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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Saturday, April 18th – 8-11pm
Celebrating the Bishop!
Michael Marcus + Heshima + Sharky
Michael Marcus, reeds Heshima Mark Williams, bass Art “Sharky” Lewis, drums celebrate three local legends Bishop Norman Williams   •   B.J. Papa   •   Vince Wallace Saturday, April 18th from 8 to 11 pm – $10 cover Painting by Lewis Bangham – www.lbangham.com
Friday, April 17th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Trio
considers the influence of trios past…
Guitarist Jim Hall, pianist Herbie Nichols, tenor player Joe Henderson, pianist Bill Evans… these and numerous other jazz artists assembled trios that beguiled and informed the ears of countless jazz cognoscenti and bystanders caught in the beauty of the moment. You don’t have to be steeped in the history of jazz to recognize how beautiful…
Thursday, April 16th – 7:30 pm
Jack Hirschman: Red Poet
documentary film screening & reading
“Red Poet,” a film about Jack Hirschman, will be screened Thursday, April 16th at Bird & Beckett, with the director and the poet present. Red Poet is Jack Hirschman!  For five years, filmmaker Matthew Furey followed the San Francisco Poet Laureate to café and art gallery, to  poetry readings in Los Angeles and Venice, Italy……
Sunday, April 12th – 7:30 p.m.
Happy Birthday, Sam!
Raise a glass with us to Samuel Beckett, with our fine friends from PUS Theatre Company, Beckett interpreters extraordinaire and good friends of the enterprise we lovingly call “Bird & Beckett.” Sam claimed to be born on Good Friday, April 13th, but averred he remembered life in the womb, so we’re not adverse to celebrating…
Sunday, April 12th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Mark Levine Trio
Mark Levine wrote the book on jazz piano… specifically, The Jazz Piano Book (Sher Music, 2005 — but originally published in 1989), and has been instrumental in the education of many thousands of jazz pianists… He himself studied in Boston and New York with legendary figures Hal Overton, Herb Pomeroy and Jaki Byard. Along the…
Saturday, April 11th – 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Noel Jewkes
with the Grant Levin Quartet
Pianist Grant Levin leads a quartet every 2nd Saturday in our “jazz club” series– 8-11 pm, “when lights are low…” Tonight, Grant will be featuring reed player Noel Jewkes, with the able rhythm section assistance of Joe McKinley on bass and Rick Rivera on drums. Classic small group jazz in an intimate venue where every…
Saturday, April 11th – 1 pm
Avotcja, 2015 Jazz Hero!
Join saxophone titan John Handy, jazz diva Denise Perrier, master trumpeter Eddie Gale and the Dynamic Miss Faye Carol (2014 Jazz Hero) — along with Modúpue bandmates Yancie Taylor, Sandi Poindexter, Jon Jang, Heshima Mark Williams, Val Serrant and Baba Ken Okulolo  — in honoring “2015 Jazz Hero” Avotcja on Saturday, April 11th at 1…
Wednesday, April 8th – 7 pm
Gallery opening!
Greg Adams & Tom Baxter
Gallery Ex Libris, in the recesses of Bird & Beckett, features work by Greg Adams (assemblages) and Tom Baxter (drawings) through the end of April. Â Wednesday night at 7pm is the opening, and we hope to see you there! Gallery Ex Libris is curated by Jack Whittington. Visit galleryexlibris.com for information regarding submissions and past…
Monday, April 6th – 7 pm
Poets Mike Tuggle & Bill Vartnaw
Two Laureates on one stage… and you in the open mic… Mike Tuggle, Sonoma County Poet Laureate Emeritus (2008-9), is celebrating the upcoming publication of The Motioning In, New & Selected Poems by Petaluma River Press due this spring.  He is also the author of Absolute Elsewhere (2004, Philos Press) & The Singing Itself (2009, Running…
Sunday, April 5th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Eugene Pliner Trio
Eugene Pliner, piano Adam Gay, bass Omar Aran, drums A classic piano trio, led by one of the key players on the local scene for decades, often heard at Les Joulins Jazz Bistro. Eugene began his musical career at an early age in Riga, Latvia (formerly Russia). In his early twenties, he migrated to the…