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!

Friday, July 4th — 5:30 to 8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble

Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble plays the first Friday of every month at Bird & Beckett.  Don’s been handling the lion’s share of the bass duties here since the series started way back in late 2002, and he’s still going strong.  He’s a veteran of the late 1950s Los Angeles based Bud Shank Quartet, and brings…

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Sunday, June 29th — 4:30 to 6:30 pm
The Albatross Clarinet Quartet

Dave Tidball (clarinet, bass clarinet) Jim Dukey (clarinet, bass clarinet) Dick Mathias (clarinet, bass clarinet) Charlie Keagle (clarinet) A return engagement by a favorite aggregation! With this concert, the Albatross Clarinet Quartet will present an array of new music, most of it conceived and arranged within the last year. The pieces range from straight-ahead be-bop to…

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Sunday, June 22nd — 4:30-6:30 pm
Jazz pianist Joel Forrester
solo!

Joel Forrester returns to San Francisco — and Bird & Beckett — to play a few dates around the Bay.  Joel’s well known for his work with the Microscopic Sextet, for solo accompaniment to silent films, for composing the theme for “Fresh Air” on NPR, and for thousands more compositions which he’s spun out as…

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Monday, June 16 – 7:00 pm
“A Pocket of Poets” + open mic

Stephen Kopel, Nancy Wakeman, Al Averbach and Jane Rades read their work.  Open mic follows.  Jerry Ferraz hosts. Come one, come all! & Happy Bloomsday to you!

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Wednesday, June 11 — 7 p.m.
J. Tony Serra: his life,
work & convictions!
Book release celebration & reading–
wine & roses will abound!

J. Tony Serra will present his new “chromatic, metaphoric autobiography” Tony Serra: The Green, Yellow and Purple Years in the Life of a Radical Lawyer (Grizzly Peak Press, 2014).  Written while in Federal prison for tax resistance, Tony goes into his defense of Black Panthers, S.L.A., New World Liberation Front, Nuestra Familia, Earth First, Hells Angels, Mafia and…

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Monday, June 9th – 7 pm
CCSF Forum Spring Issue
publication party!

Join us this evening to hear from contributors to the new issue of Forum, the literary and arts magazine of City College of San Francisco! CCSF is a crossroads for students of all ages and backgrounds — and bright futures — and we are always delighted to get a glimpse in Forum’s pages of what they have to…

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Sunday, June 8th — 4:30 to 6:30 pm
Times Three “Off the Grid”
CD release!

Times Three — Paul Mindrup, piano; Scott Chapek, bass; Tom Hassett, drums — present their new album, “Off the Grid”.  You can read their notes on the tracks by clicking here. Three journeyman jazz musicians enamored of interesting time signatures, underappreciated tunes and sly originals.  Each of the three has put in productive work with…

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Sunday, June 8th — 2 pm
Eva Zeisel: Life, Design, and Beauty
a presentation by Pat Moore

Born Eva Amalia Stricker in Budapest, Hungary in 1906, Eva Zeisel was a uniquely accomplished ceramicist and designer, who by her early 20s had already become an accomplished artist in the field.  She worked first in Budapest, then for Schramberger Majolikafabrik in Germany, and by 1932 was in the Soviet Union, soon to be appointed Artistic…

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Saturday, June 7th – 8-11 pm
jazz club bonus date!
The Walter Savage Trio
with Grant Levin and Vince Lateano

Our only Saturday date in June happens on the 7th, when bassist Walter Savage, on a Bay Area swing from his home in Fayetteville, Arkansas, plays with two of the Bay Area’s finest musicians. Walter was a key player on the local jazz scene for decades before retiring from the music business a few years…

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Monday, June 2nd – 7 pm
POETS! Featured readers:
Paul Fericano and Linda King
open mic follows

 A rich reading with two poets of extraordinary experience.  Paul Fericano has a compulsively fascinating history as a poet and satirist with roots in the 1970s San Francisco cultural and political scene.  He has run Poor Souls Press since 1974, launched the “Stoogism” movement in 1976, and caused a ruckus in 1978 by offending the Republicans…

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