Grant Levin, piano Chris Amberger, bass Mark Lee, drums

2nd year! Students in the SF Conservatory of Music’s “Roots, Jazz & American Music” BMUS degree program host their peers from Bay Area colleges and high schools. No cover charge. Donations to support the bookshop that supports the students are very much appreciated.

Brittany Biala, saxophone, leads a trio featuring Helen Orzel, keyboard, and Jonny Kaminek, bass. With 14 years of experience, Brittany graduated with a BM in Jazz Studies on tenor saxophone in 2017. Her sound has been uniquely shaped by her father’s vast collection of vintage American horns and early exposure to funk, as well as her abiding love for Dexter Gordon and John Coltrane and the influence of Chris Potter and Joel Frahm. She currently performs with many ensembles, including the 7th Street Big Band, Bitches Brew, Amy Unauthorized, the Brittany Biala Jazz Combo and many freelance jazz combos. Helen Orzel, the secret love child of Wonder Woman and Ludwig Van Beethoven, was raised by a pack of lions and a piano. She studied classical performance at CSU Northridge then later in Germany and Serbia, played and toured, but alas… classical music wasn’t her destiny. The answer came to her in a bar.…

What is poetry? What is the poet’s role? Is there a future for this ancient art? Does poetry constitute an ideology? Poet Neeli Cherkovski will talk on these and other issues in a provocative evening in Glen Park.

The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Erik Jekabson, trumpet Kasey Knudsen, saxophone Keith Saunders, piano John Wiitala, bass David Flores, drums

Al Molina, trumpet; Jerry Logas, reeds, flute & vocal; Larry Chinn, piano; Dean Reilly, bass; Vince Lateano, drums. Bop & swing from five solid senders. The long-running Friday after work jazz party at Bird & Beckett has never paused since it started 17 years ago! Contribute what you can to help us pay the musicians!

Three Heads Gone is a collaboration among three poets long associated in the San Francisco swirl of words & music & art. A serial poem, they call it… a Two Way Mirror Book hot off the press. Ava Koohbor is a native Farsi speaker poet and visual artist who now lives in San Francisco. During the last couple of years, many of her poems appear in various publications. Her chapbook, Triangle Squared, has been published by Bootstrap Press. She appreciates whatever art offers to her in any and all forms. She believes that each artist is a medium to transfer the world of possibilities to what is. Patrick James Dunagan lives in San Francisco and works at Gleeson Library for the University of San Francisco. His latest books are Three Heads Gone w/ Ava Koohbor & Marina Lazzara (Two Way Mirror) and Sketch of the Artist (fmsbw). Marina Lazzara holds an MA…

Ukulele Jam Fundraiser for Bird & Beckett Books and Records Bring your uke and come on out to strum, jam, and just enjoy ukulele music! All levels are welcome. Play at your own level and sing along. Or just come and listen to everyone else! Aloha Uke Squad is accepting song requests, from the community, for the April 2 fundraiser jam! Please contact us, in advance please, to let us know your song choice, and if you are willing to lead your song at the jam! Mahalo!!!!! Facebook: @alohaukesquad Instagram: @alohaukesquad Email: [email protected]

A Night Horn Press celebration… On April 1st, poet and Night Horn Press publisher Robert Anbian joins poet Michael Koch to recite verse and celebrate Night Horn’s most recent release, Koch’s poetry collection Street Theology.  The featured readers will be followed by the usual Monday open mic.    

with Kirk Harwood, drums Takezo Takeda, guitar

The Mythological Tao: A Convocation of Image and Meaning. A consideration of primordial writings, and their ways of interpreting present-day consciousness. I see it as an element of a trilogy, incorporating Chinese, Vedic, and Sufic flavorings.  

Saturday, March 30th 7:30 – 10:00 PM What the World Needs Now: The Burt Bacharach Songbook Dmitri Matheny, flugelhorn Ken French, piano Ron Belcher bass Greg Wyser-Pratte drums Flugelhorn master Dmitri Matheny has been lauded as “one of the most emotionally expressive improvisers of his generation” (International Review of Music). An honors graduate of Berklee College of Music, Dmitri Matheny vaulted onto the jazz scene in the 1990s as the protégé of jazz legend Art Farmer. Since then he has garnered critical acclaim and a loyal international following, releasing eleven CDs and touring extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.TheSan Francisco Chronicle calls Matheny “one of the jazz world’s most talented horn players.”

The Grant Levin Quartet featuring Noel Jewkes Noel Jewkes, reeds Grant Levin, piano Kash Killion, bass Mark Lee, drums every Friday after work

Sylvia Cuenca on drums Roni Ben-Hur on guitar Harvie S on bass

Rob Sudduth, saxophone Dahveed Behroozi, piano Jason Lewis, drums