BIRD & BECKETT CULTURAL LEGACY PROJECT
Bruce Williamson, saxophone.
Brad Buethe, guitar.
Peter Barshay, bass.
Ron Vincent, drums.
$25 cover charge; cash at the door.
Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733.
Drummer Ron Vincent returns with a quartet for the second Sunday running, this time featuring the saxophonist Bruce Williamson, a musician of great repute who left San Francisco for New York after working here with great jazz artists including Mark Levine, Bobby McFerrin, Art Lande, Mark Isham and Benny Green. You can read more on Bruce at this link.
Ron has been New York-based for decades, but has in the past couple of years become bi-coastal, with a home just down the coast, and has quickly made his mark as a key component of the San Francisco jazz world. We’ve been lucky to give him a good berth and great audiences, and we’ve all been well rewarded for our efforts.
Last week’s outing featured Rob Sudduth on bari sax, evoking Ron’s seven-year tenure with Gerry Mulligan’s quartet and Rebirth of the Cool tentet. This week, Ron has invited Bruce Williamson along with guitarist Brad Buethe and bassist Peter Barshay to deliver two sets of jazz for our pleasure–hard driving and subtle and all the points in between.