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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]
Sunday, September 28th – 5-7pm
jam session!
hosted by the Vince Lateano Trio
Bring your axe! Bring something to sip and bring a few bucks to help us pay the trio. Or donate to the nonprofit to really help us sustain the jam session. It’s not a high revenue situation, this jam session, but the tradition is crucial and the trio is crucial– they’re professionals, and they rely…
Saturday, September 27th – 7:30-9:30pm
Darren Johnston’s Standard Issue
Darren Johnson, peace cannon. Kai Lyons, guitar. John Wiitala, bass. Lorca Hart, drums. $20 cover charge; byob. Students, $10. for a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. An exciting prospect, this quartet! We said that before the date, and here’s our vindication: Darren Johnston has graced the stage at Bird & Beckett countless times (well,…
The Late Show!
Friday, September 26th – 8:30-10pm
Othrwrldly: The Lisa Mezzacappa 5-ish
a sextet!
Aaron Bennett, saxophone. Kyle Bruckman, synthesizer. Brett Carson, piano. Mark Clifford, vibes. Lisa Mezzacappa, bass. Jordan Glenn, drums. $25-30 cover charge; byob. Students, $10. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Bassist, bandleader and composer Lisa Mezzacappa has been assiduously and playfully exploring the concept of worldbuilding in the othrwrldly cycle, a suite of…
Friday happy hour show!
September 26th, 6-8pm
The Tony Johnson Quartet
Bob Kenmotsu, tenor saxophone. Keith Saunders, piano. Tomoko Funaki, bass. Tony Johnson, drums. $20 cover charge, byob. Students $10. Kids free. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. It’s been 65 years since Aussie Tony Johnson slipped into the country via Canada and took up residency in San Francisco. Tony immediately made his mark…
Thursday, September 25th – 7pm
Radical Historian Chris Carlsson
presents the 2nd edition of
Hidden San Francisco:
A Guide to Lost Landscapes,
Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories
Hidden San Francisco has recently been issued in a second edition, which Chris Carlsson, one of San Francisco’s preeminent radical historians, presents to a Glen Park audience at Bird & Beckett on Thursday, September 25th at 7pm. With its roots in Shaping San Francisco and FoundSF, twin projects born in the mid-1990s, the first edition…
Sunday, December 14th – 7pm to 9pm
Deep Thicket Dwellers
Live album recording session!
Live recording tonight at Bird & Beckett! BYOB and a twenty for the band! Students ten! Kids free! Read more on the Deep Thicket Dwellers on their website at this link: https://www.deepthicketband.com/
Friday, October 10th – 6pm to 8pm
The Friday Jazz Happy Hours!
Tonight: Eric & the In Crowd
On the Town, playing for the Fleet Week swells and swabbies! Eric & the In Crowd RHYTHM IS THEIR BUSINESS! Eric “Easifingers” Shifrin, piano Heath Proskin, bass Raul Ramirez, percussion $20 cover charge / $10 for students / free for kids & sailors!* Piano professor & crooner extraordinaire Eric Shifrin has been wowing the swells…
Sunday, October 5th – 7:30pm
Joshua Gerowitz Trio
Joshua Gerowitz, guitar Casey Butler, saxophone Jordan Glenn, drums $20 cover; students $10. Los Angeles-based guitarist Josh Gerowitz stops off on his way home from the Eugene Difficult Music Festival to play a couple of sets with saxophonist Casey Butler and drummer Jordan Glenn. https://www.joshuagerowitz.com/ Casey Butler, aka Stellar Rahim, studied composition at CalArts where his…
What a week it was at Bird & Beckett!
September 15-21
three literary events, four jazz events
Friday: Scott Foster Trio w/ Noel Jewkes
+ The Behrman/Levit Quintet
Saturday: Harvey Wainapel Quartet
Sunday: Vince Lateano Trio
We’re closed Mondays, and reopen for the week Tuesday at noon, selling books & doing the usual. Noon to six, Tuesday to Sunday are the regular store hours. We’re here late several days each week, presenting events. This week, on Wednesday we begin a five-day run of literary and jazz events in the evenings —…
Sunday, September 14th – 5pm
Singer/songwriter Jim Bruno
acoustic americana music
Jim Bruno, rhythm guitar and vocals. Jim Barnes, lead guitar. Andrew Sisco, bass. $20 cover charge (cash at the door, please), byob. $10 for students, kids free. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Americana artist Jim Bruno has been called a “songwriter’s songwriter”. His songs have been recorded by numerous recording artists including…