653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
[email protected]
Open to walk-in trade and browsing
Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six
Live Streams every weekend!
Refresh your browser to catch a show in progress!
Visit our Facebook page or YouTube channel!
But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!
This coming weekend
Friday 3/28-Sunday 3/30
five shows in three days
Friday the 28th, there’s a 6-8pm show (The Tony Johnson Quartet returns!), then an 8:30-10pm show (The Aaron Germain Quartet). Saturday the 29th, the 7:30-9:30 show features cornet player Marc Caperone driving up from Santa Barbara and trombonist Dan Barrett driving down from Sacramento to co-lead the Unnamable Quartet, a trad jazz outfit with Jeff…
Friday, March 28th – 6-8pm
The Tony Johnson Quartet
Bob Kenmotsu, saxophone. Keith Saunders, piano. Eric Markowitz, bass. Tony Johnson, drums. $20 suggested donation per adult / byob. Teens and students, $10. Kids free. Tony Johnson has been a cornerstone of the San Francisco jazz scene since he hit town in 1959. Tony recorded on Riverside Records with singer Bev Kelly and saxophonist Pony…
Friday, March 28th – 8:30-10pm
The Aaron Germain Quartet
Jesse Levit, saxophone. Matt Clark, piano. Aaron Germain, bass. Isaac Schwartz, drums. $20 cover charge per adult / byob. Student rate $10-15 sliding scale. cash or venmo; no credit cards. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Aaron Germain, a unique voice on bass with a flexibility beyond compare, is well into his third decade working…
Saturday, March 29th – 7:30-9:30pm
An unnamable quartet plays ineffable jazz
Marc Caparone, cornet and trumpet. Dan Barrett, trombone and cornet. Jeff Hamilton, piano. Mikiya Matsuda, bass. $25 cover charge for adults / byob. Teens and students, $10. Kids free. The sweetest, most joyful, most satisfying, most rambunctious music you’ll ever hear is the creole jazz that flowered in New Orleans and floated up and down…
Sunday, March 30th – 5-7pm
Jam Session!
hosted by the Vince Lateano Trio
You never know who might drop in. Maybe you! The Vince Lateano Trio will make you feel right at home! BYOB and a twenty for the trio.
Sunday, March 30th – 8-10pm
The Ryan Ancheta Quartet
Trumpet player Ryan Ancheta is sneaking a quartet into the shop for a late show Sunday the 30th, with his mentor Marcus Shelby on bass, the veteran tho-still-young Greg Jacobs on piano and Ryan’s contemporary, Miles Turk on drums. Expect two blazing sets of bop, hard bop, post-bop and beyond! $20 cover charge, cash or…
and more fun next week
six events from Wednesday April 2nd
to Sunday April 6th
The party kicks off at 7pm Wednesday, April 2nd, when SFPL Western Addition branch librarian Moazzam Sheikh, a skilled writer of novellas and short stories, and Moazzam’s good friend, the acclaimed novelist Elizabeth McKenzie, host their mutual good friend from Chicago, the writer and editor Syed Afzal Haider, who will read from his recent volume…
Fundraising for the future of
Bird & Beckett in Glen Park!
Good news! In mid-September, we signed on with a fiscal sponsor–the 501(c)3 nonprofit Jazz in the Neighborhood–and are now offering tax-deductibility for your donations to the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project (“BBCLP”). Write your check to Jazz in the Neighborhood and note “BBCLP deductible donation” in the memo line, then drop it off at…
Yes! Believe your five senses–
shows for in-store audiences
resumed in mid-June 2021,
and continue apace
Bird & Beckett’s events open to the publichave been back since mid-June 2021.Mask up if you’re inclined, and do come in!(Not vaxxed? Please get vaxxed and be safer!) Jazz, poetry & morelive in the shopand live streamed Come to 653 Chenery if you’re in town! Doors open at 7:20 for our 7:30 shows.$20 cover for…
O Pioneers of the Cosmostream! We’ve been vaccinating you against the plague of boredom and the scourge of demagoguery with a mighty river of live streamed events since March 2020, when it all came down!
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…