653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
[email protected]
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!
Sunday, November 13th – 11 a.m.
Kids’ Book & Craft Event!
Author Emma Bland Smith presents her new picture book
Journey: Based on the True Story of OR-7,
the Most Famous Wolf in the West
Bring your kids to Bird & Beckett for a wolf-themed craft and story time. Emma Bland Smith (San Francisco’s Glen Park and Diamond Heights, Arcadia Publishing, 2007) will read her new picture book, Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7, the Most Famous Wolf in the West. Following Emma’s reading, kids can make a…
Saturday, November 12th – 7:30-10 pm
The Scott Foster Quintet! A Tenor Saxophone Summit!
jazz club! when lights are low…
Tenor saxophone giants David Boyce and Phillip Greenlief join forces on the front line of guitarist Scott Foster’s quintet tonight, with the solid support of bassist Adam Gay and drummer Cairo McCockran Two sets of nimble, blistering and just plain deep jazz by great San Francisco jazz players! If you haven’t made it to Bird…
Saturday, November 12th – 4-6 pm
The Art of the Duo
A Walk on the Sunny Side of the Street…
Pianist Grant Levin Meets Bassist Giulio Cetto
two sets of  joyous jazz interplay on piano and bass
So long, Howie…
Howard Dudune passed away September 24th, and all that are left are memories… and fortunately, at least one magnificent recording; undoubtedly more. Howie was a joy to hear from the first, a talent you could scarcely comprehend, joyfully exquisite time and again. Eddie Duran-Jazz Guitarist, with Dean Reilly on bass and John Markham on drums,…
Tuesday, November 15th – 6:30-7:30 pm
Book release reading & pizza party!
Glen Park author Gordon Jack presents his new
comic novel for teens, The Boomerang Effect
Gordon Jack has wanted to be a novelist since he was a kid.  He ranked it right up there with astronaut and professional dog walker on one of those  career proclivity assessments. Didn’t mention president, thank goodness. We’d suspect pizza delivery guy might have ranked had he thought of it. He did become a dog…
Friday, November 11th – 5:30-8 pm
The Aaron Cohn Quartet
plays jazz in the bookshop
Bassist Aaron Cohn brings together an exciting quartet featuring Henry Hung on trumpet Danny Brown on tenor sax Andre Sumelius on drums jazz as it’s played in San Francisco in 2016Â by its finest practitioners!
Monday, November 7th – 7-9 pm
Two Poets & a Murder of Crows
Jerry Ferraz, Dan Richman and an open mic’s worth of others!
Jerry Ferraz and Dan Richman were on the first bill of poets to read at Bird & Beckett back in 1999 or 2000, and have been solid favorites of ours ever since. And Jerry has hosted our twice-monthly poetry series for well over a decade. Jerry will read from a recent collection of poems, “The…
Sunday, November 6th – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio! Now!
Pianist Grant Levin has been heard at Bird & Beckett time and again, in many formations– as leader, as sideman… in duos, trios, quartets, quintets… Tonight, he’s leading a trio with two players making big waves– bassist Giulio Xavier Cetto, out of Stockton, and drummer Louis Sweatt, out of Brentwood. Grant himself was born in San…
Sunday, November 6th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west? Sunday concert series presents
Maurice Tani & Mike Anderson
a country noir duo
Like all great songwriters/storytellers, Maurice uses humor, pathos, and metaphor…to spin tales of sometimes heroic, sometimes conniving, seductive and/or hapless characters. Characters deep in the throes of urban/country angst, unrequited love, love affairs gone wrong—in a nutshell—country noir. A master of clever lyrics and gorgeous melodies…Maurice’s warm powerful voice animates the songs into a kind of…