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, January 1st – 5:30-8:00 pm
New Years Day jazz in the bookshop!
Don Prell’s SeaBop Quartet

Count on bassist Don Prell and his confreres to keep the jazz ball rolling at Bird & Beckett right into 2016!  We’ve never missed a Friday jazz date since the series began back in late 2002, so we’re well into our 14th year… nearly 700 consecutive Fridays and counting! Don got his start in LA…

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Sunday, December 27th – 4:30-6:30 pm
A year-end Bird & Beckett tradition!
Two guitars: Duncan James & Ray Scott

It’s a lovely and low key thing, with two veteran jazz guitarists in solo and duo combination, passing a sweet Sunday afternoon at the end of the year, with you in their company.

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Saturday, December 26th, 7:30-10 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
The Vinnie Rodriguez Quartet
does Donald Byrd!

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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!

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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,…

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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,…

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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.  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…

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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…

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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…

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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.  Andrew Storar, trumpet; John Hunt, trombone; Don Neely, clarinet; Duncan James, guitar; Si Perkoff, piano; Al Obidinski, bass and Greg Gotelli, drums.

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