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!

Thursday, March 5th – 5:30pm
A reading for
al-Mutanabbi Street

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Sunday, April 30th – 2:30 pm
Walker Brents III Talks the Talk, Walks the Walk
and watches the sky!
UFOs!

They come from beyond! What do you make of that? More to the point, what does Walker make of that?? Inquiring minds want to know!!!

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Friday, August 9th – LATE SHOW! – 9-11pm
Raffi Garabedian/Richard Sears Quartet

Raffi Garabedian, saxophone Richard Sears, piano Miles Wick, bass Tim Bulkley, drums Just jazz. Like you think it should be, and more. $20 cover charge; sliding scale available

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Friday, May 3rd – 6-8pm
Francis Vanek Quartet

Francis Vanek, saxophone; Randy Vincent, guitar; Chris Amberger, bass. The Jazz Happy Hour, 22 years running! Every Friday save two since 2008! $20 suggested donation for adults. Kids free — teens/students $5-10. Francis Vanek is a legendary North Coast tenor player who hails from Pittsburgh, PA. There, he cut his teeth as a youth with…

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This weekend, April 12-14, live in the shop…
Eric Shifrin…Erik Jekabson…Elijah Wald…Pamela Rose & Wayne De La Cruz…Rolling Thunder!!!

Two shows on Friday, April 12th, with Eric & the In Crowd rolling out tunes by Arthur Schwartz and Jule Styne in the 6-8pm segment and the Erik Jekabson Quartet bringing the jazz up to the moment, from 8:30 to 10pm. Bassist Bing Nathan and drummer Mark Lee are pianist Eric Shifrin’s In Crowd this…

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Monday, March 6th – 7-9 pm
A Reading for Al-Mutanabbi Street: Beau Beausoleil, Judith Ayn Bernhard, Neeli Cherkovski, Agneta Falk, Jack Hirschman, Michael Koch, Jessica Loos, Dorothy Payne, Kim Shuck, plus Steve Arnston, piano

“The only war is the war on the imagination” – Diane di Prima. Poets read to commemorate the March 5, 2007 destruction by car bomb of Al-Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad’s bookseller’s street named for the 10th century Iraqi poet. This tragedy, in which 26 died and a great many bookshops and stalls were decimated, marked a…

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Thursday, August 9th – 10 pm
LA on Tour!
Girl Fry

We tend to think of Girl Fry as a Latina punk band from L.A., but perhaps that’s simplistic. We’re given to understand that Girl Fry or Girl Friar is a music project that is harvested semi-annually (though sometimes quarterly). The species is a hybrid descended from both the South and Central American Vaquero and the Iberian…

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