653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
[email protected]
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Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six
Live Streams every weekend!
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Monday, July l9th – 7pm
ON ZOOM
Kim Shuck hosts poets Tehmina Khan and Tureeda Mikell, plus an open mic
Kim Shuck, San Francisco Poet Laureate Emirtus, hosts poetry readings on Zoom twice a month. The second Monday of each month, there are featured readers followed by an open mic. The fourth Sunday of each month, it’s all open mic. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84350265713?pwd=eE84V3BYdWxiSFBHNHhmdUt1WTUzdz09 Meeting ID: 843 5026 5713 Passcode: 244211 This month, the featured…
Saturday, July 6th – 7:30-9:30pm
Ray Skjelbred and the Hot Corner
Ray Skjelbred, piano Marc Caparone, trumpet Nathan Tokunaga, clarinet Jeff Hamilton, drums $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. Ray Skjelbred’s roots are in the early Chicago piano styles, with an affinity for the likes of Jess Stacy, Joe Sullivan, Jimmy Yancey and Art Hodes, not to mention a host of others from Earl Hines,…
Friday, July 5th – 8:30-10pm
Byrds of a Feather
David Byrd, saxophone. Eli Goldlink, keyboards. Ollie Dudek, bass. Michael Spencer, drums. $20 cover charge; byob. Byrds of a Feather is an All-Star quartet with top ranking musicians, well loved and often heard in spots throughout Northern California, honoring the great jazz masters while doing it their own unique jazzreggae way. Besides its reggae inflection, Byrds…
Friday, July 5th – 6-8pm
The Luke Westbrook Trio
Luke Westbrook, guitar. Matt Montgomery, bass. Smith Dobson, drums. $20 suggested cover for adults; Teens and music students, $5-10 sliding scale; kids free. Reservations, call the store at 415-586-3733. BYOB. This trio of musician friends has been performing together since 2007. These days the group plays repertoire mainly from the Great American Songbook (jazz standards)…
Sunday, June 30th – 5-7pm
Jam session hosted by the Vince Lateano Trio
Drummer Vince Lateano, an MVP of the San Francisco jazz scene for decades, hosts a jam session at Bird & Beckett on the last Sunday of each month with Ben Stolorow on piano and Peter Barshay on bass, each uniquely talented and at home on our stage. If you want to hear that lovely trio…
Saturday, June 29th – 7:30pm
Dave Parker Septet
Bassist and bandleader Dave Parker has been fielding highly charged ensembles in San Francisco for twenty years at least, picking and funding great musicians from the local pool to realize his vision. Featuring a strong, propulsive low end of trombone, baritone sax and bass, a cutting trumpet star, a virtuoso tenor sax player and supercharged…
more excitement in mid-June & beyond!
Coming up this weekend: The Dave Parker Septet – 6/29, 7:30pm. Jam Session – 6/30, 5:00pm. Dave Parker brings his seven piece pile-driving chamber jazz band for a deep plunge into music by Mingus, Coltrane, Dolphy, Morgan, Coleman and Johann Sebastian Bach. Dave is a Medici when it comes to supporting the cats in his…
Sunday June 23rd – 7pm
Hindustani classical music
Joanna Mack / Ferhan Qureshi Duo
Sitar & Tabla
Joanna Mack, sitar, and Ferhan Qureshi, tabla, will be playing Raga in a traditional style – improvised music based on decades of classical training. This show will also be available on live stream, however, the focus will be toward the people in the room, so please come in person if you can! $20 cover charge;…
Saturday, June 22nd – 7:30pm
Benny Amón Trio
Drummer Benny Amón left California, born & raised in Davis and trained in jazz, for New Orleans — where he lived and played for the ten years from 2011 to 2021, and where his love for the oldest jazz traditions was nurtured and flowered. In New Orleans, Benny performed regularly at Preservation Hall, Snug Harbor…
Friday, June 21 – 8:30pm
The James Mahone Quartet
Tenor saxophonist James Mahone gained a substantial and eminently well earned reputation as a co-founder of the jazz ensemble Black/Note, which won first prize at the John Coltrane Young Artist Competition in 1991 and recorded albums on World Stage (43rd and Degnan, 1991) Red Records (L.A. Underground, 1994), Columbia (Jungle Music, 1994) and Impulse (Nothin’…