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!
Literary events 10/22 & 10/23
and nine more events through Halloween!
Jazz, author events, poetry readings…
Wednesday 10/22 at 7:30pm: A live stream to be found on the Bird & Beckett YouTube channel and Facebook page. Donations appreciated. Walker Brents considers the poet Gary Snyder, and gives us this to ponder: “The language art of Gary Snyder. Such a continuous and consistent manifestation of an inspired consciousness, given to us over…
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…
Tuesday, October 21st – 7pm
Novelist Diane Frank
+ Poet Janet Popesco Archibald
Diane Frank reads from her new novel, Mermaids and Musicians, wherein a virtuoso violinist falls madly in love with a mermaid, but can he deal with loving a woman who isn’t completely human? And can their love travel through time? The novel begins on Signal Mountain in Tennessee and migrates to the coast of Northern…
Sunday, October 19th – 5pm
The Vince Lateano Trio
with guest Erich Ippen, guitar & vocals
Ben Stolorow, piano. Peter Barshay, bass. Vince Lateano, drums. with guest Erich Ippen, guitar & vocals. $20 cover charge; byob. Students, $10. Kids free. 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 since he arrived in…
Saturday, October 18th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Jinx Jones Jazz Trio
Jinx Jones, guitar. Kenan O’Brien, bass. Ken Owen, guitar. cover charge $20; byob. students $10. reservations, call 415-586-3733. Luxurious guitar and exotica. Cool swing and soul with a hot trio. That’s Jinx’s jazz bag! Welcome a true apostle of the many towering gods of the jazz guitar traditions, from Freddie Green to Charlie Christian to…
No Kings Day: Saturday, October 18th
We’ll be out putting it to the man until 3pm
(closed up tight in Glen Park),
but then…
After 3pm drop in to buy a book or just to commiserate over the failure of our democracy. At 5pm: a reading from Colossus:Current – The Ways and Workings of Water. At 7:30pm: The Jinx Jones Trio plays jazz. ________ At 5pm today, join Sara Biel, Elisa Salasin and Kim Shuck co-editors of Colussus:Current The…
Friday, October 17th – 8:30-10pm
Beth Custer + Will Bernard + Jess Ivry
Nothing like it this side of Bernal! Or any other side, really. BYOB and a twenty for the trio!
Friday, October 17th – 6pm to 8pm
The Scott Foster Quintet
plays the jazz of South Africa &
The Scott Foster Quintet dives into the South African jazz repertoire, playing the music of Allen Kwela, Dudu Pukwana, Johnny Dyani, Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand), Hugh Masekela and their countrymen. $25 cover charge requested, students $10.
Thursday, October 16th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Gus Hurteau Trio
Gus Hurteau, vibraphone. Alan Jones, bass. Miles Turk, drums. $20 cover charge, byob. Students $10. For reservations, call 415-586-3733. Young players on the rise! Catch them while they’re making their mark on the way to vibrant careers in jazz. Here’s video of Gus’s last trio date at Bird & Beckett, in June of this year,…