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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Memorial Gatherings for Lurilla Harris Tuesday, July 19th, Noon
at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, Franklin at Geary
and Wednesday, July 20, 2:30 pm at the St. Francis Lutheran Church, 152 Church St. near Market St.
Celebrate the life of Lurilla Harris! Lurilla was a marvel of a woman, a tenacious survivor despite a stroke some years ago, who made the rounds constantly, forging ahead with her walker, transported hither and yon constantly by the city’s service buses for the disabled to get to concerts, films, community meetings, political hearings, you…
Sunday, July 17th – 2 pm
Dual Author Event
Laurie Taylor & Richard Michael Levine
Two fiction writers, Laurie Taylor and Richard Michael Levine, share the stage at Bird & Beckett this Sunday afternoon. On remote Spanish island near the African coast, a Mexican American entomologist, Epiphany Jerome, is looking for a rare beetle. Instead she finds a body on an empty beach with a knife sticking out from its back.  Laurie…
jazz club! when lights are low…
Saturday, July 16th – 7:30-10 pm
The Tim Lin Quartet
Tim Lin, saxophone; Seiji Yamashita, piano; Trevor Murphy, bass; Lewis Sweatt, drums. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Tim Lin is a rising jazz star whose progressive sound draws from his synthesis of the jazz tradition. Upon his discovery of John Coltrane’s masterpiece “A Love Supreme”, Tim was drawn into the wonders…
Friday, July 15th – 5:30-8 pm
Guitarist Scott Foster, Bassist Dan Seamans, Clarinetist Cory Wright
Guitarist Scott Foster brings in a group on the 3rd Friday of each month. He first started playing Bird & Beckett in the fall of 2002. Ever since, it’s been all good. He’s sure seems to be our favorite musician, our favorite jazz musician, our favorite jazz guitarist, our favorite band leader. Come hear what…
Sunday, July 10th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west? presents
Karma Beats, a world jazz trio
Dynamic young players making their mark on the Bay Area jazz & club scene, vocalist Helen Loo, reed player Dan Magay and guitarist Justin Rock (subbing for Karma Beats core member Luke Vesely) offer up a unique, versatile and soulful sound combined with an expansive, genre-bending repertoire. Karma Beats delves deep into music from Brazil,…
Sunday, July 10th – 2 pm
A Celebration of Whitman McGowan!
Join Margery Snyder and friends of Whitman McGowan to celebrate his masterwork, UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE (Viridiana, 2015), collected performance texts 1985 – 2012, published one year ago, just a few months before he died in October 2015. As his CDs revealed his gift for fruitful collaboration with musicians & other artists, so this book shows off the…
Saturday, July 9th – 4-6 pm and 7:30-10 pm
A Double Shot of Grant Levin
sharing the stage with Noel Jewkes, Joe McKinley & Malachi Whitson
Every second Saturday, we’re blessed with a pair of performances by pianist Grant Levin — first a duo outing in the late afternoon, and then after a dinner break, a quartet with some of the finest players the bay area has to offer. Â In this instance, the duo pairs up Grant with the wonderful bassist…
Friday, July 8th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Jimmy Ryan’s Bird & Beckett Bebop Reunion Band
July 8 marks the anniversary of drummer Jimmy Ryan’s passing. And though he’s sorely missed, the momentum he gave to our 2nd Fridays carries on! Tonight, Trombonists Stu Pilorz and Rick Elmore, pianist Don Alberts, bassist Aaron Cohn join forces with drummer Ron Marabuto to call some tunes that Jimmy would have called. Jimmy always…
Tuesday, July 5th – 7-9 pm
Lucie Vitkova, Czech composer and performer
screens a documentary film on her work and performs
 Lucie VÃtková is a composer, improviser and performer (accordion, harmonica, voice and tap dance) from the Czech Republic. Her compositions focus on sonification (compositions based on abstract models derived from physical objects), while her improvisation practice explores characteristics of discrete spaces through the interaction between sound and movement. In her recent work, she…