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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Monday, January 19th — 7 pm
Poets Vincent Lombardo
and Jane Rades
open mic follows
Vincent Lombardo, a New Yorker out of Milan, will be joined by local poet Jane Rades for a reading January 19th, followed by an open mic. Lombardo’s poems have recently been included in the issue dedicated to contemporary poets in ‘Poets and Poetry’, Italy’s national magazine published in Rome. His work has included the cycles ‘Trees…
Sunday, January 18th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west? Sunday concert series
The Billy Higgins Legacy Band
Drummer Myron Cohen carries the spirit of the late Billy Higgins into the present day, with joy and a propulsive and irresistible beat.  He has partnered with so many fine players and has taken so many young talents under his wing in his desire to be true to Higgins’ spirit.  Today, saxophonist Steve Heckman, a major…
Saturday, January 17th – 8-11 pm
jazz club… when lights are low
The Kenny Hawkins Quartet
Bassist Heshima Mark Williams presents The Kenny Hawkins Quartet Kenny Hawkins on sax; Muziki Roberson on keyboards; Heshima on bass; and Michael Spencer on drums. When his busy traveling schedule allows, Heshima books our third Saturday jazz club dates.  This week he’s arranged for Kenny Hawkins to bring in a quartet.  A detailed bio on Kenny can be…
Friday, January 16th – 5:30-8 pm
jazz in the bookshop — every Friday!
The Scott Foster Trio
Scott Foster, guitar. Lorenzo Farrell, organ. Omar Aran, drums. On the third Friday of each month, Scott Foster puts together an ensemble for our end-of-the-work-week jazz party. Â This month he’s concocted a sweet little organ trio that will put you right back in the late 50s lounge territory of the great Jimmy Smith. Â A guaranteed…
Sunday, January 11th — 4:30-6:30 pm
Craig Ventresco & Meredith Axelrod
ragtime and other early guitar styles
Exuberant music by two masters of styles long forgotten by the popular audience. Craig has had a decades-old obsession with investigating the music he’s found in the grooves of dusty stacks of 78s. Â He plays a whole lot of guitar; in fact, is pretty much world famous for his talents and investigations of the music…
Sunday, January 11th – Noon to 1:30 pm
The B-Stars Trio!
Western Swing at the B&B
Surf-a-billy Swing Time Dance Party
The B-Stars are a San Francisco-based Americana combo that stirs up a hearty stew of honky tonk and hillbilly hits for your listening and dancing pleasure. With nods to the country and western stars of the late 1940s and 1950s, these sharp-suited honky tonkers will be singin’ and swingin’ their ever-lovin’ hearts out. The Trio features…
Saturday, January 10th – 8-11 pm
Grant Levin Quartet
jazz club! — when lights are low…
Pianist and composer Grant Levin assembles an ensemble each week to explore the jazz canon and present his own compositions.  This week, he’s joined by saxophonist Jonathan Bautista, bassist Ollie Dudek and drummer Hamir Atwal — wonderful musicians all, the kind that make us grateful for living in a region with such a rich jazz culture….
Thursday, January 8th – 8:00 pm
Novellas-in-Flash: A Reading
Pokrass / Teel / Bower
A reading by contributors to the new anthology, My Very End of the Universe: a celebration and study of an increasingly popular genre: the novella-in-flash, a novella built of standalone flash stories. The novellas in this collection—Betty Superman by Tiff Holland, Here, Where We Live by Meg Pokrass, Shampoo Horns by Aaron Teel, Bell and Bargain by…
Monday, January 5th – 7:00 pm
POETS! Julie Rogers, featured poet
with an open mic to follow
Julie Rogers has several chapbooks in print and her book, House of the Unexpected, was released by Wild Ocean Press in 2012. She’s been writing and reading her work in San Francisco on and off for about thirty-five years, loitering in cafes and roaming streets w/journal and so on, and is most recently a semi-regular in the lower Haight when not at home with…
Sunday, January 4th – 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Avotcja & Modupue
Avotcja & Modupue! Francis Wong, sax and flute. Jon Jang, piano. Heshima Mark Williams, bass. Avotcja is a jazz musician with deep roots, a riveting poet, an imaginative and ruminative prose writer, a pioneer, an individualist, a fierce champion of her fellow musicians, poets and artists.  Her band, Modupue, was twice named Jazz Group of the…