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653 Chenery Street in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
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phone: 1-415-586-3733 email: [email protected]
The Scott Foster Quartet
Friday, May 15th – 7:30pm
Jim Peterson, saxophones Scott Foster, guitar Dan Seamans, bass Tom Hassett, drums What began several years ago, in 2022, as the “Tom Hassett Experiment” has become a solid quartet with a repertoire and approach of its own. Guitarist Scott Foster helms the group, bringing a career’s worth of immersion in jazz beyond the genres. Drummer…
Novelist K.S. Haddock
Imagine My Surprise!
Keith Haddock & friends present his new novel. A drug kingpin is murdered by his henchmen. Imagine his surprise when he is reincarnated, fully-conscious, into a newborn boy. Revenge has to wait while he’s raised by two hapless millennials in the suburbs. A black comedy-meets-crime story wrapped in sardonic magical realism. Have fun! “Sharp, witty…
Tuesday, May 13th – 7:30pm
Ray Skjelbred and the Hot Corner
Ray Skjelbred, piano Andy Schumm, clarinet & tenor sax Katie Cavera, guitar Clint Baker, bass Riley Baker, drums The Hot Corner assembled in Oakland for a recording session on the 12th and made their way to Bird & Beckett on the 13th for two sets of hot Chicago style jazz, the way Ray Skjelbred has…
No Land & Oliver Ray, poetry and guitar from NY + Tucson – plus four more Naropa poets – in the centennial of Allen Ginsberg
Tuesday, May 12th
5/12/26, Tuesday, 8pm: Allen Ginsberg 100th Centennial gathering – guitarist/essayist Oliver Ray and poets No Land, Aubrey Gates King, Madeline Rose Hernandez, Nica, Swanee Astrid. ($10-$20 donation requested for the poets to share).
Sunday, May 10th – 5pm
Nashville Honeymoon
Lynne Maes, rhythm guitar & vocals. Hank Maninger, lead guitar & vocals. Tim Wagar, bass guitar. Paul Revelli drums. $20 suggested cover charge / byob. Students $10. Kids free. Reservations: call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. You’re in for two sets in honky tonk heaven. Mainstays of the Bay Area Americana scene, and the Bird &…
Saturday May 9th – 7:30pm
The Tom Griesser 3
Tom Griesser, saxophone. Kurt Ribak, bass. Dan Foltz, drums. $20 cover charge / byob. cash at the door, please! for a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Tom notes: “I’m really excited to revive the Tom Griesser 3, a trio that had a weekly Friday night gig at the old Burritt Room from 2013 to…
Friday, May 8th – 7:30pm
An Abecedarium of Jazz!
Eric & the In Crowd survey the letter “G”
Eric Shifrin, piano and vocals. Ari Munkres, bass. Jay Hansen, drums. $20 cover charge / byob. Students $10 / kids free. Reservations: Call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Eric Shifrin brings the In Crowd to Bird & Beckett for a couple of hours every other second Friday, from 7:30-9:30, in the odd numbered months… May, July,…
Thursday, May 7th – 7pm
Poets James Cagney & Jelal Huyler
Open mic follows.
James Cagney is an award-winning Oakland poet and Cave Canem fellow. His books include Ghetto Koans, Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory, and Martian: The Saint of Loneliness. jelal huyler is a biracial Black poet from Oakland, born to a revolutionary Black mother. Carrying on throughout this dissociative so-called reality, he does…
Sunday, May 3rd – 5pm
Student-Centric Jazz Jam
hosted by the Yoav Konig RASOTA/SFCM-RJAM Quartet
Mark your calendar for tomorrow’s jazz today at Bird & Beckett on the first Sunday of each month from 5 to 7pm! And consider becoming a sponsor of the next generation of jazz greats! Ask us how! Each month, on the first Sunday of the month from 5 to 7pm, we present a jam session…
Saturday, May 2nd – 7:30pm
Cantos de mi Tierra
Laura Ramos & Edu González, vocals Armando Fox, piano Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, guitar Anastasia Preston, bass Ryan Friedman, percussion $25 cover charge / adult; byob. Students, $10; kids free. Formed in the summer of 2023, the latin cabaret ensemble Cantos di mi Tierra had its first public performances in October 2023 with three sold-out shows…