Scott Foster Jazz Quartet with trumpeter Henry Hung, probing late-20th century pop, Fri 8/19 at 7:30pm. Tim Daisy, a Chicago drummer of the Velvet Lounge variety, leading a quartet with local heavyweights Greenlief/Mezzacappa/Bruckmann, Sat Aug 20 at 7:30pm. Eric Shifrin/Paul Mehling Quartet + Mario Guarneri’s TBD Quartet, a double bill, Sun Aug 21 — sets…

Neil Adler is one of a handful of chromatic harmonica masters who have followed the great Toots Thielemans in the past six decades. A notoriously nuanced and difficult instrument, very few have invested their time and talents in taming the beast and making it sing as well as Neil. He’s been a guest harmonica artist…

Hungry to hear some of Bird & Beckett’s past live streams? On the home page you can scroll down to read the individual posts for the shows we’ve mounted in the past several months, a hint of what’s gone down since the pandemic lock-down began. In more amazing times, it would take you right back…

Bird & Beckett’s events open to the public have been back since mid-June 2021. Mask up and come in! (do please bring proof of full vaccination. Not vaxxed? Please get vaxxed and join us!) Jazz, poetry & more live in the shop and live streamed Come to 653 Chenery if you’re in town! Doors open…

Ballot measure on the November 2022 ballot: In the face of five years of program cuts, course cuts, faculty and staff layoffs, all of which have accelerated substantially in the past past few months, activist faculty, staff and friends of CCSF, the Revenue Unity Coalition (RUC – a group of labor leaders from SEIU 1021,…

Soul singer extraordinaire Derek Evans and guitar master Todd Swenson make This Side Up a band whose contents will not settle upon shipment. Come & get stirred up, little darlin’s! You’ve got a deluxe experience in store… $20 cash cover, and an extra fiver if you’ve got it. Five great musicians making you feel like…

San Francisco journalist Denise Sullivan’s invaluable SF Lives project lives on in a monthly second-Sunday-mornings series of live-streamed conversations from Bird & Beckett. She’s out today, but Jenna Littlejohn, who’s assisted in our livestream production of this series since its inception, will step up to take Denise’s place at the microphone. SF Lives began and…

Stephanie Woodford, piano & vocals Curtis Aikens, bass Brandon Farmer, drums Noah Frank, trumpet Originals plus jazz and soul classics from a brilliant young musician. $20 cash cover charge at the door. Doors open at 7:20pm. BYOB. If you can’t come to the show, you can find a live stream on our YouTube channel or…

A duo performance by a master of the Paraguayan harp together with a revered poet/musician, reprising their encounter at Bird & Beckett a year ago. No in-store audience for this one. View it on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel or Facebook page. Your voluntary donation makes it possible for us to reward the artists for…

Mia Pixley, cello/voice, plays solo followed by a duo set by Nora Stanley, saxophone, with Noah Gershwin, guitar. $20 cash cover charge at the door. Doors open at 7:20. BYOB. Can’t make it to the show? What!!??? Ok, you can watch it in the stream on the Bird & Beckett YouTube channel or Facebook page!…

Tenia Nelson, keys Brendan O’Donoghue, bass Alex Tripp, drums  As a LifeForce Jazz Records artist, pianist, percussionist, composer and arranger, and educator, Tenia Renee Nelson has 20 years-plus teaching experience in ALL levels of education (Early Childhood through University). At the present time, Tenia teaches music at Denver Language School, teaches privately in her music…

The first Sunday of each month, Bird & Beckett is proud and pleased to host a jazz combo comprising students from a local music school, college or high school opening the program, followed by a student-oriented jam session led by the Akira Tana Trio. At 5pm we present another ensemble of musicians from San Francisco’s…

Pamela Rose & Wayne De La Cruz – Hammond Organ Party! Hammond Organ Party! brings a soul-drenched singer and a prodigious B-3 practitioner into a loose and limber, movin’ and groovin’ Saturday night celebration. Pamela and Wayne, with top-shelf sidemen, are ready to romp through two sets of rare jazz standards, blues and R&B classics. Co-led…

Tony Saunders’ smooth contemporary jazz and R&B are infused with soul… doors open at 7:20pm reservations, call 415-586-3733 $20 cash cover charge byob Nothing beats live jazz in the shop, but if you can’t make it… Find the live stream on our Facebook page or YouTube channel Two-time Emmy Award winning bassist, composer, producer, a…

Live streamed on Facebook and Youtube. Neeli Cherkovski sits comfortably among San Francisco poetry royalty’s best kept secrets — a secret if only because few pay sufficient attention to the riches we have here. He’s hiding in the bright daylight of Bernal, easy to find, easy to love. Migrating from San Bernardino to Los Angeles…

School’s out for summer! Stanford Jazz Workshop faculty hightail it up the highway to San Francisco to Bird & Beckett for a blow out double header tonight! Quartets at 6:30 and 8:30. Come for the early show and stay for the late show at half price ($20 cover charge for each / $30 for the…

Most Glen Park denizens know Joseph Tingin from the hardware store at the corner. But a few of you have heard him here at Bird & Beckett and elsewhere as a sweet, soulful and charming singer-songwriter. Drop in and say hi to him on the job, and buy a new pipe wrench or something! While…

  Jazz! Two sets Bring a twenty for the band & byob Also viewable on our Facebook page and YouTube channel. Donations appreciated per the information on the screen!   Kai Lyons, guitar Jaimeo Brown, drums Hans Glawischnig, bass   If you don’t know who Kai Lyons is or what a terrific jazz guitarist he…

Citta di Vitti Phillip Greenlief, saxophone Lisa Mezzacappa, bass Jason Levis, drums $20 cash cover charge at the door Reservations, call 415-586-3733 byob and a mask Citta di Vitti, 15 years from its inception, revisits the music inspired by the films of Michelangelo Antonioni composed by Phillip Greenlief, and performed by Greenlief, Lisa Mezzacappa and…

Sony Holland and her guitarist/husband, Jerry, spent a good part of the pandemic lockdown focusing on a tribute to one of the greatest female rock stars in the music industry, Linda Ronstadt, whose iconic recordings and memorable concert performances include mega-hits like “When Will I Be Loved,” “Poor Poor Pitiful Me,”  “Desperado,” “Blue Bayou” and…

Attend in person, or catch the live stream on our YouTube channel and Facebook page. Doors open at 6:30pm. No charge. Books available for purchase. Keith Hatschek’s new book, The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation (University Press of Mississippi, 2022) delves into the largely untold story of Dave and…

Live music occupied by indigenous culture! Dysfunktional is a new funk/jazz/pop quintet serving up improvised music from classic standards to funky fan favorites. Their repertoire includes personal takes on Stevie Wonder,  Bill Withers, Vulfpeck, Lawrence, D’Angelo (the band’s favorite), and much, much more. Consisting of San Francisco’s most beloved tech workers and two jaded graduate…

Lewis Jordan, reeds, poetry Bruce Ackley, reeds Sandra Poindexter, violin, voice Ollen Erich Hunt, bass Jimmy Biala, drums, percussion Lewis Jordan presents Music at Large, a Bay Area ensemble that brings music, poetry and an open spirit of improvisation. Saxophones, violin, bass, percussion and drums come with a large helping of original material. The group…

Bob Kenmotsu, saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Tony Johnson, drums Bebop to bossa, and always swingin’ $20 cash cover charge – doors open at 7:20 for the 7:30 show BYOB and a mask, as covid still stalks the fringes of the land… capacity is just 25 at the moment to make for some…