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!
After Wendy on Saturday night,
get home by 11 to hear Modupue on KPFA!
Live on KPFA! BAJABA SHOWCASE & the healing magic of Poetry, Jazz & the Fire of WordSong Live on www.KPFA.org with members of AVOTCJA & MODUPUE Bay Area Blues Hall Of Fame Jazz Group Of The Year 2010 & 2005 SANDI POINDEXTER (Violin) FRANCIS WONG (Sax & Flute) VAL SERRANT (Steel Drum & Djembe) RAUL…
Saturday, July 1st – 7:30-10:00 pm
Wendy DeWitt, Queen of the Boogie Woogie
live at Bird & Beckett’s jazz club! when lights are low…
Throughout a career that has included touring the United States and Europe with rhythm-and-blues legend Hank Ballard and nearly a quarter century at the helm of a powerhouse blues combo called Blue Saloon, boogie woogie and blues pianist and vocalist Wendy DeWitt always worked with a bass player, except when doing the occasional solo piano…
Friday, June 30th – 5:30-8 pm
Pier 23 Reunion Band
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002
Jerry Logas on sax, Alan Steger on piano, Bill Langlois on bass, and Mark Lee on drums…. that’ll get it!
Thursday, June 29th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Eric Shifrin & the In Crowd
featuring Jeff Sanford
Eric Shifrin on piano Jeff Sanford on reeds Paul Smith on bass Randy Lee Odell on drums. Does it get any better?
July 6 to 9: Four Days, Six Shows!
Thursday, Ray Skjelbred & the Cubs A hot jazz quintet, Chicago style! $20 cover. Friday, Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble. No cover. $10 requested. Saturday, The Graham Bruce Quintet with Madaline Duran & Grant Levin. $15 cover. Sunday (2pm), poet Carlos Suarez reads from his new volume, Rivermarks. Sunday (4:30pm), Eric Nakanishi Quartet. No cover. $10…
Tuesday, June 27th – 7-8:30 pm
Author Event: Gretchen Dykstra presents Pinery Boys
Pinery Boys:Â Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era (University of Wisconsin Press, 2016) A newly annotated edition of a landmark 1926 collection of lumberjack song published by pioneering song collector Franz Rickaby, augmented by a biographical essay and additional songs. “Franz Rickaby was the first to put the singing lumberjack into an adequate record and…
duo, trio, quartet… pianist Grant Levin!
Sunday, June 25th – 7:30 pm
The Grant Levin Quartet, with Francis Vanek, sax;
Chris Amberger, bass; Jeff Minnieweather, drums
Beginning June 11th in a duo with Kash Killion, Grant has embarked on an open ended sequence of duo, trio and quartet dates, every corresponding Sunday evening. June 18th, Grant’s trio included bassist Doug Stuart and drummer Michael Mitchell. Tonight, June 25th, a quartet with Francis Vanek on saxophone, Chris Amberger on bass and Jeff…
Sunday, June 25th – 4:30-6:30 pm
DIMA and the Noel Jewkes Quartet
Vocalist Dima sings from the heart with a voice and style reminiscent of the early 1950s. She is known for her command of the lyric, beautiful, soothing tone and carefully chosen repertoire. Dima began to develop her style as a jazz singer while studying with Merrill Hoover, a well known jazz pianist best known for…
Saturday, June 24th – 7:30-10 pm
Vocalist Denise Perrier with Swing Fever
Swing Fever declares, “The music is our passion. Rhythmic, romantic, torrid and witty, we’re crazy for it. Tunes from the 1930s and ’40s have inspired Swing Fever for decades. We learned from the originators of the genre, which gives our performance authenticity. We not only play the music, we talk about it too – colorful…
Friday, June 23rd – 5:30-8 pm
230 Jones Street, Local 6, Literary Jazz Band
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002
Tonight! Ray Loeckle on tenor and soprano saxes Dean Reilly on bass Tony Johnson on drums with special guest Brad Buethe on guitar