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!

Thursday, May 30 – 8:00 pm
Annette Aguilar Quartet

Celebrate the music, celebrate the Warriors! Music from 8pm to 10:45pm.  $15 cover; sliding scale available. Annette A. Aguilar is widely known for her Latin and Brazilian jazz band Annette A. Aguilar & StringBeans, which has toured extensively in the United States and Africa, and also as a former percussionist with The Grateful Dead. She…

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Tuesday, May 28th – 8:00-10:00 pm
Craig & MacGregor
with vocalist Crystal Miller

Coming to the Bay Area for just a few days from her native Nashville, Crystal Miller will be joining The Craig & MacGregor Band in an exceptional performance not to be missed. She will move you with the music that moves her! $10 cover charge.  

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Monday, May 27th – 7:00-9:00 pm
Been out all day…
A remembrance of the poet and humanitarian Maurice Woods

Friends gather to remember a wonderful member of the Bird & Beckett family, whose lively and generous intellect engaged readily and eagerly with the questions of poetry, philosophy & humanism that form the basis of true community.  Maurice Woods was a doctor, a soldier and a poet, serving in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Haiti and other…

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Sunday, May 26th – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Evangenitals

A Memorial Day Weekend tradition at Bird & Beckett! The Evangenitals, led by the ferociously funny and intelligent multiple threat Juli Crockett, take no prisoners, but, man, are you going to love the battlefield skirmishes! They’re up from Los Angeles for El Rio’s Shit-Kicking Memorial Day extravaganza, and as usual make a pit stop at…

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Sunday, May 26th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Frank Tusa Trio
which way west?
Sunday concert series

Frank Tusa Trio John Klopotowski, guitar Frank Tusa, bass Akira Tana,drums w/guest Rich Crandall, piano $15 suggested donation. Frank Tusa, bassist, composer, educator, has had a wide variety of recording and performing experiences with such diverse artists as Art Blakey, Buddy Montgomery, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Bobby Hutcherson, Johnny Griffin, Art Farmer, Randy Brecker, Freddie…

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Sunday, May 26th – 2:30-4:00 pm
Walker Talks! on William Blake

Walker Brents III has been an important aspect of the Bird & Beckett enterprise since he emerged from the stacks of the old store down on Diamond Street (this would have been in at the tail end of the 20th century, just as the new millennium was dawning.) We believe he must have materialized from…

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Saturday, May 25th – 7:30–10:00 pm
Glen Pearson Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low…
every Saturday night 

One of the very great jazz pianists on the Bay Area scene, Glen Pearson leads a fine quartet with saxophonist Robert Stewart, bassist Heshima Mark Williams and drummer Ruthie Price. $20 cover charge / sliding scale available. Pianist Glen Pearson currently tours in Count Basie’s chair with the Count Basie Orchestra. He also heads the…

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Friday, May 24th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The 230 Jones Street
Local 6 Literary Jazz Band
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since 2002

Five great musicians in one lovely band… Ray Loeckle, tenor sax Jerry Logas, bari sax, clarinet, flute and vocal Glen Deardorff, guitar Dean Reilly, bass Tony Johnson, drums In direct line of succession from Bird & Beckett’s earliest foray into weekly jazz parties! It all started in late 2002 when neighborhood jazz veteran Chuck Peterson…

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Wednesday, May 22nd – 7-9 pm
City Jazz – CCSF Jazz Club Party!

          Come out for some fun with the City Jazz Ensemble, performing original compositions as well as beloved classics in celebration of a successful spring semester at CCSF! The band includes: Vocalists, Adina Pernell and Helen Palma Violins, David Wallace and Madeline Baker Trumpet, Freddy Lee Alto sax, Ferdinand Hartanto Tenor…

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Wasn’t that some fun!?

20 years down, now embarking on the next 20! Plenty more ahead, of course, through the end of the  month, including: — City  Jazz – CCSF Jazz Club’s big combo – coming in on Wednesday the 22nd to celebrate the end of the term with a blowout jam & party, 7pm — The 230 Jones…

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