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!

Refresh your browser to catch a show in progress!
Visit our Facebook page or YouTube channel!
But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!

Monday, April 8th – 7:00-9:30 pm
RJAM JAM SESSION! (Monthly every 2nd Monday)
Students from the SFCM Roots, Jazz & American Music Program hosts young Bay Area talent

2nd year! Students in the SF Conservatory of Music’s “Roots, Jazz & American Music” BMUS degree program host their peers from Bay Area colleges and high schools. No cover charge. Donations to support the bookshop that supports the students are very much appreciated.

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Sunday, April 7th – 4:30-6:30 pm
The Brittany Biala Trio
which way west? Sunday concert series 

Brittany Biala, saxophone, leads a trio featuring Helen Orzel, keyboard, and Jonny Kaminek, bass. With 14 years of experience, Brittany graduated with a BM in Jazz Studies on tenor saxophone in 2017. Her sound has been uniquely shaped by her father’s vast collection of vintage American horns and early exposure to funk, as well as…

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Sunday, April 7th – 2:00–3:30 pm
Neeli Cherkovski: Random Poetics

What is poetry? What is the poet’s role? Is there a future for this ancient art? Does poetry constitute an ideology? Poet Neeli Cherkovski will talk on these and other issues in a provocative evening in Glen Park.

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Saturday, April 6th – 7:30–10:00 pm
Erik Jekabson Quintet
jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night

The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Erik Jekabson, trumpet Kasey Knudsen, saxophone Keith Saunders, piano John Wiitala, bass David Flores, drums

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Friday, April 5th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Oop Bop Sh’Bam!
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since October 2002

Al Molina, trumpet; Jerry Logas, reeds, flute & vocal; Larry Chinn, piano; Dean Reilly, bass; Vince Lateano, drums. Bop & swing from five solid senders. The long-running Friday after work jazz party at Bird & Beckett has never paused since it started 17 years ago! Contribute what you can to help us pay the musicians!

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Thursday, April 4th – 7:00 pm
Poets Marina Lazzara, Ava Koohbor & Patrick James Dunagan 

Three Heads Gone is a collaboration among three poets long associated in the San Francisco swirl of words & music & art. A serial poem, they call it… a Two Way Mirror Book hot off the press. Ava Koohbor is a native Farsi speaker poet and visual artist who now lives in San Francisco. During…

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Tuesday, April 2nd – 7:30-9:30 pm
Aloha Uke Squad
Playalong Benefit for Bird & Beckett!

Ukulele Jam Fundraiser for Bird & Beckett Books and Records Bring your uke and come on out to strum, jam, and just enjoy ukulele music! All levels are welcome. Play at your own level and sing along. Or just come and listen to everyone else! Aloha Uke Squad is accepting song requests, from the community,…

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POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, April 1st – 7-9 pm
Michael Koch + Robert Anbian
followed by an open mic
 

A Night Horn Press celebration… On April 1st, poet and Night Horn Press publisher Robert Anbian joins poet Michael Koch to recite verse and celebrate Night Horn’s most recent release, Koch’s poetry collection Street Theology.  The featured readers will be followed by the usual Monday open mic.    

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Sunday, March 31st – 4:30-6:30 pm
Wendy DeWitt, the Queen of Boogie Woogie
which way west? Sunday concert series

with Kirk Harwood, drums Takezo Takeda, guitar

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Sunday, March 31st – 2:30-4:00 pm
Walker Talks!
Walker Brents III on the Mythological Tao

The Mythological Tao: A Convocation of Image and Meaning. A consideration of primordial writings, and their ways of interpreting present-day consciousness. I see it as an element of a trilogy, incorporating Chinese, Vedic, and Sufic flavorings.  

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