653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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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!
Saturday, March 2nd – 7:30-10:00 pm
Rob Barics Quartet revisits New Orleans in its heyday!
jazz club! when lights are low…
A stellar band considers the classic music of New Orleans Rob Barics, clarinet and tenor saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Marcus Shelby, bass Howard Wiley, drums
Friday, March 1st – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Return of Oop Bop Sh’Bam!
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002
Oop Bop Sh’Bam embarks on another three-month “first Fridays” run starting March 1st! A fabulous band of jazz veterans! Al Molina, trumpet and flugelhorn Jerry Logas, clarinet, tenor sax, baritone sax, flute & vocals Larry Chinn, piano Dean Reilly, bass Vince Lateano, drums
Tuesday, February 26th – 7-9pm
CCSF Forum Literary Magazine
a reading & party
Celebrate City College of San Francisco’s Forum literary magazine this Tuesday at a reading/party with the editor, staff and contributors! Thinking of submitting a piece of writing or art? Now’s the time! The deadline is Wednesday, the day after this party in the bookshop. So get your work done early in the week, ’cause you’ll…
Sunday, February 24th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Larry Dunlap Quartet
featuring saxophonist Charlie McCarthy
which way west? weekly Sunday concert series
Charlie McCarthy, sax;Â Larry Dunlap, piano;Â Ruth Davies, bass;Â Jim Zimmerman, drums. One of the great pleasures of jazz is to spend a few hours in the company of the pianist Larry Dunlap. Larry played early on in Portland with jazz greats Leroy Vinnegar and Ralph Towner, and has been based in San Francisco since the 1970s. In…
Sunday, February 24th – 2:30-4:00 pm
Walker Talks! on Rilke at Muzot
Escaping the chaos and emotional stagnation of the aftermath of the first world war, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke at last found the hermitage he sought in a small village in Switzerland. There, in February of 1922, he endured a visitation of such creative intensity it has become a legend unto itself. Not one but…
Friday, February 22nd – 5:30-8:00 pm
The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002
This is a Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund date. Many thanks are due to Jazz in the Neighborhood, and to you for your support of JitN and the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project. On the fourth Friday of each month, we feature the 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band, whose roots are in…
Thursday, February 21 – 7:00-9:00 pm
On Their Shoulders We Stand:
Artists Pay Homage to Their Mentors
A Benefit for the
Native American Health Center SF Youth Services Program
On Their Shoulders We StandSan Francisco poets & musicians pay homage to those who laid the groundwork for their art This benefit, organized annually by the poet, musician, scholar and activist Avotcja, will feature some of the Bay Area’s best and most crucial voices. Proceeds will go to the Youth Services program of the Native American Health…
POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, February 18th – 7-9 pm
Jeremy Vasquez & Lourdes Figueroa, followed by an open mic
Lourdes Figueroa was born in California during a trip her parents made from Mexico to the USA when they worked in the campo tilling the soil for tomatoes. Lourdes is a proud 2009 and 2011 VONA alum. Her work has been published in the SF Poet’s 11 2008 & 2010 and in Generations. She received…
Sunday, February 17th – 4:30-6:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio
which way west? Sunday concert series
Grant Levin, piano;Â Giulio Xavier, bass;Â Hamir Atwal, drums. A classic piano trio, led by the most remarkable pianist we know. And that’s saying a lot in a region boasting dozens of fantastic jazz pianists.