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 weekend!
Friday, 8/22, 6pm, Tony Johnson’s 230 Jones Street Band. w/Charlie McCarthy, sax; Sam Cady, piano; Chuck Bennett, bass. Hard bop & swing! $20 cover charge; $10 students; kids free. ~##~ Friday, 8/22, 8:30pm – Byrds of a Feather: saxophonist David Byrd & friends. Jazz Reggae & Vocalese ala Eddie Jefferson! $20 cover charge; students $10…
This Saturday
Celebrate with Avotcja
Jamming at 84!
Saturday, 8/23, 7:30pm JAMMING at 84 with AVOTCJA Francisco Herrera, Heshima Mark Williiams & Val Serrant plus special guests, including San Francisco Poet Laureate Genny Lim, San Francisco Poet Laureate Emerita Kim Shuck, Jordana, David Kubrin, Kaylah Marin, Gregory Pond, Maurisa Thompson, Dan Brady and possibly, schedules permitting, Rico Pabon & blues guitarist Ronnie Stewart…
Mark your calendar!
Saturday, August 30th – 7:30-9:30pm
Benny Amón’s New Orleans Pearls
with Marc Caparone & Jeff Hamilton
Can’t make it to Sacramento for the 10th Annual Hot Jazz Labor Day Weekend Jubilee? We have a premier New Orleans jazz trio for you Saturday, the 30th! You can catch drummer Benny Amón’s New Orleans Pearls here at Bird & Beckett with two highly regarded practitioners of the art. Get your fix of this…
Fundraising for the future of
Bird & Beckett in Glen Park!
Here at Bird & Beckett Books, we’ve always relied on the kindness of neighbors and strangers to make it all work; and we’ve always found that strangers don’t stay strangers long! Your tax-deductible donations to our 501(c)3 nonprofit, the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project, FEIN 261906810, are the secret sauce. Book sales and cover…
Water under the bridge…
The posts that follow show you what’s come and gone. Search the videos on our youtube channel or facebook page to find evidence of what you remember, or what you missed! Then, make sure you catch the next thing that catches your fancy. The live streams are great, but live music in a room with…
Sunday, August 17th – 5:00-7:00pm
Guitarist Jack Tone Riordan
with the Vince Lateano Trio
Jack Tone Riordan, guitar Ben Stolorow, piano. Ollie Dudek, bass. Vince Lateano, drums. $20 cover charge, cash at the door; byob. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. The trio returns for their ongoing 3rd Sundays residency at Bird & Beckett. Leader Vince Lateano has been a cornerstone of the San Francisco jazz scene…
Saturday, August 16th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Ron Vincent Quartet
featuring saxophonist Bruce Williamson
Bruce Williamson, saxophone. Brad Buethe, guitar. Peter Barshay, bass. Ron Vincent, drums. $25 cover charge; cash at the door. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Drummer Ron Vincent returns with a quartet for the second Sunday running, this time featuring the saxophonist Bruce Williamson, a musician of great repute who left San Francisco for New…
Friday, August 15th – 8:30-10pm
The Brian Melvin Trio
featuring guitarist Søren Lee
Søren Lee, guitar. John Wiitala, bass. Brian Melvin, drums. $20 cover charge, cash at the door; byob. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Brian Melvin is a San Francisco native who’s made his base in Estonia for many years, traveling extensively in Europe for gigs and workshops and returning to the States, and San Francisco,…
Friday, August 15th, 6-8pm
The Scott Foster Trio
featuring vocalist Jesse Foster
Jesse Foster, vocals. Scott Foster, guitar. Andrew Higgins, bass. $20 cover charge requested; cash at the door; byob. Students $10; kids free. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Jesse Foster has a truly individual style and deiivery born of decades of soulful San Francisco jazz experience. With Scott and Andrew, you’ll enjoy an evening of…
Wednesday, August 13th – 7:30pm
Johnny Lonely is
Lonely Under the Covers
Brian Lohmann, vocals J. Raoul Brody, piano and vocals Dave Terry, vocals Bill Ortiz, trumpet Wallow with Johnny Lonely in an evening of your favorite pop hits of rejection and dejection. Music director & sidekick J. Raoul Brody might try to lighten the mood with his fruitless insistence on something as harmless as the occasional…