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653 Chenery Street in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
Open to walk-in trade and browsing Tuesday to Sunday noon to six
phone: 1-415-586-3733 email: [email protected]
A little backstory on
Friday “jazz in the bookshop”
~~our jazz happy hour~~
continuous since 2002
growing from roots planted in 1999
Here’s a little backstory, to get us to where we now stand… in re: the Fridays, anyway… Read on! And thanks for being part of the Bird & Beckett story in the present day. /s/Eric Whittington, proprietor, since 1999 Once upon a time, in the late spring of 1999, Bird & Beckett opened its…
Thursday, April 9th – 7pm
A poets’ conclave
Stephen Vincent, Hilton Obenzinger
& Jerry Martien
read poems, new and selected
On the occasion of a trip by Jerry Martien down to Monterey to present his book Waveshock: Ed Ricketts, The Voyage of the Grampus, and Our Biopoetic Future, long-time friends Hilton Obenzinger, driving up from Palo Alto, and Stephen Vincent, hosting on his San Francisco home turf, converge on the bookshop to read poems and…
Sunday, April 5th – 7:30pm
Cellist Rosalyn Zhang with the
Billy Higgins Legacy Band
featuring saxophonist Richard Howell
Prepare yourself for a magnificent union of Rosy Zhang, North York Concert Orchestra principal cello, with the jazz titans comprising drummer Myron Cohen’s Billy Higgins Legacy Band. $30 cover charge / byob; students $10. Cash at the door, please! Call ahead for a reservation (415) 586-3733, but keep in mind — we’re busy selling books…
Sunday, April 5th – 5pm
Next Generation Jam Session
hosted by the UC Jazz Quintet
Trumpet player Jeremy Kemmerer brings a jazz quintet from UC Berkeley for a set, followed by our monthly first-Sundays jam session especially open to young and young-at-heart jazz musicians still learning the ropes of this hoary tradition! Jeremy Kemmerer, trumpet. Sam Malekzadeh, tenor saxophone. Chris Cook, piano. Benny Goldenberg, bass. Lucas Quan, drums. No charge…
Sunday, April 5th – 1pm
Poet Sunnylyn Thibodeaux
reads from her new collection,
Lucky Charms
New and Selected Poems, 2000-2025
Sunnylyn Thibodeaux’s Lucky Charms: New and Selected Poems, 2000–2025 is fresh out from City Lights Books this spring, No. 26 in its Spotlight Series, edited by Garrett Caples. Her previous books include The World Exactly (Cuneiform, 2020), Universal Fall Precautions (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017), As Water Sounds (Bootstrap, 2014) and Palm to Pine (Bootstrap, 2011). She is…
Saturday, April 4th – 7:30pm
Bryan Gould’s Swing Fever
featuring saxophonist Noel Jewkes + rhythm
Bryan Gould, trombone and vocals. Noel Jewkes, saxophones. Brad Buethe, guitar. Richard Saunders, bass. Tony Johnson, drums. $25 cover charge; byob. Students, $10. Kids free. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Reserved seats are held only until showtime. Tunes from the 1930s and ’40s have inspired Swing Fever for many decades and they’ve…
Friday, April 3rd – 8:30pm
The Dan Seamans Trio
Darren Johnston, trumpet Scott Foster, guitar Dan Seamans, bass $20 cover charge; byob. Students $10. Dan Seamans steps up as leader of a fresh, one-off trio that won’t sound quite like any other. That’s the magic of small combo jazz, where friends and colleagues fall together to discover new music on the bandstand. It happens…
Friday, April 3rd – 6pm
happy hour jazz at bird & beckett tonight!
Hipsteria
Elaine Alt, tenor saxophone & clarinet Jon Venker, organ Luke Schwartz, guitar “Tender” Tim Shea, drums with special guest vocalist May Oskan $20 suggested cover charge / byob. $10 students; kids free. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733 “Tender” Tim Shea, with his small combo Hipsteria, is ubiquitous on the jazz casual scene…
Poetryx2 + Jazzx5 = 4/2-4/5
Poetryx2 + Jazzx5 = 4/2-4/5 _____ Thursday, April 2, 7:00pm David Holper + Kimi Sugioka + open mic {Free} _____ Friday, April 3, 6:00pm Hipsteria {$20} _____ Friday, April 3, 8:30pm Dan Seamans Trio {$20} _____ Saturday, April 4, 7:30pm Swing Fever {$30} _____ Sunday, April 5, 1:00pm Sunnylyn Thibodeaux {Free} _____ Sunday, April 5,…
