Posts Tagged ‘guitar’
Sunday, November 9th – 4:30-6:30 pm
The Tom Lander Quartet
Guitarist Tom Lander brings in a quartet including saxophonist Charlie McCarthy, bassist Chuck Bennett and drummer Tony Johnson for two sets of jazz standards and originals. All this other stuff this weekend? Â Wonderful indeed. Â Way beautiful! Â But this Tom Lander date is as good as it gets! Â If you’re seriously appreciative of small combo jazz,…
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Thursday, Dec. 26th – 3:00 to 6:00 pm
Butterfly Jazz Trio
cd release!
Ready to relax a bit as the holidays wind down…and regroup before celebrating the new year? Â Drift into the shop mid-day on the day after Christmas for a few sets of jazz that will put you in a solid late ’50s groove… Â remember those Miles albums like Cookin’, Relaxin’, Workin’? Â remember Wes Montgomery’s gorgeously…
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Bird Lives!
Eddie Duran & Friends
Sunday, Dec. 1st, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Eddie Duran, guitar Chuck Peterson & Mad Duran, saxes Henry Hung, trumpet Dean Reilly, bass Vince Lateano, drums Back in 1952, young Eddie Duran was the house guitarist at San Francisco’s Say When Club on Bush Street when Charlie Parker was brought in for a two-week booking with co-headliner Flip Phillips.  Flip quit the gig after a week and…
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Friday, October 18th, 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
The Scott Foster Ensemble
Jazz in the bookshop… every Friday without fail. San Francisco’s longest running neighborhood jazz party! Every third Friday, guitarist Scott Foster brings in a newly constituted ensemble for the occasion. Joining guitarist Scott Foster at Bird & Beckett this Friday, October 18th, are trumpet player Dave Scott, bassist Aaron Germain and drummer Surya Prashanka. This quartet has several…
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