653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood

1-415-586-3733
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Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six

 

Live Streams every weekend!

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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!

Friday, July 29th – 5:30-8 pm
The Dave Parker Sextet returns to Bird & Beckett!

Bassist Dave Parker leads his sextet through two sets of exciting and challenging music, from Ornette Coleman to Eric Dolphy, Joe Henderson and Lee Morgan.  

The Sextet this time out is: Clifford Brown III (trumpet); Rick Elmore (trombone); Hal Richards (tenor sax); Jerry Logas (baritone sax); Dave Parker (bass); Greg German (drums). Wow! This band don’t need no “chordal instrument.”

Dave’s band has a long history in the neighborhood, rooted in the days when Le P’tit Laurent (the “French place” at the corner) was the Red Rock Lounge and they played every Friday night ’til late. We used to migrate over there after cleaning up from our own Friday night jazz party to hear them wail, and it was always magnificent.

Now, Dave’s gigs in the neighborhood are fewer (though they just played at Laurent’s for a Bastille Day celebration), but you can hear them around town no problem – Sheba Piano Lounge every first Wednesday, Bare Bottle Brewery every third Thursday, and the Fillmore Farmers Market every first Saturday, for instance. But hearing them at Bird & Beckett this Friday is the first order of business. Don’t miss them!

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Gigging musicians! You have nothing to lose but your lack of a collective voice to achieve fair wages for your work!
The IMA can be a conduit for you, if you join in to make it work.

https://www.independentmusiciansalliance.org/

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