Launched in March 2020, the Bird & Beckett Poets!Zoom, hosted by San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, has sustained a core family of local poets and has invited in poets from around the globe, every 2nd and 4th Monday. The tradition continues. Tonight, eight San Francisco poets collected in the new anthology, Fog and Light, from Blue Light Press, read their work. An open mic follows. You’re invited to join us. Zoom link below. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9353763287?pwd=R0RxUFNSMjA1YWJiQTRvY21FazQ5Zz09 Meeting ID: 935 376 3287 Passcode: 6ANvRZ One tap mobile +16699006833,,9353763287#,,,,*974318# US (San Jose) +13462487799,,9353763287#,,,,*974318# US (Houston) Dial by your location +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 929 436 2866 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) Meeting ID: 935 376 3287 Passcode: 974318 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcgSlD85IJ

http://thebluesmobile.com/howelldevine-performs-it-wont-be-long-now-live-in-the-bluesmobile/ From the hill country into the Delta, from their albums Delta Grooves to Howl, and always live, HowellDevine never fails to please. Joshua Howell, guitar, harmonica & vocals Pete Devine, drums, washboard, percussion, jug & vocals Joe Kyle, Jr., bass & vocals $20 cover charge; cash please. BYOB. Until further notice, regardless of vaccination status, masks are required inside, except for horn players when performing and imbibers while imbibing. Please protect each other. Live streamed on YouTube and Facebook. Donation requested to support the musicians and the stream. Read more! http://www.howelldevine.com/music.html

SF Lives Live Talks August 8 Filmmaker Eric Goodfield Join San Francisco Examiner columnist Denise Sullivan for a series of morning discussions with The City’s arts and cultural leaders and lesser-known workers, the everyday people who help make this place we call home, every second Sunday at 10 am, live streamed from Bird & Beckett Books in Glen Park. This morning, Sunday, August 8 at 10 a.m., Denise will engage filmmaker Eric Goodfield in a conversation on his work as a filmmaker documenting San Francisco during the pandemic. Donations to support the participants in Denise Sullivan’s ongoing conversation series are greatly appreciated. Eric Goodfield spent 140 days of the pandemic filming San Francisco, from deserted streets and businesses closed and boarded up, to the city streets filling up with parklets. He filmed artists creating murals on plywood to cover windows, went on marches with Black Lives Matter activists, and embedded…

Howard Wiley, saxophone Isaac Coyle, bass Ben Esposito – drums Two rising future stars on drums and bass with the legendary saxophonist Howard Wiley. Wiley has long been considered a giant on the Bay Area jazz scene, as a musician, as a musicologist, as a community pillar. Funds raised tonight in excess of the guaranteed fair wage paid to the musicians will benefit the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts. https://www.eastbaycenter.org/1-minute-video Whether attending the concert in person or watching on the live stream, donate generously to the East Bay Center! Cover charge at the shop: $20 — cash, if you please! BYOB, and enjoy the music! Call for a reservation: 415-586-3733. Masks required while inside Bird & Beckett, regardless of vaccination status. Thanks for keeping each other safe. Can’t make it down to the shop? Take in the show through the live stream on YouTube or Facebook, and send…

Patrick Wolff, saxophones Mike Olmos, trumpet Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Evan Hughes, drums Five solid talents from the Bay Area jazz scene making music as vital and inspired as any being made in the world at this moment in time. A return engagement! Originals and jazz classics penned by Horace Silver, Clifford Jordan and Kenny Dorham. $20 cover — cash, if you please! BYOB, and enjoy the music! Call for a reservation: 415-586-3733. Masks required while inside Bird & Beckett, regardless of vaccination status. Thanks for keeping each other safe. Can’t make it down to the shop? Take in the show through the live stream on YouTube or Facebook, and donate to help us cover the musicians’ guarantee and the costs of streaming to you wherever you are. We do recommend you access the best speakers possible!

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World class in your neighborhood jazz joint. What’s not to like? $20 cover — cash if you please! BYOB, and enjoy the music! Call for a reservation: 415-586-3733. Masks required while inside Bird & Beckett, regardless of vaccination status. Thanks for keeping each other safe. Can’t make it down to the shop? Take in the show through the live stream on YouTube or Facebook, and donate to help us cover the musicians’ guarantees and the costs of streaming to you wherever you are. We do recommend you access the best speakers possible!

Darren Johnston, trumpet Kasey Knudsen, saxophone Jon Arkin, drums As Darren says, “While we’ve played together in various contexts over the years, this will be the first time for this particular ensemble.  Please join us as we freely frolic through some swing, grooves, abstractions, and surprising new takes on bebop standards.” $20 cover charge; cash please. BYOB Masks are required inside, except for horn players when performing and imbibers while imbibing. Please protect each other. Also live streamed on YouTube and Facebook. At show time, search either platform for Bird & Beckett to find our channel/page and locate the event. Your donation (instructions on the screen) help us compensation the musicians and maintain the live stream function. $10 is nice. Donate what you can. Please join us anyway you care to!

Avotcja – poetry and small percussion Francis Wong – saxophone Sandy Poindexter – violin Heshima – bass Myron Cohen – drums Avotcja digs deep in her poems and the band takes it to the outer limits of joy. Years and years of musical collaboration have yielded more ecstatic moments than we can count. To preserve Avotcja’s health as she turns 80, this show will be LIVE STREAMED ONLY. You can view it live on Facebook       YouTube $20 cover charge requested to help us pay Avotcja and the musicians. Send your contribution by paypal, venmo, cash app or drop it by the shop, or mail us a check. It all works and the love of Avotcja is well deserved! Thanks for supporting the musicians! Avotcja’s group Modupue was named best jazz group of the year twice, in 2005 and again in 2010, by the Bay Area Blues Hall of Fame. Avotcja…

Last date in our three week residency for Patrick Wolff’s quartet… don’t miss it. Patrick Wolff, tenor sax Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass James Gallagher, drums Guest musicians on the second set 7:30-10pm, $20 cover. Musicians, $10 ($5 back if you play) BYOB. Masks, please. Enjoy the music!

Smith Dobson, tenor saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Tony Johnson, drums Concluding their three-week “Deluxe Holiday” run, the Smith Dobson Quartet, led by a tenor player with a deep feeling for the cool intensity and beautiful facility of Lester Young and Stan Getz, takes the stage tonight. Two sets, with guest musicians sitting in on the second set. Doors open at 7:20 for the 7:30 show. BYOB. We request that patrons remain masked inside the venue regardless of vaccination status to keep each other healthy and so all can relax and enjoy the music. $20 cash cover charge/$10 after 9:30pm.  BYOB.* For musicians coming to sit in: $10 at the door, $5 back if you make it on to the bandstand to play.  Can’t make it to the shop tonight? Catch the quartet in the stream at showtime on YouTube or Facebook, and donate $10 by Paypal, Venmo…

Mike Olmos, trumpet Javier Santiago, piano Giulio Xavier Cetto, bass Jeff Marrs, drums Concluding a three-week “Deluxe Holiday” run, Mike Olmos leads a hard bop date guaranteed to please, featuring some of the Bay Area’s finest jazz players. Two sets, with guest musicians sitting in on the second set. Can’t make it to the shop tonight? Catch the quartet in the stream at showtime on YouTube or Facebook, and donate $10 by Paypal, Venmo or the Cash app! Don’t miss Smith Dobson’s date on Tuesday 7/27 and Patrick Wolff’s quartet on Wednesday 7/28! $20 cash cover charge/$10 after 9:30pm.  BYOB.* For musicians coming to sit in: $10 at the door, $5 back if you make it on to the bandstand to play.  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Why do we call it a Deluxe Holiday? It’s a plush cushion of music…

    Mondays – July 12, 19 and 26 – 7:30-10pm The Mike Olmos Quartet 7/12 – Javier Santiago, piano; Giulio Xavier Cetto, bass; Brian Fishler, drums 7/19 – Keith Saunders, piano; Giulio Xavier Cetto, bass; Brian Fishler, drums 7/26 – Javier Santiago, piano; Giulio Xavier Cetto, bass; Jeff Marrs, drums     Tuesdays – July 13, 20 and 27, 7:30-10pm The Smith Dobson V Quartet 7/13 – Adam Shulman, piano; Matt Montgomery, bass; James Gallagher, drums 7/20 – Keith Saunders, piano; Eric Markowitz, bass, Tony Johnson, drums 7/27 – Keith Saunders, piano; Eric Markowitz, bass; Tony Johnson, drums         Wednesdays – July 14, 21 and 28 – 7:30-10 pm The Patrick Wolff Quartet 7/14 – Adam Shulman, piano; Dexter Williams, bass; James Gallagher, drums 7/21 – Jeffrey Burr, guitar; Eric Markowitz, bass; James Gallagher, drums 7/28 – Keith Saunders; piano; Eric Markowitz, bass; James Gallagher- drums…

SF Poet Laureate Emerita Kim Shuck hosts the Bird & Beckett Poets!Zoom Tonight, Monday, July 26:  A zoomed poetry release reading for Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color – the new anthology from poet/writer/editor Shizue Seigel. “It’s about standing strong in the Fillmore and Japantown. What is valuable about the old inner-city communities that are being erased by gentrification? Not only in the buildings, but in the nature of how people interacted with each other as a village where everybody had a place.” Read more at this link.  An open mic will follow where you can share one poem of a length that supports everyone having time to read. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84053465883?pwd=NHZIZ2U5elhjWjl2WjZmRFVMajVkdz09 Meeting ID: 840 5346 5883 Passcode: 572983 One tap mobile +16699006833,,84053465883#,,,,*572983# US (San Jose) +13462487799,,84053465883#,,,,*572983# US (Houston) Dial by your location +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 253…