Joshua Raoul Brody has a half hour of song for you from the Bird & Beckett stage from 11:45pm to 12:15am tonight to ring out the old year and bring on the new! Don’t fret if you just need to bury your head under your pillow tonight. It will be up for viewing the next…

Master guitarist Duncan James,  harmonically sophisticated and always swingin’, has played jazz on our stage countless times in the last couple of decades. He returns to Bird & Beckett for his traditional last-Sunday-of-the-year-booking, this time with Carla Kaufman on bass and Benny Watson on piano.   Tune in this evening at 7:30 pm on Facebook…

Wednesday 12/16 at 7:30pm, Walker Talks! Catch Walker Brents III, the store’s resident mythologist philosopher poet, holding forth on the gift of truth. Lewis Hyde’s book, The Gift, is the inspiring text here, with Truth the enriching theme, like an intuitive moral compass. Clean simple spare lines betokening beautiful proportions, inwardly sensed, like Shaker furniture…and…

Live jazz from the bookshop every Friday since 2002! Tonight, jazz vocalist Kalil Wilson celebrates the holiday season with the Genius Wesley Trio Kalil Wilson, vocal Luis Peralta, piano Isaac Coyle, bass Genius Wesley, drums In less than a decade, vocalist Kalil Wilson has become one of the most potent and promising young vocalists of…

Bird & Beckett’s Grants Coordinator Jenna Littlejohn hosts Third Parent Family and Youth Services co-founders Daveea Whitmire and Whitney White in a benefit to raise funds for Third Parent, an organization putting its current emphasis on delivering free meals and other support to families during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a broader goal of providing help…

Join us for a celebration of this Season of Love, with two wonderful musicians in close collaboration on the bookshop stage. Share an evening with vocalist Kalil Amar Wilson and pianist Javier Santiago, two master musicians joining together to present a Holiday program wrapped up just for lovers. Children of all ages are invited to…

We’re excited tonight to present a blazing and soulful 90-minute preview of the shape of Glen Park jazz to come, as the Simon Rowe Organ Trio, with Dave Mac Nab on guitar and Tony Johnson on drums, holds forth from the bookshop stage! The trio draws on the work of organ legends Melvin Rhyne and…

Jim Peterson, saxophone Scott Foster, guitar Joe Kyle, Jr., bass Larry Vann, drums The New Squatoolas return to Bird & Beckett with their high spirited survey of the New Orleans jazz & funk scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Catch the show on Bird & Beckett’s Facebook page or YouTube channel. $20 suggested donation / pay what you can…

Tony Johnson — regular drummer for Bird & Beckett’s 4th Friday anchor group the 230 Jones Street Local 6 Literary Jazz Band (aka, the Chuck Peterson In Absentia Band) — leads the Jones Street Irregulars tonight through a tight & swinging 90-minute set of bebop & standards! Bob Kenmotsu, tenor saxophone Jeffrey Burr, guitar Eric…