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!

Friday, May 14 – 7:30pm
Andrew Speight Quartet
jazz from the bookshop
streamed live each and every Friday evening


Andrew Speight, alto saxophone

Matt Clark, piano
Essiet Okon Essiet, bass
Sylvia Cuenca, drums

Andrew Speight is a titanic alto player who is held in high esteem in the Bay Area. From Sydney, Australia, he came to the U.S. in the early ’90s, and has led the jazz program at San Francisco State University for years. He can play dozens of choruses on a bebop tune without repeating an idea. He’s an amazing musician, and a joy to hear. His rhythm section on this date are well-traveled professionals of the highest caliber.

Drummer Sylvia Cuenca, temporarily home on the West Coast since March of 2020, has been based in NYC from a young age, traveled for four years as the drummer in saxophone colossus Joe Henderson’s quartet, spent eleven years with trumpeter Clark Terry and has had a long association with trumpeter Eddie Henderson. She leads her own quartets in New York and plays in major venues worldwide.

Bassist Essiet Okon Essiet was in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers for the last five years of Blakey’s life and has had a storied career before and since, playing with a who’s who of major figures in jazz in top venues throughout the world.

Pianist Matt Clark is in the very top echelon of Bay Area jazz pianists, and has worked with the likes of saxophonists Eric Alexander, Vincent Herring, Teddy Edwards, Mark Turner and Frank Morgan; vibraphonists Bobby Hutcherson and Stefon Harris; and vocalists Madeline Eastman, Kellye Gray, Paula West and Denise Perrier. He was a founding member of the Marcus Shelby Trio.

 

View our live streams on our
YouTube channel
and Facebook page

No audiences in the shop just yet.

$20 suggested donation
or pay what your economics allow
at this link

We pay a “guaranteed fair wage”
of 
$150 to each musician performing
in our Friday and Saturday evening live streams
and you are the first one we look to in order
to get that money together, so please do what you can!

We are extremely grateful as well to the many individuals
in the community who donate to our nonprofit
Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project (the “BBCLP”)
to help us build up the general fund from which
we augment audience donations when necessary.

Monthly donations are particularly helpful.

Donate to the BBCLP at this link to further our work

Any questions?
Email [email protected] or call us at 415-586-3733!

We also thank and gratefully acknowledge
the City & County of San Francisco’s Grants for the Arts
for operating support of the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project!


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