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!
Friday, May 4th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Oop Bop Sh’BamÂ
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since October 2002
$10-20 suggested donation; students $5
Lots of fun with this band! And great music, from swing to bop and straight ahead to the now! Youngster Jeffrey Burr plays guitar in the company of four jazz vets — drummer Vince Lateano, trumpter Al Molina, saxophonist Jerry Logas and bassist Dean Reilly. Dean’s the grand old man of the bunch — was…
Thursday, May 3rd – 7:30-9:30 pm
Alto Sax Titan Greg Abate with the Grant Levin Trio
$15 cover charge
A road warrior, says SFCM’s Simon Rowe! Greg Abate has been crisscrossing the country and crossing the Atlantic to Europe constantly for years, playing hundreds of gigs on the road and at home in Rhode Island every year. He’s a hard bop fiend and a lyrical voice on ballads. He’ll be performing at Bird &…
Sunday, April 29th – 4:30-6:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio, featuring
Aaron Cohn and Mitchell Wilcox
$10-15 suggested donation; students $5
Grant Levin, piano. Aaron Cohn, bass. Mitchell Wilcox, drums. The art of the trio, exemplified by the work of three sympathetic and immensely talented musicians.
Sunday, April 29th – 2:30-4 pm
Walker tells stories!
Walker Brents III tells stories from a variety of traditions, by turns amusing, enlightening and enigmatic. Get out of the crush of the Glen Park Festival for a captivating time in the bookshop.
Saturday, April 28th– 7:30-10:00 pm
Jesse Foster Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low…
Every Saturday night!
$20 cover charge tonight; students $5
Vocalist Jesse Foster with Greg Sankovich, piano Paul Eastburn, bass Mark Lee, drums Jesse Foster calls up a world of sounds with his instrument that blends nicely with his percussion playing. You’d have to say that his instrument is his body channeled through his voice, and we would aver that he plays it superbly. His…
Friday, April 27th – 9:00-11:00 pm
Joe Cohen Quartet
The Late Show!
$15 cover charge Â
One of SF’s very top ranked saxophone players with a super-solid rhythm section. Jazz as it is played in San Francisco in 2018!! Joe Cohen, tenor sax Jeremy Lieber, piano Ollie Dudek, bass Jack Dorsey, drums
Friday, April 27th – 5:30-8:00 pm
230 Jones Street Jazz Band
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002
$10-20 suggested donation; students $5
This is the band that Chuck Peterson started, though Chuck is now retired up to Santa Rosa. With luck, he’ll rejoin the band on the fourth Friday in May when we celebrate 16 years of Friday evening jazz in the bookshop! Chuck’s legacy to us is this band — the 230 Jones Street, Local 6…
Tonight! Thursday, April 26th – 7:00-8:30 pm
Riverside poet Nikia Chaney book launch
Poet Nikia Chaney reads from us mouth (forthcoming from University of Hell Press, 2018). She is the current Inlandia Literary Laureate (2016-2018) and is the author of two chapbooks, Sis Fuss (2012, Orange Monkey Publishing) and ladies, please (2012, Dancing Girl Press). Nikia is Inlandia poet laureate, founding editor of shufpoetry, an online journal for…
Tuesday, April 24th – 7-9 pm
Write Now! Editor Shizue Seigel presents
diverse and impassioned writers in the new anthology
Endangered Species, Enduring ValuesÂ
San Francisco writers, predominantly writers of color, have some things to say in this volume about the state of things. Timely and crucial work by “ordinary people,” many of whom are already known as important voices in the struggles that are going on around us as of this historical moment. Editor Shizue Seigel established a…