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!
12/19 live streamed talk on Artaud has been postponed to Thursday, January 16
POSTPONED TO 1/16 due to technical difficulties Antonin Artaud, charismatic silent movie actor, visionary dramatic theorist, and inspired prophet, was driven, by an increasingly troubled mind, in the years just prior to the second world war, to undertake a quixotic voyage to Mexico, in search of an elemental connection to the life of the earth…
Friday, December 20th – 6-8pm
The Scott Foster Quartet
plays Rollins & Hall
Guitarist Scott Foster’s quartet with tenor saxophonist Bob Kenmotsu, bassist John Wiitala and drummer Dan Foltz will be playing repertoire exclusively from the collaboration between Sonny Rollins and Jim Hall — music from the album “the Bridge” and beyond. What a treat! It’s getting to be a lot like Christmas! Scott weighs in: “This is…
Friday, December 20th – 8:30-10pm
The San Francisco Quintet
Todd Dickow – sax. Joel Behrman – trumpet. Benny Watson – piano. John Donnelly – bass. Greg Gotelli – drums. $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. The SF Jazz Quintet, helmed by drummer Greg Gotelli, brings to you the classic composers of hard bop era as well as the best of the Great American…
Saturday, December 21st – 7:30-9:30pm
The Chris Trinidad Collective
The Chris Trinidad Trio brings its sounds to Bird and Beckett this Saturday night, playing Chris’s book of tunes spanning a range of Iridium Records releases including Common Themes, Certain Times, and Chant Triptych II. His compositions are inspired by such writers as Ralph Towner, Pat Metheny, Jack DeJohnette, Jan Garbarek, Bill Evans, Brad Turner,…
Sunday, December 22nd – 4-5pm
Denny Berthiaume, solo piano
Playing for your browsing pleasure! Denny is one of the great lyrical pianists on the San Francisco scene. Enjoy his music on this holiday Sunday afternoon. No charge. A dozen chairs… A donation bucket to help the shop pay the performer and fund its ambitious concert series! Denny will perform a dozen or so tunes,…
Thursday, December 26th – 7:30pm
Xiomara Torres with the Dan Neville Trio
Dan Neville brings Colombian vocalist Xiomara Torres and the rich musical traditions of the Pacific coast of her native country to the San Francisco latin music scene for a special boxing day concert at Bird & Beckett. Xiomara Torres, vocals Dan Neville, vibraphone Aaron Germain, bass Brian Andres, drums $25 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call415-202-4870….
Friday, December 27th – 6-8pm
Tony Johnson’s 230 Jones Street Band
It’s a bebop to bossa, blues to Broadway night at Bird & Beckett when Tony Johnson calls the 230 Jones Street crew to assembly, this time out joined by the mighty and soulful vocalist Darlene Langston. Rooted in the 2002 Chuck Peterson Trio, the 230 Jones Street Band is our legacy ensemble, an assemblage of…
Fundraising for the future of
Bird & Beckett in Glen Park!
Good news! In mid-September, we signed on with a fiscal sponsor–the 501(c)3 nonprofit Jazz in the Neighborhood–and are now offering tax-deductibility for your donations to the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project (“BBCLP”). Write your check to Jazz in the Neighborhood and note “BBCLP deductible donation” in the memo line, then drop it off at…
Yes! Believe your five senses–
shows for in-store audiences
resumed in mid-June 2021,
and continue apace
Bird & Beckett’s events open to the publichave been back since mid-June 2021.Mask up if you’re inclined, and do come in!(Not vaxxed? Please get vaxxed and be safer!) Jazz, poetry & morelive in the shopand live streamed Come to 653 Chenery if you’re in town! Doors open at 7:20 for our 7:30 shows.$20 cover for…