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!
Friday, October 19th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet plays music for the moon!
jazz in the bookshop, every Friday since October 2002!
Joe Cohen, saxophone Scott Foster, guitar Adam Gay, bass Omar Aran, drums The moon isn’t just for June anymore! Â Â Â Let Scott’s quartet fly you there tonight!
Thursday, October 18th – 6:30-8:30 pm
LITQUAKE!The Sound of Calle 24: The City is Already Speaking
Litquake comes to Glen Park, courtesy of Bird & Beckett! Calle 24 Showcase! A dozen poets associated with the reading and writing series that convenes regularly at the Mission District’s United Booksellers (Alley Cat Books and Adobe Books) read from their collective chapbook at Bird & Beckett, the Glen Park bookstore with a mission to present…
POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, October 15th – 7-9 pm
San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck + Lee Slonimsky
followed by an open mic
Kim Shuck, San Francisco Poet Laureate, reads in the company of Lee Slonimsky. An open mic follows, hosted by Jerry Ferraz.
Friday, October 19th – 9-11 pm
Dan Neville’s Música del PacÃfico Quartet
The Late Show!
Dan Neville presents Música del PacÃfico (Colombian marimba) featuring Ali Cuama & Adrian Sabogal Join us for a rare opportunity to see Colombia’s “Música del PacÃfico” performed live, featuring one of the true masters of the music, Ali Cuama. Ali comes from a lineage of master marimba players from Buenaventura, Colombia, and will be joined…
Sunday, October 14th – 7:30-10:00 pm
The Seducers
Classic, Outlaw & Honky Tonk Country Music
Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar. Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocals. Hank Maninger, bass guitar and vocals. Kenny Owen, drums. $10-20 suggested donation. $5 for students/musicians/fixed income.
Sunday, October 14th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Darren Johnston’s Last Minute Quartet
which way west? Sunday concert series
$10-20 suggested donation; $10 suggested for students / musicians / low income. San Francisco’s Canadian Jazz All-Stars! Nicest, slammin’-ist jazz band you can imagine!! Darren Johnston, trumpet Mike Zilber, saxophone John Wiitala, bass Tim Bulkley, drums Darren Johnston plays a burnished trumpet and wears many hats… that is to say, plays in a panoply of…
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…