$20 suggested/sliding scale available. Talk about your San Francisco jazz… On the fourth Friday of each month, our weekly jazz in the bookshop series features The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band — in direct line of descent from the Chuck Peterson Trio, which started the whole “jazz in the bookshop” thing 17…

$20 cover charge / sliding scale available Dmitri Matheny, flugelhorn Ken French, piano Ron Belcher, bass A gorgeous, charming and intimate evening of music guaranteed

$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Grant Levin Quartet: James Mahone, tenor saxophone Grant Levin, piano Chris Amberger, bass Michael Mitchell, drums Pianist Grant Levin has gained great acclaim on the San Francisco jazz scene since his move here in 2001; since that time, Bird & Beckett has been pleased and honored to present him…

$20 cover charge; sliding scale available

Dave Meder $20 cover charge; sliding scale available

We’re transacting business by phone and email during the shelter-in-place period. We have plenty of stock and are happy to place orders for you. One person at a time can come into the vestibule and speak to us through the open top half of the Dutch door. Please give a wide berth to anyone who…

      “As Hafiz said: ‘Seek life and patience, for the great wheel, with its sleight-of-hand, has a thousand tricks more strange than these.’ His world mirrors ours in a timeless way. The stranger things get, the more familiar they become, to such a poet as Hafiz. As a tutelary presence, to such a…