jazz in the bookshop
Third Fridays 5:30 to 8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet

February 23, 2013

live jazz in the bookshop every friday Beginning this July, guitarist Scott Foster leads a quartet of his own in Bird & Beckett’s third-Friday-of-the-month slot… 5:30 to 8:00 pm… no cover charge, but your donations at the shows and your tax-deductible contributions to the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Bring a…

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Sunday, December 2nd:
Tango No. 9

December 1, 2012

Sunday, December 2nd – 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. which way west? Sunday concert series. No cover charge, but your donations help us pay the band!  All ages welcome. Why do we love this music so much, and Tango No. 9′s deeply soulful takes on it in its many guises? Carlos Suarez, a dear friend of…

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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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Ragtime Skedaddlers

October 21, 2012

Sunday, October 21st – 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. which way west? weekly concert series. No cover charge, but your kind donations helps us pay the musicians and make the propagation of the culture possible! The name sounds quaint, perhaps.  It evokes another time.  But this band’s music mines that time with absolute focus. If you’re feeling…

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Smooth Toad Croons at Bird & Beckett

September 26, 2012

Sunday, September 30, 4:30-6:30 p.m. which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome – no cover, but bring a few bones for the boys. They rhyme “philosopher” and “on top of her” and sing of the antidiluvial zoo.  Their texts may be drawn from John Keats and Jimmy Joyce (a fine singer, himself, oncet)…

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