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!
Monday, July 20th – 7-9 pm
POETS!
Ed Coletti, David Magdalene
& David Beckman
open mic follows
Ed Coletti has recently published a new book of poems, The Problem with Breathing, and is joined in this reading by friends and fellow North Bay poets David Magdalene and David Beckman. An open mic follows. Bird & Beckett’s twice-monthly (1st & 3rd Mondays) poetry series is hosted by Jerry Ferraz, a near-legendary peripatetic bard…
Sunday, July 19th – 8-10 pm
Special engagement!
Pugsley Buzzard on tour!
Pugsley Buzzard! The piano wonder from Down Under… He’s back on tour, and returns for his fourth Bird & Beckett appearance, an occasion that makes us gleefully happy! Pugs is at once a rollicking stride piano master and a gravelly voiced singer, plumbing the extremes of dark fate and wry, whisky-soaked self-reflection. He plays barrelhouse blues & boogie woogie, growls his…
Saturday, July 18th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Heshima Trio featuring Gaea Schell
Bassist Heshima Mark Williams leads our 3rd Saturday dates.  He’s a San Francisco native whose playing springs from thirty years’ experience of the Bay Area’s rich musical heritage.  Heshima studied under the tutelage of the first African-American classical bassist in the Boston Symphony, Dr. Ortiz Walton.  He has toured with trombonist Julian Priester; trumpeter Eddie Henderson;…
Friday, July 17th – 5:30 to 8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet
plays jazz in the bookshop
It’s the Lost Trio plus One! Â The one is our fearless and venerated leader, guitarist Scott Foster, and the trio is (are?) Philip Greenlief on reeds, Dan Seamans on bass and Tom Hassett on drums.
Sunday, July 12th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Ira Kamin vs. PC Muñoz Free Jazz
Free jazz from two musicians who have been exploring new territories for decades. Â Check your preconceptions at the door and enjoy a little post-Independence Day freedom — from dogma, convention and whatever expectations you might be inclined to harbor. Ira Kamin got his start in Chicago, making his mark on keyboards with the great blues…
Sunday, July 12th at High Noon
Surf-a-Billy Swingtime
Hod Rod Blow Out!
Special command return engagement!  Todd Novak and the Benny Hillbilleez! Take singer-songwriter-guitarist Todd Novak from the Cowlicks and Cowlicks bassist Johnnie Hamilton, add drummer Martyn Jones from the Mermen, who also drums for the Cowlicks, and Scott Theakston, who’s played with George Clinton — then set them loose for 90 minutes of killer surf green guitar rave-ups, with a…
Saturday, July 11th – 7:30 to 10 pm
The Grant Levin Quartet
plays Bird & Beckett’s jazz club!
when lights are low…
Grant Levin will be in the shop with bassist Chris Amberger, playing informally as a duo from 4-6 pm… plan to just browse around, as the chairs won’t be set out ’til 7:00 for “jazz club” — our regular Saturday night date — which will swing into its thing at 7:30 when Grant leads a…
Friday, July 10th – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop!
Dorothy Lefkovits sings with Jimmy Ryan’s Bird & Beckett Bebop Band
Jimmy Ryan leads the band on the 2nd Friday of each month… tonight, Dorothy Lefkovits sings, with Joe Cohen on tenor sax, Stu Pilorz on trombone, Don Alberts on piano, Aaron Cohn on bass. Â Ron Marabuto subs for Jimmy Ryan tonight.
Monday, July 6th – 7 pm
Jessica Loos and Francisco Orrego
POETS! — Jerry Ferraz hosts
Two widely admired San Francisco poets, followed by an open mic.