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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, April 27th – 5:30-8:00 pm
230 Jones Street Jazz Band
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002
$10-20 suggested donation; students $5
This is the band that Chuck Peterson started, though Chuck is now retired up to Santa Rosa. With luck, he’ll rejoin the band on the fourth Friday in May when we celebrate 16 years of Friday evening jazz in the bookshop! Chuck’s legacy to us is this band — the 230 Jones Street, Local 6…
Tonight! Thursday, April 26th – 7:00-8:30 pm
Riverside poet Nikia Chaney book launch
Poet Nikia Chaney reads from us mouth (forthcoming from University of Hell Press, 2018). She is the current Inlandia Literary Laureate (2016-2018) and is the author of two chapbooks, Sis Fuss (2012, Orange Monkey Publishing) and ladies, please (2012, Dancing Girl Press). Nikia is Inlandia poet laureate, founding editor of shufpoetry, an online journal for…
Tuesday, April 24th – 7-9 pm
Write Now! Editor Shizue Seigel presents
diverse and impassioned writers in the new anthology
Endangered Species, Enduring ValuesÂ
San Francisco writers, predominantly writers of color, have some things to say in this volume about the state of things. Timely and crucial work by “ordinary people,” many of whom are already known as important voices in the struggles that are going on around us as of this historical moment. Editor Shizue Seigel established a…
Sunday, April 22nd – 2:00 pm
Poets Jacqueline Berger and Thomas Centolella
Jacqueline Berger’s fourth book, The Day You Miss Your Exit, was published by Broadstone Books in February. Her previous books include The Gift That Arrives Broken, winner of the 2010 Autumn House Poetry Prize, and Things That Burn, selected by Mark Strand as the 2004 winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize. Her poetry has…
Saturday, April 21st – 7:30-10:00 pm
Alternative Acts at jazz club! when lights are low…
Tonight: animals and giraffes
Phillip Greenlief, Claudia La Rocca, Danishta Rivero, John Shiruba
$20 cover charge tonight; students $5Â Â
The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project and the Jazz Philanthropists Union, with financial support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, present Alternative Acts: Seeking Truth Above #F a series of six concerts beginning April Fools Day and concluding May 20th  April 21st animals and giraffes Phillip Greenlief, saxphones and Bb clarinet Claudia La Rocco,…
Sunday, April 22nd – 4:30-6:30 pm
Kai Lyons/Dan Zemelman Duo
which way west? Sunday concert series
$10 suggested donation
we’ll tellya more soon… both great players, and sympatico to boot. if you know, you know, and if you don’t, and you come, you’ll find out. hallelujah, eh linda?
Wednesday, April 18th – 7:00-9:00 pm
Poets Steve Dalachinsky, Neeli Cherkovski
& Clark Coolidge with pianist Walter Earl
Alternative Acts
The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project and the Jazz Philanthropists Union, with financial support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, present Alternative Acts: Seeking Truth Above #F a series of six concerts beginning April Fools Day and concluding May 20th  April 18th: Dalachinsky:Cherkovski:Coolidge:Earl 3 Poets working with 1 Pianist  The “Alternative Acts” series…
Tuesday, April 17th– 7:30-10:00 pm
Ken Fowser Quintet featuring trumpeter Josh Bruneau
“Ken Fowser’s fluid phrasing and melodic approach to improvising developed as a result of his exposure to the rich musical legacy of the Philly Sound, following in time with the rhythmic footsteps of John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Philly Joe Jones, Benny Golson and The Heath Brothers.” “Bruneau plays with clarity, exuberance and swagger…with…
Friday, April 20th – 9:00-11:00 pm
Scott Amendola’s 3-in-1
Raffi Garabedian & Zach Ostroff
It’s a Fact! Amendola & Co. Surpass #F – late show!
$15 cover charge; students $10
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The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project and the Jazz Philanthropists Union, with financial support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, present Alternative Acts: Seeking Truth Above #F a series of six concerts beginning April Fools Day and concluding May 20th  April 20th: Scott Amendola’s 3-in-1 Raffi Garabedian, tenor sax Zach Ostroff, bass Scott Amendola,…
Friday, April 20th – 5:30-8 pm
Don Alberts Trio
jazz and bebop in the bookshop
every Friday since 2002
$10-20 suggested donation; students $5
Don Alberts, an extraordinary bop-influenced jazz pianist and a prolific writer in many veins – whether music, poetry, fiction, or cultural history, leads a dynamic trio that loves to swing and is ready to go in any direction afforded by the modern jazz idiom! Drummer Ron Marabuto and bassist Larry Epstein are fully up…