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!
Wednesday, August 2nd – 7:30-9:30 pm
San Francisco’s Incoming Poet Laureate Kim Shuck
reads new and selected poems
Kim Shuck has been selected as San Francisco’s seventh poet laureate, and will succeed Alejandro Murguia in early August. Her four published collections (three books and one chapbook) are Smuggling Cherokee, Rabbit Stories (prose), Sidewalk Ndn and Clouds Running; she says the chapbook Sidewalk Ndn is her best collection so far. Read on, and also read this…
Tuesday, August 1st – 7:30-10 pm
Jam Session Send-Off for
Drummers Lewis Sweatt & Timothy Angulo!
Join us to hear and bid bon voyage to two great young drummers who have been tearing it up on the San Francisco scene for the past several years — they’re Big Apple bound! Louis and Tim will trade off on drums, along with pianists Grant Levin and Simon Rowe, and bassists Chris…
Sunday, July 30th – 4:30-6:30 pm:
Avotcja & Modúpue
celebrate Avotcja’s 76th birthday!
Avotcja, spoken word and small multi-percussion; Frances Wong, saxophone; Manny Moku, piano Heshima Mark Williams, bass Raul Ramirez, multi-percussion Avotcja is a jazz musician with deep roots, a riveting poet, an imaginative and ruminative prose writer, a pioneer, an individualist, a fierce champion of her fellow musicians, poets and artists.  She leads the group named Best Jazz…
Saturday, July 29th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Caroline Davis Quintet
jazz club! when lights are low…
From NYC: Caroline Davis, alto saxophone and Carmen Staaf, piano, plus local heroes Raffi Garabedian, tenor saxophone; Noah Garabedian, bass; Evan Hughes, drums Caroline, Carmen and Noah — none of whom have played at Bird & Beckett before — are fitting in this date between sessions teaching at Stanford Jazz Workshop’s Jazz Camp and Jazz…
Friday, July 28th – 5:30-8 pm
230 Jones Street, Local 6, Literary Jazz Band
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002
Ray Loeckle and Jerry Logas, saxes Glen Deardorff, guitar Dean Reilly, bass Tony Johnson, drums
Thursday, July 27th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Eric Shifrin & the In Crowd
play the music of Cole Porter
Eric Shifrin, piano Paul Smith, bass Scott Johnson, drums Cole Porter surveyed! Looking at You … Just One of Those Things … So in Love … In the Still of the Night … Begin the Beguine … Everything I Love … Don’t Fence Me In … Miss Otis Regrets … Why Shouldn’t I … I…
Mark your calendar!
. . . 2, 3, 4! duo, trio, quartet… pianist Grant Levin!
2nd, 3rd & 4th Sunday evenings, every month!
Sunday, July 23rd – 7:30 pm – $15 cover charge
The Grant Levin Quartet feat. Noel Jewkes, reeds
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Noel Jewkes, saxophone Grant Levin, piano Charles Thomas, bass Rick Rivera, drums Three of Grant’s favorite collaborators, including the great Noel Jewkes, hold forth for two sets of jazz this Sunday night! $15 cover charge tonight. Read more here!
Sunday, July 23rd – 4:30-6:30 pm
Lee Vilensky Trio
which way west? Sunday concert series
Surf trio Lee Vilensky, guitar Bill McBeath, bass Jamie Lease, drums
Saturday, July 22nd – 7:30-10:00 pm
Levitation Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low…
$15 cover charge
The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Jesse Levit, sax & EWI Adam Shulman, piano Josh Thurston-Milgrom, bass Lorca Hart, drums A native of Oakland, California, Jesse Levit started playing saxophone and piano at the age of seven. After winning numerous honors and holding the lead alto chair in both the SFJAZZ High School All-Star Band and…
Friday, July 21st – 9-10:30 pm
Tammy Hall Trio
Tammy Hall Trio Tammy Lynne Hall, piano Ravi Abcarian, bass Ruthie Price, drums $15 cover charge Tammy Lynne Hall is among the premier pianists in the Bay Area, with a richly deserved international reputation and audience. Her playing is steeped in jazz, gospel and classical influences. “A musician who has much to offer in the…