653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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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, 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
Saturday, June 15th, 3 to 5 pm
Harry Nilsson B’Day Fest!
Christopher Gray and J. Raoul Brody join forces with a crew of like-minded friends to pay birthday tribute to — and sing the songs of — Harry Nilsson! A delightfully motley bunch will delve deep into Harry’s career, doing hits he wrote for other people (Three Dog Night’s “One (is the Loneliest Number)”, the Monkees’…
Sunday, June 9th, 4:30-6:30 pm:
Terry Rodriguez Trio
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 9th – 4:30-6:30 pm: Terry Rodriguez Trio Ranging over jazz terrain from bop to Bill Evans – pianist Terry Rodriguez with bassist Ron Crotty and drummer Tom Hassett.
Friday, May 10th, 5:30 to 8:00 pm:
The Jimmy Ryan Quintet
On the second Friday of each month, jazz in the bookshop features The Jimmy Ryan Quintet. Drummer Ryan learned the trade in L.A. in the ’50s as well, and hit the San Francisco scene in 1960 — and never looked back. Jimmy has played with legendary musicians like Putter Smith, Vince Wallace, Kent Glenn and…
Sunday, May 26th, 4:30-6:30 pm:
Pacific Jazz Connection
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. May 26th – 4:30-6:30 pm: Pacific Jazz Connection Jerry Logas, a multi-instrumentalist who covers all manner of saxes, clarinet and flute with equal parts lyricism and power, and Smith Dobson…
Sunday, May 19th
Jimmy Gallagher Quartet
feat. Warren Gale
Sunday, May 19, 4:30-6:30 pm which way west? Sunday concert series never a cover charge, but your donations help us pay the musicians! Trumpet player Warren Gale has had a long and esteemed career, and is considered a key bebop player, particularly in West Coast small combo work, with significant time in Stan Kenton’s orchestra…
Don Alberts, piano
A Bay Area native, active throughout the region in the early 1960s, with time served as house pianist at Jimbo’s Bop City from 19__ to 19__ in the company of Bishop Norman Williams, etc. Author of Diary of the Underdogs: San Francisco Jazz in the 1960s. Poet and novelist as well.
Mothers Day!
Pure New Orleans R&B plus
a mother-daughter poetry reading
We’ve got it all today, mother & daughter writers… New Orleans R&B… it’s all yours! Consider it our gift, in honor of the mothers we’ve got and the ones we sorely miss, and the mothers we are! First, Leslie Simon, mother, and Caya Schaan, daughter, join in a joint Mothers Day reading at 2 pm,…