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!
Friday, September 1st – 5:30-8:00 pm
Don Prell’s SeaBop Ensemble
plays jazz in the bookshop
Bring $10 for the band and $10 for hurricane relief – through the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund established by Houston mayor Sylvester Turner and administered by the Greater Houston Community Foundation. Drummer Vince Lateano joins up with bassist Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble tonight — Al Molina on trumpet and flugelhorn and Jerry Logas on flute, clarinet and…
Thursday, August 31st – 7:30-9:30 pm
Macy Blackman’s Mighty Fine Trio
Bring $10 for the band and $10 for hurricane relief – through the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund established by Houston mayor Sylvester Turner and administered by the Greater Houston Community Foundation. It’s Macy Blackman’s Mighty Fine Trio! Macy is a piano professor of the first water. Says jazz writer Andrew Gilbert in Berkeleyside, “Macy is as comfortable rockin’…
Tuesday, August 29th – 7-8:30 pm
Book event with Mallory O’Connor
Once upon a tme in California… Mallory M. O’Connor talks about her novel, American River: Tributaries, on Tuesday, August 29 at 7 p.m. “O’Connor weaves a complex tapestry that shows us that immigrant bigotry did not start with Trump’s call for a wall.†— Hilary Hemingway, author of Hemingway in Cuba A part of O’Connor’s…
Sunday, August 27th – 7:00 pm (please note the early start!)
The Grant Levin Quartet
Grant Levin Quartet! Grant Levin, piano Lyle Link, sax Chris Amberger, bass Rick Rivera drums 7 pm to 9 pm (this date only!). .  $15 cover. Pianist Grant Levin brings in duos, trios and quartets on the 2nd, 3rd & 4th Sunday evenings of each month through the end of 2017!
Sunday, August 27th – 4:30-6:30 pm
George Sams Quintet
which way west? Sunday concertÂ
George Sams – brass Eric Mandat – clarinet India Cooke – violin Andre St. James – bass Donald Robinson -drums with special guest, poet Gerald Nicosia George Sams has deep Bay Area connections (see the article linked and quoted below), but he now calls St. Louis home, where he was born and raised. Â Eric…
Sunday, August 27th – 2:30-4 pm
Walker Talks!
Intellectual & Spiritual Investigations of Alan Watts
From the potpourri of the various counter-cultural/human potential movements of the latter half of the 20th century, certain character-figures remain exemplary, offering timeless fields of study to which we can return again and again, in different ways each time. Alan Watts is one such individual, whose thought, co-emergent with its own unique times, continues to…
Saturday, August 26th – 7:30-10:00 pm
The Bernal Jazz Quintet
jazz club! when lights are low…Â
The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… The Bernal Jazz Quintet Michael Gold, sax Derek James, trombone Jim Zimmerman, vibes Larry Epstein, bass Curt Moore, drums
Friday, August 25th – 5:30-8 pm
230 Jones Street, Local 6, Literary 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 — featuring reed players Ray Loeckle and Jerry Logas, guitarist Glen Deardorff, bassist Dean Reilly and drummer Tony Johnson — five musicians whose history on…
POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, August 21st – 7-9 pm
A comic novelist and a poet – Byron Spooner + Judith Ayn Bernhard
followed by an open mic
Jerry Ferraz, m.c.
Poets Judith Ayn Bernhard and Byron Spooner, read, followed by an open mic. Judith Ayn Bernhard is a former Berlitz School of Languages instructor and translator. She is a founding member of The Marin Poetry Center and a current member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Byron Spooner,…
Sunday, August 20th – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio
featuring Joe McKinley, bass, and Pepe Jacobo, drums
$15 cover charge
Grant Levin Trio with Joe McKinley, bass, and Pepe Jacobo, drums.