his own resistance against the corrupt and cynical power of commercial jazz, with a crack crew of battle hardened Vikings — Brett Carson, piano; Jacob Pek, guitar; Quinn Girard, bass; and Eli Knowles, drums. Saturday at 7:30pm, Arts for More! A kick-ass crew introduces a new organization out to change the landscape for musicians and other culture workers, the brainchild of Peter Barshay and Sarah Hughes, with a pre-launch gathering & concert by the Arts for More Pit Orchestra.   Sunday, January 28th at 3pm, Dick Holdstock, a renowned singer…

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Sunday, January 21st – 5:00-7:00pm
Vince Lateano Trio

The Vince Lateano Trio has a long-standing monthly residency at Bird & Beckett on the third Sunday of each month. Vince has been a mainstay of the San Francisco jazz scene since the mid-1960s. No better way to spend a late Sunday afternoon! Do come, byob and a twenty for the band, or whatever you can afford. Bring kids, neighbors, friends, and introduce them to the joys of jazz at Bird & Beckett! Ben Stolorow, piano Peter Barshay, bass Vince Lateano, drums   Special thanks go out this month to Jazz in the Neighborhood, a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to raising the wages and working conditions of the region’s professional gigging musicians, for their subsidy of a guaranteed fair wage to twenty of the musicians crossing our stage this month! DONATE TO JitN AND TELL ‘EM WHY! JitN’s support allows us to go out on a limb to pay that same…

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Saturday, January 20th – 7:30-9:30pm
Nathan Tokunaga Quartet

Nathan Tokunaga, at the tender age of 16, has already been making waves for years with his amazing depth and maturity as a jazz clarinetist, particularly delving into the classic eras spanning the jazz of the 1920s to 1940s. In the company of a raft of jazz mentors, among them the acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and musicologist Clint Baker and drummer/pianist Jeff Hamilton, he’s been received with great enthusiasm on the concert and festival circuit. Steve Pistorius, a renowned New Orleans jazz pianist, after sharing a stage with Nathan in 2022, observed that, “I’ve been doing this for almost 50 years professionally and Nathan is playing at a level I’ve seldom heard (with a) depth of understanding of New Orleans Jazz as I’ve heard coming out that horn…” With Nathan’s contemporary, Benny Aron, on drums, this quartet is guaranteed to please, and Nathan’s talent will likely leave you breathless. Come and hear…

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Thinking ’bout New Orleans…

Walk on down to Bird & Beckett this weekend! Scott Foster has just returned from New Orleans and has some deep and beautiful thoughts to convey Friday evening at 6pm, with a wonderful jazz quartet as the vehicle — Mike Rinta on trombone, Ollie Dudek on bass and groove merchant Larry Vann on drums! Bring the kids and the old folks, a date, a friend, yourself… Make an evening of it among neighbors and friends old and new in Glen Park, a wonderful hidden neighborhood in the storied city of San Francisco… Those in the know, know that Scott brings a different, wonderful aggregation of musicians and a fresh concept rooted in the jazz traditions on the third Friday of each month, and that he’s been a cornerstone of the Bird & Beckett jazz edifice since the beginning of the century, though he’s still a young man… Saturday at 7:30pm,…

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Sunday, January 14th – 5-7pm
The Seducers!

Mitch Polzak – lead guitar & vocals Hank Maninger – bass guitar & vocals Joe Goldmark – pedal steel guitar Kenny Owen – drums You’ll find the Seducers playing songs of lovin’ and longin’ at Bird & Beckett on the second Sunday of every other month —  January, March, May, July, September & November, the odd numbered ones… Twangtastic tunes and gorgeous convergence in honky tonk heaven. There’s so much more than just jazz at Bird & Beckett. Join us! BYOB and a twenty for the band. That’ll git it!

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Sunday, January 14th – 3:30-4:00pm
Gustavo Lorenzatti
solo performance on acoustic bass

  Gustavo Lorenzatti is an Argentine double bass player, composer and long standing member of the Symphony Orchestra of Córdoba. He has a background in jazz, improvised and, classical music, tango and argentinian folklore. He formally studied at the Rotterdam Conservatory of music with the soloist of the Netherlands Philharmonic, Hans Roelofsen. Gustavo will be performing a solo double bass concert which will feature a number of his own compositions characterized by the use of bowing, pizzicato, voice and percussion, all of which create a unique and stimulating experience.

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Saturday, January 13th – 7:30pm
Andrea Snow in Emily Keeler’s
Dark Days and a Black Dog
with Randy Craig on piano

A year and a day since its theatrical debut, Emily Keeler’s Dark Days and a Black Dog returns to Bird & Beckett tonight, with live music. A solo turn by actor Andrea Snow, directed by Jael Weisman, Emily’s piece unspools seven heart-wrenching years in an intensely personal, darkly comic and breathtakingly recognizable theatrical experience. This time around, Andrea delivers Emily’s words with the expansive dimension of Randy Craig’s piano accompaniment. https://www.darkdaysandablackdog.com/fromthepiece Emily Keeler has been a dancer in San Francisco since 1974. She was a principal dancer for The Moving Company, Cliff Kuter’s New Dance Company, and Joe Goode Performance Group. She choreographed for numerous dance companies both ballet and contemporary including SF Dance Theater, Chrysalis, The Moving Company, DanceArt, Oakland Ballet, and Joffrey Dancers, and was a four time recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Choreographic Fellowship. She and has been an educator and artist in residence…

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Friday, January 12th – 8:30-10pm – the late show!
New Orleans R&B
Macy Blackman & the Mighty Fines

Macy Blackman & the Mighty Fines come to Bird & Beckett tonight to deliver a rockin’ excursion through a couple dozen gems, known and obscure, from the musical minds of New Orleans greats like Professor Longhair, Dr. John, Irma Thomas, Allen Toussaint and Fats Domino. The Mighty Fines have been playing New Orleans R&B in San Francisco since 2003, with Ken “Snakebite” Jacobs arriving from the Crescent City in 2005 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and taking on the bari sax and clarinet role in the band. With tenor player Nancy Wright out tonight, he’ll handle that aspect with alacrity. Mighty Fines stalwart bassist Bing Nathan and Macy are practically joined at the hip, and Mark Lee is a natural behind the drum kit. A good time, guaranteed. $20 cover charge (cash/venmo at the door) byob  

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This weekend!
Friday to Sunday, Jan 12-14
Jazz! New Orleans R&B!
Theatre! Honky Tonk!

Friday, January 12, 6-8pm – $20 cover,  byob ERIC & THE IN CROWD Every Second Sunday! Piano Professor Eric Shifrin’s Residency Continues in 2024! January 12th, introducing “THE COMPOSERS SERIES” Another great show each month featuring composers whose gem-like tunes have become jazz standards. This month’s spotlight falls on VINCENT YOUMANS & VICTOR YOUNG Think “More Than You Know” & “Tea for Two” and “Stella By Starlight” & “Beautiful Love”   Friday late show! 8:30-10pm, $20 cover, byob Macy Blackman & the Mighty Fines featuring Snakebite on saxophone Macy Blackman, piano Bing Nathan, bass Mark Lee, drums New Orleans R&B at it’s rollicking best! Let the good times roll!   Saturday, 7:30pm, $20 cover,  byob Actor Andrea Snow performs in monologue Emily Keeler’s “Dark Days & a Black Dog” with live music by Randy Craig directed by Jael Weisman   Sunday, 5-7pm, $20 cover, byob The Seducers! Honky Tonk! Mitch…

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Sunday, January 7th – 5-7pm
Avotcja & Modupúe bring the fire!

Avotcja, poetry and small percussion Sandi Poindexter, violin Francis Wong, saxophones Heshima Mark Williams, bass Raul Ramirez, drums $20 cover charge reservations: call 415-586-3733 Avotcja & Modúpue kick off another great year of live music at Bird & Beckett! For more years than we can count, Avotcja, a formidably great poet/musician/composer/musicologist, has brought her ensemble of musical geniuses, Modúpue to Bird & Beckett on the first Sunday of the year to perform for you. 2024 continues the tradition! Performances by Modúpue are always a joy to experience. Modúpue was named best jazz group of the year twice, in 2005 and again in 2010, by the Bay Area Blues Hall of Fame. Avotcja herself was named a “Jazz Hero” by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2015. Her radio shows on KPFA (“Bebop, Cubop & the Musical Truth”) and KPFA (“La Verdad Musical”) have been soul satisfying for decades, expressing the boundless…

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Saturday, January 6th – 7:30-9:30pm
Levitation Quartet

Jesse Levit, sax and EWI. Colin Hogan, piano. Dexter Williams, bass. Elé Howell, drum set. A fantastic band, top to bottom. You only regret the shows you miss! Join us! $20 cover charge at the door cash or venmo. byob. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733.

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Friday, January 5th – 8:30-10pm
The Annie Orzen Trio
home for the holidays!

Annie Orzen, piano Maddox Rochman-Romdalvik, bass Will Davies, drums Lily Bogas, vocals Annie Orzen, born & raised in Glen Park, is studying jazz and contemporary media at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. She’s been home for the holidays and returns to school shortly, but first a stop at Bird & Beckett! The Annie Orzen Trio pushes the envelope of jazz, bringing a unique repertoire of original compositions and freshly interpreted standards to the Bird & Beckett stage. Heavily inspired by their training in jazz and their collective love for modern genres of music, the group combines jazz, r&b, gospel and funk into a contagiously exciting night of music. It’s the late show Friday the 5th, so enjoy a meal at Manzoni or Tekka House and walk up to the shop for an 8:30 start. $20 cover charge (cash or venmo at the door) $10 for teens and…

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Friday, January 5th – 6-8pm
Danny Brown Quartet

Welcoming back to Bird & Beckett, for our first jazz show of 2024, Danny Brown, tenor man extraordinaire, in superb company — with Smith Dobson drums, Eric Markowitz on bass and young Graham Messer on piano. Brilliant players, all! Don’t miss it! $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733.

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This weekend, January 19th to 21st
jazz and nothing but,
‘cept books ‘n’ such…
and first, Thursday…

January 18th, Walker Brents III, gives one of his monthly live-streamed talks, this one on Marie Louise Von Franz, student of Carl Jung, who made great contributions in Jung’s footsteps as both thinker and therapist. Find it on our youtube channel or facebook page at 7:30pm Thursday. Want to come down and sit enthralled, listening in the dark? Call us, and we’ll let  you in and find you a seat. byob. /// Then, starting Friday in the gloaming, it’s jazzz ’til the sun’s gone down on Sunday. Friday, 6pm: Guitarist Scott Foster, having just made a trip out to New Orleans, brings Mike Rinta on trombone, Ollie Dudek on bass and Larry Vann on drums, comprising a deep & wondrous quartet, to play some tunes that have been on his mind in anticipation of the trip, on the hallowed ground there and since his return. Scott’s 3rd Fridays residency has…

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Thursday, January 4th – 7pm
Poet Beau Beausoleil
followed by an open mic

Beau Beausoleil reads from his collection War News, a digital book published by AGITATE! War News is a collection of 90 poems, written one a day since October 8, 2023. The poems in the collection reflect on what it means to bear witness to war, killing and destruction in Gaza, Palestine. It asks, ‘what does it means to be alive at a time when even the death and suffering of children fails to elicit a response strong enough to end the war.’ This collection of 90 poems is a witness testimony from afar. It is an archive of grief, mourning and solidarity. It is an accounting of the cost of war. Through these powerful and devastating poems Beau reminds us that we cannot turn away. In the poet’s own words, “[O]ur humanity, our collective morality, requires that we bear witness and then take some kind of action.” Beau’s reading will…

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