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!
Friday, May 6th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble feat. Al Molina
plays jazz in the bookshop
Al Molina, trumpet Jerry Logas, sax and clarinet Don Prell, bass Vinnie Rodriguez, drums Jazz history right here folks! Bebop, lovely standards, a little trad… bass-sax-drums -Â from “Ornithology” to “Doxy” — from “For All We Know” to “St. James Infirmary.” Bassist Don Prell is about 85 and he shows no sign of flagging. None that…
Tuesday, May 3rd – 7 pm
Nachoem Wijnberg reads
from his novel, The Jews
Dutch poet and novelist Nachoem M. Wijnberg, acclaimed as one of the foremost Dutch authors of the last decades, will visit San Francisco in May to read from his recent novel, The Jews (punctum books, 2016, tr. Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei) and Divan of Ghalib (White Pine Press, 2016, tr. David Colmer). Bird & Beckett is…
Monday, May 2nd – 7-9 pm
Poets Ron Sauer and Dan De Vries
open mic follows, Jerry Ferraz hosts
Ron Sauer Ron Sauer is a native New Yorker and a leading light of the North Beach art and poetry scene, known for trenchant social satires and poignant love poems and for translations of Baudelaire, Aloysius Betrand, and Jacques Prevert. A troubadour of urban America, Sauer is a musician, collagist, art collector, teacher of film…
Sunday, May 1st – 7:30-10:00 pm
Eric Shifrin & the In Crowd
canyon moonlight music series, every Sunday night
Get in with the In Crowd Pianist Eric Shifrin & Friends Tom Griesser, sax; Paul Smith, bass; Randy Odell, drums Sunday, May 1st – 7:30-10:00 pm No cover charge
Sunday, May 1st – 4:30-6:30 pm
Vocalist Marianna August with Howie Dudune & Co.
which way west? Sunday concert series
Marianna August first really indulged her life-long affection for music and singing through eight years of classical vocal training, and she’s continued her vocal studies ever since, though she’s used that training in recent years in an embrace of the Broadway sounds of musical theater and cabaret, specializing now in standards of the 1930s and…
jazz club! every Saturday night, when lights are low…
Saturday, April 30th – 7:30-10 pm
The Mario Guarneri Quartet
presented in collaboration with Jazz in the Neighborhood
Tonight, Bird & Beckett’s Saturday night jazz club! partners with the jazz presenting organization “Jazz in the Neighborhood” to bring you two sets of jazz by The  Mario Guarneri Quartet featuring Mario Guarneri, trumpet Randy Vincent, guitar John Wiitala, bass Akira Tana, drums $5-$20 sliding scale Trumpeter Mario Guarneri brings to his performances a fresh creative voice,…
Friday, April 29th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Mean to Me – Judy Butterfield-Ben Slater-Dave Shaff
jazz in the bookshop every Friday
A Special Fifth Friday Guest Booking: Mean to Me Mean to Me was a huge hit when they played Bird & Beckett a year ago, and we’re excited to have them back! Mean to Me resurrects classic jazz of the 1920s through 1940s –sometimes twisted by the more modern stylings of Monk, Mingus and…
Sunday, April 24 – 7:30-10 pm
Misisipi Mike & Friends: The Cold Hard Facts
canyon moonlight music series
every Sunday night… till the Riptide returns!
Sunday, April 24th, Misisipi Mike Wolf & Friends perform his 2009 debut album live, for you.  Mike says, “The Cold Hard Facts of Mike” was my redemption song, and it came about very unexpectedly. After a couple of very dark years of personal turmoil I had found myself suddenly with a clear head and a new…
Sunday, April 24th – 4:30-6:30 pm
The Bill Phillippe Trio
rural Mississippi blues
Channeling the sounds of Mississippi John Hurt, Fred McDowell and countless masters of the depression era delta region barely known to this day, Bill Phillippe celebrates his new cd release, “Parade,” at Bird & Beckett! Â Ivor Holloway on clarinet and Daniel Fabricant on bass complete the trio this Sunday.
