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, February 5th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Chris Amberger & the Hot Dogs,
featuring the Young Brats!
which way west Sunday concert series

Chris Amberger has appeared frequently on the Bird & Beckett stage, and we’re fortunate indeed that today he leads a quartet here for the first time — and one that can’t fail to play with great joy and intensity, characteristics that Chris has manifested here time and again.. Chris learned his trade as a youth…

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Happy at home in Glen Park…

 Inside Bird And Beckett Story by Stephen Jackson, Hoodline, July 30, 2016 If you’re in Glen Park and looking to expand your cultural horizons, your safest bet is to head over to Bird and Beckett Books and Records. The name, derived from Charlie Parker and Samuel Beckett, says it all: the cozy shop specializes in…

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Bird & Beckett in full jazz flight

Check out Joel Sackett’s article and photographs in Wingspan magazine– the inflight magazine of All Nippon Airlines.   Book your ticket and you’ll find it in the pocket of the seat back in front of you. Or click here! Bird & Beckett leads off the list of “Hot Spots & Cool Groups” and a pic…

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Sunday, April 2nd – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio, featuring Sylvia Cuenca

  Grant Levin, piano Giulio Cetto, bass Sylvia Cuenca, drums   New York-based for the past decade and a half, Sylvia Cuenca was born and raised in San Jose and got her start in jazz in the Bay Area before making her way east, where she’s toured with Joe Henderson and Clark Terry. She’s making…

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Monday, February 6, 2017 – 7:30 pm
Kahil El’Zabar and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble

Kahil El’Zabar – African drums and trap set Corey Wilkes – trumpet Alex Harding – saxophone Internationally renowned percussionist and composer Kahil El’Zabar is considered one of the most prolific jazz innovators of his generation. Indeed El’Zabar is a true “Renaissance Man,” with a musical style and content that flows from ancient Africa to the…

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Sunday, February 5th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Grant Levin Trio

Grant Levin Trio with Chris Amberger & Mark Lee

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Sunday, February 5th – 2-3 pm
Bay Area writer John Goins reads
from his San Francisco-based mystery:
Coptic Cross

The protagonist of Coptic Cross, Bill Haywood, is a black man who embodies “friends, relatives, people in my neighborhood when I was growing up…trying to survive in a nation that has only wanted us as slaves or servants, but never as full citizens. Bill is aware of this and knows that his very presence, for…

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Saturday, February 4th – 7:30-10 pm
Debbie Poryes Trio with Peter Barshay and David Rokeach
jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night

Debbie has performed, taught and recorded internationally. Critics have noted that her playing is ““crystal clear, with the swinging elegance of Tommy Flanagan combined with the depth of Bill Evans.” A natural born musician, Debbie Poryes took to the piano at five years old, playing show tunes and studying classical music. Hearing Monk and Miles…

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Thursday, February 2nd – 8-10 pm
Emily Hayes with the Randy Lee Odell Trio
and special guest guitarist Mark Holzinger

Randy Lee Odell presents… Every 1st Thursday in Bird & Beckett’s “canyon moonlight” series Thursday, February 2nd – 8-10pm: Emily Hayes Singer Emily Hayes draws on a repertoire ranging from blues to country to jazz, rich in the work of singers from Bessie Smith to Nina Simone to Patsy Cline. Raised in New England, Emily…

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Monday, January 30th – 8-9pm
Tom Church and associates explore the brutalities of arrest and incarceration – monologue and improvised music

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