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!
Friday, September 15th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet plays the music of Lee Morgan
At 9pm, a talk by jazz writer Larry Reni Thomas
(The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan) follows the music!
Henry Hung, trumpet Scott Foster, guitar Eric Markowitz, bass Omar Aran, drums The Scott Foster Quartet plays the music of Lee Morgan! Lee Morgan was one of the top jazz trumpet stars of the late 1950s and 1960s, recording prolifically on Blue Note and other labels –featured on John Coltrane’s “Blue Trane” (1957) and Art…
Thursday, September 14th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Bob Ernst: towards/away
For a Bob Ernst bio, visit https://www.altertheater.org/about2 towards/away… The focus intensifies as the periphery disperses. Our hero is a stranger in a strange land. He finds himself running for his life in an alien landscape being pursued by something or someone he can’t quite make out. “Am I running towards, or am I running away…
Tuesday, September 12th – 7 pm
Cultivating Community
A Talk by Michael Youngblood
In 1996, anthropologist Mike Youngblood purchased a second-hand motorcycle in India and spent nearly three years following a massive rural political movement called the Shetkari Sanghatana, spread out across the 120,000 square miles of India’s Maharashtra State.  In his travels, he experienced the movement side-by-side with increasingly rich capitalist farmers, with increasingly poor peasants and rural…
Monday, September 11th – 7:30 pm
RJAM JAM SESSION! (Monthly every 2nd Monday)
SFCM Roots, Jazz & American Music Program
Second Mondays, starting Monday, September 11th, Bird & Beckett will be hosting a jam session for the incoming class of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s brand new jazz BMUS (Bachelor of Music) degree program. The SFCM’s program is called “Roots, Jazz & American Music” and its first group of thirteen young students, drawn from…
Sunday, September 10th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Grant Levin with bassist Charles Thomas
$10 cover charge
Pianist Grant Levin leads duo, trio and quartet dates on the 2nd, 3rd & 4th Sundays of each month, respectively. This sequence will go down in the annals of San Francisco jazz history. Tonight, a duo! Bassist Charles Thomas is Grant’s duo partner this evening.
Sunday, September 10th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Thundering Heard bluegrass
which way west? Sunday concert series
Featuring some of the San Francisco region’s finest veteran bluegrass musicians, the Thundering Heard performs traditional bluegrass music, exceptionally well. Multi-instrumentalist and singer Victor Skidanenko, hailing from San Jose, is known as one of the finest banjo players on the West Coast and gives a deep traditional dimension to the band. Singing heartfelt leads and…
Sunday, September 10th – 2-4 pm
Jeff DeMark + Susan Dambroff & Chris Kammler
A bare-bones theatrical afternoon at Bird & Beckett! Jeff DeMark headlines the program with his trademark mojo bunkum trance dance of mystery and poetic balderdash. Jeff has written and widely performed five theatrical monologues, two of which are available on DVD. He has performed his work at Bird and Beckett three times over the years….
Saturday, September 9th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Harvey Wainapel Trio
jazz club! when lights are low…
$15 cover charge
The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Harvey Wainapel, reeds John Wiitala, bass Bryan Bowman, drums
Friday, September 8th – 9-11 pm
Art Lande and Friends – $20 cover charge
Art Lande, piano; Paul McCandless, saxophone; Erik Jekabson, trumpet; Peter Barshay, bass; Alan Hall, drums We thank Erik Jekabson for bringing Art Lande and Paul McCandless to Bird & Beckett in the company of Peter Barshay and Alan Hall. We’re honored, pleased and excited. About advance reservations/tickets: Because the store is small, it’s not…
Friday, September 8th – 5:30-8 pm
Mark Levine Trio
jazz in the bookshop
SF’s longest running neighborhood jazz party strong>
Mark Levine, piano Robb Fisher, bass Ron Marabuto, drums Robb Fisher joined Cal Tjader’s group in 1976, playing alongside percussionist Poncho Sanchez. It was an association that lasted over six years and a key highlight in Robb’s career. “Cal was a mentor to all his sidemen,†say Robb, “and his lyrical ballads and love of Afro…