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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]
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…
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!
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…
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
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
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…
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…
Today!
Sunday, September 8th – 4:30-6:30pm
Achyutan Quartet
which way west?
Sunday concert series
Marvin Leon Achyutan Pattillo grew up in Kansas City but now lives in Oakland. He’s played with “a lot of beautiful people,†he says, including John Coltrane. Achyutan joined Local 627 of the AFM, the Kansas City black musicians union, when he was 13, after getting a gig at the famous Orchid Room at 12th…
Today!
Sunday, September 8th – 2:00-3:30pm
Aural Monsoon:
Will Alexander
Mark Pino
Andrew Joron
piano, drums, theremin, words
Aural Monsoon is a trio ensemble seeded by inaugural conjunction of first notes. To paraphrase Cecil Taylor find a note you like and conjunct it with another that then ignites spontaneous aural intelligence. Subconscious harmony then transpires amongst the sound magicians at hand, which results in the immediate aural field igniting by means of the…
tonight!
Saturday, September 7th – 7:30-10pm
Five Spot
jazz club! when lights are low…
every Saturday night
$20 cover charge; sliding scale available. Charlie McCarthy, tenor sax and flute Michael Greensill, piano John Clark, bass Jack Dorsey, drums Consummate musicians and good friends playing jazz standards with decades of experience.