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, July 3rd – 7:30-10 pm
GG Amos Band plays West Coast blues for the holiday!

The GG Amos Trio with Lincoln Adler on sax, Greg Sankovich on keyboards and bass and Randy Odell on drums celebrate the Independence Day weekend. Guitarist / Vocalist GG Amos is an artist in the West Coast Blues tradition, raised in Sacramento and now based in San Francisco.  She’s honed her craft as a songwriter and…

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Sunday, July 3rd – 4:30-6:30 pm:
A trad jazz celebration with the
Buena Vista Jazz Band!

To us, nothing suits the 4th of July weekend as well as a trad jazz party, and few can rival the Buena Vista Jazz Band in bringing that spirit to life. Singer Darlene Langston is featured, with Noel Weidcamp on cornet, John Hunt on trombone, Don Neely on clarinet, soprano sax and alto sax, Si…

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Saturday, July 2nd – 7:30-10 pm: jazz club! when lights are low…
The Tenors of the Times: Smith Dobson & Raffi Garabedian Head to Head

Two top Bay Area tenor sax players meet up on the Bird & Beckett stage, with a fine rhythm section.  Miles Wick, bass, and Evan Hughes, drums, add their own excitement to the proceedings.

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The Lost Trio

Friday, 5:30-8 pm, September 30. Phillip Greenlief, sax Dan Seamans, bass Tom Hassett, drums Hank Williams and Herbie Nichols, Billy Strayhorn and Nino Rota, Irving Berlin and Joni Mitchell, Beck and Bjork.  And that was just where they stood five years ago. You’ll hear where they’re going these days when you get in here on…

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Sunday, June 26th – 7:30-10 pm
Misisipi Mike Wolf & Friends pay tribute to
Texas troubadour Guy Clark

Guy  Clark (November 6, 1941 – May 17, 2016) was dubbed a “king of the Texas troubadours” by that humble southern rag, the New York Times, and they were likely right on the mark. Misisipi Mike and a few great friends from the San Francisco Americana music scene will gather Sunday night, June 26th to pick…

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Sunday, June 26th – 4:30-6:30 pm: which way west?
Four formidable songwriters & musicians in one band:
Atkinson Kincheloe Beynon & Cefalu

Music industry veterans–country rockers–gifted songwriters–guitar pickers–vocalists adept at working in tandem to create harmonic magic, this band grew out of a winter of music and many more nights spent in front of living room fires, glowing with stories of music industry horrors, tales of perils of the road, memories of old alliances and changing times….

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Sunday, June 26th – 2 pm
Greek Poetry Anthology reading

with Jack Hirschman, D. Charalambous, Ismini Ioannou, Angelos Sakkis, John Sakkis, Katerina Stock

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jazz club! every Saturday night, when lights are low…
Saturday, June 25th – 7:30-10 pm: The Vinnie Rodriguez Quintet

Scott Larson – trombone;  Scott Barnhill – saxophone;  Jeremy Lieber – piano;  Adam Gay – bass;  Vinnie Rodriguez – drums.  Tonight, five solid players under the leadership of drummer Vinnie Rodriguez trade off calling the tunes for your pleasure through two full sets at Bird & Beckett’s Saturday night “jazz club” — 7:30-10 pm; $10…

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Friday, July 1st – 5:30-8 pm
jazz in the bookshop
SeaBop!

Bird & Beckett is jazz central on Friday nights… and SeaBop has been entertaining the neighborhood for years on the first Friday of each month.  Led by bassist Don Prell, the core personnel of Seabop are sax/clarinet player Jerry Logas and drummer Vinnie Rodriguez. Come out on a summer night to hear a little music,…

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Saturday, June 25th – 4-6 pm: Grant Levin Duo
featuring bassist Charles Thomas

Twice a month on a Saturday afternoon (2nd & 4th), one of the Bay Area’s hidden treasurers, pianist Grant Levin, works through two sets of jazz standards and originals with a duo partner, and the results always hold the Bird & Beckett audience transfixed. Try it– you won’t often find such a sublime way to…

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