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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more excitement in mid-June & beyond!

Coming up this weekend: The Dave Parker Septet – 6/29, 7:30pm. Jam Session – 6/30, 5:00pm. Dave Parker brings his seven piece pile-driving chamber jazz band for a deep plunge into music by Mingus, Coltrane, Dolphy, Morgan, Coleman and Johann Sebastian Bach. Dave is a Medici when it comes to supporting the cats in his…

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Sunday June 23rd – 7pm
Hindustani classical music
Joanna Mack / Ferhan Qureshi Duo
Sitar & Tabla

Joanna Mack, sitar, and Ferhan Qureshi, tabla, will be playing Raga in a traditional style – improvised music based on decades of classical training. This show will also be available on live stream, however, the focus will be toward the people in the room, so please come in person if you can! $20 cover charge;…

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Saturday, June 22nd – 7:30pm
Benny Amón Trio

Drummer Benny Amón left California, born & raised in Davis and trained in jazz, for New Orleans — where he lived and played for the ten years from 2011 to 2021, and where his love for the oldest jazz traditions was nurtured and flowered. In New Orleans, Benny performed regularly at Preservation Hall, Snug Harbor…

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Friday, June 21 – 8:30pm
The James Mahone Quartet

Tenor saxophonist James Mahone gained a substantial and eminently well earned reputation as a co-founder of the jazz ensemble Black/Note, which won first prize at the John Coltrane Young Artist Competition in 1991 and recorded albums on World Stage (43rd and Degnan, 1991)  Red Records (L.A. Underground, 1994), Columbia (Jungle Music, 1994) and Impulse (Nothin’…

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Friday, June 21st – 6pm
Scott Foster & the ABC Trio

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Thursday, June 20 – 7:30pm
a live streamed talk by Walker Brents III on Arthur Rimbaud

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Saturday, June 15 – 7:30-9:30pm
The Lost Trio & Friends

The Lost Trio is closing out its thirty years of continuous collaboration, with saxophonist Phillip Greenlief decamping to Maine. For thirty years, Phillip and triomates Dan Seamans and Tom Hassett have been in constant rehearsal and performance, with many cds to their credit as well. But all things come to some sort of end. We…

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Friday, June 14th – 6-8pm
Eric & the In Crowd
play Cole Porter

Not enough can be said about the songs Cole Porter gave us in his brilliant life. Eric Shifrin is devoting every second Friday to the music of the songwriters behind the jazz standards, and this week Cole Porter is the focus of two sets of great music played with a couple of his congenial and…

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Thursday, June 13th – 7pm
Memoirists Zack Rogow and Ona Gritz
with poet Daniel Simpson

In Hugging My Father’s Ghost, Zack Rogow explores the mystery of the father he never knew. Lee Rogow was a drama critic, glamorous man-about-town in 1950s Manhattan, World War II Navy captain—and died tragically when Zack was only three. With sharp pathos and laugh-out-loud humor, Rogow shows his family caught between assimilation and pride in their immigrant…

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Kim Shuck hosts Virtual Poets!
2nd & 4th Mondays
Monday, June 10th – 7pm
A Celebration of Mary TallMountain
with featured poets Kitty Costello
and Jesse James Johnson
open mic follows

On the 2nd Monday of each month Kim Shuck, San Francisco Poet Laureate Emerita, hosts an on-line poetry reading with two featured poets and an open mic. Tonight’s reading, featuring Kitty Costello and Jesse James Johnson, is a tribute to the poet Mary TallMountain (1918-1994), whose influence on a generation was profound and resonates still….

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