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!
Sunday, December 29th – 3:45-4:45pm
Denny Berthiaume and Chuck Bennett
piano and bass duo
Denny and Chuck dig into the Great American Songbook, augmented as suits their mood, for an hour of tunes to cheer you on this winter Sunday. Donate something to help us gather a decent guarantee for these long-time professional musicians. And bring something to sip if you’re so inclined. Stick around once they’re done to…
Saturday, December 28th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Duncan James Quartet
Duncan James, guitar. Larry Chinn, piano. Carla Kaufman, bass. Bob Blankenship, drums. $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. Four long-time bandstand colleagues play jazz as if it’s second nature to them, which it is, actually… byob and settle in for two sets of hard bop, bossa, swing and hot jazz at Bird & Beckett’s…
Friday, December 27th – 8:30-10pm
The Sylvia Cuenca Quartet
Skylar Tang, trumpet. Matt Clark, piano. Essiet Okon Essiet, bass. Sylvia Cuenca, drums. $20 cover; byob. Sylvia Cuenca splits her time between New York and the Bay Area, where she was born and raised, performing in a great variety of situations domestically and internationally. She shared the bandstand with saxophone legend Joe Henderson for four…
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…
Thursday, December 26th – 7:30-9:30pm
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, call…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…