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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Sunday, December 21st – 4:30-6:30 pm
The Chelm Feelharmonik! Klezmer Trio
Klezmer Music by ~ Chelm Feelharmonik ~ Jeannette Levitsky – accordion Mike Perlmutter – clarinet Rick Elmore – bass trombone One rainy season, the downpours threatened never to end, the roads became impassable, puddles became miniature lakes, and rivers of mud flowed down the mountain. The town council was concerned. The people of Chelm couldn’t…
Sunday, December 14th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west? Sunday concert series
NYC Tenor Sax Star Grant Stewart
with the Patrick Wolff Quartet
Grant Stewart – tenor saxophone Patrick Wolff – tenor and alto saxophone Adam Shulman – piano Eric Markowitz – bass Hamir Atwal – drums “The primary reason that Wolff’s…concept works so well is that he’s found a stellar cast of creative allies. The music feels lived in, like it’s part of an ongoing conversation between…
Sunday, Dec. 14th – Noon to 1:30 pm
The Lee Vilensky Trio plays for the
Surf-a-billy Swing Time Dance Party!
Instrumental surf guitar and so much more! Â Listen, dance, groove, do what you want — we guarantee a good time at our new monthly series. Â Noon to 1:30 every second Sunday… the Surf-a-billy Swing Time Dance Party! Our December show: The Lee Vilensky Trio Guitarist Lee Vilensky, Bill MacBeath (bass) and Jamie Lease (drums) have…
Saturday, December 13th — 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low
Grant Levin Quartet
Tonight, pianist Grant Levin changes it up, presenting saxophonist Jonathan Bautista, bassist Ricardo Diaz, and drummer Jon Arkin. Grant has been knocking us out for a couple of years now, latecomers as we are to the party that started rocking when he drifted down from UNLV, or was it Reno… falling in with some of…
Friday, December 12th – 5:30 to 8:00pm
Jimmy Ryan’s
Bird & Beckett Bebop Band
On the second Friday of each month, jazz in the bookshop features The Jimmy Ryan Quintet aka The Bird & Beckett Bebop Band! In December, Jimmy’s band features Henry Hung on trumpet and Stu Pilorz on trombone, with Don Alberts on piano, Bishu Chatterjee on bass and Jimmy himself on drums!!! Drummer Ryan learned his trade in L.A. in the…
Sunday, December 7th – 4:30-6:30 pm
singer Darlene Langston and the
Buena Vista Jazz Band
Darlene Langston fronts a great septet playing the music of New Orleans when jazz was young. Â Andrew Storar, trumpet; John Hunt, trombone; Don Neely, clarinet; Duncan James, guitar; Alan Steger, piano; Al Obidinski, bass and Greg Gotelli, drums.
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…