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, June 6th – 6-8pm
The San Francisco Jazz Quintet

Joel Behrman, trumpet. Tod Dickow, saxophone. Matt Clark, piano. Jeff Saxton, bass. Greg Gotelli, drums. $25 cover per adult; byob. $10 teens and students. Kids free. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Tonight, the San Francisco Jazz Quintet brings to you the classic composers of the hard bop genre, as well as the…

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POETS! First Thursdays at 7pm
June 5th: Jessica Loos & Cara Vida featured
open mic follows

Jessica Loos’s work verges on performance art, channeling a strain of poetic tradition steeped in surrealism, dada and the best of Charles Bukowski. She’s a member of The Living Theatre and a collage artist as well, and organizes the poetry for the North Beach First Friday Artwalk and the North Beach Festival. Never satisfied, she…

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June 5th to June 8th
Poets Cara Vida & Jessica Loos + open mic
San Francisco Quintet
Sheldon Alexander Quartet
Kurt Ribak Trio
Lowell Ensemble Chamber Music

…..6/5 at 7pm, donations appreciated: Poets Jessica Loos and Cara Vida followed by an open mic. ….6/6 at 6pm, $25: San Francisco Quintet w/Joel Behrman, trumpet; Todd Dickow, tenor sax Matt Clark, piano; Jeff Saxton, bass; Greg Gotelli, drums. …..6/6 at 8:30pm, $20: The Sheldon Alexander Quartet w/Sheldon Alexander, drums; additional personnel tba. …..6/7 at…

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Sunday June 1st
undergrad jazzers of SFCM…
Michael Parsons & Danny Brown!
more fun than you can shake a stick at!

Monthly First Sundays Student Combo & Jam Session* This afternoon at 5pm, a quartet from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music kicks off the music with a 45 minute set Don’t be late! Kira Agrell, saxophone; Emmett Van Leer, piano; Alan Jones, bass; and Tania Cosma, drums Following their set, the combo hosts a student-oriented…

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Saturday, May 31st
Double Scorpio

Saturday, 5/31 at 7:30pm, $20 Double Scorpio takes it out & deep! Darren Johnston peace cannon Marcus Stephens tenor saxophone Sam Bevans, contrabass Michael Mitchell, drums Reserve a seat, 415-202-4870 byob

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Friday, May 30th – 8:30pm
Pepe Jacobo Latin Jazz Quartet

The Pepe Jacobo Latin Jazz Quartet Marco Diaz, piano Jason Muscat, bass Mike Ramirez, congas Pepe Jacobo, drums

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Rojai in the Pocket this Friday!
May 30th at 6pm
celebrate summer vacation!

Jairo Vargas, aka Rojai, aka Mr. Jairo, is one kool customer for sure. New album — “At Your Service” — on the way! Always a surprise in store! Skool’s out and summer’s coming on fast, so get a jump on it! Kids welcome and free. Teens pay ten bucks. Adults pay twenty and are responsible…

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Poets Sunday, June 21st at 5pm
Julie Rogers, Lisbet Bailey,
Cathleen Williams, Sarah Menefee
stay for Autonomous Region at 7pm!

Sunday at 5, catch four goils from the Northern California watershed, poets & buddies from a ways back… Lisbet Bailey, Cathleen Williams, Sarah Menefee and Julie Rogers. A quick blow out! deep, profound, sassy and unfiltered, and then it’s on to the jazz at 7pm–this time, of the Filipino kulintang persuasion… Autonomous Region, a quintet…

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Thursday, May 29th – 7pm
Samantha Rose
presents her memoir
Giving Up the Ghost

Have you heard the one about the ghostwriter who walks into the afterlife? Samantha Rose’s book, Giving up the Ghost: A Daughter’s Memoir (Sybelline Digital First, 2025) is the highly personal work of a professional ghostwriter, stepping forward with her own story to unravel the mystery of her mother’s suicide, wrestling and jousting with the…

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Sunday, May 25th – 8-10pm
The Isaiah Javier Quartet

  Isaiah Javier came out of Heritage High School in Brentwood, burning to play jazz at a high level–which he’s been doing handily. At 17, he spent a week at the Brubeck Institute Summer Jazz Colony and two weeks at Lincoln Center’s Summer Jazz Academy. Now, he’s been studying at Berklee School of Music back…

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