653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six
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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!
Friday, September 28th – 9:00-11:00 pm
The Late Show!
Muse and Music Series: Jill Tracy in Concert
featuring Randy Odell on Drums and
Special Guest Alex Nahas on Chapman Stick
$20 cover charge; $10 for students / musician / low income. Muse and Music Series: Jill Tracy in concert! Hailed by LA Weekly as ‘“the cult darling of the Underworld,†Jill Tracy’s seductive, shadowy compositions have become synonymous with the beautiful dark— featured on Showtime’s DEXTER, CBS-TV Navy NCIS; and movies like Dr Jekyll and…
Friday, September 28th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002
Pay what you can! $10-20 suggested; $5-10 for students / musicians / low income. Jazz every Friday after work since late 2002… never a missed Friday in all those years. Figure 52 weeks x 16 years, and a few more… 850 shows, give or take… and still going strong. And that’s just the Fridays! The…
Thursday, September 27th – 7:30-9:00 pm
Live Radio Theatre on Stage! Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight!Â
No cover charge; donations greatly appreciated! “Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight” takes you back to a time before flickering tv screens took over the living rooms of homes across the land, when we were held night after night in the thrall of mysterious and often terrifying stories tuned in from invisible radio waves, with just the…
Monday, September 24th – 7:30 pm
Trumpeter Aya Takazawa + Calligrapher Setsuhi Shiraishi
$20 cover charge. $10 for students / musicians / low income. Aya Takazawa is a rising star on jazz trumpet in her home country of Japan and is making her mark internationally. She’ll be coming into Bird & Beckett straight from the Monterey Jazz Festival, where she debuts with her own quintet on Sunday. Aya…
Sunday, September 23rd – 4:30-6:30 pm
Prairie Rose Band
which way west? Sunday concert series
$10 suggested donation. $5 suggested for students / musicians / low income. Pauline Scholten, vocals and guitar Gene Tortora, vocals and dobro George Martin, banjo Mark Hedin, bass The Prairie Rose Band plays old-time and country music from Stephen Foster to songs you learned at camp, classic country, western swing and favorites by Jimmie Rogers,…
Saturday, September 22nd – 7:30-10:00 pm
The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents…
The Rebecca Kilgore Trio
jazz club! when lights are low… Â
$20 cover charge; $10 for students / musicians / low income. Vocalist Rebecca Kilgore on tour from Portland, with Grammy-nominated pianist Randy Porter and bassist Tom Wakeling. With more than two dozen albums under her own name and dozens more in other combinations, Rebecca Kilgore is regarded as one of the foremost American interpreters of…
Friday, September 21st – 9-11 pm
The Jazz Piano Trio of Walter Earl!
$15 cover charge; $10 for students, musicians, low income. Come out to hear one of San Francisco’s most amazing jazz pianists, the very great Walter Earl! With bassist Arlington Houston and JPaul the Drummer. [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyqMdLmkvGM” /]
Friday, September 21st – 5:30-8:00 pm
Scott Foster hosts Chris Gamper’s
SF Bay Area Jazz Documentation Project
jazz in the bookshop, every Friday since October 2002!
$10 suggested donation–what a bargain!
Guitarist Scott Foster, a cornerstone of the Bird & Beckett jazz edifice since the beginning, brings in drummer Chris Gamper, whose Bay Area Jazz Documentation Project has been catching great musicians in the act of creating fantastic music from whole cloth for several years now! Tonight, with Dann Zinn on saxophone and Adam Lowdermilk on…
Thursday, September 20th – 7:30 pm
Terry Tarnoff tells of the Spear of Longinus
Author Terry Tarnoff discusses his novel The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker with special focus on the story of the Spear of Longinus. Nothing makes much sense in Tobias Parker’s life. He walks an ever-tightening circle through San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, where foxes fall out of trees, parachutes drop from the skies and mysterious boxes appear…
 Tuesday, September 18th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Roni Ben Hur – Harvie S – Sylvia Cuenca
$15 cover charge; $5 for students/musicians/low income. This stellar trio is playing several dates around the Bay Area in early September, celebrating the release of the acclaimed cd, “Introspection” (Jazzheads) With Introspection, guitarist Roni Ben-Hur and bassist Harvie S present a captivating album of classic material presented in rare versions for guitar trio. The album…