Posts Tagged ‘bebop’
Friday, October 31st – 5:00 to 8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
John Calloway Quartet
Special 5th Friday booking: Â John Calloway, flute and percussion, brings in a quartet featuring Andrew Hall on piano; Mike Arnold on bass; and Brian Andres on drums. Recently, John spent time in Cuban recording studios with top local talent there to lay down tracks for a forthcoming cd. Â He’s long been a key player locally,…
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jazz in the bookshop
The Bird & Beckett Bebop Band
Friday, Nov. 8, 5:30-8:00 pm
(plus, a Marcus Books update)
jazz in the bookshop is our long-running Friday evening jazz shindig… now celebrating it’s 12th year! Nearly 600 consecutive Fridays of live jazz in an intimate independent book shop. Since the beginning, drummer Jimmy Ryan has been on the scene, and he now leads a sizzling jazz quintet — the Bird & Beckett Bebop Band — on…
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jazz in the bookshop
Third Fridays 5:30 to 8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet
live jazz in the bookshop every friday Beginning this July, guitarist Scott Foster leads a quartet of his own in Bird & Beckett’s third-Friday-of-the-month slot… 5:30 to 8:00 pm… no cover charge, but your donations at the shows and your tax-deductible contributions to the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Bring a…
Read MoreNoel Jewkes Quartet + The Third Quartet
Live Jazz on Sunday / Poets on Monday Sunday, July 15 – 4:30 to 6:30 pm The Noel Jewkes Quartet Noel Jewkes (reeds), Grant Levin (piano), Adam Gay (bass), Bryan Bowman (drums) — joined for a tune on each set by vocalist Marky Quayle Noel Jewkes has been a mainstay on the Northern California jazz…
Read MoreComing up – July 2 to July 8
Sunday, July 8 – 2:30 pm Look What the Cat Dragged in Again A CD release party for Whitman McGowan’s latest Whitman McGowan started his spoken word career reading poems at a back alley coffeehouse, The Espresso Bar in Pasadena, California, where he put poems for a dollar each on the menu. After moving north…
Read MorePrell/Foster + Phipps & Aran
Friday, June 15 – 5:30 to 8:00 pm The Third Quartet jazz in the bookshop every Friday evening without fail! On the third Friday of each month, a quartet made up of series founders Chuck Peterson (tenor sax), Scott Foster (guitar) and Don Prell (bass) augmented by drummer Ron Marabuto or Omar Aran (this month…
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