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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]

Friday, February 6th – 8:30pm
Alon Nechustan Quintet

  Matt Renzi, reeds Jesse Levit, saxophone & EWI Alon Nechustan, piano Sam Bevan, bass Isaac Schwartz, drums $25 cover charge; byob. Students, $10. For reservations, call 415-586-3733. Alon Nechushtan’s music has brought him to corners of the globe from the Yokohama ‘Rejoicing Sounds’ Festival in Japan with his contemporary orchestral compositions, to the Manila…

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Friday, February 6th – 6pm
JimBo Trout and the Fishpeople

JimBo Trout, guitar and vocals Steve Neil, bass Ken Owen, drums $20 suggested cover; byob. Students $10; kids free. No reservations typically necessary, but feel free to call if you need more than a couple of seats – 415-586-3733,  JimBo knows hundreds of tunes and his trio can handle whatever he pulls out of his…

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Thursday, February 5th – 7pm
Poets Tehmina Khan & Florencia Melito
+ open mic

Bird & Beckett hosts an open mic for poets on the first Thursday of each month, with two featured poets leading off at 7pm followed by the open at 8pm. Bring three minutes worth of poetry to read, or just come to enjoy the work of the poets! BYOB. No reservations required. Michael Koch and…

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Tuesday, February 3rd – 7pm
Poet Kim Shuck birthday reading!

Kim Shuck is joined by friends and fellow poets! BYOB and raise a toast to a key figure in the poetry world in the Bay Area and far beyond!

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Seven Events in Six Days:
January 27th thru February 1st

Poetry – Fiction – Jazz x5 Tuesday, January 27, 7:00pm: Nellie Wong Memorial Reading [Poetry reading] {free} _____ Thursday, January 29, 5:30pm: Novelists Tara Dorabji & Betty Shamieh moderated by Sabina Khan-Ibarra [Author Event] {free} _____ Friday, January 30, 8:30pm: Vaughn Cannon Quartet {$20}.           _____ Saturday, January 31, 5:30pm: Erik…

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Sunday, January 25th – 5pm
Jam Session!

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Saturday, January 24 – 7:30pm
The Kevin Gerzevitz Trio
plays the music of Herbie Nichols

Kevin Gerzevitz, piano. Ari Munkres, bass. Tim Bulkley, drums. $20 cover; byob. Students, $10. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Pianist and composer Herbie Nichols was a marvelously singular musician and wrote many beautiful and often complex tunes much admired by modern jazz musicians and aficionados, though relatively obscure to the popular jazz…

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Friday, January 23rd – 8:30pm
Tango No. 9
tango nuevo, valses, milongas y originales

Tango No. 9 has been making audiences swoon for two decades with their exquisite and charming sets, and we’re overheated with excitement every time they hit the stage in our cozy little bookshop. The group comprises violinist Catharine Clune, pianist Joshua Raoul Brody and trombonist Greg Stephens, together with the dashing Zoltan DiBartolo, who vocalizes…

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Two shows on Friday, January 23rd!
6pm – The 230 Jones Street Band
8:30pm – Tango No. 9

Remembering the good times, and still living them… There’s jazz every Friday at Bird & Beckett, these days with a 6pm jazz happy hour and an 8:30 extra show. If you’ve just caught wind of what goes on here, then come on down. You’ll find a gem in the rough you only imagined might still…

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Five concerts in four days: January 22-25

Funk – Jazz – Tango – Jazz – Jam Session _____ Thursday, January 22, 7:30pm: Fog City Groove [Soul/Funk/Worldbeat] {$20} _____ Friday, January 23, 6:00pm: 230 Jones Street Band [Hard Bop]{$20} _____ Friday, January 23, 8:30pm: Tango No. 9 [Tango Nuevo y Más] {$20} _____ Saturday, January 24, 7:30pm: Kevin Gerzevitz Trio [plays Herbie Nichols]…

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