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!
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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!

Sunday, January 27th – 4:30-6:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio, featuring
Chris Amberger and Jeff Minnieweather
$10-15 suggested donation; students $5

Grant Levin, piano; Chris Amberger, bass; Jeff Minnieweather, drums. Like a fine Teddy Wilson trio record, this afternoon will delight you. Guaranteed!

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Sunday, January 27th – 2:30-4:00 pm
Walker Talks!
The 12th century Persian poet, Attar

Attar, “the perfumer,” allegorist of the heart in its many voices and guises as it wanders its way toward the deep truth. The inspirational abundance of this timeless poet transvalues all notions of genre, imparting strength and grace to contemporary free verse as well as encompassing the spiritual quest-theme with a thousand intuitive patterns! Walker…

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Saturday, January 26th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Ritmojito
jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night

$20 cover charge; $10 for students, musicians, limited income Ritmojito features vocalist Sandra Aran, with Richard Nelson Hall on piano, Dean Muench on bass and Dan Foltz, drums. Superbly crafted songs with deep latin jazz grooves, salsa to ska to samba. This date is subsidized by Jazz in the Neighborhood’s Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund, augmenting…

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Friday, January 25th – 5:30-8:00 pm
230 Jones Street
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since 2002
$10-20 suggested donation per solvent adult

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 — aka The Chuck Peterson Quintet — five musicians whose history on the local jazz scene dates back 60 years, to the very early 1950s….

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!
store opens at 6pm for our 7pm reading

POETS! & LAUREATES!
Monday, January 21st – 7-9 pm
Camincha Benvenutto & Jacki Rigoni
followed by an open mic

Camincha Benvenutto is Poet Laureate of Pacifica Jacki Rigoni is Poet Laureate of Belmont A reading we anticipate with great pleasure… as we do your participation in the open mic, or simply your ears & minds! Camincha Benvenutto has been writing poetry since age 13, though she found little time to write while raising her…

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Sunday, January 20th – 4:30pm
Two Car Funeral

$10-20 suggested donation; $5-10 for students, musicians, limited income Two Car Funeral is an Americana band showcasing the solo voice, acoustic guitar and harmonica of West-Virginia-born baritone Stephen Yerkey. Yerkey writes and sings of railroad workers, robber barons, short pants, love and despair, Algiers and lighthouse keeping. Two Car Funeral fuses country, jazz, folk and…

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Saturday, January 19th – 7:30–10:00 pm
Scott Amendola Trio
jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night

The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Karl Evangelista, guitar Jason Hoopes, bass Scott Amendola, drums $20 cover charge; $10 for students, musicians, low income “If Scott Amendola didn’t exist, the San Francisco music scene would have to invent him.” – Derk Richardson, San Francisco Bay Guardian Scott Amendola is a gleefully funny guy, and a brilliant…

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Friday, January 18th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Scott Foster Quintet plays bebop!
jazz in the bookshop, every Friday since October 2002
$10-20 suggested donation
 

Scott Foster leads a quintet featuring the handsome Henry Hung on trumpet, mighty Joe Cohen on tenor sax, thumpin’ Aaron Cohn, a player of filigree & facility, on bass, and slammin’ Mike Quigg on drums. This is an homage to Jimmy Ryan’s Bird & Beckett Bebop Band! Some bebop, some Monk, some jazz standards! With…

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Sunday, January 13th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Take a walk in the warm rain
It’s the Seducers Honeymoon Edition!
Classic, Outlaw & Honky Tonk Country Music

$10-20 suggested donation; $5 suggested for students / musicians / modest means The Nashville Honeymoon Edition Lynne Maes, vocalsHank Maninger, vocals & guitarJoe Goldmark, pedal steelTim Wagar, bassKenny Owen, drums From Highway 99 down through Bakersfield , to the turnpikes of Pennsylvania, to the streets of Baltimore — this country music is at home in…

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Sunday, January 13th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Social Stutter Quartet
which way west? Sunday concert series
$10-20 suggested donation

Beth Schenck – alto sax, compositions Kasey Knudsen – alto sax Phillip Greenlief – tenor sax Cory Wright – tenor and baritone saxes Social Stutter, a saxophone quartet led by composer/altoist Beth Schenck, blurs the line between strictly written chamber music and soaring free jazz. Solos emerge from the natural order of intricately written lines…

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