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, April 5th – 2pm
Les Gottesman memorial reading
Memorial Poetry Reading for Les Gottesman and Omerta Publications Please join Omerta authors Genny Lim, Bill Crossman, Julie Rogers, and others in paying tribute to Les Gottesman, a true mensch for poets who left this world Oct. 21, 2019. Music by Bill Crossman
TONIGHT’S SHOWS CANCELLED…Saturday, March 14th
two sets – 7:30pm and 9pm
separate $15 cover charge for each set
Otonowa
jazz club! when lights are low…
every Saturday night Â
Sorry for so little notice! The band has decided it’s too risky to play tonight, and doesn’t want to subject the audience to risk either. We’ll try to reschedule them for September,,, $20 cover charge; sliding scale available Famed drummer Akira Tana leads a jazz quartet working with Japanese folk and popular material, commemorating…
Friday, March 13th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Michael Zilber / Jason Lewis Trio
with bassist Tyler Harlow
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002 Â
$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Saxophonist/composer Michael Zilber is hailed as “one of the best players and composers around anywhere, period!†by jazz great David Liebman and called “one of the true masters of the modern jazz saxophone†by All About Jazz. A multiple Downbeat honoree for his CDs and educational work, Mike Zilber…
Thursday, March 12th – 7:30pm
Jessica Jones Quartet on tour
featuring Stomu Takeishi, bass, and Deszon X. Claiborne, drums
$20 cover charge; sliding scale available The Bay Area born and bred saxophonists Jessica Jones and Tony Jones met in the Berkeley High School saxophone section, and went on to form an over 30 year musical bond. They are the core of this group, an improvising jazz ensemble which performs original experimental music. Their music…
Sunday, March 8th – 4:30-6:30pm
Grant Levin Trio
which way west?
Sunday concert series
$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Jazz Messenger Chris Amberger joins Grant and the drummer Michael Mitchell for two sets of bebop, hard bop and jazz standards. Exquisite piano trio jazz in San Francisco’s premier jazz listening room. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Michael Mitchell grew up behind the drums. A graduate of the Manhattan…
Sunday, March 8th – 7:30-10:00 pm
The Seducers
Classic, Outlaw & Honky Tonk
Country Music
$20 suggested donation. $5 for students/musicians/fixed income. The Seducers have had a monthly gig at Bird & Beckett for three years, playing classic, outlaw and honky tonk songs by the likes of Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Bobby Bare, plus originals and a few from left field. Look for the Seducers every second Sunday…
POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
March 16, all open mic
[POSTPONED:
originally scheduled for this date
Chris Olander + Kirk Lumpkin]
San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and Bird & Beckett’s Troubadour in Residence Jerry Ferraz host poetry every first and third Monday, with an open mic to follow the featured readers. THIS WEEK, no featured readers due to the poets’ very understandable hesitation in this uncertain time. We’ll reschedule; meanwhile, the open mic is here….
Saturday, March 7th – 7:30–10pm
Russian Telegraph
jazz club! when lights are low…
every Saturday night Â
$20 cover charge; sliding scale available Russian Telegraph is the brainchild of Beth Custer (Trance Mission, Club Foot Orchestra) and David James (Afrofunk Experience, Spearhead, The Coup), who had the inspiration to merge a couple of their separate bands into one! It’s a blend of Beth Custer Ensemble, with their Art Song, their clarinets, and…
Postponed: Watch for new date
Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss, A Memoir
Emily L. Quint Freeman
Call us if you want to be notified when a new date is set. In 1969, Emily Freeman, then Linda J. Quint, engaged in an act of conscience with seventeen others, burning thousands of draft records on the Southside of Chicago to keep poor and minority men from being drafted into the Vietnam War, an…
Friday, March 6th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Denise Perrier with Oop Bop Sh’Bam!
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002Â
$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Once again, the voice with a heart, Denise Perrier, graces the Bird & Beckett stage in the company of some good old friends, Al Molina and Jerry Logas on horns, Larry Chinn on piano, Dean Reilly on bass and Vince Lateano on drums. A rich tapestry of San Francisco…