653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six
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Wednesday, August 21st – 7:30pm
Walker Brents III on Rimbaud in Abysinnia
Walker Brents III addresses the enigma of Rimbaud after he’s forsworn the poet’s life in Paris. Becoming someone else was Arthur Rimbaud’s task again and again. On the page it turned into unforgettable poetry. On the actual globe it became strange adventures in frontier borderlands. The poetry runs on in symbolic suggestion. The journeys in…
Saturday, August 17th – 7:30-9:30pm
Tranesformation: The Brian Melvin Trio
Music of John Coltrane and the Beatles, jazz standards & more! Drummer Brian Melvin, a San Francisco native son of the 1960s, is traveling out of his home in Estonia with Danish guitarist Soren Lee and joining forces with the great bassist John Wiitala, who came up in the days of Keystone Korner and remains…
Friday, August 16th – two shows!
Scott Foster Trio at 6
Schillinger-Hyman Quartet at 8:30
From 8:30-10pm, Friday, August 16th, catch local prodigies, now NYC-based rising jazz stars Eytan & Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman with their quartet featuring Langston Hughes II on sax and Michael Mitchell on drums. $20 cover charge (cash or venmo at the door); byob; reservations, call 415-202-4870. Friday the 16th from 6-8pm Scott Foster kicked off this third…
Wednesday, August 14th – 7:30pm
Art Khu-Sedge Green-Zev Vestel Jazz Trio
The elegant & masterful jazz pianist Art Khu will join two terrific young players — drummer Zev Vestel and bassist Sedge Green — before the two embark to music programs in the Great Eastern Universities that continue to bring so many fine musicians into full throttle jazz careers. Help us celebrate with two sets of…
Saturday, November 9th – 7:30-9:30pm
Amina Scott Trio
Bassist Amina Scott has been touring in California in support of her new album “Where the Wild Seed Grows,” and has just wrapped up a sequence of quintet dates. We’re pleased to present this intimate trio engagement at Bird & Beckett before she returns to New Orleans. Born and raised in Oakland, Amina arrived in…
bach & poetry on wednesday
literary/political musing thursday
and lots of live jazz friday to sunday
Curious about Glen Park and wanting an extra excuse to visit the neighborhood? Or perhaps you’re a lucky resident looking for a a good excuse to stay local! Poetry with cello Wednesday evening, extemporaneous musings on Walt Whitman and democracy Thursday, two varieties of jazz on Friday and jazz of another stripe altogether on Saturday……
Tuesday, August 13th – 8pm
The Elé Salif Howell Quartet
featuring saxophonist Kazemde George
Kazemde George, saxophone. Kai Lyons, guitar. Giulio Xavier, bass. Elé Salif Howell, drums. $20 cover charge; by0b. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. Elé Salif Howell, a formidably talented young drummer and Oakland native son, returns to the Bay for some dates with the region’s most vital young lions — saxophonist Kazemde George, who’s now based in Brooklyn…
angela lilley beckett presents…
Sunday, August 11th – 5pm
Angels & Lillies
Singer-songwriter Maurice Tani
with Henry Salvia & Mike Anderson
Maurice Tani, guitar and vocals. Henry Salvia, piano. Mike Anderson, bass. $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. Maurice Tani is a San Francisco born and based singer-songslinger, known for his wry/rye-to-romantic writing, agile guitar style and expressive singing. With his band, Maurice Tani & 77 El Deora he’s been the source of untold,…
Saturday, August 10th – 7:30-9:30
The Ron Vincent Quartet
Brad Buethe, guitar. Ben Stolorow, piano. Jeff Saxton, bass. Ron Vincent, drums. $20 cover charge, byob. reservations: 415-586-3733. In the course of his career in jazz, Ron Vincent has played with such luminaries as Bob Brookmeyer, Phil Woods, Lee Konitz, Art Farmer, Bill Charlap and Randy Brecker, to name a few. In 1989, Ron joined…
August 9-11 at Bird & Beckett
This weekend’s dates will include “Shifrin does Gershwin” on Friday the 9th at 6pm– it’s another happy hour night out with pianist Eric Shifrin’s ongoing 2nd Fridays residency. All year long, Eric & the In Crowd are celebrating the composers and songwriters whose tunes have come to be known as the “American Song Book,” gifting…