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, January 3rd – 5:30-8pm
Myron Cohen Quartet
Jazz in the Bookshop
every Friday after workÂ
$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Keith Saunders, piano Ollie Dudek, bass Myron Cohen, drums horn player tbd
Saturday, January 9 – 7:30 pm
Eric & the In Crowd
live streamed jazz from the bookshop
Pleasing San Francisco’s swells and its good hearted hoi polloi since time immemorial. Jazz and some of your more eccentric tunes. Top notch entertainment to take your cares away! Tune in at 7:30 pm on Facebook    or   YouTube $20 suggested donation / pay what you can at this link. $2 if that’s what…
Joy to the World! Welcome to 2020!
As the solstice leads to the new year, may we all find the kindness to love those we meet along the way. Photos by Michael Hacker, Los Angeles, December 13, 2013
Monday, December 30th – 7pm
Writer Jonathan Tel: Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao
Turtle Point Press, an independent publisher that has wedded literary excellence to superior design for thirty years, is very excited to bring out a new work of fiction by (former) San Francisco author Jonathan Tel, Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao. Join us for this pre-publication reading and celebration! Read a quick rumination by the…
Tuesday, December 31st – 7:30pm
New Year’s Eve
with Locomotive Sunflower!
Come out and have some fun with us and a mighty little trio! Locomotive Sunflower Darren Johnston, trumpet Wil Blades, organ Jon Arkin, drums 7:30-10pm $30 cover charge
A beautiful ride at Bird & Beckett between Xmas & NYE!
Seven events in the six consecutive days leading into 2020… Thursday, the 26th, saxophonist Dan Blake from Brooklyn with his East Coast collaborators Jarrett Cherner on piano (a transplanted San Franciscan) and the Israeli bassist Haggai Cohen-Milo, plus local hero Hamir Atwal on drums. Esperanza Spalding has praised Blake for “un-packaging the avant-garde gracefully and…
Sunday, December 29th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Duncan James Trio
which way west?
Sunday concert series
$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Duncan James, guitar, and Jon Erikson, vibes, co-lead a trio featuring bassist John Wiitala through two sets of swinging, joyful jazz music to warm the cockles of your holiday heart.
Saturday, December 28th – 7:30-10pm
Grant Levin Quintet
jazz club! when lights are low…
every Saturday night
$20 cover charge; sliding scale available. jazz, as it’s played in San Francisco at the end of the decade! Grant Levin, piano; Danny Brown, tenor sax; Aaron Cohn, bass; Pepe Jacobo, percussion; Mark Lee, drums. Five players among the very best in the business.
Saturday, December 28th – 4:30pm
Elina Ansary’s Ghost Tour:
Glen Park
Ghost Tour: San Francisco memorializes collective memories of the City’s neighborhoods as an antidote to its rapid gentrification. It aims to rally a community around remembrance and in this way keep “the old San Francisco†alive. Elina Ansary has created two sections so far: one for Dolores Park and one for Bernal Hill. Each section…
Friday, December 27th – 5:30-8pm
230 Jones Street,
Local 6 Literary Jazz Band
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since 2002
$20 suggested donation; contribute what you can. 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 — comprising five consummate jazz musicians whose individual histories on the local jazz scene date back to…