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!

Eddie Duran & Friends!
Saturday, October 22nd – 7:30-10 pm
jazz club! when light are low…

Guitarist Eddie Duran leads the date. 92 years old and a San Franciscan by birth and upbringing, he released his debut album on Fantasy in 1956, a gorgeous and swinging quartet outing that epitomized the small combo jazz of the day.  Howie Dudune played reeds on the date, Dean Reilly played bass, and Johnny Markham,…

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Saturday, October 22nd – 4-6 pm
The Art of the Duo:
Pianist Grant Levin & Bassist Charles Thomas

Grant Levin and Charles Thomas have developed a rapport on the bandstand that ensures a strikingly vital collaboration when they have the space to themselves. Come enjoy the dialogue that develops between two musicians who are masters of their instruments and their craft.

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Friday, October 21st – 5:30-8 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet
plays jazz in the bookshop, The City’s longest running jazz party!

Scott Foster’s band this time around features saxophonist Larry Delacruz, bassist Adam Gay and drummer Bryan Bowman.  Scott’s a brilliant guitarist, His sidemen are equally adept, deep & swinging, as called for. This is jazz as it’s played in San Francisco in 2016.

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Thursday, October 20 – 8-10 pm
The Seducers play country music
in the canyon moonlight

The Seducers play classic country music from Bakersfield to Nashville and tread the outlaw path as called for.  They’re a fantastic band, led by Joe Goldmark, a master of the pedal steel guitar, and fronted by Mitch Polzak, just a kid gas jockey from Fremont or Hayward who dedicated himself to music one day and…

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Monday, October 17th – 7-9 pm
POETS!
Avotcja and Dan Brady — open mic follows
Jerry Ferraz, m.c.

Avotcja, the name conjures up feelings of wisdom and strength. Her voice and music have given life to several instances of social injustice, propelling her audiences to be inspired and to make change. Avotcja has been published in English & Spanish in the USA, Mexico & Europe, and in more Anthologies than she remembers. She is…

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Saturday, October 15th – 7:30-10 pm
Idris Ackamoor ☥ the Pyramids
We Be All Africans – the new album!
bon voyage show! hosted by Rhodessa Jones
last chance to hear The Pyramids before their European tour

jazz club! when lights are low…

Featuring Idris Ackamoor on saxophones; Sandy Poindexter, violins and vocals; Skyler Stover, acoustic and electric bass; Sandor Moss, drums; Raul Ramirez, congas & drums; Bobby Cobb, guitar. Hosted  by Rhodessa Jones. Idris Ackamoor continues his intergalactic musical odyssey with the release of “WE BE ALL AFRICANS” by Idris Ackamoor ☥ the Pyramids, incorporating Fela-like African rhythms, George…

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Sunday, October 16th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Kurt Ribak Quartet

Saxophonist Lincoln Adler, keyboard player Greg Sankovitch and drummer Randy Lee Odell join bassist Kurt Ribak for a couple sets of originals and standards. This quartet has years of experience working together and playing throughout Northern California, and it shows! Kurt Ribak (pronounced REE-bok, like the shoes) showed a penchant early on for finding rhythm…

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Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice
a reading by editor Odilia Galvan Rodriguez and contributors
Sunday, October 16th – 2 pm

Odilia Galvan Rodriguez, Sharon Elliott, Jabez W. Churchill, Avotcja, Antoinette Nora Claypool, James Downs,  Cathy Arellano,  Genny Lim and Cesar Love read to celebrate this new anthology, edited by Rodriguez and Francisco X. Alarcon (University of Arizona Press, 2016). On April 20, 2010, nine Latino students chained themselves to the main doors of the Arizona…

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Friday, October 14th – 5:30-8 pm
The Patrick Wolff Quartet
plays jazz in the bookshop!

Patrick Wolff, tenor sax Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Tony Johnson drums Injecting swing into jazz classics, a little Monk, some Kenny Dorham, some Lucky Thompson– you can’t really go wrong with these musicians and this music! “The kid can play…so lyrical, and deft and swinging to boot.” —ROBERT PINSKY, UNITED STATES POET LAUREATE…

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Macy Blackman

Thursday, October 13th – 8-10 pm
Macy Blackman & Bing Nathan, piano & bass
play rhythm & blues, with historical (hysterical) commentary

Piano professor Macy Blackman has played it all, and plays it for you tonight with Bing Nathan on bass… From the Clovers to the Orioles, Fats Domino to Professor Longhair… they’ll play the tunes and tell the stories that we crave!

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