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, December 22nd – 8:30-10pm
Luis Peralta Trio
with guest vocalist Danielle Perez

The trio returns! Luis Peralta, piano David Ewell, bass Ben Esposito, drums Danielle Perez, vocals $20 cover charge (cash or venmo at the door) byob Supported by Jazz in the Neighborhood’s Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund, and you!

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Friday, December 15th – 6-8pm
Scott Foster with David Boyce and Zori Marinova

Celebrating Scott’s nine-month tenure with saxophonist David Boyce and percussionist Zori Marinova at Etcetera wine bar on Valencia Street, the trio will entertain you at Bird & Beckett as this month’s installment in Scott’s regular third-Fridays residency at Bird & Beckett. Bringing musical wine & roses to you, his adoring fans. Bring your own actual…

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Thursday, December 14th – 7:30-9:30pm
Elé Salif Howell Quartet

  Jesse Levit, saxophone Kai Lyons, guitar Billy Edwards, bass Elé Howell, drums $20 cash cover charge or Venmo: @birdandbeckett byob   Elé Howell, a prodigy from a young age born and raised in the Bay Area, names a set of early influences that include his father, the saxophonist Richard Howell, as well as teachers…

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Monday, December 11th – 7pm
on line only
Poet Qwo-li Driskill plus open mic
2nd Mondays Zoom event

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84350265713?pwd=eE84V3BYdWxiSFBHNHhmdUt1WTUzdz09 Meeting ID: 843 5026 5713 Passcode: 244211 Kim Shuck hosts a monthly (Second Mondays) poetry reading on Zoom with a featured poet or two followed by an open mic. On December 11th, the reading will feature Qwo-li Driskill reading some of their own work, together with guests reading some of Qwo-li’s…

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Sunday, December 10th – 8:00pm
Tenia Nelson Trio

Denver awardee as The Jazz Journalists Association’s 2023 Jazz Hero! Here in the Bay for jazz business, with a trio date at Bird & Beckett as a bonus! Tenia Nelson on piano Heshima Mark Williams on bass Brother Khalil Abdullah on guitar Here’s her recent Bird & Beckett engagement with her Denver trio! TNT at…

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Sunday, December 10th – 5pm
Maurice Tani with vocalist Pam Brandon
and the American Bassist Mike Anderson

A singer songwriter of prodigious talent, with a wry, dark observational streak, delivers two sets of narrative gems, modern myths and fables, in the company of his long-time associate Mike Anderson on bass, and the great bassist Pam Brandon leaving that chore to Mike while she sings like nobody’s business alongside the pewter-throated Mr. Tani!…

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Saturday, December 9th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Billy Higgins Legacy Trio
featuring saxophonist Richard Howell
a co-presentation with Jazz in the Neighborhood

Three great jazz players convene under the “Billy Higgins Legacy” moniker to deliver two sets of powerful music. When Myron Cohen was setting out as a young musician to play jazz drums, he fell into the orbit of the great drummer Billy Higgins. The lessons he learned under Higgins’ mentorship have stuck with him through…

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Thursday, November 30th – 7pm
Artist Keith Ferris and writer Lea Smith present
Muni Is My Ride

“If there’s anything we’ve learned about life on Muni, it’s that the interesting stuff happens along the journey, not at the destination. From the nuances of operating a bus on city streets to the small details of our rides and fellow riders, Keith Ferris and Lia Smith have captured the urban humanity within each Muni…

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The Shows: November 30th to December 3rd
Thurs. 11/30 at 7pm Muni Is My Ride
Friday 12/1 at 6pm Noel Jewkes Quartet
Friday 12/1 at 8:30pm REOTREO PLUS ONE
Saturday 12/2 at 7:30pm John Calloway’s Fall to Winter Musings
Sunday 12/3 at 5pm SFCM’s RJAM Program Holiday Party

” More fun than you can shake a stick at! Grab a plane to SFO and hop BART to the shop. Or better yet, check in at your hotel first, and ride a Muni bus or streetcar out to the bookshop. The J-Church, running from the Embarcadero out to Balboa Park, near City College, is…

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Sunday, November 26th – 4:30pm
The Cottontails

Karina Denike, vocals Tom Griesser, clarinet and sax Michael MacIntosh, piano Vic Wong, guitar Joe Kyle, Jr., bass Carson Messer, drums $25-35 sliding scale for adults, cash please! Kids under 12 free; teens and music students $5-10 sliding scale Jump jazz, rhythm & blues! The spirit of the ’40s & ’50s with deeper roots and…

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