Trumpet player Jeremy Kemmerer brings a jazz quintet from UC Berkeley for a set, followed by our monthly first-Sundays jam session especially open to young and young-at-heart jazz musicians still learning the ropes of this hoary tradition!

Jeremy Kemmerer, trumpet.
Sam Malekzadeh, tenor saxophone.
Chris Cook, piano.
Benny Goldenberg, bass.
Lucas Quan, drums.

No charge to play in the jam session, of course! There are no drinks or food to buy here, so bring your own and save some dough! We don’t generally encourage food in the shop, but we make an exception for the jam sessions, and will provide a compost can, a landfill can, and a recycle can! Adults–the students can help you to figure out what goes in which can! Please don’t make us paw through your garbage after you leave!

And after that little scolding… let us emphasize that we revel in jazz, jazz musicians, jazz students, and all people with big ears, open minds, and unbounded enthusiasm!

Audience: Please bring a fistful of dollars (cash not donald is king at Bird & Beckett) to donate to help us recompense the five musicians in the combo! And consider a philanthropic donation (checks are fine for that, cash ok, even digital payment, believe it or not) to the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that we use to underpin the finances required to present two jam sessions each month (first and last Sundays at 5), plus five or six semi-monthly jazz and Americana residencies, a monthly poetry open mic with featured readers, and many, many one-off concerts every week of the year.