653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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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, 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…
Monday, August 6th – 7-9 pm
Soulville! Poets Jennifer Foerster & Andrea Wolper
followed by an open mic
POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday Â
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…
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 seriesÂ
$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
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…
Friday, August 3rd – 9-11 pm – The Late Show!
Scott Foster Organ Trio featuring Lorenzo FarrellÂ
$15 cover charge. $5 for students/musicians/fixed income. Scott Foster, guitar. Lorenzo Farrell, organ. Bob Scott, drums. Three great musicians navigating the classic organ trio sounds of Jimmy Smith, Larry Young and other masters of the 1950s and ’60s.
Saturday, August 18th – 7:30 pm
The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents…
The Lost Trio with special guest Beth Schenck
jazz club! when lights are low…Â
$20 cover charge; $10 for students/musicians/low income. The Lost Trio — Phillip Greenlief, saxophone; Dan Seamans, bass; Tom Hassett, drums — has a continuous 25-year history of close collaboration in creative music, “redefining the jazz standard” by way of excursions through tunes by Hank Williams and Herbie Nichols, Billy Strayhorn and Nino Rota, Irving Berlin and…
Friday, August 3rd – 5:30-8:00 pm
The John Calloway Quartet with vocalist Angie Doctor
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002
$10-20 suggested donation. $5 suggested for students/musicians/fixed income. John Calloway returns to Bird & Beckett with his quartet (David Flores – drums and percussion;Â Alex Farrell – acoustic bass;Â Jordan Samuels – guitar), featuring vocalist Angie Doctor. From Flute Bay Area (www.flutebayarea.com): “Virtuoso jazz flutist John Calloway has earned stature among the elites of Latin jazz and…
Friday, August 17th – 9-11 pm – The Late Show!
CD release celebration with
Vocalist Lori Carsillo & the Jeffrey Burr TrioÂ
Join us for a celebration of Lori’s new cd, “A Dream or Two” Lori Carsillo, vocals Jeffrey Burr, guitar Eric Markowitz, bass Vince Lateano, drums “A Dream or Two” features six stunning jazz gems and an original song co-written with the guitarist and arranger on the session, Jeffrey Burr. Eric Markowitz, the bassist on…
Sunday, July 29th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Drew Cranfill
which way west? Sunday concert series
$10-20 suggested donation. $5 suggested for students/musicians/fixed income. Drew Cranfill, violin, with pianist Manu Petaiua, will perform Bach Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor Mozart Violin Sonata in B-flat MajorBeethoven Violin Sonata No. 8 Opus 30Phillip Glass Violin Sonata Drew Cranfill, a native of North Carolina, was educated by the Alexander String Quartet at…