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!

Friday, January 26th – 5:30-8:00 pm
230 Jones Street Jazz Band
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002
$10 suggested donation

Talk about your San Francisco jazz… On the fourth Friday of each month, our weekly jazz in the bookshop series features The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band — once the province of the estimable Chuck Peterson — five musicians whose history on the local jazz scene dates back 60 years, to the…

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Tuesday, January 23rd – 7:30 pm
Poet Dan Liberthson reads new work

Dan Liberthson is a Glen Park resident, and a poet with five published collections to his credit, including his newest, A Poetry of Birds: Poems About Birds and the Photographs that Inspired Them (2017). A Poetry of Birds comprises 38 poems about various bird species paired with photographs of the birds by naturalist and wildlife…

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Sunday, January 21st – 4:30-6:30 pm
wordWind chorus
performance and celebration of QR Hand’s 81st birthday!
 

wordWind is QR Hand, Lewis Jordan and Brian Auerbach — 3 poets, with Lewis Jordan doubling on saxophone. Two very special guests will also be on hand — trumpeter George Sams and poet Tongo Eisen-Martin. q.r. hand, jr., voice and poetry, moved to the SF Bay Area from NYC about forty years ago. Originally published…

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Saturday, January 20th– 7:30-10:00 pm
James Mahone Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low…
  

The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents…   James Mahone, tenor saxophone; Ian Carey, trumpet; Josh Thurston-Milgrom, bass; Mike Mitchell, drums  

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Saturday, January 20 – 1-3 pm
Meet a typer!

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Friday, January 19th – 8:30-10:30 pm
Reinhart-Hamilton-Young-Matsuda Quartet
 

Chestnuts of early jazz & popular music Robert Young, saxophone, cornet & vocals Jeff Hamilton, piano & vocals Bill Reinhart, guitar & banjo Mikiya Matsuda, bass

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Friday, January 19th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Trio: A Blues Reset for 2018
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002
$10 suggested donation

  Scott Foster, guitar Lorenzo Farrell, organ Dan Foltz, drums Taking it down to the fundamental blues base of jazz, in myriad forms.

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POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, January 15th – 7-9 pm
Stephen Kopel and Clyde Always
read recent work
An open mic follows
Jerry Ferraz, m.c.

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Sunday, January 14th – 7:30-10:00 pm
The Seducers
Classic, Outlaw & Honky Tonk Country Music

Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar Hank Maninger, lead guitar and vocals Tim Wager, bass guitar and vocals Kenny Owen, drums [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S2j5JvYm6M” /]

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Sunday, January 14th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Craig and MacGregor 
which way west? Sunday concert series
$10 suggested donation

Randy Craig and Robbie MacGregor convene a revolving cast of characters, veteran players all, at the Marsh in Berkeley on a regular basis, for a romp through a cavalcade of rock, jazz and pop tunes. Tonight they bring their show to Bird & Beckett! [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifP0KU5qslg” /]

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