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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Sunday, May 10th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Gaea Schell Quartet
Pianist Gaea Schell joined by Jeffrey Burr on guitar, John Wiitala on bass and Tony Johnson on drums. Gaea, in the judgment of Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath, “plays the heck out of the piano with them small hands.” Known among her peers for swinging every note, subtle phrasing, and honest lyrical writing, this West Coast-based pianist/composer/vocalist…
Friday, May 8th – 5:30-8:00 p.m.
Jimmy Ryan Quintet
plays jazz in the bookshop
On the second Friday of each month, jazz in the bookshop features The Jimmy Ryan Quintet aka The Bird & Beckett Bebop Band!  Tonight, tenor sax player Joe Cohen and trombonist Stu Pilorz hold center stage, with Don Alberts on piano and Aaron Cohn on bass joining drummer Ryan to comprise the rhythm section! Jimmy’s regular band at Bird &…
Thursday, May 7th – 8-10 pm
cd release party!
Bryan Bowman’s “Like Minds”
Join drummer Bryan Bowman and his collaborators to celebrate his new CD of original compositions, “Like Minds.” Bryan is among the top echelon of jazz drummers on the San Francisco scene, heard many times in the past at Bird & Beckett in a variety of configurations — and the other musicians on the CD are…
Monday, May 4th – 7 pm
POETS! 1st & 3rd Mondays
Jorge Argueta and Jerry Ferraz
Jorge Argueta and Jerry Ferraz share the featured slots on tonight’s reading — which coincidentally is Jerry’s birthday! Jerry has been hosting our reading series for more than a dozen years, and was on the first bill of poets we ever presented here. Â He’s a native son of the city, and has been wandering the…
Sunday, May 3rd — 4:30-6:30 pm
The Steve Nelson Sextet
featuring Sharman Duran
Two sets of straight ahead jazz, blues, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban tunes performed by a terrific sextet led by drummer Steve Nelson, with his long-time musical collaborator Sharman Duran on piano and vocals. The sextet will cover ground from Cole Porter to Jobim to Monk and much more.  Though mainly rooted in the jazz, The Steve Nelson…
Sunday, May 3rd – 2 pm
Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin
Bootstrap Press’s Derek Fenner presents poet Tongo Eisen-Martin with his new book, someone’s dead already. About the book: “Eisen-Martin’s syntax lands somewhere between Sphinx and Thelonious…through poem he makes spare, efficient, wild-eyed jazz…rubs mud and accountability into the pores of the zeros and ones in the glass and steel city. Throughout SOMEONE’S DEAD ALREADY, I…
Saturday, May 2nd – 8-11 pm
The Smith Dobson Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low…
Smith Dobson, a formidable young tenor sax player, leads off our Saturday “jazz club” series each month, on the first Saturday of the month. Tonight he has a stellar rhythm section — Keith Saunders on piano Eric Markowitz on bass Tony Johnson on drums. V’s Quartet… generations in the making, now!
Sunday, April 26th – 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Josh Workman Quartet
We’ll call this booking the after-party for the annual Glen Park Festival, which will be wrapping up just as guitarist Josh Workman is taking the stage at Bird & Beckett. Josh is bringing in a tight quartet featuring David Udolf on piano; Ravi Abcarian on bass and Bryan Bowman on drums, to cover some of Workman’s…
Walker Talks…
on the Eranos Conferences
Sunday, April 26th at 2:30 pm
Beginning in 1933, in Ascona, Switzerland, there gathered annually an intellectual conclave of Jungians and Pythagoreans, philosophers and theologians, orientalists and historians of religions, ethnologists, Indologists, Islamists, Egyptologists, mythologists and scientists, to present learned and imaginative papers, interact with one another, enjoy the invigorating setting and relax in the hospitality in those early years of a…