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!
Friday, May 23rd – 8:30-10pm
Carnaval Descarga!
Annette A Aguilar’s
Beans on the Left + Guests
Annette A Aguilar, daughter of Nicaraguan parents, San Francisco native, La Reina de Baterista of Upper Manhattan and the Bronx with her String Beans ensemble and her Women in Latin Jazz festivals, returns home for another Carnaval season. To Bird & Beckett, she’ll bring a vibrant Beans on the Left quartet–the West Coast version of…
Saturday, May 24th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Rumi Abe Quartet
A fresh voice on the San Francisco jazz scene, pianist Rumi Abe is already woven into the fabric of Bay Area jazz culture. Come hear her at Bird & Beckett with a few of our great friends in jazz, saxophonist Steven Lugerner, bassist Isaac Coyle and drummer Miles Turk. Jazz is constantly renewing itself, drawing…
Sunday, May 25th – 8-10pm
The Isaiah Javier Quartet
Isaiah Javier came out of Heritage High School in Brentwood, burning to play jazz at a high level–which he’s been doing handily. At 17, he spent a week at the Brubeck Institute Summer Jazz Colony and two weeks at Lincoln Center’s Summer Jazz Academy. Now, he’s been studying at Berklee School of Music back east…
Thursday, May 29th – 7pm
Samantha Rose
presents her memoir
Giving Up the Ghost
Have you heard the one about the ghostwriter who walks into the afterlife? Samantha Rose’s book, Giving up the Ghost: A Daughter’s Memoir (Sybelline Digital First, 2025) is the highly personal work of a professional ghostwriter, stepping forward with her own story to unravel the mystery of her mother’s suicide, wrestling and jousting with the…
May 30th to June 1st
Rojai in the Pocket…Pepe Jacobo Quartet…
Darren Johnston Double Scorpio…
kid writers of Sunnyside Elementary…
undergrad jazzers of SFCM…
Michael Parsons & Danny Brown!
more fun than you can shake a stick at!
…..5/30 at 6pm, $25: Rojai in the Pocket Jairo Vargas celebrates summertime w/Chris Carter, Eli Goldlink, Bil Hagar, Jeff Mince. …..5/30 at 8:30pm, $20: The Pepe Jacobo Quartet w/Marco Diaz, Jason Muscat, Mike Ramirez. …..5/31 at 7:30pm, $20: Double Scorpio Darren Johnston, Marcus Stephens, Sam Bevans, Michael Mitchell. …..6/1 at 4pm, free: Kid writers from…
Rest in peace, Rob
We’ll always remember you. You gave us so much, just a fraction of what you gave the world. You live on.
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…
Friday, May 23rd – 6-8pm
230 Jones Street: McCarthy/Cady/Bennett/Johnson
This Friday at 6pm, drummer Tony Johnson corrals the usual suspects — Charlie McCarthy, saxophone; Sam Cady, piano; Chuck Bennett, bass — for another earth invasion by Bird & Beckett’s legacy jazz band, with its roots in the 2002 trio that Chuck Peterson used to establish a weekly Friday happy hour jazz tradition in Glen…
Thursday, May 22nd – 7:30pm
Five on the Western Edge:
Poets Steve Brooks, Stephen Vincent, Beau Beausoleil, Hilton Obenzinger, Larry Felson
A reunion poetry reading for Five On the Western Edge, the Momo’s Press 1976 volume of five poets responding to radical politics, including the rise of the women’s movement challenging gender roles. Reading from the original book and new work. Free. Donations welcome. Byob. To reserve a seat, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Live streamed…