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653 Chenery Street in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
Open to walk-in trade and browsing Tuesday to Sunday noon to six
phone: 1-415-586-3733 email: [email protected]
Monday, October 3rd – 7-9 pm
Stars of Bay Area Poetry turn out to benefit KPFA!
Avotcja Jerry Ferraz Francisco Herrera Genny Lim Kaylah Marin Kim Shuck Bill Vartnaw Nellie Wong plus open mic! Stars of Bay Area Poetry read to benefit KPFA! More headliners as they confirm, so stay tuned! Don’t touch that dial! KPFA is crucial always, particularly in these trying times. Help them get through a…
Grant Levin Trio
Sunday night, 8-10 pm. October 2nd No cover charge on Sundays, but please bring your money anyway. Musicians must eat, cover charge or no. Lavish them with your cash, it can’t hurt! In this instance,  accompanying picture notwithstanding, no horn. R.I.P. Terrance. Tell Howie we said “hi.” Count Bill in on that sentiment, I bet. Henry doing…
Invisible Guy
7:30-10 pm. Saturday, October 1st. $10 cover charge. “Melody is the knife that cuts through to truth. Then there is the importance of breath, and personal expression.†— Michael Coleman. In the early 1990s, Ben Goldberg made a mark with his New Klezmer Trio (which included Dan Seamans– see last night’s Lost Trio booking). He’s…
Monday, September 26th – 7-9 pm
Omertapalooza!
poets & jazzers shuffleboil together
Meltzer/Crossman/Rogers/Stewart
Of course you don’t know what to make of it! Even David’s just guessing! But get down here and find out!! Take it from San Francisco Poet Laureate emeritus Diane di Prima, who calls Meltzer “one of the secret treasures on our planet. Great poet, musician, comic; mystic unsurpassed, performer with few peers.†Few peers,…
Sunday, September 25th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Soul Explosion!
Derek Evans & Friends
Mississippi born, San Francisco soul! Vocalist Derek Evans with his band featuring Joe Lococo, guitar; Willie Riser, bass; Elvis Johnson, drums Derek Evans’ love of music dates back to his early childhood in Hickory, Mississippi. He remembers sitting beside his grandmother as she sang and played the piano, leading the inspirational choir in the soul-stirring…
Saturday, September 24th – 7:30-10 pm
John Calloway Jazz Quartet
celebrates John’s new cd, Asere Ko
jazz club! at Bird & Beckett – when lights are low…
Bird & Beckett presents The John Calloway Jazz Quartet John Calloway, flute Murray Low, piano David Flores, drums Alex Farrell, bass The quartet, led by JC, the Jazz Commissioner himself, will play latin & straight ahead tunes, jazz standards and originals, celebrating the release of John’s astonishingly powerful new cd, Asere Ko, recorded in Havana…
Friday, September 23rd – 5:30-8 pm
jazz in the bookshop SF’s longest running neighborhood jazz party
Dorothy Lefkovits with the Chuck Peterson Quintet
The very heart of Bird & Beckett’s music programming is this seasoned group of jazz professionals including the wonderful, gracious and charming vocalist Dorothy Lefkovits. We opened the store in 1999, hosted the occasional jazz concert on weekend afternoons, and then in October 2002 began to present jazz every single Friday evening, with saxophonist Chuck Peterson…
Rockabilly Explosion Tonight!
Jinx Jones & the King Tones
after hours at Bird & Beckett
8 to 10 pm. No cover. Thursday, September 29. Every Thursday night, it’s time for B&B’s canyon moonlight series… Amerarcana from soul to surf, rock to rockabilly, country to crooning, cast iron or otherwise… no one does it better than your own local musicians, and nowhere do they do it better than they do it…
