Jim Witzel, guitar Dann Zinn, saxophone Brian Ho, organ Jason Lewis, drums $20 cover charge; BYOB Reservations, call 415-586-3733 Tonight at Bird & Beckett, Jim Witzel’s working quartet draws on original material from their current release, Feelin’ It, along with pieces from Jim’s album Give and Take, with a few standard tunes thrown in for…

Tonight: The Scott Foster Quartet conducts “Further Experiments with Tom Hassett” Tom Hassett, drums Dan Seamans bass Jim Peterson sax Scott Foster, guitar Musical journeys flowing from the mind of Mr. Hassett, including repertoire from the John Scofield Quartet, Billy Strayhorn, Bill Evans and others Scott Foster has been bringing jazz to Bird & Beckett…

A mainstay of the San Francisco jazz scene for years, bassist Adam Gay decamped for Brooklyn several years ago, where he’s been brewing beer and playing jazz, much to Brooklyn’s benefit and San Francisco’s loss! But he’s coming back to town for some good gigs, and one of them is at Bird & Beckett in…

Way out west… The Seducers — America’s favorite Honky Tonk band! Joe Goldmark, pedal steel       Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocals Tim Wagar, bass guitar       Paul Revelli, drums The Seducers play Bird & Beckett every other month – January, March, May, July, September, November – on the second Sunday of the month at 5pm. Alternating…

The short stories gathered in Angelo Presicci’s book, Fighting the Bad War present a vivid, first person account of realities that faced American soldiers in our war on North Vietnam and upon their return home. Published by Robert Anbien’s Night Horn Books in early 2022, Fighting the Bad War  has been republished and relaunched by…

San Francisco journalist Denise Sullivan conducts a monthly series of conversations (the second Sunday of each month from 10-11 a.m.) with The City’s activists, educators, arts and cultural leaders and lesser-known workers, the everyday people who help make this place we call home, live streamed from Bird & Beckett Books Today’s guest is Malia Spanyol,…

Matt Renzi runs bands in San Francisco, New York and Rome. The son of a celebrated musician who was the long-time principal flutist for the San Francisco Symphony (60 years, beginning in 1944), whose own father played oboe for Arturo Toscanini and whose grandfather was an organist at St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome who knew…

Kim Shuck, San Francisco’s 7th poet laureate, now emerita, and more vital than ever, has been hosting a zoomed poetry reading for Bird & Beckett since way back, early pandemic… it continues. We’re grateful for the fabulous ways in which she extends the bookshop’s boundaries. Tonight, she’s invited Norma Smith and Gail Mitchell to read,…

Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Smith Dobson V, drums Remembering the Deluxe…

Oakland’s Bishop O’Dowd High School Jazz Ensemble, directed by bassist Fred Randolph.