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!
Saturday, August 12th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Patrick Wolff Quintet
jazz club! when lights are low…
$15 cover chargeÂ
Patrick Wolff, tenor sax Jay Sanders, trumpet Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Evan Hughes, drums
Friday, August 11th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Jellyroll
featuring vocalist Belinda Blair
jump blues & jazz in the bookshop
Born in the swing revival of the 90’s, Jellyroll’s sound is at once assured and fine-tuned with freshly conceived arrangements steeped in the traditional form. Musicianship as precise as a well-made martini; only the finest ingredients in perfect measure. The band covers jazz, swing and blues of the 30s, 40s and 50s, drawing on the songbooks of Louis Jordan, Cab Calloway, Big Mama Thornton and other…
Monday, August 7th – 7-9 pm
POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Donnelle McGee and Vincent Meis
Two featured writers followed by an open mic
Donnelle McGee reads recent poems and other work. Vincent Meis reads from his novel, Deluge (Fallen Bros. Press, 2016). Donnelle McGee is a Jimi Hendrix freak and wishes he could dunk a basketball. He earned his MFA from Goddard College. He is a faculty member at Mission College in Santa Clara, California. His work has…
Sunday, August 6th – 7:30-10:00 pm
The Seducers
Classic, Outlaw & Honky Tonk Country Music
Joe Goldmark, pedal steel, leads a country music supergroup, with Mitch Polzak on lead guitar and vocals, Hank Maninger on bass guitar and vocals, and Kenny Owen, the Haiku Cowboy, on drums. Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams and a fistful of wonderful originals by Joe & Mitch. 20 shows so far in the past…
Sunday, August 6 – 4:30-6:30 pm
Richard Sears Trio
which way west? Sunday concert series
Bay Area-raised, Brooklyn-based pianist Richard Sears possesses an original voice as an improvisor and composer. His composition has been recognized by grants from the Aaron Copland Fund and the Los Angeles Jazz Society. As a performer, Richard has appeared with the likes of Chick Corea, Mark Turner, Muhal Richard Abrams, Joshua Redman, and Billy Hart….
Saturday, August 5th – 7:30-10:00 pm
John Calloway Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low…
$15 cover charge
The Jazz Commissioner is on the job! Latin jazz specialist John Calloway brings in a quartet. Latin, straight-ahead, bebop and beyond! John’s most recent album, “Asere Ko,” was recorded in Cuba and the Bay Area with top musicians in both locales. Pick up a copy of the cd at Bird & Beckett, or go to…
Friday, August 4th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Don Prell’s SeaBop Ensemble
plays jazz in the bookshop
Bassist Prell got his start in L.A. in the 1950s, traveling for several years as a member of the Bud Shank Quartet. He’s been a cornerstone of the Bird & Beckett Friday night jazz series since its inception in 2002, and leads a group here on the first Friday of each month. Â Al Molina,…
Wednesday, August 2nd – 7:30-9:30 pm
San Francisco’s Incoming Poet Laureate Kim Shuck
reads new and selected poems
Kim Shuck has been selected as San Francisco’s seventh poet laureate, and will succeed Alejandro Murguia in early August. Her four published collections (three books and one chapbook) are Smuggling Cherokee, Rabbit Stories (prose), Sidewalk Ndn and Clouds Running; she says the chapbook Sidewalk Ndn is her best collection so far. Read on, and also read this…
Tuesday, August 1st – 7:30-10 pm
Jam Session Send-Off for
Drummers Lewis Sweatt & Timothy Angulo!
Join us to hear and bid bon voyage to two great young drummers who have been tearing it up on the San Francisco scene for the past several years — they’re Big Apple bound! Louis and Tim will trade off on drums, along with pianists Grant Levin and Simon Rowe, and bassists Chris…
Sunday, July 30th – 4:30-6:30 pm:
Avotcja & Modúpue
celebrate Avotcja’s 76th birthday!
Avotcja, spoken word and small multi-percussion; Frances Wong, saxophone; Manny Moku, piano Heshima Mark Williams, bass Raul Ramirez, multi-percussion Avotcja is a jazz musician with deep roots, a riveting poet, an imaginative and ruminative prose writer, a pioneer, an individualist, a fierce champion of her fellow musicians, poets and artists.  She leads the group named Best Jazz…