653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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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!
June 19th to 22nd at Bird & Beckett
Jaime de Angulo to Caroline Cabading
Alturas to the Autonomous Region
jazz & poetry… los goodtimes…
Thursday, June 19th, 7:30-9pm: Walker Talks! In his monthly live stream, Walker Brents III plumbs a sliver of Jaime de Angulo’s storied career—cowpoke, daemonic scholar, gatherer of mystic word-lore among the Achumawi around Alturas, he-who-rolled-in-ditches-with-shamans. Legendary bohemian bay area presence, Big Sur hermit and socialite. Aged Chinatown cross dresser, Robert Duncan his amanuensis. Inspirer of…
Friday, June 20th – 6pm
The Scott Foster Quartet
features music from the early-1960s
collaboration of Art Farmer and Jim Hall
Henry Hung, trumpet & flugelhorn. Scott Foster, guitar. John Wiitala, bass. Dan Foltz, drums. Adults – $20 / byob. Teens/undergrads – $10. Cash, please! Kids free. For a reservation and information, please call the shop at 415-586-3733. Tonight, the Scott Foster Quartet channels the Jim Hall/Art Farmer collaborations, with Scott on guitar joined by Henry…
Friday, June 20th – 8:30pm
The Fred Randolph Quintet
The Fred Randolph Quintet! Bassist Fred Randolph summons the troops to occupy your jazz head: Ian Carey, trumpet; Sheldon Brown, saxes/flute; Murray Low, piano; Brian Fishler, drums. 90 high octane minutes of jazz from a clever & nimble composer & first-call bassist cum bandleader, fronting a first-class quintet for the first night of summer! Adults:…
Poets Saturday & Sunday at 5pm
June 20th, Art Goodtimes
June 21st, Julie Rogers, Lisbet Bailey, Cathleen Williams, Sarah Menefee
First up, Art Goodtimes, poet/farmer/county commissioner (five terms, ret., Dem turned Green)/mycelliust/madcap, visits Bird & Beckett for a reading Saturday at 5pm. Art is down from Cloud Acre on Wrights Mesa near Norwood, Colorado, near Telluride, visiting his daughter in Glen Park and celebrating his 80th birthday! Want a little perspective? Check out this article…
Saturday, June 21st – 8:30pm
The Jinx Jones Trio
Music is a universal language, and guitarist Jinx Jones is one of its great polyglots. His rockabilly guitar genius is widely acclaimed and well-ingrained in the West Coast & North Beach San Francisco consciousness, but it’s his abiding affection for jazz that we at Bird & Beckett love most. Audiences far and wide can now…
Sunday, June 22nd – 7pm
Caroline Julia Cabading
& the Autonomous Region
kulintang inflected jazz
Caroline Julia Cabading, vocals. Raymond Bambao, bass. Harold Ohashi, drums. Chris Planas, guitar. Roy Brown, piano. $25 cover charge, cash or venmo / byob. Students and teens $10. Kids free. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. The Autonomous Region was founded in the spring of 2015 as the house band for the International…
Tuesday, June 24th – 7:30pm
Italian vocalist Chiara Izzi, from NYC
Chiara Izzi, vocals Michael Potter, piano Alan Jones, bass $20 cover charge; byob. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Chiara Izzi arrived in New York City from Italy in 2014, three years after Quincy Jones awarded her first prize in the 2011 Montreux Jazz Festival Vocal Competition.Chiara has said of Quincy Jones, “Having him as…
Mark your calendar:
Wednesday, June 25th – 7pm
Fundraiser for a family in Gaza
Mutual Aid Literary Reading In Solidarity with a Palestinian Family in Gaza featuring writing by Munira El Najar and Dr. Hassan Al Qatrawy. Bay Area writers and educators will read works that have been shared with us by Munira El Najar, one of Palestine’s most highly acclaimed teachers, and Dr. Hassan Al Qatrawy, celebrated author and…
Thursday to Sunday, June 26-29
The Gus Hurteau Trio
The Tony Johnson Quartet
Wendy DeWitt, the Queen of Boogie Woogie
Jazz Jam Session
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 Bob…
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…