653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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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!
Thursday, May 4th – 8-10 pm
Randy Lee Odell presents
Twelve Chimes It’s Midnight radio theater!
canyon moonlight series — occasional Thursday and Sunday nights
At midnight, anything can happen. Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight creates and podcasts original “radio” dramas of mystery, suspense, and horror! They’ll create one before your eyes and ears at Bird & Beckett tonight, with a live score performed by the Kurt Ribak Trio!
Monday, May 1 – 7-9 pm
POETS!
Tony Robles & Tommi Avicolli-Mecca, followed by an open mic
every 1st & 3rd Monday
Tony Robles, born and raised in San Francisco, is co-editor and a revolutionary worker scholar of Poor magazine, and recently published Cool Don’t Live Here No More: A Letter to San Francisco. In 2010 he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Mythium Literary Journal for his short story, “In My Country.” Robles is also a…
Sunday, April 30th – 4:30-6:30 pm
The Bruno Pelletier Quartet
Bruno Pelletier, guitar Matt Renzi, saxophone Ken Lenga, bass Tom Hassett, drums Bruno Pelletier-Bacquaert was born in Paris, France in 1960. He says, “I grew up in a musical family and was encouraged at an early age to develop a talent as a composer and instrumentalist.” Note: Bruno asserts, “It has been said that my dad…
Saturday, April 29th – 7:30-10 pm
B3B4 – soulful funky organ jazz!
The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… jazz club! at Bird & Beckett–every Saturday night, when lights are low… B3B4 Tom Griesser, saxophone Kevin Gerzevitz, organ Scott Foster, guitar Dan Foltz, drums This one will make your hair stand on end… put that tingle in your spine… take your breath away, turn it around and cause it to…
Friday, April 28 – 5:30-8 pm
230 Jones Street Jazz Band
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002
Talk about your San Francisco jazz… On the fourth Friday of each month, our weekly jazz in the bookshop series features The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band — five musicians whose history on the local jazz scene dates back four or five decades. Ray Loeckle & Jerry Logas, reeds Glen Deardorff, guitar…
Thursday, April 27 – 7:30-10:00 pm
Eric Shifrin & the In Crowd
Tonight, the In Crowd features Joe McKinley on bass and Pete Devine on drums. Eric met Joe in 1969, in Joe’s high school play… Joe played bass on Eric’s first piano recording “Blood Sugar” in 1988. Eric played with Pete in the “Big Money in Jazz” band with Mal Sharpe. All three were in the…
Sunday, April 23rd – 4:30-6:30 pm
The Flying Salvias
which way west? Sunday concert series
Flying Salvias is an alt-everything duo from Brisbane, CA– the City of the Stars! A quartet for this appearance, actually! We appear to be at a watershed moment with the Salvias this April! As a twosome, they’ve been characterized as everything from “Ameri-kinda Alt Everything” to “Alt Cabaret”. Henry is well known for his expressive…
Saturday, April 22nd – 7:30-10pm
The Linchpins
jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night
The Linchpins, a quintet comprising the personnel of two fine trios, pivoting on their bassist-in-common. Philip Greenlief and Cory Wright, reeds Scott Foster, guitar Dan Seamans, bass Tom Hassett, drums  This quintet is an intriguing prospect, one that appears to have caught fire in the minds of these five adventuresome and very fine musicians…
Friday, April 21st – 5:30-8 pm
Scott Foster Quartet plays Monk’s Music
jazz and bebop in the bookshop
every Friday since 2002
This will be a fun band! Wonderful musicians: David Boyce, saxophone Scott Foster, guitar Noah Schenker, bass Cairo McCockran, drums Scott Foster leads the date on the 3rd Friday of each month, assembling a new group and repertoire for each outing. We can’t remember an occasion on which we’ve been disappointed! In fact, it’s been…