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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Friday, December 25th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Grant Levin Trio plays
jazz in the bookshop
on Christmas day!
Charles Thomas on bass and Omar Aran on drums join pianist Grant Levin for two sets of live jazz in San Francisco’s southernmost and foremost outpost of jazz and literary culture! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Sunday, December 20th – 7:30-10:0 pm
Eric & the In Crowd
Bird & Beckett’s Canyon Moonlight Music series closes out 2015 and sets the stage for the Christmas and the new year with Eric Shifrin and the In Crowd.   Eric is a San Francisco institution by now… though the Ellis Act is messing with his act.  We’re harboring him just as long as he can hang on,…
Saturday, December 19th – 7:30-10 pm
The Jazzling Twintet
Heshima Mark Williams presents The Jazzling Twintet at Bird & Beckett’s Saturday night jazz club… Vivian Warkentin, violin, is Assistant Concertmaster of Oakland Symphony, and an active freelancer. She’s studied jazz with David Balakrishnan. Her credits include string section work withBurt Bacharach, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett, Sara Vaughn, Doc Severinsen, Chris Botti,Smokey Robinson, George Benson, Henry Mancini,…
Friday, December 18th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet
plays songs of home, friends and family
jazz in the bookshop
Trumpeter Darren Johnston makes his Bird & Beckett debut, with Noah Schenker on bass and Omar Aran on drums. Â Guitarist Scott Foster leads the date, as he does every third Friday of the month. Since settling in San Francisco in 1997, Canada-born trumpeter/composer/songwriter Darren Johnston has collaborated and recorded with an extremely diverse cross-section of…
Thursday, December 17th – 7 pm
Writer Annette Leddy
Earth Still, a novel
Annette Leddy is a fiction writer and curator. These two vocations converge in her novel Earth Still, which tells the story of Patricia, a museum curator and the mother of a young son, who falls for a new neighbor, Rennie, in the aftermath of an alien spaceship’s unexplained landing in present day Los Angeles. Leddy is…
Sunday, December 13th – 7:30 pm
Canyon Moonlight Music
The Seducers
The Seducers play every Second Sunday in Bird & Beckett’s weekly “Canyon Moonlight Music†series.  The band features guitarist and vocalist Mitch Polzak, pedal steel guitarist Joe Goldmark, singer and bassist Eddie Kendrick and drummer Kenny Owen. Classic country music for a moonlit November night hard by Glen Canyon, where the coyotes howl and the cats fear…
Sunday, December 13th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Trad Jazz Holiday!
The Buena Vista Jazz Band
A great septet playing the music of New Orleans when jazz was young. Â Andrew Storar, trumpet; John Hunt, trombone; Don Neely, clarinet; Duncan James, guitar; Si Perkoff, piano; Al Obidinski, bass and Greg Gotelli, drums.
Sunday, December 13th – Noon-1:30 pm
Lavay Smith
and her Red Hot Skillet Lickers Soultet!
featuring Jules Broussard
and Danny Armstrong
Join us for our Surf-a-billy Swing Time Dance Party finale! After a swingin’ 14-month run, who better to wrap it up, tie a ribbon ’round it, and place it under your tree than the dynamo that started it off! Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers Soultet featuring Jules Broussard and Danny Armstrong will thrill…
Saturday, December 12th
Double Grant!
Grant Levin Duo and Quartet
Duo at 4:00 with Chris Amberger on bass Quartet at 7:30, with Howard Wiley, sax; Chris Amberger, bass and Hamir Atwal, drums
Friday, December 11th – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
The Stu Pilorz Trio
Pianist Don Alberts and bassist Aaron Cohn join trombonist Pilorz for two sets testing the margins where bebop and hard bop constructions encounter harmonic concepts rife with possibility — all in the party atmosphere that we know and love on Friday evenings in San Francisco’s premier & southernmost outpost of literature and jazz — Bird…