653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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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!
Mark your calendar!
Sunday, June 23rd:
Chaude Symphonie
which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, June 23rd – 4:30-6:30 pm:  Chaude Symphonie Trio. A century ago, France sizzled with “le jazz hot” — taking up the American classical music created by King Oliver, Louis Armstrong and their confreres…
Saturday Night, June 22! 8 p.m.
Choice Bits of Samuel Beckett
Special Saturday Night Theatre Event! “Bits of Beckett”  George Killingsworth and Hal Hughes perform short works and fragments from the work of Samuel Beckett… perhaps we’ll get Rough for Theatre I, a bit of Endgame, a bit of Molloy… maybe Ohio Impromptu… the boys have long experience voicing these and many other choice bits, so we’ll…
Danny Brown Quartet
jazz in the bookshop every Friday evening… 5:30 to 8:00 pm Tonight, Friday, June 21st, a special appearance by the Danny Brown Quartet, led by the finest young tenor player this town has to offer. Not to be missed!
Wednesday, June 19, 7:00 pm: SUPERPOP! author Daniel Harmon
Book Release Party with author Daniel Harmon! From San Francisco’s own Zest Books…  Super Pop! Pop Culture Top Ten Lists to Help You Win at Trivia, Survive in the Wild, and Make It Through the Holidays Super Pop offers a maximum-pleasure, minimum-effort way to become smarter, happier, and a little bit more likely to survive…
Sunday, June 16, 2:00 pm: Leon/Mattraw/Wickens – Poets
Poets Raina Leon, Alexandra Mattraw, and Jessica Wickens will be reading from their recently published books. Dr. Raina J. Leon, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006) and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, has been published in several journals and anthologies. Her first collection of poetry, Canticle of Idols, was a finalist for both…
Sunday, June 16, 4:30 pm:
The Peter Barshay Trio
with Grant Levin & Bryan Bowman
Peter Barshay is a fine bassist with a long and impressive track record, not to mention a beautiful tone & musical intelligence. With Grant Levin on piano and Bryan Bowman on drums, this will go down in your personal annals as one of the best trios you’ve laid ears on! Don’t miss out! On the…
Saturday, June 15, 6:30 pm: POETBOOK, a reading from the illuminated manuscripts
Editor/Illuminator Brian Lucas is joined by a cohort of contributors to his ongoing illuminated book project, about which one might find more here: http://poetbook.tumblr.com/ Readers will include Micah Ballard, Gillian Conoley, Patrick James Dunagan, Derek Fenner, Andrew Joron, Ava Koohbor, Sara Larsen, Todd Melicker, Joseph Noble, Julien Poirier and Cedar Sigo.
Sunday, June 9 at 3:00 p.m.
Afro-Cuban poet & essayist
Nancy Morejon
Nancy Morejon is likely the best known and most widely translated woman poet of post-revolutionary Cuba. Born in 1944 in Havana to a militant dock worker and a trade-unionist seamstress, Morejón graduated from Havana University. She has received the Critic’s Prize (1986) and the National Prize for  Literature (2001). She declares, “I am, at once, Nancy Morejon, an individual, a unity,…
Pugsley Buzzard is Back!
Stride Piano Champ from Down Under
Sunday June 2nd, 4:30-6:30 pm
Don’t miss the rockin’ wonder from Down Under known as Pugsley Buzzard, playing his third solo show at Bird & Beckett.. Pugs is at once a rollicking stride piano master and a gravelly voiced singer, plumbing the extremes of dark fate and wry, whisky-soaked self-reflection. He plays barrelhouse blues & boogie woogie, growls his dark & titillating songs, and pumps out magnificent Harlem…
Friday, May 31, 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop 5th Friday
The Dave Parker Quartet
Remember the halcyon days when Dave Parker’s jazzmen burned bright at the Red Rock Lounge down at the corner of Chenery & Diamond Street every Friday night! Jerry Logas, tenor sax; Charles Hamilton, trombone; Dave Parker bass; Greg German, drums.Â