Posts Tagged ‘jazz’
JAZZ: There’s no stopping now
Jazz: there’s no stopping now! San Francisco holds its own as one of the key hubs of jazz in America, and we’re crazy for it in all its permutations Friday, August 26th, 5:30 to 8:00 pm The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band With vocalist Dorothy Lefkovits adding her own sweet sound, this…
Read MoreTime is Now, Not Money w/ Kasey Knudsen
Outfest! Jazz on the Avant Side Every Sunday in August Sunday, August 21st, 4:30 & 5:30 (two sets) Time is Now, Not Money featuring Kasey Knudsen, sax Kasey Knudsen has been taking the avant garde jazz scene by storm since her graduation from Berklee School of Music ten years ago. Today, she’s featured on sax…
Read MoreFoster/Prell/Marabuto
jazz in the bookshop every friday, 5:30 to 8:00! Friday, August 19 Don Prell / Scott Foster Duo Guitarist Scott Foster and bassist Don Prell have been mainstays of the Friday evening jazz scene at Bird & Beckett since its start in October of 2002 — nine short years ago! 450+ consecutive Fridays of live…
Read MoreParis Portraits + Manning/Pilorz Outfit
Paris & Points Further Out! Sunday, August 14: Paris Portraits at 2:30 / Outfest! at 4:30 Gertrude Stein’s Circle evoked in a monologue based on Harriet Lane Levy’s Paris Portraits Manning / Pilorz combo featured in our Outfest! sequence of “free jazz” concerts Get your hiking on Mt. Tam done early, and let Stern Grove…
Read MoreJimmy Ryan Quintet
Friday, August 12th, 5:30-8:00 pm The Jimmy Ryan Quintet jazz in the bookshop every Friday! If it’s the second Friday of the month, it’s time for the Jimmy Ryan Quintet, with Scott Foster on guitar– joined this week by subs Danny Brown on sax, Jay Sanders on trumpet and Charles Thomas on bass. Regular quintet…
Read MoreOutfest – Jim Ryan
Today! OutFest Jazz + 2 Poetry Readings Sunday, August 7th, 4:30 & 5:30 pm (two sets) OUTFEST! The second in our five-Sunday sequence of concerts presenting freely improvised “jazz on the avant side” Jim Ryan’s Forward Energy plays two sets of intensely improvised music as part of our five-Sunday run of “free jazz” performances, organized…
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