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!
. . . 2, 3, 4! duo, trio, quartet… pianist Grant Levin
2nd, 3rd & 4th Sunday evenings, every month
Tonight! Sunday, October 8th – 7:30 pm
Grant Levin / Greg D’Augelli Duo
Best jazz piano player ever, in your own back yard! Tatum? Mary Lou Williams? Herbie Nichols? Meet your young colleague from the North Coast. He’s San Francisco’s finest… And a pianist for the ages. We’re not joking! ……………. Grant, with a freshly minted degree in jazz performance from University of Nevada at Reno, met saxophonist…
Tonight! Saturday, October 7th – 7:30-10 pm
Sueños
jazz club! when lights are low…
every Saturday night
Tonight: $15 to $20 sliding scale… for students: $5 The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Sueños— expanding the boundaries of this jazz music! Noah Frank, trumpet; Eli Maliwan, tenor sax; James Mitchell, piano; Alex Farrell, bass; Evan Williams, drums, playing tonight from a straight ahead, hard bop bag, and always pushing the evolution of jazz through…
Sorry, Sunday’s Litquake event at Bird & Beckett has been cancelledÂ
Due to unavoidable circumstances for some of the participants, the Oct. 8 panel on literary translation from Tamil has been cancelled. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience. Visit Litquake’s site at this link for the full schedule. Dozens of exciting events are slated all over the City!
Saturday, October 7th – 4-6 pm
Ira Kamin vs. PC Muñoz
The Rumble in the Jumble!
http://www.pcmunoz.com/ Ira Kamin was all over the Chicago electric blues scene with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band alongside buddy Michael Bloomfield before the two, Kamin and Bloomfield, traveled out to San Francisco in 1966. In 1967, Kamin was an original member of Tracy Nelson’s band, Mother Earth. The rest? We don’t really have a grasp…
Friday, October 6th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Oop Bop Sh’Bam
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002
San Francisco’s longest running jazz party celebrates its 15th anniversary this month! What started with the Chuck Peterson Trio in October of 2002 continues without cease! Never a missed Friday since the beginning! Mark your calendar now for the fourth Friday of October, when Chuck will join the 230 Jones Street Band! But, first, come…
Saturday, October 7th – 7:30-10:00 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Sueños expanding the boundaries of this jazz music! Noah Frank, trumpet; Eli Maliwan, tenor sax; James Mitchell, piano; Alex Farrell, bass; Evan Williams, drums, push the evolution of jazz through the present moment — hip-hop & R&B rhythms blended with modal and gospel harmony, bebop-tinged horns flowing over the top. Original music and tunes…
Thursday, October 5th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Randy Lee Odell presents…
Wild Women Don’t Get No Blues! GG Amos + Liliana Herrera
Liliana Herrera, vocals GG Amos, guitar and vocals Tom Griesser, saxophone Parris Bertolucci, keyboards Edgar San Gabriel, bass Randy Lee Odell, drums Two strong women express themselves through blues, R&B and roots music. GG Amos will present a set from the classic era of blues singers 1920s-1940s as well as modern west coast blues and…
Thursday, October 5th – 5:30-7 pm
Happy hour show—The Lazy Governors
All Strings Gypsy Jazz/Western Swing/Standards
The Lazy Governors play gypsy jazz, western swing, standards… catch them at Cafe Claude, Amnesia, and now, Bird & Beckett. All strings all the time, except that there’s a vocalist too… Hannah Rifkin. Otherwise, it’s… Geoffrey Boushey Julian Alexander Sam Barnum Russ Kiel
POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, October 2nd – 7-9 pm
JB Frame and Dee Allen
followed by an open mic
Jerry Ferraz, m.c.
Two poets who matter. It’s a bloody, inhuman mess out there, and it bears thinking about. And speaking. JB Frame and Dee Allen read their work. An open mic follows. Jerry Ferraz hosts. In re: Jim Frame — Conceived by the Greatest Generation as an antidote to axis victory in WWII. Raised in Sonoma. Vietnam…
Sunday, October 1st – 7:30-9:30 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…