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!
Sunday, October 14th – 2:00-4:00 pm
Haight Ashbury Literary Journal Reading!
“Poetry brings sanity to an insane world,” say the editors of the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. “We’re maybe the sort of utopia of an old Chinese poet writing poems and dropping them into the stream.” The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal is still going strong! This issue is Volume 38, Number 1! Chock full of nuts!…
Saturday, October 13th – 7:30 pm
Matt Renzi Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low…
The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project & the Jazz Philanthropists Union, with the support of Jazz in the Neighborhood’s Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund and you!, present The Matt Renzi Quartet $20 cover charge; $10 for students / musicians / low income Matt Renzi – saxophone, clarinet Leonard Thompson – piano David Ambrosio – bass…
Saturday, November 10th – 11:15am-1:00pm
Alphastare in the Audible Method Series
Ambient music while you browse the books… in the weekly series featuring and curated by Andre Custodio. This morning, an opening set by Andre followed by a solo outing by Alphastare. Audible Method concludes next Saturday, November 17th, with solo sets and a collaboration by & between Andre and LX Rudis LX Rudis solo…
Friday, October 12th – 9-11 pm – the late show!
Telepathy
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$20 cover charge; $10 for students/musicians/low income. Patrick Cress – alto, tenor and baritone saxophones Michael Bello – tenor saxophone Peter Barshay – upright bass Jeff Marrs – drums Telepathy has carried the torch for original Bay Area jazz for 16 years and counting, since 2002, recording four albums, touring nationally and internationally and fearlessly committing…
Wednesday, October 10th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Celebrate Monk’s 101st Birthday with
The Hugh Schick/Danny Brown Quartet
Monk 101: Thelonious Sphere Monk, Genius of Modern Music. Born October 10, 1917! Ten Decades That Shook the World. An October Revolution in Jazz! Well You Needn’t. Rhythm-a-ning, Crepescule with Nellie, Pannonica, Coming Down the Hudson, Brilliant Corners, Round Midnight, Straight, No Chaser. Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Minton’s Playhouse. Paul Chambers, Charlie Rouse, Ben Riley,…
Sunday, October 7th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Albatross Clarinet Quartet
which way west? Sunday concert series
preceded by:
2pm: Artist Richard Perri – “Numinosity”
11am: Jerry Ferraz, guitar
$10-20 donation requested; $5 for students / musicians / low income. Actually Strictly Clarinets! We’ve got nothing against bluegrass and its allied arts, but today we’ll stay sweetly oblivious to the throng in Golden Gate Park Sunday, listening to this conclave… We rather imagine they could kick ass on some bluegrass if they had a…
 Sunday, October 7th – 2:00-3:30 pm
Richard Perri: Numinosity
A book of paintings of gone and almost-gone south of market San Francisco icons by Richard Louis Perri, aka “Lucky” Perri Above portrait of Richard L. Perri by fellow artist Bob Gerbracht BORN - Rockville Centre, New York 1944 EDUCATION - College of Santa Fe 1963-4 Arizona State University 1967 BA San Francisco Art Institute 1977-78 VOCATION – Fine Arts Painter…
Saturday, October 6th – 7:30–10:00 pm
Kat Parra Latin World Ensemble
$20 cover charge (students, etc. $10)
jazz club! when lights are low…
The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Kat Parra, vocal; Mas Koga, saxophone; Murray Low, piano; Aaron Germain, bass In addition to singing fluently in English, Spanish and Portuguese, Kat Parra sings also in the dying language of Ladino, or Judeo-Espanyol, which enables her to interpret Sephardic music (Music of the Spanish Jews) faithfully. “This is the language…
Friday, October 5th – 8:30-10:30 pm – The Late Show!
Vocalist Kim Nalley with Tammy Lynne Hall, pianoÂ
[arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcPDCBwQO5Y” /] $20 cover charge. $10 for students / musicians / low income. “GOD, CAN THIS WOMAN SING! It’s as if a vocalist from the great post-war blues and jazz combos had been transported to the end of the century.” Blues Access Magazine “Kim Nalley has pipes to burn and works the stage like she…
Friday, October 5th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Oop Bop Sh’Bam!
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since October 2002
$10-20 suggested donation; students $5
pay only what you can, but help us pay the band!
Al Molina, trumpet; Jerry Logas, reeds, flute & vocal; Jeff Burr, guitar; Dean Reilly, bass; Vince Lateano, drums. Swing to bop. They do it in three-month runs at B&B… September-October-November and March-April-May… Don’t miss out! Consummate musicians doing what they do so well! The heat will be on!