653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
[email protected]
Open to walk-in trade and browsing
Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six
Live Streams every weekend!
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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!
Sunday, April 6th – 5-7pm
Ryan Ancheta Combo + Jam Session
The first Sunday of each month, from 5pm to 7pm, we host a student jazz combo for a set rolling into a jam session. Turn out today to hear trumpeter Ryan Ancheta, a recent RASOTA graduate now in his freshman year at UC Berkeley, who has pulled together a quintet drawn from the immensely talented…
Saturday, April 5th – 7:30-9:30pm
Singer Marina Crouse & Her Trio
jazz, blues and boleros
Marina Crouse is a powerful, soulful singer with a lovely and expressive range, in English and Spanish both, nourished by a California youth with Mexican roots. One of the supremely satisfying experiences you’ll have in the darkened bookshop of a Saturday night. Marina Crouse, vocals. Danny Caron, guitar. Ruth Davies, bass. Mark Lee, drums. $20…
Friday, April 4th – 8:30-10pm
San Francisco Syncopators
A five-piece band rollicking deep in a swamp of hot jazz with ragtime roots and a swing fever, the Syncopators keep the dance halls hoppin’ and the club crowds on the edge of their seats, toes tappin’. Ryan Calloway on bass saxophone and Rob Reich on piano are the masterminds of the band, squeezing every…
Wednesday, April 2nd – 7pm
Writer Sayed Afzal Haider
The Dying Sun and Other Stories
From Chicago out of Pakistan, Afzal has been devoted to literature, to American literature in particular, since arriving here at the age of 19 in the 1960s. He came to study electrical engineering, but he was transfixed by women, baseball, literature… From the works of writers like Bernard Malamud, John Fowles, Albert Camus and many…
This week’s fun…
a pushback against autocracy
and six cultural events from
Wednesday April 2nd to Sunday April 6th
Make Good Trouble!
No joke: It’s afternoon in America! Wake up! The joke, a bad one, is Donald Trump. Seriously: At noon today, Wednesday, April 2nd, and for 26 days in a row at noon, we’re going to turn on the tv at Bird & Beckett and play an hour’s worth of Senator Cory Booker’s speech that began…
Sunday, March 30th – 8-10pm
The Ryan Ancheta Quartet
Trumpet player Ryan Ancheta is sneaking a quartet into the shop for a late show Sunday the 30th, with his mentor Marcus Shelby on bass, the veteran tho-still-young Greg Jacobs on piano and Ryan’s contemporary, Miles Turk on drums. Expect two blazing sets of bop, hard bop, post-bop and beyond! $20 cover charge, cash or…
Sunday, March 30th – 5-7pm
Jam Session!
hosted by the Vince Lateano Trio
You never know who might drop in. Maybe you! The Vince Lateano Trio will make you feel right at home! BYOB and a twenty for the trio.
Saturday, March 29th – 7:30-9:30pm
An unnamable quartet plays ineffable jazz
Marc Caparone, cornet and trumpet. Dan Barrett, trombone and cornet. Jeff Hamilton, piano. Mikiya Matsuda, bass. $25 cover charge for adults / byob. Teens and students, $10. Kids free. The sweetest, most joyful, most satisfying, most rambunctious music you’ll ever hear is the creole jazz that flowered in New Orleans and floated up and down…
Friday, March 28th – 8:30-10pm
The Aaron Germain Quartet
Jesse Levit, saxophone. Matt Clark, piano. Aaron Germain, bass. Isaac Schwartz, drums. $20 cover charge per adult / byob. Student rate $10-15 sliding scale. cash or venmo; no credit cards. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Aaron Germain, a unique voice on bass with a flexibility beyond compare, is well into his third decade working…
Friday, March 28th – 6-8pm
The Tony Johnson Quartet
Bob Kenmotsu, saxophone. Keith Saunders, piano. Eric Markowitz, bass. Tony Johnson, drums. $20 suggested donation per adult / byob. Teens and students, $10. Kids free. Tony Johnson has been a cornerstone of the San Francisco jazz scene since he hit town in 1959. Tony recorded on Riverside Records with singer Bev Kelly and saxophonist Pony…