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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Friday, July 26th – 6-8pm
The Tony Johnson Quartet
Bob Kenmotsu, tenor saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Matt Montgomery, bass Tony Johnson, drums $20 suggested donation, byob. Teens and music students, $5-10 sliding scale Kids free Australian native Tony Johnson arrived on these shores in 1959, sneaking into the U.S. from British Columbia and quickly becoming a fixture on the North Beach jazz scene. He…
Friday, July 26th – 8:30-10pm
The Laura Dreyer Quartet
Laura Dreyer – saxophone and flute Marcos Silva – piano Richard Lindsey- bass Kelly Fasman – drums $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations: 415-586-3733 Saxophonist, flutist and composer Laura Dreyer is a vibrant and widely acclaimed voice in the New York and global jazz scene. Her compositions combine lyrical melodies with jazz, Brazilian rhythms, funk and…
Saturday, July 27th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Noel Jewkes Quartet
with guest vocalist Kay Kostopoulos
Noel Jewkes, saxes Grant Levin, piano Robb Fisher, bass Mark Lee, drums with guest vocalist Kay Kostopoulos $20 cash cover charge, byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733 Noel is now the grand old man of San Francisco saxophone, with a career spanning six to seven decades. They call him Dr. Legato, for his lovely long saxophone lines…
Sunday, July 28th – 5-7pm
Jam session!
All jazz players welcome! No charge to play. Audience, your donations allow us to pay the hosting trio members a fair wage for their labor. Drummer Vince Lateano, bassist Peter Barshay and pianist Ben Stolorow set the stage and relinquish their instruments to anyone with the chops and nerve to join in the long tradition…
Sunday, July 28th – 8-10pm
The Lillian Charlotte Quintet
Marvin Carter, saxophone. Ingbar Solomon, saxophone. Tamir Lifshitz, guitar. Lillian Charlotte Stern, bass. Gary Jones III, percussion. $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, 415-586-3733. Lily Stern has just completed her degree in music at the New School in Manhattan, and is home this summer, preparing her debut album and playing at venues this weekend from Mr….
Thursday, August 1st – 7pm
Poets Alice Rogoff & Antoinette Payne
followed by an open mic
POETS! every 1st Thursday at 7
Alice Elizabeth Rogoff grew up in New Rochelle, New York. She lives in the Sunnyside District of San Francisco near Bird and Beckett. Her poetry book Mural won a Blue Light Book Award. Her other books of poetry are Materials, Painting the Cat’s Vision, and the newest, City Canyons. Painting the Cat’s Vision was a semi-finalist in the Codhill Poetry…
Saturday, August 3rd – 7:30-9:30pm
The Dred Scott Trio
Dred Scott, a Bay Area to NYC transplant, is known for his stylistically reckless repertoire and a penchant for covering pop tunes. Since moving to NYC from the Bay Area, he’s gained a reputation on both coasts as an innovative and eclectic pianist and multi-instrumentalist. Dred has been based in NYC for 23 years and is…
Sunday, August 4th – 3pm
A reading by
Stephen Vincent & Michael Wolfe
Stephen Vincent reads from Sleeping with Sappho and The Golden Book. Michael Wolfe reads from Cut These Words Into Stone. Sleeping With Sappho is the enigmatic title of Stephen Vincent’s poems that imagine and explore the dramas that emerge from a radical re-making of Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho, If Not, Winter. Peter Manson, the Scottish poet…
coming up in August…
August dates will include the Dred Scott Trio…the Ron Vincent Trio…Maurice Tani with American bassist Mike Anderson…The Elé Salif Howell Quartet…Eytan & Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman…Brian Melvin…a Two Way Mirror reading …Rojai in the Pocket…Duncan James’ George Barnes Experience…Hafez Modirzadeh…Sharman Duran’s Alternate Realities…and more!
25th Anniversary Fundraising Push!
We have so many plans, so many commitments and so little to rely on save hard work, luck and fate! Make your mark on the culture by staking us to our plans, schemes, habits and dreams! Jazz and poetry don’t pay well in this alternative reality we call capitalism! It’s the hardscrabble commitment of the…