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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]

March 11-15: Five Jazz Concerts in Five Days

Jazz x 5! _____ Wednesday, March 11, 7:30pm Sylvia Cuenca Quartet featuring NYC tenor player Rico Jones {$20; students $10) _____ Friday, March 13, 6:00pm Eric & The In Crowd – Letter “E” {$20; students $10; kids free} _____ Friday, March 13, 8:30 pm Alt Jazz Ark Corpus X Quartet {$20; students $10} _____ Saturday,…

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2 Readings, 4 concerts: March 4-8

Sunday, March 8, 5:00pm Mitch Polzak & the Royal Deuces Honky tonk country music by virtuoso practitioners of the art! Mitch Polzak, guitar & vocals; Tim Wagar, bass; Ken Owen, drums with guest pedal steel guitar master Joe Goldmark ___ Reserve a seat by calling the bookshop at (415) 586-3733. We’ll hold your reservation until…

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Sunday, March 8th – 5pm
Mitch Polzak & the Flying Deuces
Honky Tonk Heaven!
featuring pedal steel whiz Joe Goldmark

Mitch Polzak, guitar and vocals Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar Tim Wagar, bass Ken Owen, drums $20 cover charge; byob. Students, $10; kids free Honky Tonk Showman Mitch Polzak plays a mean guitar and raises a ruckus like no one else! This afternoon, he brings his famous Royal Deuces joined for the date by pedal…

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Saturday, March 7th – 7:30pm
Saúl Sierra Quartet

Saúl Sierra, bass Marco Díaz, trumpet & piano Charlie Gurke, saxophones Emilio Davalos, percussion $20 cover charge; byob. Students, $10 Cash at the door, please. For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733 Saúl Sierra was born and raised in Mexico City, where he started playing professionally in 1990. In 1995, he enrolled at the…

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Friday, March 6th – 8:30pm
Bay Area Jazz & Soul:
The Noah Frank & Stephanie Woodford Quartet

  Noah Frank, trumpet. Stephanie Woodford, piano & vocals. Dexter Williams, bass. Isaac Schwartz, drums. $20 cover charge at the door, cash please; byob. Students, $10. No reservations required. Amazing talent; a band you won’t find in the clubs. Except this one! Come find out what you’re missing. Noah and Stephanie bring a joyful and…

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Friday, March 6th – 6pm
The Jinx Jones Trio

Jinx Jones, guitar. Kurt Ribak, bass. Ken Owen, guitar. cover charge $20; byob. students $10. reservations, call 415-586-3733. Luxurious guitar and exotica. Cool swing and soul with a hot trio. That’s Jinx’s jazz bag! Welcome a true apostle of the many towering gods of the jazz guitar traditions, from Freddie Green to Charlie Christian to…

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Thursday, March 5th – 7pm
Featured poets + open mic
Keith Gaboury, David Hutchinson
& David Farnan read their work
Michael Koch & Jerry Ferraz host

Michael Koch hosts our monthly 1st Thursday readings, with Jerry Ferraz conducting the open mic that follows. This month, we present three featured readers, all with books published by American Poetry Systems, based in South San Francisco. Bring a few poems of your own to read in the open mic, and join the American poetry…

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Wednesday, March 4th – 7pm
Author Event:
Jan Sollish & Jackie Davis Martin

Two writers bring new work. Jan Sollish has published a memoir about her years from 1977 to 1982 at the Club Fugazi tending bar at Beach Blanket Babylon; Jackie Martin Davis has brought out a book of short stories that verge on memoir, fictively brushing up against the chronology and experiences of the author’s life….

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February 26th to March 1st
Six concerts in four days

5 Jazz Dates +CMC Showcase _____ Thursday, February 26, 7:30pm {$20} Charles McNeal with the Joe Warner Trio _____ Friday, February 27, 6:00pm {$20} 230 Jones Street Band _____ Friday, February 27, 8:30pm {$20} Stephan Crump, solo _____ Saturday, February 28, 7:30pm {$25} Idris Ackamoor: Artistic Being _____   Sunday, March 1, 1:00pm {$ –…

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Sunday, March 1st – 7:30pm
Billy Higgins Legacy Band!
Alto saxophonist Alex So
Bassist Isaac Coyle
Drummer Myron Cohen

Just added! Hurry down to Bird & Beckett for fresh & fiery jazz tonight! Young saxophonist Alex So is coming on strong And young bassist Isaac Coyle, says bassist Fred Randolph, has been blowing Fred’s mind! Anyone who’s heard him these past few years in the clubs around town will agree. At the kit is…

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