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!
This weekend!
Friday to Sunday, Jan 12-14
Jazz! New Orleans R&B!
Theatre! Honky Tonk!
Friday, January 12, 6-8pm – $20 cover, byob ERIC & THE IN CROWD Every Second Sunday! Piano Professor Eric Shifrin’s Residency Continues in 2024! January 12th, introducing “THE COMPOSERS SERIES” Another great show each month featuring composers whose gem-like tunes have become jazz standards. This month’s spotlight falls on VINCENT YOUMANS & VICTOR YOUNG Think…
Sunday, January 7th – 5-7pm
Avotcja & Modupúe bring the fire!
Avotcja, poetry and small percussion Sandi Poindexter, violin Francis Wong, saxophones Heshima Mark Williams, bass Raul Ramirez, drums $20 cover charge reservations: call 415-586-3733 Avotcja & Modúpue kick off another great year of live music at Bird & Beckett! For more years than we can count, Avotcja, a formidably great poet/musician/composer/musicologist, has brought her ensemble…
Saturday, January 6th – 7:30-9:30pm
Levitation Quartet
Jesse Levit, sax and EWI. Colin Hogan, piano. Dexter Williams, bass. Elé Howell, drum set. A fantastic band, top to bottom. You only regret the shows you miss! Join us! $20 cover charge at the door cash or venmo. byob. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733.
Friday, January 5th – 8:30-10pm
The Annie Orzen Trio
home for the holidays!
Annie Orzen, piano Maddox Rochman-Romdalvik, bass Will Davies, drums Lily Bogas, vocals Annie Orzen, born & raised in Glen Park, is studying jazz and contemporary media at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. She’s been home for the holidays and returns to school shortly, but first a stop at Bird & Beckett! The…
Friday, January 5th – 6-8pm
Danny Brown Quartet
Welcoming back to Bird & Beckett, for our first jazz show of 2024, Danny Brown, tenor man extraordinaire, in superb company — with Smith Dobson drums, Eric Markowitz on bass and young Graham Messer on piano. Brilliant players, all! Don’t miss it! $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733.
This weekend, January 19th to 21st
jazz and nothing but,
‘cept books ‘n’ such…
and first, Thursday…
January 18th, Walker Brents III, gives one of his monthly live-streamed talks, this one on Marie Louise Von Franz, student of Carl Jung, who made great contributions in Jung’s footsteps as both thinker and therapist. Find it on our youtube channel or facebook page at 7:30pm Thursday. Want to come down and sit enthralled, listening…
Thursday, January 4th – 7pm
Poet Beau Beausoleil
followed by an open mic
Beau Beausoleil reads from his collection War News, a digital book published by AGITATE! War News is a collection of 90 poems, written one a day since October 8, 2023. The poems in the collection reflect on what it means to bear witness to war, killing and destruction in Gaza, Palestine. It asks, ‘what does…
Saturday, May 4th – 7:30-9:30pm
Jinx Jones Jazz Trio
Jinx Jones, guitar; Kurt Ribak, bass; Rob Hart, drums. Jazz club! when lights are low… Saturday nights at Bird & Beckett! $20 cover charge cash or venmo at the door reservations, call 415-586-3733 Jinx Jones is a titan of rockabilly guitar, a virtuoso of twang and surf, but he’s also long been drenched in the…
Saturday, December 30th – 7:30-9:30pm
Cuarteto de Luna Nueva
Gaea Schell on flute leads a fabulous aggregation of musicians in two sets of Latin jazz tonight! Conguero Carlos Caro is driving in from the Central Valley to join Gaea, bassist Saúl Sierra and vibraphonist Dan Neville for two sets of dynamic music. $20 cover charge (cash or venmo at the door). BYOB. Reservations: 415-586-3733…
Friday, December 29th – 8:30-10pm
The Isaiah Javier Quartet
Jazz – the late show! 8:30-10pm $20 cover; byob The Isaiah Javier Quartet Isaiah Javier, tenor sax Simon Aks, guitar Giulio Cetto, bass Louis Sweatt, drums Isaiah Javier, Simon Aks, Giulio Cetto and Louis Sweatt meet on the Bird and Beckett stage for the first time as a unit, playing original music and their favorite…