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, August 12th – 7:30-10:00 pm
The Seducers!

$10-20 suggested donation; $5 for students / musicians / low income. Joe Goldmark , pedal steel guitar; Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocals; Hank Maninger, bass guitar and vocals; Kenny Owen, drums. The Seducers have had a monthly gig at Bird & Beckett for nearly three years, playing classic, outlaw and honky tonk songs by…

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Sunday, August 12th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Maurice Tani / Mike Anderson Country Noir
which way west? Sunday concert series

$10 suggested donation $5 suggested for students/musicians/low income Supercalifornographic singer-songslinger Maurice Tani pulls all the angst of life right to the surface of his songs. His redemption songs and his wry commentary on life in the sidestreets and cheap rooms of the American dream are never really overstated. Bassist Mike Anderson, with his years of experience…

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Saturday, August 11th – 7:30-10:00 pm
B3B4 Organ Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low…

$20 cover charge; $10 for students / musicians / low income.   B3B4 is a long-awaited musical conversation between Bay Area jazz veterans Tom Griesser (tenor sax), Scott Foster (guitar), Kevin Gerzevits (organ) and Dan Foltz (drums). The band combines the soulful growl of the Hammond B3 organ, the resonant bite of the tenor saxophone,…

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Friday, August 10th – 9-11 pm – The Late Show!
Erik Jekabson Quintet

$20 cover charge. $10 for students/musicians/fixed income. Erik Jekabson, trumpet. Matt Renzi, reeds. Dave Mac Nab, guitar. Peter Barshay, bass. Hamir Atwal, drums. Towering talents of San Francisco jazz!

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Friday, August 10th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Grant Levin Quartet featuring Jules Broussard
plus guest vocalist Derek Evans!
jazz in the bookshop every Friday after work

$10-20 suggested donation. $5 suggested for students/musicians/fixed income. Jules Broussard, saxophone Grant Levin, piano Chris Amberger, bass Louis Sweatt, drums Derek Evans, vocals Jules Broussard. born in Louisiana, was organizing bands and playing lead saxophone for audiences in and around his hometown by the age of 12. After a stint in the US Air Force…

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Thursday, August 9th – 7:30-9:30 pm
NYC on tour!
Peter Zak-Essiet Okon Essiet-Sylvia Cuenca Trio

                                            $15 cover; $5 for students, musicians, limited income.

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Friday, August 17th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet, featuring novelist Terry Tarnoff,
spotlighting the jazz of 1947!
jazz in the bookshop, every Friday since October 2002!

$10-20 suggested donation; $5 for students/musicians/low income. 1947: When bebop was hitting its peak and American jazz was newly energized! Bird, Diz, Monk, Bud, Max, Kenny… Guitarist Scott Foster leads a superb quartet through the paces, tracing 1947 as it unfurled before a few galvanized souls in a nation narcoticized by a consumerist fog that blanketed…

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Monday, August 6th – 7-9 pm
Soulville! Poets Jennifer Foerster & Andrea Wolper
followed by an open mic
POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
  

No charge. Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of Leaving Tulsa, (2013) and Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), both published by the University of Arizona Press. She earned her PhD in English and Literary Arts from the University of Denver and her MFA from the Vermont College of the Fine Arts. She is the recipient of…

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Sunday, August 5th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Todd Swenson & This Side Up, featuring Derek Evans
Welcome to funky soulville!
which way west? Sunday concert series
 

$10-20 suggested donation. $5 for students/musicians/fixed income. Derek Evans on vocals. Todd Swenson on guitar. Marc Levine on bass. Ken Owen on drums. Soulville

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Saturday, August 4th – 7:30 pm
The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents…
Noel Jewkes & the Seahorse Swingers
akaThe Salt & Peppa Gals!
jazz club! when lights are low…

$20 cover charge. $10 for students/musicians/fixed income. The steaming Mediterranean meets cool California, wrapped in the elegant saxophone of Noel Jewkes. Vocalists Kay Kostopoulos, Dima, Wanda Stafford and Valeriana Quevedo, fondly dubbed the “Salt ‘n Peppa Gals” and well known to audiences at Noel’s weekly showcase at Sausalito’s Seahorse Restaurant, take their turns at the mic…

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