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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]
Sunday, July 5th – 7:30pm
The After the End of the World Coretet
The After the End of the World Coretet formed in San Francisco in the summer of 1989. All four member of the group are composers, long-time practitioners, and devotees of music to the core. This iteration of the group is the same as on the recording called ’13’, and features Annelise Zamula on saxophones and…
Sunday, July 5th – 5pm
Student-centric jam session hosted by a
Community Music Center Jazz Combo
Come out for our monthly “student-centric” jazz jam session! If you’re game to play, bring your instrument(s) and be ready to call a tune. The session will start after a short jazz set by this month’s session hosts, an octet from San Francisco’s Community Music Center. Just want to come out and experience the fun?…
Saturday, July 4th – 7:30pm
Duncan James / Ned Boynton Quartet
Politics and class war aside, the culture wends its way forward! Spend the evening in our cozy bookshop and enjoy this dual guitar quartet in the spirit of a legendary musician, the master guitarist George Barnes. When Barnes moved out to the Bay Area in 1975, he hired 30-year old guitar hotshot Duncan James along…
Thursday, July 2nd – 7pm
POETS! Jessica Loos and Keith Felton read
followed by an open mic
Keith Felton and Jessica Loos read new and recent work as the featured poets in our first Thursday of the month poetry series, a Bird & Beckett tradition dating back a quarter century. The reading and the following open mic are hosted and moderated by Jerry Ferraz and Michael Koch. Jessica, who cut her…
Wednesday to Sunday, June 24th to 28th
six events in five days at Bird & Beckett
poets, tango, jazzreggae, b3jazz,
jam session, and…
Scotty ‘n Kasey’s new thing
says “ciao for now” to Mat
Wednesday, June 24th — 7pm. no charge. buy a book! San Francisco Poets Ava Koohbor, Of Flesh and Frequency: A Poetics of Sound Making. Jessica Loos, Tambourine. Marina Lazzara, The House Begins an Alphabet. Music by Blind Van de Monk. _____ Thursday, June 25th – 7:30pm $20/byob Students $10. Tango…
Saturday, June 27th – 7:30pm
B3B4 plays funky soulful jazz
Tom Griesser, saxophone. Kevin Gersevitz, organ. Scott Foster, guitar. Dan Foltz, drums. $20 cover charge at the door. Cash, please! BYOB. Students $10. Kids free. For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Reservations honored until show time. Doors open at 7:15pm. “For the sound of today’s organ combo, look no further than B3B4.” -Pete…
Friday, June 26th – 7:30pm
Jazzreggae – Byrds of a Feather
David Byrd, sax & vocals. Toho Saunders, bass & vocals. Eli Goldlink, keys. Jordan “J Bird” Davis, drums. $20 cover charge, byob. Students $10. For a reservation, call 415-586-3733. Byrds of a Feather introduce their two fresh recordings, now in release: Vampire President and Garden of Delight. Vampire President aims to encourage resistance and a…
Thursday, June 25th – 7:30pm
Tango No. 9
Once there was a bandoneon player named Isabel, all the emotional yearning of tango can be summed up in that memory, and yet the stirring of the spirit is strong and will not be quashed. There came along the dandy Zoltan. He gave heart and fortitude to the others, to Catharine whose sturdy palimpsest could…
Sunday, June 21st – 8-10pm
The Guilhem Fourty Quartet
on tour from NYC
Jonah Hieb, trumpet. Brahm Sasner, piano. Isaac Coyle, bass. Guilhem Fourty, drums. $20 cover charge / BYOB. Students $10. For a reservation, call (415) 586-3733. Guilhem Fourty, born and raised in Toulouse, France and now based in NYC, is bringing a modern jazz quartet to Bird & Beckett to present his original music and arrangements…
Sunday, June 21st at 5pm
The Sunday Happy Hour Show!
The Smith Dobson Quartet
Sunday, June 21st – 5-7pm. Sunday Happy Hour Show. The Smith Dobson Quartet. Smith Dobson, saxophone. Keith Saunders, piano. Eric Markowitz, bass. Tony Johnson, drums. It’s the Sunday happy hour show at Bird & Beckett, so bring something to sip and pay what you can. Bring a snack for yourself or bring some food to…