653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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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 13th – 5:30-8:00
Aaron Cohn-Luke Westbrook-Gaea Schell Trio
play jazz in the bookshop
San Francisco’s longest running weekly jazz party!
and you’re invited…
      Aaron Cohn, bass      Gaea Schell, piano        Luke Westbrook, guitar jazz in the bookshop, every Friday night $10 per adult if you can…
Thursday, May 12th – 7-9 pm
Bird & Beckett Book Club
Every second Thursday, gather with a bookish batch of your neighbors to yak up the books… this month, it’s Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior… next month, God’s Hotel by Victoria Sweet… July, Some Luck by Jane Smiley. The folks love to see new faces, and to solicit their input on future books to read. So don’t…
Sunday, May 8th – 4:30-6:30 pm – Happy Mothers Day!
Gail Dobson Band
a jazz matriarch and her progeny!
Gail Dobson has been a jazz singer for decades, inspiring and inspired by a family of musicians, immediate and extended — Mas Koga, shakuhachi, flute and saxophone and Smith Dobson V, vibes and sax… Alan Hall, drums… Luke Westbook, guitar… Sam Bevan, bass have been the core of her band for a good long…
Saturday, May 14th – 4-6 pm
Grant Levin / Danny Brown Duo
Two supremely talented young players go toe to toe for two sets of live duo jazz. Â What a way to spend a little time on a San Francisco Saturday afternoon. Besides being an accomplished leader, Grant Levin is in high demand as a sideman for live and recorded gigs around the region. Likewise, Danny Brown…
Sunday, May 15th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Sheldon Brown/Ben Goldberg Quartet
which way west? Sunday concert series
every Sunday afternoon, since 2008
 Live jazz lives in San Francisco! Sheldon Brown – Alto Saxophone Ben Goldberg – Clarinet John Shifflett – Bass Jason Lewis – Drums Thelonious Monk + Herbie Nichols + Originals! Sheldon writes: Ben and I have been making music together in a variety of groups for almost 25 years, as members of Clarinet Thing (led…
Saturday, May 7th – 7:30-10pm
The Smith Dobson Quartet
Expect a generous portion of Lester  Young-inspired tenor sax playing from one of the very best sax players in the Bay Area, when Smith Dobson V is joined by drummer Tony Johnson, bassist Miles Wick & pianist Adam Shulman!
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