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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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!
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…
Saturday, April 25th, 2015 – 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Remembering alto player Terrance Tony
with a nod to Marchel Ivery, legendary Texas tenor player
Alto player Terrance Tony, until his untimely death of pneumonia on April 7th, led our fourth Saturday jazz club dates with fire coming from deep experience in the music. He came of age as a musician in Dallas and Houston, spending precious time on the bandstand learning his trade from such legendary Texas tenor players…
Wednesday, April 22nd – 7:00 pm
Poets Franck Andre Jamme
& John Sakkis
In Avery Burns’ Murmurations Reading Series, the French poet Franck André Jamme, with translator Norma Cole, will read from his new book, To The Secret (La Presse, 2015).  In addition, poet John Sakkis celebrates his excellent new book, The Islands (Night Boat, 2014). Franck André Jamme has published fifteen books of poems and fragments since 1981, as well…
Sunday, April 19th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Denny Berthiaume Trio
A classic piano trio date. Pianist Denny Berthiaume, bassist Chuck Bennett and drummer Curt Moore. Three veterans of the Bay Area jazz scene who have been plying these waters together for many years, all the while pursuing countless other musical pursuits & associations, with artists ranging from (Berthiaume) Bobby McFerrin to Rosemary Clooney to Ed…
Sunday, April 19th – 2 pm
Diamond Dave’s Hipstory
Dave is at the core of the city we love. One of the  many reasons there’s still hope for this city.* Come hear his freewheeling rap, his deep grooving philosophy of love and peace. Don’t panic, it’s organic. Learn to love, love to learn, never ends. * (Thanks David Blasevich for that catchphrase, used…