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, August 14 – 7:30pm
Kasey Knudsen / Eric Vogler Duo
live streamed jazz from the bookshop every Friday evening
Due to difficulties with the live stream technology, this performance has been postponed. Watch for their return on a Friday in a month or so. Despite the postponement, Kasey & Eric played two bebop tunes with elan before we decided to pull the plug for the evening–so our 18-year streak of consecutive weekly jazz dates…
Thursday, August 13 – 7:30pm
Guitarist Tom Huber
Tom Huber embarks on a solo journey across a wide swath of genres and eras, playing classic tunes and original compositions. When you drop by for our live stream, if you’re not squeezing every dime, please donate generously — $20 suggeseted — so we can meet and exceed our guarantees to some fine Bay Area…
Friday, August 7 – 7:30pm
The Sandy Poindexter Trio
jazz from the bookshop, live streamed every Friday!
Sandra Poindexter, born and raised in Oakland, studied classical violin from early childhood, and her musical experience flourished over the years to jazz, Cuban, mariachi and flamenco. For fifteen years, from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s, she recorded and toured with alto saxophone giant John Handy ‘s group, John Handy with Class, performing before…
Thursday, August 6 – 7:30 pm
Valerio
solo acoustic fingerstyle guitar
As an acoustic player, Valerio’s repertoire spans from the classics of blues fingerpicking and the golden era of Chet Atkins to contemporary artists such as the legendary Tommy Emmanuel, Franco Morone, Pierre Bensusan, and Daniele Bazzani incorporating sounds from the Irish tradition, American folk, jazz, ragtime, and world music. In his hour of fingerstyle at…
Friday, July 31 – 7:30pm
Andrew Stephens + Dexter Williams play trad to bop & beyond
Missed the show? You can view it and hear it here. Jump in at 5:40 and enjoy it. Up ’til then, it’s the logo and silence… This show was worth every penny! You’re indebted to the kind folks who donated to make it possible for these musicians to get a nice paycheck! Trumpeter Andrew Stephens…
coronavirus considerations – the proprietor is in and out, taking orders and making deliveries, seven days a week.
Live music on the bookshop’s stage every Friday and occasional Saturdays & Sundays, live streamed to the world, without an in-store audience
5/5 update: Slow down, people! Just kidding, but really, the onslaught of orders is hard to handle. We’re in it for the long haul, so we need to slow it down. Twenty years and counting now… When the City announces that you can come to — though not into — the shop, we’ll ask you…
Friday, July 24 – 7:30pm
jazz from the bookshop, live streamed to you!
Santiago/Cetto Duo
Javier Santiago, piano + Giulio Xavier Cetto, bass
Tune in for two sets of jazz classics & originals by two of the Bay Area’s stellar young musicians, captured for you by rising star Nico Mesa — the man who made our last live stream with this duo shine so brightly. Want to quickly get to the heart of the matter? Go to the…
Wednesday, July 15 – 5:30 pm
Emily L. Quint Freeman, with her memoir
Failure to Appear: Resistance, Rebellion and Identity
a live stream
The New York Times, June 6, 1970Â Â 10 Foes of Draft Guilty in Chicago: Convicted of Burning Files — 3 Absent from Court On May 25, 1969, Linda Quint, now Emily L. Quint Freeman, with a number of others, broke into the South Side Chicago draft board office. dragging 40,000 files of draft-eligible young men…
Tammy Lynne Hall Duo with Mads Tolling on Friday, July 17
Karl Evangelista/Rei Scampavia Duo (Music of Alice Coltrane) on Sunday, July 19
Friday, July 17th at 7:30pm Rest in Peace, John Lewis the art of the duo Tammy Lynne Hall, piano Mads Tolling, violin watch it here Sunday, July 19th at 7:30pm The Music of Alice Coltrane duo explorations by Grex Karl Evangelista, guitar Rei Scampavia, keyboards watch it here We cannot yet host in-store audiences…
Thursday, July 16 – 7:30pm live stream
Walker Brents III retells the story spun by Albert Camus in his 1947 novel, La Peste (The Plague)
When “you” becomes “we” is where absurdity transitions into meaning. Facts are cold; truth is warm. Such literary masterpieces as The Plague, by Albert Camus, offer our human souls awareness of this. And so, as if to answer a demand of the age, Walker Brents III offers a re-telling, composed before your listening eye, of…