653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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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, December 31st– 1:00-3:00 pm
Tony Corman – Frank Phipps Â
Guitarist Tony Corman and trombonist Frank Phipps join forces for two sets of duo work, closing out another year of beautiful music at Bird & Beckett — San Francisco’s southernmost outpost of literary and jazz culture!
Saturday, December 30th– 7:30-10:00 pm
Jazz Pianist Grant Levin & Friends
jazz club! when lights are low… Â
Grant Levin, piano Aaron Cohn, bass Ruckus, drums! $15-20 sliding scale cover charge; students – $10
Friday, December 29th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Myron Cohen/Erik Von Buchau/Bliss Rodriguez TrioÂ
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002
$10 suggested donation
Bliss Rodriguez piano Erik von Buchau vibraphone Myron Cohen drums Â
Ongoing in Galley Ex Libris
Time Landscape: Paintings and a reading by J Grabowski
Time Landscape is J Grabowski’s first release of writing coupled with drawings – reflecting his day to day notebook process that he has continued for over a decade; making work on the go, wherever he is; bringing the studio to the place. The book was written while walking to and from work over the past few…
Books for Middle Schoolers!
You’ve taken on your first teaching assignment from the San Francisco Unified School District, at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School: five classes of 8th graders studying U.S. history. Say, 150 students. And a class in the graphic novel open to 6th to 8th graders. Imagine contemplating the $300 materials budget the District has given…
Thursday, December 28th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Eric & the In Crowd
Last chance to get in with the in crowd in 2017 — capping more than a dozen In Crowd shows since we started harboring a handful of Riptide refugees back in the late summer of 2015 in the series we’ve called “canyon moonlight music.” $10-15 requested donation tonight. Be here or be squeere! Eric Shifrin…
Wednesday, December 27th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Peck Allmond-Keith Saunders
John Wiitala-Vince Lateano Quartet
Multi-instrumentalist Peck Allmond will be out from Brooklyn over the holidays and is featured on drummer Vince Lateano’s date tonight! $15-20 sliding scale cover charge; students – $10. With Keith Saunders on piano and John Wiitala on bass, you’re in for a superb evening of jazz. Peck is a Bay Area native (he’s a notable…
Saturday, December 23rd– 7:30-10:00 pm
Los Authenticos
jazz club! when lights are low…
$15-$20 sliding scale cover chargeÂ
Los Authenticos! thinking of Cuba… Scott Foster, guitar Adam Gay, bass Omar Aran, percussion Sandra Aran on vocals!
Friday, December 22nd – 5:30-8 pm
230 Jones Street, Local 6, Literary Jazz Band
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002
The legacy lives on… Chuck Peterson founded our Friday night jazz programming fifteen years ago… That’s him on tenor sax in the accompanying photo. He’s retired now and just comes back once in awhile, but his colleagues carry it on. The 230 Jones Street, Local Six Literary Jazz Band is his concoction. Now it features…
Wednesday, December 20 – 7:30-9:30 pm
Release celebration & reading
CCSF’s “Forum” Literary Magazine
San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck joins students from City College of San Francisco to celebrate the new issue of “Forum” magazine – CCSF’s literary and arts journal, published twice each year. Music will be provided by the CCSF Jazz Musicians Club.