Posts Tagged ‘piano’
Sunday, August 23rd – 4:30-6:30 pm
Take a stroll through the history of the jazz piano with Macy Blackman
Piano Professor Macy Blackman takes a musicologist’s stroll through the history of jazz piano in a couple of sets on Sunday, the 23rd, with Bing Nathan on bass. Macy has often graced our stage with his band the Mighty Fines, playing the fabulous music of New Orleans R&B. Indeed, hearing Macy is like stepping into…
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Saturday, July 11th – 7:30 to 10 pm
The Grant Levin Quartet
plays Bird & Beckett’s jazz club!
when lights are low…
Grant Levin will be in the shop with bassist Chris Amberger, playing informally as a duo from 4-6 pm… plan to just browse around, as the chairs won’t be set out ’til 7:00 for “jazz club” — our regular Saturday night date — which will swing into its thing at 7:30 when Grant leads a…
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Sunday, May 10th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Gaea Schell Quartet
Pianist Gaea Schell joined by Jeffrey Burr on guitar, John Wiitala on bass and Tony Johnson on drums. Gaea, in the judgment of Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath, “plays the heck out of the piano with them small hands.” Known among her peers for swinging every note, subtle phrasing, and honest lyrical writing, this West Coast-based pianist/composer/vocalist…
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Sunday, February 22nd – 4:30-6:30 pm
Denise Perrier / Tammy Hall Trio
w/bassist Gary Brown
Vocalist Denise Perrier was born in Louisiana but moved with her family to the East Bay Area at the age of five, and has had a thirty-year career performing in the Bay Area and touring Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Along the way, she’s been dubbed “The Voice with a Heart” and Jazz Times magazine reviewer Harvey…
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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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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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