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!
Monday, September 9th – 6-9 pm
RJAM JAM SESSION!
(Monthly every 2nd Monday)
Students from the SFCM Roots, Jazz & American Music Program
3rd year! Students in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s “Roots, Jazz & American Music” Bachelor’s degree in music program host their peers from Bay Area colleges and high schools on the second Monday of each month. Hear the fantastic talent of young musicians drawn from all over the country, and indeed, the world, as…
Today!
Sunday, September 8th – 4:30-6:30pm
Achyutan Quartet
which way west?
Sunday concert series
Marvin Leon Achyutan Pattillo grew up in Kansas City but now lives in Oakland. He’s played with “a lot of beautiful people,†he says, including John Coltrane. Achyutan joined Local 627 of the AFM, the Kansas City black musicians union, when he was 13, after getting a gig at the famous Orchid Room at 12th…
Today!
Sunday, September 8th – 2:00-3:30pm
Aural Monsoon:
Will Alexander
Mark Pino
Andrew Joron
piano, drums, theremin, words
Aural Monsoon is a trio ensemble seeded by inaugural conjunction of first notes. To paraphrase Cecil Taylor find a note you like and conjunct it with another that then ignites spontaneous aural intelligence. Subconscious harmony then transpires amongst the sound magicians at hand, which results in the immediate aural field igniting by means of the…
tonight!
Saturday, September 7th – 7:30-10pm
Five Spot
jazz club! when lights are low…
every Saturday night
$20 cover charge; sliding scale available. Charlie McCarthy, tenor sax and flute Michael Greensill, piano John Clark, bass Jack Dorsey, drums Consummate musicians and good friends playing jazz standards with decades of experience.
Saturday, September 7th – 5pm
LITANY (FOR KATHY ACKER)
A piece by Diane di Prima
performed by Q.R. Hand,
Nina Serrano, Tom Stanton
$20 suggested donation; contribute only what you can Q.R. Hand     Nina Serrano     Thomas Stanton Three distinguished poets perform short solo sets and together perform an unpublished piece by Diane di Prima LITANY  (FOR KATHY ACKER) Di Prima, a native New Yorker born in August 1934,…
Friday, September 6th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Oop Bop Sh’Bam, featuring Denise Perrier!
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002
$20-25 suggested donation; contribute only what you can. Tonight, the great San Francisco singer Denise Perrier joins the band! Oop Bop Sh’Bam plays jazz from the traditions of New Orleans, Chicago, New York and San Francisco each 1st Friday in September, October & November, and March, April & May. Mark your calendar! Al Molina, trumpet…
Thursday, September 5th – 7:30-9pm
Lorca Hart Quartet
$20 cover/sliding scale available. Lyle Link, saxophone Brian Ho, organ Mike Scott, guitar Lorca Hart, drums Lorca Hart grew up in Taos, New Mexico in a musical family. He was exposed to a variety of instruments and musical styles as a child but early on it became clear that the drumset was his passion. In…
tonight!
Wednesday, September 4th – 7:30-9pm
PRACTITIONER
Ben Goldberg and Michael Coleman
explore the music of Steve Lacy
$20 cover charge/sliding scale available. Practitioner, the duo of Ben Goldberg and Michael Coleman, explores the music of Steve Lacy. Their first cd came complete with a set of jazzball cards! What’s not to like? This time out, they drill one right through the gap into the outfield that is Lacy’s Book of H! Says…
POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, September 2nd – 7-9 pm
Jeanne Powell + Jeff Kaliss
open mic follows
No charge; but if you can spare a few bucks to help us reward the featured poets, that would be great. Jeanne Powell’s latest collection, TWO SEASONS: STORY-POEMS, has just been brought out by Taurean Horn Books. Along the way, her poems have appeared in several print and online journals, including Essence Magazine, Haight Ashbury…
Sunday, September 1st – 4:30-6:30pm
Social Stutter
which way west? Sunday concert series
$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated. Join us in the velvet lounge… for Social Stutter Beth Schenck – alto sax, compositions Kasey Knudsen – alto sax Phillip Greenlief – tenor sax Cory Wright – tenor and baritone saxes Social Stutter, comprised of some of the Bay Area’s most unique voices — Beth Schenck, Kasey Knudsen,…