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!

Refresh your browser to catch a show in progress!
Visit our Facebook page or YouTube channel!
But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!

Saturday, March 22nd – 7:30-9:30pm
The San Francisco Sextet

Joel Behrman, trumpet Jeff Cressman, trombone Tod Dickow, tenor sax Matt Clark, piano Curtis Aikens, bass Greg Gotelli, drums  $25 cover per adult; byob $10 teens and students Kids free Drummer Greg Gotelli fields numerous great bands in the Bay Area, from the SF Quintet with vocalist Darlene Langston to the Buena Vista Jazz Band…

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Friday, March 21st – 8:30-10pm
Kevin Gerzevitz Trio
plays the music of Herbie Nichols

Kevin Gerzevitz, piano. Ari Munkres, bass. Tim Bulkley, drums. $20/byob. Students/teen – $10. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. Herbie Nichols wrote jazz tunes that are unique and compelling in ways highly appreciated by practitioners of the art, players and composers alike, and by fans, of course. “House Party Starting” is one such tune. Hear it here! And…

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Friday, March 21st – 6-8pm
Outward Bound!
Scott Foster invites two avant garde titans

Darren Johnston, trumpet. Bruce Ackley, reeds. Scott Foster, guitar. $20/byob. Students/teens – $10. Kids free. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. Scott steps out! The long-time cornerstone of our Friday jazz in the bookshop since 2002, Scott Foster brings all manner of jazz combos every third Friday, and this time out he’s invited two players whose renown in…

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Yes! Believe your five senses–
shows for in-store audiences
resumed in mid-June 2021,
and continue apace

 Bird & Beckett’s events open to the publichave been back since mid-June 2021.Mask up if you’re inclined, and do come in!(Not vaxxed? Please get vaxxed and be safer!) Jazz, poetry & morelive in the shopand live streamed Come to 653 Chenery if you’re in town! Doors open at 7:20 for our 7:30 shows.$20 cover for…

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Thursday, March 20th — 7pm
A Year of Deep Listening:
text scores inspired by the
work of Pauline Oliveros

The Cornelius Cardew Choir, Thingamajigs Performance Group and Pet the Tiger Instrument Inventors Collective celebrate the life and work of composer Pauline Oliveros and the release of the new book of text scores inspired by her “deep listening”. Several of the artists have scores published in this volume which will be performed alongside works by…

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Wednesday, March 19th – 7:30pm
Walker Talks: A Monthly Live Stream
Walker Brents III on The Lotus Sutra

The Lotus Sutra is an operatic religious script, a poetic text. Epically visionary, yet utterly concrete. The poetry is only one element upon the palette of enlightened consciousness, and the Lotus Sutra teaches that enlightened consciousness is a possibility for all.  It may be surprising to think of this as an ancient truth, but the…

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Sunday, March 16th – 5-7pm
The Vince Lateano Trio
with Tri Pham sitting in on guitar

The Vince Lateano Trio plays jazz in the bookshop on the third Sunday of every month. Make it a habit! You never know who’s going to drop in! Drummer Vince Lateano has been a mainstay of the San Francisco jazz scene since the mid-1960s, and also toured in those early years with Woody Herman, Vince…

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Saturday, March 15th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Deep End
a quintet
jazz club, when lights are low…

The Deep End started out as a rehearsal band of five long-time Bay Area musicians who hoped to make the best of the pandemic, to explore lesser known music that would be more fun, interesting, and challenging than what we often played at the usual gigs. Drawn to innovative composers—classic giants such as Shorter, Dameron,…

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Friday, March 14th – 8:30-10pm
The Ahmad Jamal Project
Charles Chen / Mikiya Matsuda / Benny Amón

Out of Pittsburgh, Ahmad Jamal made the most exquisite piano trio jazz that’s ever been heard. On piano, Charles Chen evokes that music and adds his own sensibilities in unity with drummer Benny Amón and bassist Mikiya Matsuda. Here’s video of the trio’s last Bird & Beckett outing…  

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Tonight! Friday, March 14th – 6-8pm
Eric & the In Crowd
play jazz in the bookshop

For decades, Eric Shifrin has been wowing the swells and the swindlers, the singers and the swingers, the rowdy and the restless and the resolute barflies in dives, penthouses, lounges and lobbies and swank supper clubs — wherever he plays, that’s where you’ll find the in crowd. Standards, chestnuts, curios. He’s a gruff stylist with…

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