Ben Stolorow, piano; Peter Barshay, bass; Vince Lateano, drums. Part of the Bird & Beckett Jazz in the Bookshop (Sundays 5–7pm). Seating is limited — reservations recommended: 415-586-3733. Suggested contribution: $20–30; students $10–15; younger kids free.
The Scott Foster Quartet is a jazz ensemble led by San Francisco-based guitarist and educator Scott Foster. Jim Peterson, saxophone; Scott Foster, guitar; Dan Seamans, bass; Tom Hasset, drums
Grammy Winner Jose Andres Rodriguez - “El Sinsonte”, Changüí master singer and musician from Guantanamo Cuba, in duo performance with Kai Lyons on Tres Cubano, exploring the funky, folkloric, 19th-century music of Eastern Cuba. $20 cover charge / students $10
Next Gen Jazz Jam Session at Bird & Beckett hands the stage to students from Ruth Asawa School of the Arts for the bookshop's monthly youth showcase, supported by Jazz in the Neighborhood. Trumpeter Dylan Acker, a RASOTA senior, leads a quartet featuring RASOTA graduate Dexter Dryg on guitar (headed to New York next), Nueva...
Danny Bittker Quintet at Bird & Beckett brings the veteran multi-reed player back to the bookshop with an expanded, percussion-heavy lineup and two guest vocalists. Based in the Bay Area since 1981, Bittker has performed worldwide with groups including Mo' Fone, Mitch Woods, Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums, and the Rova Saxophone Quartet, alongside...
Hal Richards Quintet at Bird & Beckett brings together veteran reed specialist Hal Richards, a Bay Area fixture on saxophones, flutes, clarinets, oboe, and bassoon since 1976 who's shared stages with Carol Channing, Terry Gibbs, and Lenny Niehaus and continues to record with Jeff Sanford's Cartoon Jazz Orchestra, the Golden Gate Park Band, and the...
Simon Aks Quartet at Bird & Beckett brings the young guitarist to the bookshop for one last Bay Area date before he returns to his studies at UCLA. A Ruth Asawa School of the Arts graduate who came up through the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Big Band, the SFCM Roots, Jazz, and American Music ensemble,...
Angel Adedokun at Bird & Beckett brings a bilingual vocalist who moves fluidly across rock, jazz, salsa, cumbia, pop, soul, and funk. Raised in Indianapolis, Adedokun joined the Latin company MundoBeat Entertainment at 17 and fronted the salsa band Grupo Bembé under the name Angelita, singing the songbooks of Héctor Lavoe, Celia Cruz, and Joe...
Ron Vincent Quartet at Bird & Beckett features Bruce Williamson on alto sax, Ben Stolorow on piano, Peter Barshay on bass, and Ron Vincent on drums. A veteran of the New York jazz scene since 1982, Vincent leads a seasoned Bay Area group built around fluid saxophone lines, piano interplay, and a swinging acoustic rhythm...
Kenny Warren Quartet at Bird & Beckett brings the Brooklyn trumpeter and composer to Glen Park for a night of original music. A Denver native who moved to New York in 2002 and studied at SUNY Purchase, Warren has released more than a dozen albums as a leader on Whirlwind, Out of Your Head, and...
Echo's Bones + Evidence Trio at Bird & Beckett pairs two Bay Area improvising groups for the Sunday happy hour, a night the bookshop bills as "Beckett greets Monk" — Echo's Bones shares its name with the Samuel Beckett story that gave the shop half of its own. The all-winds trio is built around clarinetist...
Brian Melvin Trio at Bird & Beckett brings the San Francisco–born, Tallinn-based drummer back to Glen Park for one of his regular returns to the bookshop, joined by Danish guitarist Søren Lee and San Francisco bassist John Wiitala. Melvin recorded five albums with Jaco Pastorius — among them Night Food and Standards Zone, which topped...
The Scott Foster Quartet is a jazz ensemble led by San Francisco-based guitarist and educator Scott Foster. Jim Peterson, saxophone; Scott Foster, guitar; Dan Seamans, bass; Tom Hasset, drums
Nate Gilbreath and Alan Jones's OHANA Collective at Bird & Beckett showcases a young San Francisco quintet co-led by trombonist Nate Gilbreath and bassist Alan Jones, taking its name from the Hawaiian word for family. Gilbreath is a 2025 graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Roots, Jazz, and American Music program, where he...
The 230 Jones Street Band at Bird & Beckett brings the bookshop's longest-running jazz lineage to the Sunday happy hour slot, a legacy band descended from the trio that launched the venue's jazz series back in 2002. The group takes its name from the old Musicians Union Local 6 hall at 230 Jones Street, where...
Nathan Tokunaga Quartet at Bird & Beckett features the Bay Area-raised, New York-based clarinetist and saxophonist Nathan Tokunaga, a 2026 YoungArts winner in jazz clarinet who turned professional at fourteen. Tokunaga builds his repertoire from early jazz and the Great American Songbook, shaped by mentors Clint Baker and Evan Christopher, and has played Jazz at...
Mose Def at Bird & Beckett celebrates the music of Mose Allison, the Mississippi-born pianist and songwriter whose wry, blues-rooted jazz shaped generations of musicians on both sides of the Atlantic. The project is led by San Francisco vocalist Dean Mermell, a co-creator of Golden Gate Park's Flower Piano festival, who describes Allison as “the...
São Paulo Choro Quartet at Bird & Beckett brings two of Brazil's leading choro instrumentalists — guitarist Alessandro Penezzi and clarinetist Alexandre Ribeiro — together with São Paulo percussionist Roberta Valente on pandeiro and Berkeley flutist Jane Lenoir. Penezzi, from Piracicaba in São Paulo state, is a celebrated virtuoso of the Brazilian violão and a...
Kay Kostopoulos at Bird & Beckett celebrates the release of her fourth album, All This Is Possible, a collection of jazz standards and original lyrics shaped by the Greek heritage and theatrical training that have become her signature — she holds an ACT master's and spent 25 years lecturing at Stanford in both theater and...
Maurice Tani at Bird & Beckett presents The Sangoire Sets, an evening of dark songs of romance from the San Francisco songwriter and guitarist behind Americana band 77 El Deora, leading a five-piece group. Tani's playing career reaches back to the 1970s, when he was lead guitarist in Roy Loney & the Phantom Movers, the...
UFO Pilots at Bird & Beckett features a new trio of East Bay natives now based in Brooklyn — Vincent Maclauchlan on guitar, Aidan Macarthy on bass, and Nadav Beary on drums — bringing a groove-centered, jam-rooted set back to the Bay Area. The band formed out of informal sessions between three friends living within...
The Jon Frank Trio plays at Bird & Beckett. Drummer Jon Frank has been a fixture of the San Francisco jazz scene since the mid-1970s — and a beloved music educator who taught in the city's public schools for 39 years. His trio with pianist Grant Levin and veteran bassist Chris Amberger swings through standards,...
A Jazz Combo from Community Music Center performs and hosts a Student-Centric Jam Session at Bird and Beckett.
Sylvia Cuenca Quintet at the Bird & Beckett features drummer Sylvia Cuenca leading her quintet on a return to her native Bay Area. Cuenca held the drum chair in Clark Terry's quintet and big band for 17 years and spent four more touring with Joe Henderson; tonight she's joined by rising tenor saxophonist Rico Jones,...
Harold Carr Quintet at Bird & Beckett features bassist, composer, and poet Harold Carr celebrating the release of his new album A Bird Is Whiter Than The Moon, with a free copy for every attendee. Carr has performed and recorded with Bobby McFerrin, Crystal Gayle, and Lightnin' Hopkins, and his lyrical, chamber-tinged originals come to...