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!
Visit our Facebook page or YouTube channel!
But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!
Friday, February 7th – 6pm
Jazz, Joy & Justice
The Doug Goodkin Trio
Doug Goodkin – piano. Marty Wehner – trombone. Sam Heminger – bass. $20 suggested donation per adult; byob. Teens and students – $10 suggested. Kids, free. Celebrating Doug’s new book Jazz, Joy and Justice. Doug Goodkin, as well as being a wonderful musician himself, is a celebrated educator, loved for his work by generations of…
Thursday, February 6th – 7pm
Spoken Duets:
Poets Susan Dambroff and Chris Kammler
open mic follows
In Spoken Duets, Chris Kammler and Susan Dambroff collage words into a riff, a rumble, and a rant, and speak them in syncopated and unsyncopated time. They surf through the day-to-day of these tsunami times with poetic and improvisational collaborations. They attempt to untwist and untangle language weaving in and out of the personal and…
Wednesday, February 5th – 7pm
Poet Michelle Matz reads from
Acoustic Shadow
Come out and join the friends and neighbors of Glen Park’s own Michelle Matz, to hear her read & celebrate her new poetry collection, Acoustic Shadow. A fine Wednesday evening in Glen Park at its own little bookshop is guaranteed. “Michelle Matz’s Acoustic Shadow treads the solitary space between love and grief with…
Sunday, February 2nd – 8:00-10pm
The Noel Jewkes Quartet
featuring vocalist Kay Kostopoulos
$25 cover charge; byob. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. https://www.facebook.com/bird.and.beckett/videos/563350992916034 sound starts at the 1:42 mark… fabulous to the end! The towering master of tenor saxophone (and many another instrument), Noel Jewkes brings his fine quartet featuring vocalist Kay Kostopoulos, with Grant Levin on piano, Chris Amberger on bass and Al Marshall…
Sunday, February 2nd – 5-7pm
Young players strut their stuff:
Urban School Bebop Combo + Jam Session
The first Sunday of each month, with some pauses during school breaks, we present a jazz ensemble from a local school and follow it with a jam session specially tuned to emerging young talent from the region’s many wonderful jazz education programs. This time out, San Francisco’s Urban School once again sends its Bebop Combo,…
Saturday, February 1st – 7:30-9:30pm
The Ian Carey Quintet
album release concert!
Ian Carey, trumpet. James Mahone, sax. Kasey Knudsen, sax. Adam Shulman, organ. Eric Garland, drums. $25 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call (415) 586-3733 Trumpeter, composer and bandleader Ian Carey is at the core of a fleet-footed, organ-driven new quintet featuring great Bay Area jazz talent. They’ll sprint through some lean & mean arrangements of Ian’s…
Saturday, February 1st – 3-4pm
MUCH MORE FUN
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Angie Bennett & Sharon Wayne ~~facebook stars of their own minds~~ bring you a full hour of unalloyed dual ukulele & vocal magnificence! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sharon has worked for over thirty years as a solo performer, recording artist, chamber musician and music educator. A founding member of the San Francisco Guitar Quartet, she has also…
Friday, January 31st – 8:30-10pm
The Noah Frank Quartet
Noah Frank, trumpet Greg Jacobs, piano Dexter Williams, bass James Gallagher, drums with guest vocalist Stephanie Woodford $20 cover charge; byob. Join us for a 35th birthday celebration for the trumpeter Noah Frank, hard on the heels of his dad’s 70th birthday/Monk celebration earlier the same evening. Come for at least one set of the…
Friday, January 31st – 6-8pm
The Jon Frank Trio celebrates
the music of Thelonious Monk!
Richard Leber, piano Richard Saunders, bass Jon Frank, drums $20 suggested donation; byob. Teens and students, $10 Kids free For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. The Jon Frank Trio celebrates Jon’s 70th birthday and the music of Thelonious Monk tonight! The trio will be joined with special guests Noah Frank, trumpet, and Stephanie…
Thursday, January 30th – 7pm
Italian poet Elena Pinnen
On a Breaking Wave
a reading
Elena Pinnen’s book-length poem, On a Breaking Wave and Other Natural Catastrophes (The Los Angeles Press, 2024) speaks of waves and surfing, and engages the truths of colonialism in the Pacific. Composed in three days, all in one breath as if it were a short story or a long phone conversation, On a Breaking Wave expresses…