653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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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…
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…