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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Thursday to Saturday, Feb 8-10
STANDARD ISSUE Jazz standards from the depths Thursday, 2/8/24 – 7:30-9:30pm Darren Johnston / Kai Lyons / Marcus Shelby / Jeff Mars ERIC & THE IN CROWD Eric Shifrin / Ari Munkres / Mark Lee Friday, 2/9/24 – 6-8pm The songs of Harry Warren and Fats Waller! Ari Munkes on bass and Mark Lee on…
Friday to Sunday, February 2nd to 4th
four terrific jazz dates!
Sunday, February 4th – 5-8pm, we present our monthly student combo / jam session date. This month, the Advanced Jazz Combo from RASOTA (Ruth Asawa School of the Arts) led by trumpeter Ryan Ancheta opens the evening with a 45-minute set, followed by a jam session conducted by the internationally acclaimed veteran drummer Akira Tana,…
Friday to Sunday
January 26th-28th
five shows…
jazz, jazz, jazz
British songs of political reform
jazz…
The jazz starts Friday the 26th at 6pm, with Aussie Tony Johnson, shipwrecked on the Barbary Coast in 1959, leading his quartet with Nautical Bob Kenmotsu on saxophone, Cap’n Keith Saunders on piano and Eric the Pirate Markowitz on bass playing the revolutionary oceanic bebop of 52nd Street and its many sub-rebellions and tributaries. At…
Sunday, January 21st – 5:00-7:00pm
Vince Lateano Trio
The Vince Lateano Trio has a long-standing monthly residency at Bird & Beckett on the third Sunday of each month. Vince has been a mainstay of the San Francisco jazz scene since the mid-1960s. No better way to spend a late Sunday afternoon! Do come, byob and a twenty for the band, or whatever you…
Saturday, January 20th – 7:30-9:30pm
Nathan Tokunaga Quartet
Nathan Tokunaga, at the tender age of 16, has already been making waves for years with his amazing depth and maturity as a jazz clarinetist, particularly delving into the classic eras spanning the jazz of the 1920s to 1940s. In the company of a raft of jazz mentors, among them the acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and musicologist…
Thinking ’bout New Orleans…
Walk on down to Bird & Beckett this weekend! Scott Foster has just returned from New Orleans and has some deep and beautiful thoughts to convey Friday evening at 6pm, with a wonderful jazz quartet as the vehicle — Mike Rinta on trombone, Ollie Dudek on bass and groove merchant Larry Vann on drums! Bring…
Sunday, January 14th – 5-7pm
The Seducers!
Mitch Polzak – lead guitar & vocals Hank Maninger – bass guitar & vocals Joe Goldmark – pedal steel guitar Kenny Owen – drums You’ll find the Seducers playing songs of lovin’ and longin’ at Bird & Beckett on the second Sunday of every other month — January, March, May, July, September & November, the…
Sunday, January 14th – 3:30-4:00pm
Gustavo Lorenzatti
solo performance on acoustic bass
Gustavo Lorenzatti is an Argentine double bass player, composer and long standing member of the Symphony Orchestra of Córdoba. He has a background in jazz, improvised and, classical music, tango and argentinian folklore. He formally studied at the Rotterdam Conservatory of music with the soloist of the Netherlands Philharmonic, Hans Roelofsen. Gustavo will be…
Saturday, January 13th – 7:30pm
Andrea Snow in Emily Keeler’s
Dark Days and a Black Dog
with Randy Craig on piano
A year and a day since its theatrical debut, Emily Keeler’s Dark Days and a Black Dog returns to Bird & Beckett tonight, with live music. A solo turn by actor Andrea Snow, directed by Jael Weisman, Emily’s piece unspools seven heart-wrenching years in an intensely personal, darkly comic and breathtakingly recognizable theatrical experience. This…
Friday, January 12th – 8:30-10pm – the late show!
New Orleans R&B
Macy Blackman & the Mighty Fines
Macy Blackman & the Mighty Fines come to Bird & Beckett tonight to deliver a rockin’ excursion through a couple dozen gems, known and obscure, from the musical minds of New Orleans greats like Professor Longhair, Dr. John, Irma Thomas, Allen Toussaint and Fats Domino. The Mighty Fines have been playing New Orleans R&B in…