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!

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

Sunday, April 28th – 5-9pm
Jam session with the Vince Lateano Trio
and jazzy SFCM RJAM end-of-semester party!

Join the precociously talented undergrads from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s B.Mus. “Roots, Jazz & American Music’ program to help celebrate the end of another semester. Some will be back next year, some will head for the bright lights of another big city…  it’s the now that counts! Bring a donation to help us…

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Saturday, April 27th – 7:30-9:30pm
Phillip Greenlief – Scott Amendola Duo

30 years of spontaneous collaboration! No reason to stop now! $20 at the door. Doors open at 7:15pm. Showtime 7:30. BYOB. Scott Amendola and Phillip Greenlief celebrate 30 years of collaboration with the release of STAY WITH IT on clean feed records. The two musicians began playing together when Greenlief moved back to the SF…

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Saturday, April 27th – 4pm
Book Launch Party!
Glen Park Writer Jason K. Friedman
presents Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and the Civil War from University of South Carolina Press

Jason Friedman has lived up the way for quite a few years, but hails from Savannah, Georgia, and when he and his partner Jeffrey bought a flat in a building on Liberty Street in Savannah a few years ago, Jason began to dive into the archives to see what he could learn about the family…

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Friday, April 26th – 8:30-10pm
The Mike Gamble Trio with Lisa Mezzacappa

It’s always a good idea to

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Friday, April 26th – 6-8pm
The 230 Jones Street Band
remembers Si Perkoff (1937-2024)

With its roots in the Friday-after-work jazz party started by veteran tenor player Chuck Peterson as a trio back in 2002, the 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band is the legacy band at Bird & Beckett. It’s been led in recent years by drummer Tony Johnson, with pianist Si Perkoff joining up a…

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Thursday, April 25th – 7:30pm
Sundered Sound
A Multi-Genre SFSU Creative Arts Revue

Sundered Sound is a multi-genre event showcasing SFSU students of the arts, aiming to force music and words into collision to create fresh experiences. It’s a series dedicated to the wide range of emotions that sounds can strike. The evening will include segments by writer August Edwards; a duo comprising poet Elodie Townsend and electronic…

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This weekend at Bird & Beckett, April 25 to 28…

Students frame the pros this weekend, with a cavalcade of SFSU creative arts students converging for a poetry and music revue Thursday evening and a gaggle of jazz students from SFCM celebrating the impending end of the semester Sunday evening. In between, on Friday and Saturday, we present three significant jazz concerts and a book…

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Sunday, April 21st – 5-7pm
Vince Lateano Trio

Ben Stolorow, piano Peter Barshay, bass Vince Lateano, drums $20 suggested; pay what you can. b.y.o.b. Bebop to bossa. A delightful trio with a long-running third-Sunday-of-the-month residency at Bird & Beckett.

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Saturday, April 20th – 7:30-9:30pm
Marco Diaz Latin Quartet

Saturday’s jazz club date, 7:30-9:30 pm, features a superb quartet on the Latin side under the leadership of Marco Diaz, piano, with bassist Steve Senft-Herrera and percussionists Julio Perez and Ahkeel Mestayer. Top players doing what they do so well. Bassist Saúl Sierra was set to lead this group, but air travel delays have him…

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Friday, June 14th – 8:30-10pm
The Lost Trio, a farewell date

In 1994, thirty years ago, The Lost Trio stepped into existence with a steady gig on Thursday nights at the Rose Pistola in San Francisco’s North Beach district. A four-year stint on Sundays at Cato’s Ale House in Oakland followed. The trio has a history of touring that’s focused on the west coast, where they’ve…

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