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!
Sunday, May 5th – 5-8pm
Two jazz combos from
Ruth Asawa School of the Arts
jam session with the Akira Tana Trio follows
Bird & Beckett makes way for the next generation on the first Sunday of each month! On the first Sunday of each month, you’ll hear what youth well schooled in jazz can do. The musicianship on display is always amazing, delightful and fills us with confidence in the future of the culture. This time out,…
Friday, March 31st – 5:30-8pm
Jinx Jones Trio
Luxurious guitar and exotica. Cool swing and soul with a hot trio. That’s Jinx’s jazz bag! Long-time Bird & Beckett fans know that bag well, though most beyond our cozy niche know him only for his rockabilly twang and train songs, whether wafting out the swinging doors of the Saloon across from Caffe Trieste or…
Friday, May 3rd – 8:30-10pm
Macy Blackman’s Mighty Fine Trio
Macy Blackman, piano and vocals; Bing Nathan, bass; Jon Otis, drums. The late show! $20 cover charge cash or venmo at the door for a reservation, call 415-586-3733 Macy Blackman has been steeped in rhythm & blues since he was a youngster in Delaware. Born in 1948, by his high school years he…
Thursday 5/2 to Sunday 5/5
Poetry & jazz kicking off
Bird & Beckett’s 25th Anniversary Month!
founded May 1999!
Thursday 5/2 at 7pm: Poets James Cagney and Thomas Dunn, followed by an open mic hosted by Jerry Ferraz and Michael Koch. Featured poets and an open mic presented monthly since 1999. Free to all, though donations are always appreciated. James Cagney is the author of Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour Of Chaos Theory,…
Sunday, April 28th – 5-9pm
Jam session with the Vince Lateano Trio
and jazzy SFCM RJAM end-of-semester party!
Join the precociously talented undergrads from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s B.Mus. “Roots, Jazz & American Music’ program to help celebrate the end of another semester. Some will be back next year, some will head for the bright lights of another big city… it’s the now that counts! Bring a donation to help us…
Saturday, April 27th – 7:30-9:30pm
Phillip Greenlief – Scott Amendola Duo
30 years of spontaneous collaboration! No reason to stop now! $20 at the door. Doors open at 7:15pm. Showtime 7:30. BYOB. Scott Amendola and Phillip Greenlief celebrate 30 years of collaboration with the release of STAY WITH IT on clean feed records. The two musicians began playing together when Greenlief moved back to the SF…
Saturday, April 27th – 4pm
Book Launch Party!
Glen Park Writer Jason K. Friedman
presents Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and the Civil War from University of South Carolina Press
Jason Friedman has lived up the way for quite a few years, but hails from Savannah, Georgia, and when he and his partner Jeffrey bought a flat in a building on Liberty Street in Savannah a few years ago, Jason began to dive into the archives to see what he could learn about the family…
Friday, April 26th – 8:30-10pm
The Mike Gamble Trio with Lisa Mezzacappa
It’s always a good idea to
Friday, April 26th – 6-8pm
The 230 Jones Street Band
remembers Si Perkoff (1937-2024)
With its roots in the Friday-after-work jazz party started by veteran tenor player Chuck Peterson as a trio back in 2002, the 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band is the legacy band at Bird & Beckett. It’s been led in recent years by drummer Tony Johnson, with pianist Si Perkoff joining up a…
Thursday, April 25th – 7:30pm
Sundered Sound
A Multi-Genre SFSU Creative Arts Revue
Sundered Sound is a multi-genre event showcasing SFSU students of the arts, aiming to force music and words into collision to create fresh experiences. It’s a series dedicated to the wide range of emotions that sounds can strike. The evening will include segments by writer August Edwards; a duo comprising poet Elodie Townsend and electronic…