Transition Party!  Originally scheduled last May as a farewell concert after 35 years in the San Francisco Unified School District, this live stream performance will be a celebration-transition concert as John Calloway continues his work as an artist/musician as well as a 20 years-plus faculty member at the School of Music and College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. Saul Sierra – bass Murray Low – piano John Calloway – flutes and percussion Guest vocalist Angie Doctor ______________________________________________________________________ Take in the show on YouTube  or  Facebook Suggested cover charge — $20 Please donate only what you can $2 to $200 sliding scale available! Pay your cover charge / make your donation Bird & Beckett pays a guaranteed “fair wage” for this weekend’s shows of $150 per musician. This is made possible by your donations earmarked for these shows! We have neither grants nor deep pockets for these…

MUSIC FOR OUR TIMES: Revisiting old jazz tunes that bring consolation, courage and conversation to our present time. Doug Goodkin (piano) is most well-known as a music educator, an internationally acclaimed teacher of Orff Schulwerk and teacher of children for 45 years at The San Francisco School. He is the leader of Doug Goodkin & the Pentatonics, whose CD Boom Chick a Boom and Family Concerts at SF Jazz, Stanford Jazz, the New Orleans Mint and more has brought jazz to people of all ages. Guest artists who have visited his courses/ SF School classes include Milt Jackson, Stefon Harris, Bobby McFerrin, Herlin Riley, Regina Carter and more. Marty Wehner (trombone) is a Bay Area treasure, having worked as trombonist, composer, arranger and educator for over four decades. He played in the Mingus Amungus band and accompanied such notables as Natalie Cole, Pete Escovedo, Rebecca Mauleon, Carlos Santana and more and recorded with some of jazz’s…

Lyle Sheffler returns with a program including works by Alonso Mudarra, Manuel de Falla, Augustin Barrios, Dietmar Ungerank, Isaac Albéniz, Leo Brouwer, George Frideric Handel and Fernando Sor.   ______________________________________________________________________ Take in the show on YouTube  or  Facebook Suggested cover charge — $20 Please donate only what you can $2 to $200 sliding scale available! Pay your cover charge / make your donation Bird & Beckett pays a guaranteed fair wage of $150 per musician, for which we appreciate your support! Subscribe to our newsletter Subscribe to our YouTube channel ______________________________________________________________________ Lyle began playing classical guitar at the age of seven and made his first public appearance at the age of eight. Acclaimed for his artistry, warm tone, and captivating programs, he has played at Carnegie Hall and The Tilles Center in New York, at the Hanoi Opera House and numerous other concert halls around the globe, and in Bay…

Three expert hot jazz practitioners join forces for a sizzling set or two of gems from the early decades of jazz music! Cornetist Clint Baker has led the Cafe Borrone All-Stars for 16 years or more, also playing — among other instruments — trombone, clarinet, bass, drums and vocalizing as the circumstances demand. He’s played the Monterey Jazz Festival twice and the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee countless times. He’s an inveterate musicologist and a KCSM dj. He’s been a bandleader since 1984, produced his first record in 1991 and has seven recordings to his credit. Jeff Hamilton, at the piano tonight, is most renowned as a trad drummer of impeccable credentials. There’s another jazz drummer that shares that name, but this Jeff is ours and possesses talent and a self-effacing charm that make his appearances here a solid delight every time out. We’re crazy for his piano! Young Sam Rocha fell…

Two duos in one program of classical & other musik! SF Opera Orchestra cellist Emil Miland is joined by pianist, Jerome Lenk, organist of Mission Dolores. Tuba player Zachariah Spellman, of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, performs with pianist & accordionist Karen Hutchinson. Miland and Link will offer a program of old favorites by Mendelssohn and Faure, 20th century hits by Scott Joplin and local luminary Ernest Bloch and a new work by Michael Hoppe.  Ernest Bloch’s Jewish Song will be dedicated to the memory of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Spellman and Hutchinson note that “Our program will open with our version of San Francisco, written by Bronislaw Kaper and Walter Jurmann with lyrics by Gus Kahn made famous by Jeanette MacDonald in the 1936 American film, San Francisco. It may be considered an anthem for the survivors of the 1906 earthquake and fire. Following that will be An Alte Yiddish…

Beau Beausoleil reads his poems written in reaction to the murder of George Floyd and addressing Beausoleil’s whiteness in this racist landscape. Beausoleil’s poems stand in solidarity with the demonstrations against systemic racism around the world.  You can find these poems on the website of Moving Parts Press: https://movingpartspress.com/publica…/poems-for-george-floyd Please use either of these links to attend the reading:  YouTube  or  Facebook

Two dissenting sisters, estranged, entrenched in their positions, every bit as emotional and polarized as counter-demonstrators yelling at each other outside an Israeli embassy.  Leslie Simon reads from her new novel The Divine Comic (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020) on Saturday, September 26th at 2pm. Please RSVP at tinyurl.com/divinecomicRSVP to receive the zoom link for the reading.  

Born in Manhasset, New York, pianist David Udolf moved to the Bay Area in early 1991. A sought after sideman, he has played with Terri Bryant of the Fifth Dimension, saxophonist Herb Geller, R&B legend Bo Diddley, and toured nationally for six years with San Francisco’s own legendary New Pickle Circus. Local artists he has worked or recorded with include: Jules Broussard, vocalists Opie Bellas (with whom he did a concert tour of South Africa), Sherri Roberts, Lavay Smith, Diane Witherspoon and Kenny Washington, Hal Stein, trumpeter Warren Gale and the Joe Henderson Memorial Big Band. David has worked extensively with vocalist Mary Stallings, performing at international festivals and concert venues in Switzerland, Prague, Melbourne, and Tel Aviv as her accompanist and music director. Bassist Ron Belcher played or recorded with such international stars as Branford Marsalis, Regina Carter, Rodney Franklin, John Handy, and Pete Escovedo, as well as a…

Brandon Farmer, Drums Curtis Aikens, Bass Kai Lyons, Guitar Noah Frank, Trumpet Sueños is a high energy group fusing jazz with elements from hip-hop, R&B, gospel, neo-soul and indie rock in tunes penned by trumpeter Noah Frank, improvising and exploring as they go. View the live stream on our YouTube channel or our Facebook page. Jazz in the Neighborhood’s Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund helps us meet a $600 guarantee for the quartet this evening, and your contributions during the live stream do the rest of the work! Thanks for supporting local professional musicians playing world class music. Donate by PayPal or Venmo at this link – https://www.tinyurl.com/Donate-B-and-B www.suenosjazz.com   suggested cover charge — $20 sliding scale — $2 to $200 Support live music & the musicians who play it!  Use the links below: Take in the show on YouTube  or  Facebook Pay your cover charge / make your donation Subscribe…

The Scott Foster Trio explores music associated with the finest guitar trios through the years. Scott Foster, guitar Matt Montgomery, bass Omar Aran, drums       suggested cover charge — $20 sliding scale — $2 to $200 Support live music & the musicians who play it!  Use the links below: Take in the show on YouTube  or  Facebook Pay your cover charge / make your donation Subscribe to our YouTube channel Subscribe to our newsletter Bird & Beckett pays a guaranteed fair wage of $150 per musician and supplements it as your donations allow. That will take some heavy lifting on your part, but heavy makes you happy. That said, if you’re struggling in these tough times, we want you to keep your wallet in your pocket. The show is on us & your friends in the cyberstream!

Stephanie Woodford, piano and vocals Curtis Aikens, bass Noah Frank, drums The Stephanie Woodford Trio plays a blend of original music and covers, focusing on Black-American music from old school to contemporary. Stephanie’s original songs touch on themes of police brutality and discrimination. Scroll down for links to the stream on YouTube and facebook. suggested cover charge — $20 sliding scale — $2 to $200 Support live music & the musicians who play it!  Use the links below: Take in the show on YouTube  or  Facebook Pay your cover charge / make your donation Subscribe to our YouTube channel Subscribe to our newsletter Bird & Beckett pays a guaranteed fair wage of $150 per musician and supplements it as your donations allow. That will take some heavy lifting on your part, but heavy makes you happy. And if you’re struggling in these tough times, the show is on us &…

Delusion, Poetry, and Truth…one of many possible groups of three…here as we grapple with conglomerations of accumulated folly, as democratic citizens often do…Actually, we know the ways of each one, as they transform in and out of each other:  delusion, poetry, and truth.  The art of thinking for one’s self:  the imperative of radical sincerity, even amidst the influencing and conditioning. Informed by all we hold true, in what we learn to understand.  Laura Riding Jackson’s articulations offer us guidance and suggestions as we make our way forward through such perplexities as our times throw before us… suggested donation — $20 Use the links below: Take in Walker’s talk on YouTube  or  Facebook Make your donation Subscribe to our YouTube channel Subscribe to our newsletter

Neeli Cherkovski will hang out on the bookshop’s stage to chat with you one-on-one, at a polite social distance, fully masked, for five minutes or so at a time, about his re-released Bukowski bio, his book of conversations with the legendary poet & drummer Clark Coolidge and his own latest poetry collection, Hang on to the Yangtze River (Lithic Press, 2020). Neeli is an internationally respected poet, author of more that twenty books, who has traveled widely, having given readings in Mexico, Italy and a number of other countries. Translations of several of his books have been brought out by presses in several countries.  His papers are at The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.  He is now completing a new edition of his essential collection of “memoir-esque” essays on twelve key poets, Whitman’s Wild Children.  He has a thousand stories from a storied life in poetry. Third Mind Books of Ann Arbor,…

The Eli Maliwan Trio consists of Eli on Tenor Saxophone, Curtis Aikens on Upright Bass, and Kai Lyons on Electric Guitar. These three musicians and friends have played together in various projects and in different combinations over the years and their deep musical communication has developed into a unique and personal sound. The trio will be performing jazz standards. Kai Lyons has played with Big Chief Donald Harrison, drummer Mike Clark from Herbie Hancock Headhunters, organist Will Blades, and pianist Larry vuckovich. Studied jazz with Mulgrew Miller, Harold Mabern, Vincent Herring, Rich Perry, and Gene Bertoncini at William Paterson University outside of New York City. He frequently travels to Cuba, New Orleans, New York City, and Brazil, and has studied music in Ghana Africa Bassist and Composer Curtis Aikens is a versatile musician who has worked in a variety of settings including theater pits, orchestras, folk, rock and hip hop…

  Hop on our live stream to funky soulville Todd Swenson leads the band Marc Levine on bass Larry Vann on drums   suggested cover charge — $20 sliding scale — $2 to $200 Support live music & the musicians who play it!  Use the links below: Take in the show on YouTube  or  Facebook Pay your cover charge / make your donation Subscribe to our YouTube channel Subscribe to our newsletter Bird & Beckett pays a guaranteed fair wage of $150 per musician and supplements it as your donations allow. That will take some heavy lifting on your part, but heavy makes you happy. That said, if you’re struggling in these tough times, we want you to keep your wallet in your pocket. The show is on us & your friends in the cyberstream!