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, November 12th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Albatross Clarinet Quartet 
which way west? Sunday concert series
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Dave Tidball (clarinet, bass clarinet) Jim Dukey (clarinet, bass clarinet) Dick Mathias (clarinet, bass clarinet) Charlie Keagle (clarinet) Here we go again! With this concert, the Albatross Clarinet Quartet will no doubt present an array of new music, plenty of it conceived and arranged very recently indeed. They’re known to go off on tangents, very productively. Bebop to polytonal…

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 Sunday, November 12th – 2-4 pm
Paul Fericano, Don Skiles & Phyllis Klein

Klipschutz hosts… Three on a Match! The New, Improved Reading Series… featuring Paul Fericano • His poetry and prose have appeared in publications and media outlets in the U.S. and abroad since 1971, including Miramar, The Realist, Mother Jones, The New York Quarterly, Saturday Night Live, The Wormwood Review, Krokodil (Moscow) and Charlie Hebdo (Paris)….

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Saturday, November 11th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Danny Spencer Quintet
jazz club! when lights are low…
$20 cover charge
  

A jazz legend, the drummer Danny Spencer leads a quintet featuring Noel Jewkes on sax, David Udolf on piano and Carla Kaufman on bass, with vocalist Sherri Roberts singing some favorites. Danny came out of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to Detroit in 1964 and had already acquired a huge reputation and vast experience when he came…

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Super Double Bill! Double Bass meets Double Dynamite!

Friday, November 10th – 5:30-9:30 pm
The Adam Gay Quartet trades fours
with Ritmojito, The Sandra Aran Latin Jazz Dance Band

jazz in the bookshop every Friday since October 2002

An extended Friday night jazz party gets our 16th year of Friday nights off to a fabulous start… two groups will share the stage for the evening, starting with the Adam Gay Quartet at 5:30 and continuing in alternating short sets until 9:30 pm with Sandra Aran’s latin dance band, Ritmojito! Come early and stay…

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Monday, November 6th – 7 pm
Julie Rogers & Gene Berson read their work
 

Julie Rogers and Gene Berson met in 2011 at City Lights, the night of David Meltzer’s launch for his book, “When I Was A Poet”, #60 in the Pocket Poet Series. It was a big deal. Julie read too, first up. Afterward, Gene stood in line to get his book signed. He approached and congratulated…

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Sunday, November 5th – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Seducers
Classic, Outlaw & Honky Tonk Country Music

Joe Goldmark, pedal steel, leads a country music supergroup, tonight with special guest vocalist Lynne Maes of Nashville Honeymoon joining Hank Maninger on lead guitar and vocals, Tim Wagar on bass and Kenny Owen, the Haiku Cowboy, on drums. You’ll undoubtedly hear some classic duets lodged in the American soul by George Jones & Tammy Wynette,…

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Sunday, November 5th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Americano Social Club
which way west? Sunday concert series
 

Michael Zisman, mandolin;  Scott Foster and Jason Vanderford, guitars; Joe Kyle, Jr., bass. Certainly the darlings of all San Franciscans who’ve ever witnessed their family ruckus at the Deluxe, the Americano Social Club is led by Michael Zisman on mandolin and features guitarists Jason Vanderford and Scott Foster and bassist Joe Kyle, Jr.   They play music…

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Saturday, November 4th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Dan Neville’s Golden Circle Sextet CD Release —Tenerife 
jazz club!
when lights are low…
$20 cover charge
 

Golden Circle Septet CD Release Concert! “Tenerife” Dan Neville, vibes and compositions Destiny Muhammad, harp Rebecca Kleinmann, alto flute Grant Levin, piano Shimpei Ogawa, bass Pepe Jacobo, drums special guest Anthony Blea, violin $20 cover charge  

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Friday, November 3rd – 5:30-8:00 pm
Oop Bop Sh’Bam 
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002

Oop Bop Sh’Bam plays bebop and jazz standards on the first Friday in November and December! Al Molina, trumpet; Jerry Logas, reeds; Jeffrey Burr, guitar; Dean Reilly, bass; Vince Lateano, drums

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 Thursday, November 2nd – 7:30-9:30 pm
Randy Lee Odell presents… Flowtilla

fresh groove music for omnivores… Flowtilla is a San Francisco Bay Area based trio formed in 2000 by guitarist Len Paterson, and bassist Ellen Schoenwetter. Their driving sound is an eclectic mix of funk, rock, afro, jazz and world tinged grooves. Drummer Randy Lee Odell completes the trio this evening in Bird & Beckett’s “canyon…

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