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!
Saturday, January 25th – 7:30-9:30pm
Surf the Glass
Daniel Heffez, saxophone. Adam Shulman, keyboards. Omar Aran, drums. Original wave action from three jazaquanuts, breaking out their new album! Read more & hear the music at jazztheglasstrio.com $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733.
Sunday, January 26th – 5-7pm
Jam Session!
The Vince Lateano, your hosts!
You never know who might drop in. Maybe you! The Vince Lateano Trio will make you feel right at home! BYOB and a twenty for the trio.
Thursday, January 30th – 7pm
Italian poet Elena Pinnen
On a Breaking Wave
a reading
Elena Pinnen’s book-length poem, On a Breaking Wave and Other Natural Catastrophes (The Los Angeles Press, 2024) speaks of waves and surfing, and engages the truths of colonialism in the Pacific. Composed in three days, all in one breath as if it were a short story or a long phone conversation, On a Breaking Wave expresses…
More before the month plays out… and then, February!
thanks to your generous support, the good life goes on in San Francisco! Surf jazzistas Jazz the Glass play Saturday 1/25 (7:30-9:30pm), and the monthly jam session hosted by the Vince Lateano trio takes play on Sunday the 26th from 5-7pm. Italian poet Elena Pinnen reads from her collection, On the Breaking Wave Thursday 1/30…
Saturday, February 1st – 3-4pm
MUCH MORE FUN
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Angie Bennett & Sharon Wayne ~~facebook stars of their own minds~~ bring you a full hour of unalloyed dual ukulele & vocal magnificence! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sharon has worked for over thirty years as a solo performer, recording artist, chamber musician and music educator. A founding member of the San Francisco Guitar Quartet, she has also…
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…
O Pioneers of the Cosmostream! We’ve been vaccinating you against the plague of boredom and the scourge of demagoguery with a mighty river of live streamed events since March 2020, when it all came down!
Hungry to hear some of Bird & Beckett’s past live streams? On the home page you can scroll down to read the individual posts for the shows we’ve mounted in the past several months, a hint of what’s gone down since the pandemic lock-down began. In more amazing times, it would take you right back…
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, January 24th — 8:30-10pm
Double Bass Dreams
bass soloist Gustavo Lorenzatti
Gustavo Lorenzatti is an Argentinian double bass player and cellist, a composer and a long-standing member of the Symphony Orchestra of Córdoba. He has a background in classical music, jazz, tango and Brazilian music, as well as Argentinian folklore. He studied formally at the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music with the soloist of the Netherlands Philharmonic,…