653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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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!
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. Â 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,…
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…
Friday, June 24th – 5:30-8 pm – jazz in the bookshop
Tenor Conclave Madness!
David Boyce & Phillip Greenlief with the Scott Foster Quintet
Two hugely creative and talented tenor players collaborating on two sets of jazz, out on the front line of the Scott Foster Quintet — Scott on guitar, Alex Farrell on  bass and Mark Lee on drums. It’s impossible to believe this won’t be a classic outing long to be remembered. Scott Foster leads an ensemble…
Fathers Day – Walter Savage Trio with Grant Levin & Renzell Merritt
Sunday, June 19th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Bassist Walter Savage has returned to the Bay Area — living now up in Vallejo — after a too-lengthy sojourn in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Walter grew up in Watts, where his father was a preacher and where he couldn’t imagine not singing– which he still does plenty. Walter picked up the bass while serving in the…
Fathers Day! Poets David Meltzer & Latif Harris
2pm on June 19th!
Latif Harris and David Meltzer — two poets with deep, deep roots — hold the stage. Each is in his 70s, each dedicated to poetry since the 1950s, each with children dear to them all along the way. At David’s first reading in the store, we urged him to read his poem “The Red Shoes,”…
Fathers Day! Sunday, June 19th
Three divine programs for il papa!
2 pm: Poets Latif Harris and David Meltzer, with Zan Stewart on saxophone. 4:30 pm: Walter Savage Trio, with Grant Levin on piano and Renzell Merritt on drums. 7:30 pm: Jinx Jones & the Jazz-a-Billy All Stars
Bloomsday through Father’s Day and a bit beyond
A new Gallery Ex Libris show  is up through the end of June – hand lettering & book arts in the digital age, by students of the formidable Grendel Lofqvist at CCSF, our favorite institution ever! June 16th, 7:30 pm, jazz vocalist Melanie O’Reilly and pianist Frank Martin, with actors Esther Mulligan and John Ilyin, link Joyce and Jazz on Bloomsday….
Saturday jazz club! when lights are low…
June 18th, 7:30-10pm: The Ways & Means Committee
Before heading out to Europe with Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids this summer, bassist Heshima Mark Williams gets in another session with the Ways & Means Committee, a project of three horn players whose vocations are in medicine and business, but whose hearts are in jazz — two are on board for this date: Dr….
Friday jazz in the bookshop!
June 17th, 5:30-8pm: Dorothy Lefkovits sings
with the Chuck Peterson Quintet
The heart and soul of jazz at Bird & Beckett are this band and singer Dorothy Lefkovits. Â Tenor player Chuck Peterson started the whole Bird & Beckett jazz program back in late 2002, and Dorothy converged with the scene right back at the beginning. Â Nowadays, Chuck leads a group that comprises five wonderful musicians who…