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!
Saturday, March 15th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Deep End
a quintet
jazz club, when lights are low…
The Deep End started out as a rehearsal band of five long-time Bay Area musicians who hoped to make the best of the pandemic, to explore lesser known music that would be more fun, interesting, and challenging than what we often played at the usual gigs. Drawn to innovative composers—classic giants such as Shorter, Dameron,…
Friday, March 14th – 8:30-10pm
The Ahmad Jamal Project
Charles Chen / Mikiya Matsuda / Benny Amón
Out of Pittsburgh, Ahmad Jamal made the most exquisite piano trio jazz that’s ever been heard. On piano, Charles Chen evokes that music and adds his own sensibilities in unity with drummer Benny Amón and bassist Mikiya Matsuda. Here’s video of the trio’s last Bird & Beckett outing…
Tonight! Friday, March 14th – 6-8pm
Eric & the In Crowd
play jazz in the bookshop
For decades, Eric Shifrin has been wowing the swells and the swindlers, the singers and the swingers, the rowdy and the restless and the resolute barflies in dives, penthouses, lounges and lobbies and swank supper clubs — wherever he plays, that’s where you’ll find the in crowd. Standards, chestnuts, curios. He’s a gruff stylist with…
Thursday, March 13th – 7:30pm
Jugalbandi Concert
Bruce Hamm, sarod / Joanna Mack, sitar
This concert features a Jugalbandi (duet) presentation of traditional North Indian classical stringed instruments. Bruce Hamm (sarod) is a disciple of the revered maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. He has pursued a serious and continuous study of classical instrumental and vocal music over nearly 4 decades. Bruce accompanied his Guru Ali Akbar Khan onstage on…
Sunday, March 9th – 5-7pm
Mitch Polzak & the Royal Deuces
It’s all jazz at Bird & Beckett– except when it’s lit’rature, poetry, philosophy, belles lettres– or… ROCKABILLY RAVE-UPS & COUNTRY CROONING! CLASSIC BALLADS OF WINE, WOMEN, SONG AND LONG-HAUL TRUCKING! TODAY FROM 5-7PM!! Mitch Polzac & the Royal Deuces featuring pedal steel master Joe Goldmark! Bring a twenty for the band and…
Sunday, March 9th – 10-11am
SF Lives Livestream
Journalist Denise Sullivan
in conversation with
poet Dee Allen
Independent reporter Denise Sullivan brings the SF Lives series to Bird & Beckett for a Sunday morning livestream. This month’s guest is Dee Allen, launching his 10th volume of poetry, The Mansion: Liberated Zones Inside The Controlled Inner City (Gnashing Teeth Publishing).”Named in honour of his first real home in the Bay Area, The Mansion covers…
Saturday, March 8th – 7:30pm
The Zen of Glenn
colleagues probe the influence of a fallen hero
Francis Wong, saxophone. Erika Oba, flute, piccolo, piano, melodica. Chris Trinidad, bass, synth. Carrie Jahde, drums. Helen Palma, vocals. $25 cover charge; byob. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. “Zen of Glenn” is a new CD recording of the works of the late composer and activist Glenn Horiuchi (1955-2000), featuring arrangements by longtime…
Friday, March 7th – 8:30-10pm
The James Mahone Quartet
Eat at home. Go out late. Stay out late. Enjoy the James Mahone Quartet! It’s the Friday late set at Bird & Beckett! James Mahone, tenor sax. Grant Levin, piano. Sam Bevan, bass. Michael (Mike) Mitchell, drums. Take a piano trio and do it one better! Nothing epitomizes jazz like the tenor saxophone! We love…
Friday, March 7th – 6-8pm
The Brian Andres Trio
Jazz in its essence! The piano trio is the traditional heart of the art form. If you don’t grasp that yet, you surely will over the course of the evening! Three musical minds, long experienced in developing their ideas, skills and technique, listening to each other, conversing in a common language without words on topics…
Sunday, March 2nd – 5pm
Mamboleo! Latin music set + jam session
Mamboleo! From Ruth Asawa School of the Arts: Amaru Duran-Calahorrano – Drums. Santiago Winton – Piano. Sai Ray – Trumpet. Mateo Siguenza – Bass. From Oakland School for the Arts: Vito Marcacci – Trombone. From Berkeley High School: Mario Barragan – Congas. On the first Sunday of most months (subject to the academic calendars of…