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, July 21st, 4:30-6:30 pm
Noel Jewkes / Grant Levin Duo

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, July 21st – 4:30-6:30 pm:  Noel Jewkes/Grant Levin Duo. Noel Jewkes is an acknowledged master of the jazz saxophone in Northern California, a musician’s musician with decades of top flight…

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Friday, July 19th, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The Scott Foster Organ Trio

We’re proud to announce that beginning in July, our “jazz in the bookshop” series will now feature a group led by guitarist Scott Foster on the third Friday of each month. Scott is a founding member of Bird & Beckett’s live jazz tradition, having played guitar on our Friday night dates ever since the series began back in late 2002….

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Sunday, July 14th, 4:30 to 6:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio

 which way west? a weekly concert series at Bird & Beckett every Sunday afternoon, 4:30 to 6:30 there’s no cover charge, but your generous donations at the gigs and to the non-profit “Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project” make it possible for us to pay the musicians!   Pianist Grant Levin has made a name…

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Sunday, June 30th, 4:30-6:30 pm:
The Matt Renzi Quartet

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 30 – 4:30-6:30 pm: The Matt Renzi Quartet Matt Renzi on sax and oboe Misha Khalikulov, cello John Wiitala, bass Smith Dobson V, drums Based now in New…

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Wednesday, June 26th, 7 pm:
Reception for photographers Irene Poon and Charles Wong

Please join us for a celebration of the work of two photographers with deep roots in San Francisco.  Charles Wong’s photo essays of Chinatown in the 1950s make a good starting point and the striking black and white work that both he and Irene Poon have done through the decades evoke much that is at once…

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Sunday, June 23rd
Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California

Sunday, June 23, at 2 pm, Bruce Neuburger will present his book, just published by Monthly Review Press, that details his immersion in the life most of us have only viewed through the windows of our cars as we hurtle along through the agricultural heartland of California.  Bruce was and remains a committed radical politically,…

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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…

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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…

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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!

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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…

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