Exclusive Limited TEN Person LIVE Audience.  $40 per ticket.  Make your paid reservation in advance with the  bookstore to guarantee a seat.  Live stream contribution of $10 requested for those unable to attend in person. If you’re watching in the stream, thanks for helping us break even by donating online! Find the stream on Bird…

BYOB, and bring $30 for tonight’s sextet! We’re guaranteeing a “fair” wage to the musicians, such that it takes 25-plus people at $30 each to meet that for a sextet–and we keep the audience down to 25 or close to it. If you’re watching in the stream, thanks for helping us break even by donating…

Ben Goldberg & Scott Amendola w/ special guest Nate Brenner Celebrating the digital release of Plays Monk’s eponymous debut album Ben Goldberg – clarinets Scott Amendola – drums/electronics Nate Brenner – e.bass/bass synth/etc. BYOB, and bring a twenty to help us pay the trio. If you’re watching in the stream, thanks for donating online if…

Darren Johnston – trumpet Ben Goldberg – clarinet, contra-alto clarinet David Boyce – tenor sax, bass clarinet Gerald Cleaver – drums BYOB, and bring a twenty for the band. If you’re watching in the stream, thanks for helping us meet the quartet’s guarantee and the cost of streaming by donating online! Find the stream on…

America’s favorite country band in America’s favorite bookshop & honky tonk, every second Sunday from now ’til 2022! Pedal steel guitar master Joe Goldmark and the haiku cowboy Ken Owen on drums make it look easy while Mitch Polzak and Hank Maninger rip it up! From Merle Haggard to Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams to George…

Bird & Beckett’s events open to the public have been back since mid-June! Mask up and come in! (do please bring proof of full vaccination. Not vaxxed? Get vaxxed and join us!) Live jazz & more in the shop for audiences and live streamed through cyberspace! Every Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm + more Come…

For decades now, Grant Levin has been one of the best kept secrets in jazz, and Bird & Beckett has been proud to present him literally hundreds of times since he arrived in the Bay Area in 2010. The performance documented here was the last of the live-stream only pandemic concerts we presented between March…

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…

Kim Shuck, San Francisco’s 7th Poet Laureate, hosts Bird & Beckett’s 2nd & 4th Mondays poetry reading series. The 2nd Monday Poets!Zooms begin with a featured poet or two, followed by an open mic. The 4th Mondays are all open. At both, all are invited to participate with a poem. The Zoom link for tonight’s…

Pedal steel master Joe Goldmark’s supergroup returns to Bird & Beckett for a monthly Sunday date! Joe’s built a solid band that features Mitch Polzak on lead guitar and vocal; Hank Maninger on bass guitar and vocal; and Kenny Owen, the Haiku Cowboy, on drums. Eddie Kendrick is in town and plans to join the…

Join San Francisco columnist Denise Sullivan for a series of morning discussions with The City’s activists, educators, arts and cultural leaders, as well as lesser-known workers, the everyday people who help make this place we call home, every second Sunday at 10 am, live streamed from Bird & Beckett Books in Glen Park. Find the…

Phillip Greenlief, tenor and alto saxophones Dan Seamans, bass Tom Hassett, drums special guest: Beth Schenck, alto saxophone Beth Schenck is a saxophonist, composer and educator, who has made previous forays at Bird & Beckett in the bands Sifter and Social Stutter, and as a guest with the Lost Trio. She feels most at home…

Pamela Rose, vocal Terrence Brewer, guitar “One guitar, one voice. All swingin’.” Long-time friends and collaborators in jazz, Pamela Rose and Terrence Brewer just a few short years ago began thrilling audiences with a duo project based on the great performances that Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass brought to the concert stage and a number…

Jerry Ferraz and Michael Koch host our monthly in-store, in-person poetry session, each month with a featured reader or two and an open mic, always a delight and a revelation. Jennifer Barone is an Italian-American poet and artist. She is the author of three books of poetry, her most recent: “Saporoso – Poems of Italian Food &…

We’ve sent some musicians SFMOMA way for the public’s pleasure! Stroll into the museum at 4pm with your vax card in hand & your mask in place — that’s when they hang the “out of commission” sign on the cash register — then hie thee to the 5th floor galleries to take in Joan Mitchell’s…

Poet & Publisher Marina Lazzara hosts a reading and celebration on the occasion of the release of new chapbooks from Two Way Mirror Books: Tammy Fortin Elizabeth Costello Brian Lucas Nicholas Whittington with special visit by J. Grabowski Live in the shop and viewable as a live stream on YouTube or Facebook. Bring some cash to buy a…

Phillip Greenlief, tenor and alto saxophones Dan Seamans, bass Tom Hassett, drums with guest Steve Adams, alto and baritone saxophones Steve Adams, a member of the Rova saxophone quartet since 1988 and also a member of the Bill Horvitz Band, the Matt Small Ensemble and the Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, has performed with Anthony Braxton,…

Breaking news! Tonight, 10/1/21, JaZzline Institute Director Afrikahn Jamal Davys was here with BAJABA Jazz Masters Calvin Keys and Dawan Muhammad to present bassist Heshima Mark Williams with a BAJABA Jazz Master Award for 2021! Check our video of tonight’s show (on fb & yt) to catch the award presentation, which took place on the…

In honor of the turning of the wheels that have been a long time turning. A building up and breaking down in imagery for the sake of the enrichening of our metaphors, and metaphorical concepts. One more exploration of mythical speech. A compendium. A gazette. Walker Brents III relates tales from diverse traditions.    …

Kim Shuck, poet & artist, conducts Bird & Beckett’s virtual poetry series twice a month. On the second Monday of the month, two poets are featured with an open mic following; on the fourth Monday of the month, it’s all open mic. So polish up a gem or grab one you want to try out…

Live in the shop and viewable as a live stream on YouTube or Facebook. This early evening into the twilight, Bird & Beckett is pleased to present a combo comprising students from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Roots, Jazz and American Music B.Mus. degree program. It’ll be a sextet, coached into being by Akira Tana, but set…

Eric Shifrin, piano Richard Chon, violin Ari Munkres, bass Mark Lee, drums Live in the shop and viewable as a live stream on YouTube or Facebook. Doors open at 7:20pm. Music at 7:30pm. $20 cash cover charge at the door. Call for reservations – 415-586-3733 during regular store hours, Tuesday to Sunday, noon to six pm. Proof of…

Making the swing to bop & the bossa nova, and making it count! Four pros plying their trade for the glory and a guaranteed fair wage! Charlie McCarthy, saxophone Glen Deardorff, guitar Al Obidinski, bass Tony Johnson, drums Live in the shop and viewable as a live stream on YouTube or Facebook. Doors open at 7:20pm. Music at…

The Isaac Schwartztet brings a fresh take and vibrant artistry to the jazz/black american music repertoire. Leading the Schwartztet from the drumset is Isaac Schwartz, joined by Henry Hung, trumpet; Sam Priven, alto saxophone; Joshua Thurston-Milgrom, bass. Live in the shop and viewable as a live stream on YouTube or Facebook. Isaac, an Oakland native, has honed his…

Scott Foster, guitar Matt Montgomery, bass Dan Foltz, drums Scott Foster concocts a new project or revisits and tweaks an old one every single time out, and has done so ever since we asked him to assume a monthly residency many, many years ago. First, though, he provided unassuming brilliance to Bird & Beckett’s legacy…