Pugsley Buzzard
Stride piano professor on tour
from Down Under

November 4, 2012

Sunday, November 4th – 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. which way west? Sunday concert series Never a cover charge, but your generous donations help us pay the performers.  All ages welcome! Pugsley Buzzard, once again on tour from Australia, returns to the Bird & Beckett stage for the second year running.  He’s a consummate artist, serving up a…

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Spotlight on the legendary
baritone sax player Pepper Adams!

October 28, 2012

Sunday, Oct. 28th Pepper’s music played live 4:30-6:30 p.m., preceded at 3:00 p.m. by a talk by discographer, biographer and jazz fan Gary Carner. Gary Carner has recently completed and published a comprehensive discographic work on Pepper Adams, one of the most respected of modern jazz men and a player unequaled on his horn-of-choice, the…

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Messin’ with Mezz

October 14, 2012

Sunday, October 14 – 4:30 p.m. which way west? Sunday concert series Gerry Fialka & jazzbos reinvent the seminal music book Really The Blues by Mezz Mezzrow (Louis Armstrong’s herbalist) and Bernard Wolfe (cybernetics pioneer) with LIVE music, readings and rare film clips. Mezz influenced everybody from Henry Miller to the Beats to Tom Waits…

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Eight Day Forecast!
Oct. 8 to Oct. 16

October 8, 2012

Sunny with a chance of culture… Thursday, 10/11 – 7 pm: The Bird & Beckett Political Book Discussion Group meets to consider George Lakoff’s handbook for progressives:  The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic. Friday, 10/12 – 5:30 to 8:00 pm: jazz in the bookshop features The Jimmy Ryan Quintet,…

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New Monsters
Jazz live in the store

September 19, 2012

Sunday, September 23rd – 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. which way west? Sunday concert series. no cover – but your donations are crucial to help us pay the musicians. What to make of this booking?  Bird & Beckett invites you to come down to the shop and find out this Sunday.  Call it jazz, but bargain…

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