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, August 20th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Marlina Teich Quartet
which way west? Sunday concert series

Marlina Teich, guitar and vocals Madaline Duran, tenor sax Richard Saunders, bass John Fisher, drums No cover charge; donations requested – that’s how we pay the musicians! Originally from New York City via birthplace, Bayonne, New Jersey, Marlina plays solo, duo and combo, with her regular quartet consisting of Marlina on guitar, Richard Saunders on…

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Saturday, August 19th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Fog – a jazz quartet blankets the pop/rock/jazz landscape
Brian Melvin, drums; Peter Barshay, bass
Brad Buethe, guitar; Matt Renzi, reeds
jazz club! when lights are low…
$15 cover charge

  Fog combines the talents of four internationally lauded musicians: three — multi-reed player Matt Renzi, guitarist Brad Buethe and bassist Peter Barshay — resident in San Francisco, and one — drummer/percussionist Brian Melvin — who has for some years resided in Estonia.      Over the course of his career, Brian has played and…

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Friday, August 18th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet
plays jazz in the bookshop
no cover charge; but donation requested to help us pay the musicians

Scott Foster, guitar Richard Hall, piano Mike Bordelon, bass Dan Foltz, drums Scott reunites with some old friends to play two sets of jazz, drawing a lot on what he and Richard did together on gigs and in the recording studio in the ’90s.  About this combination, Scott muses, “fun quartet!” You can always count…

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Thursday, August 17th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Joel Forrester – solo piano
$10 cover charge

A good starting point for thinking about Joel is to consider his time in the apartment of Baroness Nica, taking lessons in a sort of way from Thelonious Monk, as Monk waited out his final years, laying in bed, not venturing out. When  Joel played well enough, or better, the door to the room where…

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. . . 2, 3, 4! Grant Levin Duos, Trios & Quartets
Every 2nd, 3rd & 4th Sunday!
Sunday, August 13th – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Grant Levin Duo, with reed player Michael Marcus
$10 cover charge

Pianist Grant Levin needs no introduction to Bird & Beckett audiences. We currently have the pleasure of presenting Grant in duo, trio and quartet settings every 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sunday of the month through the end of 2017! Michael Marcus (born in San Francisco in 1952) is New York-based, and has previously played at…

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Sunday, August 13th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Robert Overbury Trio
which way west? Sunday concert series
 

Keith Saunders, piano Robert Overbury, bass Tony Johnson, drums No cover charge; donations requested

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Saturday, August 12th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Patrick Wolff Quintet
jazz club! when lights are low…
$15 cover charge
 

Patrick Wolff, tenor sax Jay Sanders, trumpet Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Evan Hughes, drums

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Friday, August 11th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Jellyroll
featuring vocalist Belinda Blair
jump blues & jazz in the bookshop

Born in the swing revival of the 90’s, Jellyroll’s sound is at once assured and fine-tuned with freshly conceived arrangements steeped in the traditional form. Musicianship as precise as a well-made martini; only the finest ingredients in perfect measure. The band covers jazz, swing and blues of the 30s, 40s and 50s, drawing on the songbooks of Louis Jordan, Cab Calloway, Big Mama Thornton and other…

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Monday, August 7th – 7-9 pm
POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Donnelle McGee and Vincent Meis
Two featured writers followed by an open mic

Donnelle McGee reads recent poems and other work. Vincent Meis reads from his novel, Deluge (Fallen Bros. Press, 2016). Donnelle McGee is a Jimi Hendrix freak and wishes he could dunk a basketball. He earned his MFA from Goddard College. He is a faculty member at Mission College in Santa Clara, California. His work has…

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Sunday, August 6th – 7:30-10:00 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…

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