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!
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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!
Friday, March 7th – 6-8pm
The Brian Andres Trio
Jazz in its essence! The piano trio is the traditional heart of the art form. If you don’t grasp that yet, you surely will over the course of the evening! Three musical minds, long experienced in developing their ideas, skills and technique, listening to each other, conversing in a common language without words on topics…
Thursday, March 6th – 7pm
Poet Beau Beausoleil reads from War News II
open mic follows
Beau Beausoleil is a poet and activist (Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here) based in San Francisco. He is the author of 15 chapbooks of poetry. His most recent titles are the Killing of George Floyd, Poems for Ukraine, and War News I. Michael Koch hosts. An open mic will follow, conducted by Jerry Ferraz.
Wednesday, March 5th – 7pm
City Bird
Patrick Dunagan reads the title poem
from his City Lights volume of the same name
Patrick James Dunagan commences at 7pm to read aloud from “City Bird”—the long title poem from his new book from City Lights—and doesn’t quit till the whole thing’s been aired. Bring a pigfoot and a bottle of beer, a box of wine, or whatever keeps your gears turning, and head on out to Bird &…
Sunday, March 2nd – 5pm
Mamboleo! Latin music set + jam session
Mamboleo! From Ruth Asawa School of the Arts: Amaru Duran-Calahorrano – Drums. Santiago Winton – Piano. Sai Ray – Trumpet. Mateo Siguenza – Bass. From Oakland School for the Arts: Vito Marcacci – Trombone. From Berkeley High School: Mario Barragan – Congas. On the first Sunday of most months (subject to the academic calendars of…
Sunday, March 2nd – 1pm
The Community Music Center
15th Annual Chinese New Year Celebration
2025, the Year of the Green Wood Snake
Betty Wong–musician, composer and 50+ year veteran teacher at San Francisco’s century-old Community Music Center and long-time Glen Park resident–presents her annual CMC Chinese New Year world music and jazz celebration! Teachers, students and friends of the CMC will cover a diverse range of music as befits San Francisco, one of the world’s great multi-cultural…
Saturday, March 1st – 7:30-9:30pm
Benny Amón’s New Orleans Pearls
Marc Caparone, trumpet. Jeff Hamilton, piano. Sam Rocha, bass. Benny Amón, drums. $25 cover charge; byob. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Jazz in the Neighborhood (a 501(c)3 nonprofit funded by folks like you) has offered to subsidize this date, augmenting your $20 cover charge to help us pay the musicians a guaranteed…
Friday, February 28th – 8:30pm
Larry Ochs + Tales End
a musical collective featuring
Lisa Mezzacappa,
Darren Johnston & Ben Davis
Ben Davis – cello. Darren Johnston – trumpet. Lisa Mezzacappa – acoustic bass. Larry Ochs – tenor and sopranino saxophones. $20 cover charge; byob. For a reservation, call 415-586-3733. Jazz in the Neighborhood (a 501(c)3 nonprofit funded by folks like you) has offered to subsidize this date, augmenting your $20 cover charge to help us…
Friday, February 28th – 6-8pm
Tony Johnson’s 230 Jones Street
Local 6 Literary Jazz Band
Bird & Beckett’s legacy band! Charlie McCarthy, saxophone; Sam Cady, piano; Chuck Bennett, bass; & Tony Johnson, drums continue a 23-year tradition of jazz in the bookshop! $20 suggested donation helps us pay these long-time professionals a decent guaranteed wage for the night’s work. BYOB. It’s a cheap night out, and high quality, we assure…
Thursday, February 27th – 7:30pm
The Good War, Great Sounds!
a benefit for Outsound New Music Summit
with Elizabeth Costello,
Rent Romus & Suki O’Kane
The Good War is just out, and writer Elizabeth Costello has invited Rent Romus and Suki O’Kane to share the stage to raise funds for Romus’s most excellent Outsound New Music Summit and to celebrate Elizabeth’s debut as a novelist. Suggested donation for the event, $20 cash/venmo. BYOB. Bring your checkbook or the digital equivalent…
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…