Sunday, Dec. 22nd – 4:30 to 6:30 pm
Buena Vista Jazz Band

A Christmas season tradition at Bird & Beckett, join us for a trad jazz blowout on Sunday the 22nd with the sweet sounds of the 20s & 30s and a few Christmas favorites from the Buena Vista Jazz Band on the last Sunday before Christmas… The bandstand will be full to bursting with seven fine instrumentalists…

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Sunday, Dec. 15th – 4:30 to 6:30 pm
The Joe Warner Trio

During the holidays, we’re excited to welcome back the supremely talented young pianist Joe Warner, who’s been making a big impression on jazz audiences — and on some of the best jazz musicians in the Bay Area — for the past several years.  This afternooon at Bird & Beckett, he’s playing with bassist Josh Hari and…

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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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Fifth Friday jazz in the bookshop
November 29th, 5:30 to 8:00 pm
Lipskin – Logas – Ventresco
Echoes of Storyville,
Harlem & Tin Pan Alley

Friday, Nov. 29th – 5:30-8:00 pm: Special Fifth Friday Booking!   Mike Lipskin, acclaimed Harlem stride piano master, teams up with reed player Jerry Logas, whose way with early New Orleans style clarinet is exquisite, and world-class ragtime guitar specialist Craig Ventresco. Born in New York, Mike Lipskin was digging his father’s Fats Waller records by the age of…

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Sunday, November 24th — 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Music at Large:
The Lewis Jordan Quintet

which way west? Sunday concert series every week, music from the four points of the compass no cover, donations requested Saxophonist Lewis Jordan writes: I began Music at Large in 1976, dedicated to interdisciplinary and multicultural productions, with presentations incorporating music, theater, dance, poetry and visual art.  Since that time, Music at Large has been…

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