Once there was a bandoneon player named Isabel, all the emotional yearning of tango can be summed up in that memory, and yet the stirring of the spirit is strong and will not be quashed. There came along the dandy Zoltan. He gave heart and fortitude to the others, to Catharine whose sturdy palimpsest could again hold and quill inscribe anew an expansive melody of desire, hope, regret, exultation, to Greg, plosives opened by the svarabhakti vowel, the drop of water that opens the whiskey, to Joshua, an ocean of orchestration at his expressive command.

Come back, Kamikaze.
Come back to the living.
Come to Bird & Beckett
and live some more.

Catharine Clune, violin
Greg Stephens, trombone
Joshua, J Raoul, Brody, piano
Zoltan diBartolo, voice

$20 cover charge at the door, cash please / byob
Students, $10.
For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733.