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
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Saturday, February 11th – 7:30-10 pm
Vince Lateano Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night
The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Vince Lateano Quartet Dick Whittington – piano Jeffrey Burr – guitar John Wiitala – bass Vince Lateano – drums Vince has been a cornerstone drummer of the San Francisco jazz edifice for decades, a swingin’ cat from the go. Pianist Dick Whittington has a history in Bay Area jazz that…
Saturday, February 11th – 4-6 pm
Grant Levin Duo
Grant Levin has an uncanny comfort and focus at the piano, and evidently loves the interaction with his partners on the stand. These duo dates happen every 2nd and 4th Saturday afternoon, with a bassist or drummer, typically. Two sets of close interchange. Myron Cohen has worked in a duo with Grant many times. He’s…
Friday, February 10th – 5:30-8 pm
Don Alberts Renaissance Band
jazz and bebop in the bookshop every Friday since 2002
Bebop, jazz & poetry! Don Alberts Renaissance Band Ian Carey, trumpet • Charlie McCathy, tenor sax Don Alberts, piano • Larry Epstein, bass • Ron Marabuto, drums Plus poet Jeff Kaliss – poetry by Don Alberts & Jeff Kaliss Don Alberts is a bop cat from the earliest ’60s still wailing five and a half…
Sunday, February 5th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Chris Amberger & the Hot Dogs,
featuring the Young Brats!
which way west Sunday concert series
Chris Amberger has appeared frequently on the Bird & Beckett stage, and we’re fortunate indeed that today he leads a quartet here for the first time — and one that can’t fail to play with great joy and intensity, characteristics that Chris has manifested here time and again.. Chris learned his trade as a youth…
Happy at home in Glen Park…
 Inside Bird And Beckett Story by Stephen Jackson, Hoodline, July 30, 2016 If you’re in Glen Park and looking to expand your cultural horizons, your safest bet is to head over to Bird and Beckett Books and Records. The name, derived from Charlie Parker and Samuel Beckett, says it all: the cozy shop specializes in…
Bird & Beckett in full jazz flight
Check out Joel Sackett’s article and photographs in Wingspan magazine– the inflight magazine of All Nippon Airlines. Â Book your ticket and you’ll find it in the pocket of the seat back in front of you. Or click here! Bird & Beckett leads off the list of “Hot Spots & Cool Groups” and a pic…
Sunday, April 2nd – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio, featuring Sylvia Cuenca
Grant Levin, piano Giulio Cetto, bass Sylvia Cuenca, drums  New York-based for the past decade and a half, Sylvia Cuenca was born and raised in San Jose and got her start in jazz in the Bay Area before making her way east, where she’s toured with Joe Henderson and Clark Terry. She’s making…
Monday, February 6, 2017 – 7:30 pm
Kahil El’Zabar and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
Kahil El’Zabar – African drums and trap set Corey Wilkes – trumpet Alex Harding – saxophone Internationally renowned percussionist and composer Kahil El’Zabar is considered one of the most prolific jazz innovators of his generation. Indeed El’Zabar is a true “Renaissance Man,” with a musical style and content that flows from ancient Africa to the…
Sunday, February 5th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Grant Levin Trio
Grant Levin Trio with Chris Amberger & Mark Lee
Sunday, February 5th – 2-3 pm
Bay Area writer John Goins reads
from his San Francisco-based mystery:
Coptic Cross
The protagonist of Coptic Cross, Bill Haywood, is a black man who embodies “friends, relatives, people in my neighborhood when I was growing up…trying to survive in a nation that has only wanted us as slaves or servants, but never as full citizens. Bill is aware of this and knows that his very presence, for…