653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
[email protected]
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, February 2nd – 7 pm
Poets Gary Hicks and Sharon Doubiago
open mic follows
Gary Hicks, whose work bristles with an acute challenge to the regressive and repressive facts of our times, is joined by Sharon Doubiago, who for decades has written from a fused personal-political-social standpoint that has earned her untold respect as a poet, short story writer, memoirist and essayist. Jerry Ferraz, native son and peripatetic troubadour,…
Sunday, February 1st – 4:30-6:30 pm
Life’s Blood Quartet
which way west? Sunday concert series: Saxophonist Rent Romus Life’s Blood Quartet Timothy Orr, drums with Adam Lowdermilk, Bill Noertker and special guest Amber McZeal. Take a wild ride with the quartet through music of Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Arthur Blythe, Chico Freeman, Roland Kirk, and jazz originals by Romus and Orr. Life’s Blood “damn well…
Saturday, February 7th – 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Smith Dobson Ensemble
with Noel Jewkes
Smith Dobson, a wonderful young tenor sax player, welcomes Noel Jewkes, a legendary tenor sax man, to the Bird & Beckett stage to show just what the instrument and the music are all about–Â what they can be about in the hands of deeply skilled practitioners in collaboration. Their excursions will be augmented and taken further…
Sunday, February 1st – 2 pm
A reading by contributors to
Tule Review
Contributors to Tule Review, an annual literary journal published by the Sacramento Poetry Center Press, will read recent work and work from the new issue to celebrate its launch. Tule Review has been the literary journal of the Sacramento Poetry Center for twenty years. About five years ago, Tule became the flagship publication of Sacramento Poetry Center Press,…
jazz club… when lights are low
The Love Gangsters
Saturday, January 31st – 8-11 pm
Straight out of North Beach… The Love Gangsters! Are you ready, Glen Park? Hell yes, you are…
Friday, January 30th – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop special!
Guitarist Howard Alden!
Howard Alden, passing through from his home in New York City, plays Bird & Beckett’s Friday evening jazz party in a trio format with local heroes and long-time associates Vince Lateano on drums and Peter Barshay on bass. Howard is one of the great jazz guitarists of our era.  In the late 1970s, at the tender…
Monday, January 26th – 7 pm
Health Insurance Workshop
Covered California!
Karen Lipney conducts a workshop to help you sign up for insurance before the February 15 deadline. Â Bring your questions and quandaries, but rest assured it’s not rocket science!
Sunday, January 25th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Dave Rocha Quartet
Pianist Gaea Schell, bassist Fred Randolph & drummer Tony Johnson join Dave Rocha, one of the Bay Area’s top jazz trumpet players, in our Sunday afternoon which way west? concert series, now in its sixth year of weekly sessions. Dave has worked in the New York big bands of Lionel Hampton and Machito, and with the Latin/Salsa…
Sunday, Jan. 25th at 2:30 pm
Walker Talks! on Marsilio Ficino,
musician and philosopher
of the Renassiance
Walker Brents III continues his exploration of the mystical side of the Renaissance, with a talk on Marsilio Fichino, a musician and philosopher whose symbolic thought contributes greatly to contemporary poetic speech.
Friday, January 23rd – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
Chuck Peterson Quintet
with vocalist Dorothy Lefkovis
The original recipe!  Five musicians, great bebop, swinging vocals.  These guys and Dorothy have all been solid senders since the early 1950s, and know their stuff.  Come find out just how sweet & swinging it can be.  Donate what you can to help us pay the band, have a glass of wine or a beer, and…