Posts Tagged ‘piano’
Saturday, December 13th — 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low
Grant Levin Quartet
Tonight, pianist Grant Levin changes it up, presenting saxophonist Jonathan Bautista, bassist Ricardo Diaz, and drummer Jon Arkin. Grant has been knocking us out for a couple of years now, latecomers as we are to the party that started rocking when he drifted down from UNLV, or was it Reno… falling in with some of…
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Sunday, November 30th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west? Sunday concert series
Walter Earl Trio
Pianist Walter Earl improvises effortlessly and fluidly, drawing on great reserves of emotion and experience. He’s played jazz for decades as well as doing a lot of work on film scores and the like. Â We’ve heard him here solo and working with poets, and now look forward to this trio date covering jazz standards and…
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Friday, November 21st – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop — Monk’s Music
The Scott Foster Ensemble
Saxophonist David Boyce, pianist Ben Slater, bassist Adam Gay and drummer Dave Mihaly join leader/guitarist Scott Foster for a foray across the musical terrain of Thelonious Monk.
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Sunday, November 2nd – 4:30-6:30 pm
Sorry! Pugsley Buzzard will have to return later!
Right now, Randy Craig will rise to the occasion with a quartet!
Sure, Pugsley Buzzard has flat out delighted Bird & Beckett audiences several  years running, as he’s made the store’s stage a regular stop on his mostly annual U.S. tours since 2011.  As we noted then, “he boasts an unlikely name and a voice like gravel on a treacherous road…and he plays a mean piano!” But…
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Saturday, Sept. 27th – 8-11 p.m.
The Michael Parsons Quintet
Farewell concert
& live recording session!
Michael is leaving for Paris, drawn by love, and vowing to return, in 2016, married, we sincerely hope, to the lovely Siham! Â He’s unquestionably the best young bebop piano player on the local scene, having climbed quickly to that level over the past decade since arriving here from the Central Valley town of Lodi. Â There,…
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Sunday, August 10th – 4:30-6:30 pm
The Betty Shaw Quartet
which way west? Sunday concert series
Betty Shaw, piano Bob Kenmatsu, sax Robb Fisher, bass Ron Marabuto, drums. Betty Shaw’s love & deep understanding of jazz has led her to play anywhere, anytime, with top flight collaborators – with a commitment born of nothing so much as pure joy in the music. She first learned the piano as a depression-era kid,…
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