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653 Chenery Street in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
Open to walk-in trade and browsing Tuesday to Sunday noon to six
phone: 1-415-586-3733 email: [email protected]
Sunday, July 30th – 4:30-6:30 pm:
Avotcja & Modúpue
celebrate Avotcja’s 76th birthday!
Avotcja, spoken word and small multi-percussion; Frances Wong, saxophone; Manny Moku, piano Heshima Mark Williams, bass Raul Ramirez, multi-percussion Avotcja is a jazz musician with deep roots, a riveting poet, an imaginative and ruminative prose writer, a pioneer, an individualist, a fierce champion of her fellow musicians, poets and artists.  She leads the group named Best Jazz…
Saturday, July 29th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Caroline Davis Quintet
jazz club! when lights are low…
From NYC: Caroline Davis, alto saxophone and Carmen Staaf, piano, plus local heroes Raffi Garabedian, tenor saxophone; Noah Garabedian, bass; Evan Hughes, drums Caroline, Carmen and Noah — none of whom have played at Bird & Beckett before — are fitting in this date between sessions teaching at Stanford Jazz Workshop’s Jazz Camp and Jazz…
Friday, July 28th – 5:30-8 pm
230 Jones Street, Local 6, Literary Jazz Band
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002
Ray Loeckle and Jerry Logas, saxes Glen Deardorff, guitar Dean Reilly, bass Tony Johnson, drums
Thursday, July 27th – 7:30-9:30 pm
Eric Shifrin & the In Crowd
play the music of Cole Porter
Eric Shifrin, piano Paul Smith, bass Scott Johnson, drums Cole Porter surveyed! Looking at You … Just One of Those Things … So in Love … In the Still of the Night … Begin the Beguine … Everything I Love … Don’t Fence Me In … Miss Otis Regrets … Why Shouldn’t I … I…
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. . . 2, 3, 4! duo, trio, quartet… pianist Grant Levin!
2nd, 3rd & 4th Sunday evenings, every month!
Sunday, July 23rd – 7:30 pm – $15 cover charge
The Grant Levin Quartet feat. Noel Jewkes, reeds
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Noel Jewkes, saxophone Grant Levin, piano Charles Thomas, bass Rick Rivera, drums Three of Grant’s favorite collaborators, including the great Noel Jewkes, hold forth for two sets of jazz this Sunday night! $15 cover charge tonight. Read more here!
Sunday, July 23rd – 4:30-6:30 pm
Lee Vilensky Trio
which way west? Sunday concert series
Surf trio Lee Vilensky, guitar Bill McBeath, bass Jamie Lease, drums
Saturday, July 22nd – 7:30-10:00 pm
Levitation Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low…
$15 cover charge
The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Jesse Levit, sax & EWI Adam Shulman, piano Josh Thurston-Milgrom, bass Lorca Hart, drums A native of Oakland, California, Jesse Levit started playing saxophone and piano at the age of seven. After winning numerous honors and holding the lead alto chair in both the SFJAZZ High School All-Star Band and…
Friday, July 21st – 9-10:30 pm
Tammy Hall Trio
Tammy Hall Trio Tammy Lynne Hall, piano Ravi Abcarian, bass Ruthie Price, drums $15 cover charge Tammy Lynne Hall is among the premier pianists in the Bay Area, with a richly deserved international reputation and audience. Her playing is steeped in jazz, gospel and classical influences. “A musician who has much to offer in the…
Friday, July 21st – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002!
Tonight! A Cuban Excursion with the Scott Foster Trio
Guitarist Scott Foster will be fresh back from Havana for tonight’s show, so he’s enlisted bassist Adam Gay and drummer Omar Aran to play two sets of music drawing on his experience there!
Thursday, July 20th – 7:30-9:30 pm
HowellDevine
canyon moonlight series —
occasional Thursday and Sunday nights
Delta blues juggernaut… a howling wind of sound and rhythm Joshua Howell gtr, harp, vocal Pete Devine drums, washboard, jug Joe Kyle, Jr. bass Read up on the band here  http://www.howelldevine.com/about.html Seek out their records read about those here Then come hear them live. You’ll never be the same again!