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653 Chenery Street in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood

Open to walk-in trade and browsing Tuesday to Sunday noon to six

phone: 1-415-586-3733     email: [email protected]

Saturday, September 21st – 7:30-10pm
Russian Telegraph
jazz club!
when lights are low…
every Saturday night

$20 cover charge. The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents…   Russian Telegraph Beth Custer – clarinet, voice David James – guitar, voice Diana Mangano- voice Chris Grady – trumpet Jordan Glasgow – keyboards Keith McArthur – bass John Hanes – drums The brainchild of Beth Custer (Trance Mission, Club Foot Orchestra) and David James (Afrofunk Experience,…

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Friday, September 20th – 5:30-8pm
Monk’s Works: Scott Foster invites the Lost Trio
to play jazz in the bookshop!

It’s the Lost Trio plus One! The One is venerated leader, guitarist Scott Foster. And the Trio, lost and once again found? None other than Philip Greenlief on reeds, Dan Seamans on bass and Tom Hassett on drums. Together, they reprise a July 2015 encounter on the bookshop stage that was nothin’ but thrilling! and…

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We heard it on the party line: lots to hear
from Scott to eternity…
local culture from Bernal Hill
to Buena Vista Heights

While we finalize another fistful of posts on upcoming events, here’s a little round up of the next two weekends. You can always click on the “Events Calendar” link in the navigation bar above to see what’s on tap going forward. Full posts on the next eight or ten events coming soon where you can…

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POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, September 16th – 7-9 pm
Lenore Weiss & Sharon Doubiago:
featured readers followed by an open mic

Lenore Weiss reads poems from Barcelona and Prague, and flash fiction from her chapbook, “Holding on to Fringes of Love.” Sharon Doubiago reads from her recent works, Naked to the Earth and The Visit. Lenore Weiss’ poetry collections are a trilogy about love, loss, and being mortal: Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island…

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Sunday, September 15th – 4:30-6:30pm
This Side Up
which way west? Sunday concert series

Todd Swenson, guitar Derek Evans, vocals Ian Ratzer, pianoPaul Olguin, bass Justin Berthiaume, drums The best time you could imagine on this Sunday afternoon! ’tis true!

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Sunday, September 15th – 2pm
Chuck Poling: Growing Up Bernal

Chuck Poling, country & bluegrass raconteur incomparable, delivers a personal history of a Precita Park childhood in the 1960s and ‘70s through spoken word and song, with an able assist from his wife, Jeanie. In a journey that took him from Catholic school and kickball to rock stars and revolution, Chuck was just a kid…

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Saturday, September 14th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Grant Levin Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low…

Noel Jewkes, reeds Grant Levin, piano Charles Thomas, bass Rick Rivera, drums

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Friday, September 13th – 5:30-8:00 pm
We Be Three
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002

The classic sound of the Hammond B3 organ trio… Wayne de la Cruz, organ Ray Scott, guitar Jim Chanteloup, drums

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tonight!
Thursday, September 12th – 7-9pm
Dan Barrett Trio
featuring vocalist Jessica King

$20 cover charge; sliding scale available. Dan Barrett, trombone Jeff Hamilton, piano Clint Baker, bass Jessica King, vocals In Jeff Hamilton and Clint Baker, we’ve got two of the key trad jazz instrumentalists on the West Coast. Jeff is widely known as an impeccably swinging drummer, and we love him madly as a pianist. Clint…

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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…

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