Posts Tagged ‘jazz club’
Saturday, April 11th – 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Noel Jewkes
with the Grant Levin Quartet
Pianist Grant Levin leads a quartet every 2nd Saturday in our “jazz club” series– 8-11 pm, “when lights are low…” Tonight, Grant will be featuring reed player Noel Jewkes, with the able rhythm section assistance of Joe McKinley on bass and Rick Rivera on drums. Classic small group jazz in an intimate venue where every…
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Saturday, March 28th — 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Focus on Horace Silver
The Vinnie Rodriguez Quartet
Erik Jekabson, trumpet Keith Saunders, piano Adam Gay, bass Vinnie Rodriguez, drums Vinnie Rodriguez’ quartet will focus on the writings of the late, great jazz pianist Horace Silver. The pianist on today’s date, Keith Saunders, is among the most sought after local piano players for hard bop dates, with a sure feel for the complexity…
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Saturday night, March 14th – 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
The Grant Levin Quartet
Jonathan Bautista, sax Grant Levin, piano Joe McKinley, bass Jon Arkin, drums More fantastic jazz from Grant Levin and a hardy band of co-conspirators. Jazz club at Bird & Beckett is the thing for sure! Â Come and dig it.
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Saturday, February 14th – 8-11 pm
jazz club… when lights are low
The Grant Levin Quartet
featuring Noel Jewkes
jazz club…   when lights are low every Saturday night from 8 to 11 pm Noel Jewkes –saxophone Grant Levin –piano Joe McKinley –bass Hamir Atwal — drums Grant Levin’s beautifully supple mastery of the piano, his feel for melody and unusual harmonies and his deep skill in jazz improvisation and composition place him among…
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Saturday, February 7th – 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Smith Dobson Ensemble
with Noel Jewkes
Smith Dobson, a wonderful young tenor sax player, welcomes Noel Jewkes, a legendary tenor sax man, to the Bird & Beckett stage to show just what the instrument and the music are all about–Â what they can be about in the hands of deeply skilled practitioners in collaboration. Their excursions will be augmented and taken further…
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jazz club special!
A tribute to pianist Smith Dobson
Gail Dobson & Friends
Saturday, January 3rd, 8-11 pm
Smith Dobson was a key jazz pianist in these parts right up to his untimely death in a car accident in 2001 at the age of 54. Â The eminent jazz journalist Philip Elwood wrote, “The importance of Dobson’s more than 20 years on the South Bay jazz scene was indicated by the gathering of an…
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