653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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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, April 1st – 7:30-10pm
Mean to Me
jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night
Mean to Me resurrects classic jazz of the 1920s through ’40s filtered through the unique sensibilities of the band, which boasts a proclivity for bop, soul and latin jazz as well. Think Monk sauntering up Tin Pan Alley and turning onto Bourbon Street… Sweet and low down, and always swingin’. Mingus is there… Ahmad Jamal,…
Thursday, March 30th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Eric Shifrin & the In Crowd
Randy Lee Odell and Bing Nathan will be here! Â You should be, too. Randy will play drums and Bing will play bass, alongside Easifingers Eric Shifrin on the piano… You just need to bring your ears, your enthusiasm and some cash for the performers! The In Crowd ain’t nothin’ without you! With you, it’s the…
Friday, March 31st – 5:30-8 pm
Dave Parker Septet
jazz and bebop in the bookshop
every Friday since 2002
Clifford Brown III – trumpet Charles Hamilton – trombone, Hal Richards – tenor sax and bass clarinet, Jerry Logas – bari sax, Brad Bivens – guitar, Dave Parker – bass, Greg German – drums.
Sunday, March 26th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Macy Blackman & Bing Nathan
play songs of Irma Thomas & Allan Toussaint
which way west? Sunday concert series
Cool little duo – Macy Blackman on piano and Bing Nathan on bass – doing some massively wonderful music by the King & Queen of New Orleans Soul. Macy and his full band just put out a new cd of this material. You’re in for a guided tour of what you’ll hear if you…
Sunday, March 26th – 2:30-4 pm
Walker Talks!
Kerouac and Lamantia: A Poetics of the Inner Self
Walker Brents III gives a talk at Bird & Beckett on the last Sunday of each month… always a fascinating excursion through topics literary, philosophical and otherwise.
Saturday, March 25th – 7:30-10 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Smith Dobson Quartet plays the music of Charlie Parker
Smith Dobson Quintet plays the music of Charlie Parker, surely the most influential musician in modern jazz history– and the “Bird” in Bird & Beckett. Smith Dobson, sax Erik Jekabson, trumpet Keith Saunders, piano John Wiitala, bass Evan Hughes, drums
Saturday, March 25th – 4-6 pm
Grant Levin Duo
with bassist Giulio Cetto
Pianist Levin and bassist Cetto have been developing a rich collaboration over the past several months, growing deeper with each outing. Grant’s twice-monthly duo dates — every second and fourth Saturday afternoon — offer the pianist an opportunity for intimate conversation with colleagues on the bandstand that never fails to lavishly reward the attention of…
Friday, March 24th – 5:30-8 pm
230 Jones Street Jazz Band
jazz and bebop 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 — professional musicians whose history on the local jazz scene dates back 60 years, to the very early 1950s. Ray Loeckle and Jerry Logas on…
Monday, March 20th – 7-9 pm
POETS!
Judith Ayn Bernhard and Aung Taik read from their work, followed by an open mic. Jerry Ferraz carries the day as m.c., as he has since the beginning– which may have been in 12th century Provence.
Sunday, March 19th – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Michael Zilber Quartet presents Originals For The ORIGINALS
In tribute to some of the giants of the saxophone, Michael Zilber performs all original music from his new cd, “Originals for the ORIGINALS,” written in homage to John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, Sonny Rollins, Paul Desmond and Joe Henderson. Hailed by jazz critics including Andrew Gilbert and Bill Milkowski as superb, Zilber’s…