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!
Saturday, December 6th – 8-11 pm
jazz club!
Gail Dobson Band – EP Release
Vocalist Gail Dobson has just released a deeply beautiful new 6-song EP called “How Fragile We Are” and will launch it here with terrific musicians who participated in the recording — Masaru Koga on sax, percussion and shakuhachi, guitarist Luke Westbrook and drummer Alan Hall, joined by bassist Peter Barshay.
Wednesday, December 3rd – 7pm
I Am Going to Fly Through Glass:
Selected Poems of Harold Norse
Join editor Todd Swindell, Neeli Cherkovski and Jim Nawrocki for a reading from the new volume of Harold Norse’s selected poems, I Am Going to Fly Through Glass, freshly published by Talisman House. Â Each knew Norse personally and can shed light on the life and the work of this major poet, born in Brooklyn in…
Monday, December 1st — 7:00 pm
POETS! Emily Wolahan
followed by an open mic
Emily Wolahan explores the interstitial space between words and between people. She notes, “The electrical charge of an encounter—with another or with oneself—creeps into and charges my work. I like to explore the action of thinking and the action of looking.” “Every part of your day will be ………………this part of your day.” An open…
Sunday, November 30th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west? Sunday concert series
Walter Earl Trio
Pianist Walter Earl improvises effortlessly and fluidly, drawing on great reserves of emotion and experience. He’s played jazz for decades as well as doing a lot of work on film scores and the like. Â We’ve heard him here solo and working with poets, and now look forward to this trio date covering jazz standards and…
Sunday, November 30th – 2:30 pm
Nostradamus: The Plague Doctor
Who Saw Through Time
A Walker Talk!
Walker Talks! Â The last Sunday of each month… This month, Walker Brents III ponders an enigmatic 16th century seer, a doctor in a time of plagues and cataclysms whose uncanny ruminations and oblique, dire prophecies of the future have dazzled and intrigued generations. Nostradamus was a learned and intuitive scholar, a renaissance humanist, a symbolist…
Saturday, November 29th – 8-11 pm
jazz club — when lights are low
Four colleagues — jazz professionals for six decade, if not more. Charlie McCarthy, sax Ray Scott, guitar Chuck Bennett, bass Jim Zimmerman, drums. These musicians are all well-traveled, highly regarded players, and have been getting together on a weekly basis for years — when not traveling, that is….
Jazz & More, Friday to Monday,
Thanksgiving Weekend
We’re closed for Thanksgiving day, but then we’re back in full swing with books for sale and live jazz Friday to Sunday, plus a poetry reading on Monday. Friday, November 28th – 5:30-8:00 pm: jazz in the bookshop! The Chuck Peterson Quintet, with Chuck and Howie Dudune on reeds, Duncan James on guitar, Dean Reilly…
Sunday, November 23rd – 4:30-6:30 pm
Dave Bendigkeit and the Keepers of the Flame
The “Keepers of the Flame” is a jazz coalition created by Dave Bendigkeit on trumpet and flugelhorn, featuring Dave Udolf on piano, Akira Tana on drums, and Chris Amberger on bass. They perform all original songs from the great river of American music where the groove and self-expression are paramount, as well as unique arrangements…
Sunday, November 23rd – 2 pm
Book talk: Sapna Thottathil
India’s Organic Farming Revolution
In her new book, Sapna Thottathil calls on us to rethink the politics of organic food by focusing on what it means for the people who grow and sell it–what it means for their health, the health of their environment, and also their economic and political well-being. Taking readers to the state of Kerala in…
Saturday, Nov. 22nd – 8-11 pm
jazz club — when lights are low
Terrance Tony Quartet
Alto player Terrance Tony assembles the band each 4th Saturday of the month, drawing on some of the stellar players around the Bay Area. Â Tonight, pianist Grant Levin, bassist Aaron Cohn and drummer Vinnie Rodriguez are on the gig! Two years ago, Terrance came out from Houston – where he was born and raised –…