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!
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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!
July 10th to 13th, five shows:
a reading, West Coast blues,
jazz twice in a row,
and blues, boogie & zydeco
Thursday 7/10 – 7-9pm. no charge, but you might want to buy a book of pomes or some berkeley noir! novelist/poet Owen Hill & drummer/poet Andrew Levy. Hill reads from Poison Begets Poison. Levy reads from Artifice in the Calm Damages. Also on the docket, Hill’s crime fiction omnibus edition just out from PM…
July 16th-20th: Seven Events in Five Days
Laborfest Writers Group
Mitch Polzak & the Royal Deuces
Scott Foster Combo + Lisa Mezzacappa 5(ish)
Charles Thomas Quartet
The Evangenitals + Vince Lateano Trio
“What the hell kind of church service is this?” — STEVE KOTLER, LA WEEKLY Don’t miss church on Sunday! At the ungodly hour of 11 a.m. on July 20th, The Evangenitals return to Bird & Beckett with a reprise of their Moby Dick album and much, much more. Bird & Beckett’s favorite band delivers the…
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, July 6th – 5pm
The Yoav Konig Sextet + Jam Session
On the first Sunday of each month, with donor support and the help of a small but avid audience, Bird & Beckett pays a modest stipend to young players still deeply in the process of acquiring an education in jazz. They may be young and they may be still learning the ropes, but their skills…
Saturday, July 5th – 7:30-9:30pm
tbd (a quintet)
With the addition of emerging artist Lucas Davis on trumpet, tbd is a quintet this time out. tbd is the love child of trumpeter Mario Guarneri, a professional musician from the age of 14 or thereabouts, when he joined the musicians’ local in Los Angeles and started learning the ropes necessary for survival as a…
Friday the 4th! Live jazz at 5 and 7:30!
Dred Scott / Tom Beckham duo at 5
Duncan James / Ned Boynton trio at 7:30
On Friday the 4th, Dred Scott hits town for the Fillmore Jazz Festival. With vibes player Tom Beckham, they’ll perform a duo set at 5pm, delving into the crystal silence of the classic Chick Corea collaborations that produced three sparkling albums in the early 1970s. Dred is a jazz pianist of the first water, based…
4th of July weekend, July 3rd to 6th
Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal + open
Dred Scott/Tom Beckham Duo
Duncan James Trio
TBD Jazz Quintet
Yoav Konig Sextet+Jam Session
On the 3rd, our 1st-Thursdays poetry session kicks off the 4th of July weekend on a packed schedule that’s 2nd to none, with 5 shows in 4 days! That’s an All-American Independence Day holiday run for ya! Fuck Trump and come out to Glen Park for a minute along the way in celebration of diverse,…
Thursday to Sunday, June 26-29
The Gus Hurteau Trio
The Tony Johnson Quartet
Wendy DeWitt, the Queen of Boogie Woogie
Jazz Jam Session
and the Kahil El’Zabar / David Murray Duo
Thursday at 7:30, vibraphonist Gus Hurteau returns with Hannah Mayer on piano and Giulio Xavier Cetto on bass. Gus is just returning to town from dates with Gene Perla’s Tiger Quartet at Blues Alley in Washington, DC and An Die Musik in Baltimore! Friday at 6pm, drummer Tony Johnson brings in his quartet with Smith…
Thursday, June 26th – 7:30pm
Gus Hurteau Trio
Vibraphonist Gus Hurteau returns with Hannah Mayer on piano and Giulio Xavier Cetto on bass for two sets of originals and jazz standards.