653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood

1-415-586-3733
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Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six

 

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Sunday, March 19th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west?
Jami Cassady reads from the Joan Anderson letter

70 years on… Having met Neal Cassady in December 1946 in NYC, Jack Kerouac says so long to Neal on March 4, 1947, and Neal returns in a tear to Denver. By March 7, Neal has written a letter to Jack from Denver, the “Great Sex Letter,” astonishing and thrilling Jack with its energy &…

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Sunday, March 19th – 2pm
Late 20th Century Poems & Other Writings
of Papasquiaro, Panero & Ferrer Lerín
–Arturo Mantecón, poet and translator, joined by poet Gilberto Rodríguez, with musicians Dylan Morgan and Arturo Balderrama

Poet Arturo Mantecón presents a reading from the work of three late 20th century Spanish language poets/writers — Francisco Ferrer Lerín, Leopoldo María Panero and Mario Santiago Papasquiaro.  Mantecón is joined on the program by Gilberto Rodriguez, who will declaim poems of Panero, and by musicians Dylan Morgan and Arturo Balderrama. Mantecón’s translations include poems…

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Saturday, March 18th – 7:30-10pm
Sandor Moss y su mecanica
jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night

Cuban style son with timba and folkloric strains cooked up by percussionist Sandor Moss y su mecanica…  From Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba — Fito Reinoso, tres & vocals “El Niche” Romero, trumpet & vocals From Havana, Cuba – Vladimir Cepeda, congas From Bolivia — Gabriel Navia, bass From Nicaragua — Sandor Moss, drumset A proud Mariel,…

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Friday, March 17th – 5:30-8 pm
1967 Redux: Scott Foster Quartet
jazz and bebop in the bookshop every Friday since 2002

Time to revisit some music released in that fabled year, 1967! Lincoln Adler, sax Scott Foster, guitar Mike Bordelon, bass Dan Foltz, drums Unbelievably wonderful jazz guaranteed

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Thursday, March 16th – 7-9 pm
ARCANA BOIL!

ARCANA BOIL! – Concert and Reading in celebration of the Shuffle Boil Special Issue of AMERARCANA – featuring Hafez Modirzadeh, David Boyce, Marshall Trammell. The latest issue of AMERARCANA is guest edited by poets Steve Dickison and the late, great David Meltzer, erstwhile editors of SHUFFLE BOIL: A Magazine of Poets and Music, and consists…

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Sunday, March 12th – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Seducers

  Classic, Outlaw & Honky Tonk Music by legends of the Bay Area country scene   Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocal Hank Maninger, bass guitar and vocal Kenny Owen, drums    

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Sunday, March 12th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Midnight Blue Trio

Drummer Otto Huber brought us this project, his organ trio sans organ this afternoon, with Sean Williams on guitar and Parker Grant on piano, swinging hard on material that echoes the work of such jazz legends as John Patton, George Benson and Jack McDuff. Otto was raised in Chicago and early on steered to the…

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Saturday, March 11th – 7:30-10 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Erik Jekabson Trio, with Peter Barshay and Alan Hall

Trumpeter Erik Jekabson has built a substantial and well-earned reputation as one of the very best trumpet players in the region. He’s got five cds out under his own name, has spent time on the road with Illinois Jacquet, John Mayer, Galactic, and the Howard Fishman Quartet, and has performed at such notable venues as the…

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Saturday, March 11th – 4-6 pm
Grant Levin Duo
with bassist Giulio Cetto

The pianist Grant Levin and bassist Giulio Cetto have been developing a fruitful collaboration for the past several months, striking out in new directions each outing. Don’t miss Grant’s twice-monthly duo sessions at Bird & Beckett. Every 2nd and 4th Saturday from 4 to 6 pm. They’re already going down in the annals of the…

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Friday, March 10th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Ollie Dudek Quartet featuring saxophonist Noel Jewkes

Noel Jewkes, everybody’s favorite tenor player, fronts a terrific rhythm section — leader Ollie Dudek on bass, Jeffrey Burr on guitar and James Gallagher on drums — doing what jazz musicians do best. Classic and obscure tunes beautifully interpreted, embellished and plumbed to their depths.

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