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, 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
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…
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…
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…
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…
Jam Session!
Last Sunday of every month at 5pm
with the Vince Lateano Trio
Jam session at Bird & Beckett Sunday, May 25th from 5-7pm. Come to play, then stick around to hear the Isaiah Javier Quartet from 8-10pm. $10 cover for students, $20 for general audience. Don’t forget our First-Sundays Student-Centric Jam Sessions– On Sunday June 6th, 5-7pm, a combo from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s…
Saturday, May 24th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Rumi Abe Quartet
A fresh voice on the San Francisco jazz scene, pianist Rumi Abe arrived from Nagoya, Japan in the fall of 2024 and is already woven into the fabric of Bay Area jazz culture. Come hear her at Bird & Beckett with a few of our great friends in jazz, saxophonist Steven Lugerner, bassist Isaac Coyle…
Friday, May 23rd – 8:30-10pm
Carnaval Descarga!
Annette A Aguilar’s
Beans on the Left + Guests
Annette A Aguilar, daughter of Nicaraguan parents, San Francisco native, La Reina de Baterista of Upper Manhattan and the Bronx with her String Beans ensemble and her Women in Latin Jazz festivals, returns home for another Carnaval season. To Bird & Beckett, she’ll bring a vibrant Beans on the Left quartet–the West Coast version of…
Friday, May 23rd – 6-8pm
230 Jones Street: McCarthy/Cady/Bennett/Johnson
This Friday at 6pm, drummer Tony Johnson corrals the usual suspects — Charlie McCarthy, saxophone; Sam Cady, piano; Chuck Bennett, bass — for another earth invasion by Bird & Beckett’s legacy jazz band, with its roots in the 2002 trio that Chuck Peterson used to establish a weekly Friday happy hour jazz tradition in Glen…
Thursday, May 22nd – 7:30pm
Five on the Western Edge:
Poets Steve Brooks, Stephen Vincent, Beau Beausoleil, Hilton Obenzinger, Larry Felson
A reunion poetry reading for Five On the Western Edge, the Momo’s Press 1976 volume of five poets responding to radical politics, including the rise of the women’s movement challenging gender roles. Reading from the original book and new work. Free. Donations welcome. Byob. To reserve a seat, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Live streamed…