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!
Wednesday, April 2nd – 7pm
Writer Sayed Afzal Haider
The Dying Sun and Other Stories
From Chicago out of Pakistan, Afzal has been devoted to literature, to American literature in particular, since arriving here at the age of 19 in the 1960s. He came to study electrical engineering, but he was transfixed by women, baseball, literature… From the works of writers like Bernard Malamud, John Fowles, Albert Camus and many…
This week’s fun…
a pushback against autocracy
and six cultural events from
Wednesday April 2nd to Sunday April 6th
Make Good Trouble!
No joke: It’s afternoon in America! Wake up! The joke, a bad one, is Donald Trump. Seriously: At noon today, Wednesday, April 2nd, and for 26 days in a row at noon, we’re going to turn on the tv at Bird & Beckett and play an hour’s worth of Senator Cory Booker’s speech that began…
Sunday, March 30th – 8-10pm
The Ryan Ancheta Quartet
Trumpet player Ryan Ancheta is sneaking a quartet into the shop for a late show Sunday the 30th, with his mentor Marcus Shelby on bass, the veteran tho-still-young Greg Jacobs on piano and Ryan’s contemporary, Miles Turk on drums. Expect two blazing sets of bop, hard bop, post-bop and beyond! $20 cover charge, cash or…
Sunday, March 30th – 5-7pm
Jam Session!
hosted by the Vince Lateano Trio
You never know who might drop in. Maybe you! The Vince Lateano Trio will make you feel right at home! BYOB and a twenty for the trio.
Saturday, March 29th – 7:30-9:30pm
An unnamable quartet plays ineffable jazz
Marc Caparone, cornet and trumpet. Dan Barrett, trombone and cornet. Jeff Hamilton, piano. Mikiya Matsuda, bass. $25 cover charge for adults / byob. Teens and students, $10. Kids free. The sweetest, most joyful, most satisfying, most rambunctious music you’ll ever hear is the creole jazz that flowered in New Orleans and floated up and down…
Friday, March 28th – 8:30-10pm
The Aaron Germain Quartet
Jesse Levit, saxophone. Matt Clark, piano. Aaron Germain, bass. Isaac Schwartz, drums. $20 cover charge per adult / byob. Student rate $10-15 sliding scale. cash or venmo; no credit cards. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Aaron Germain, a unique voice on bass with a flexibility beyond compare, is well into his third decade working…
Friday, March 28th – 6-8pm
The Tony Johnson Quartet
Bob Kenmotsu, saxophone. Keith Saunders, piano. Eric Markowitz, bass. Tony Johnson, drums. $20 suggested donation per adult / byob. Teens and students, $10. Kids free. Tony Johnson has been a cornerstone of the San Francisco jazz scene since he hit town in 1959. Tony recorded on Riverside Records with singer Bev Kelly and saxophonist Pony…
Thursday, March 27th – 7pm
Chandru Murthi reads from his novel
The Doctor from Madras
Sweeping across generations, continents, and cultures, The Doctor from Madras (Flexible Press, 2025; paper $19) is the epic story of one family and the collision between old ways and a changing world, the debut novel by Chandru Murthi. “In this multi-generational saga, Chandru Murthi weaves together a patchwork quilt of stories involving agonizing family secrets,…
This weekend
Friday 3/28-Sunday 3/30
good times in Glen Park
five shows at Bird & Beckett
Plenty to see and hear at Bird & Beckett this weekend. Open noon to six for browsing the books, and then, there’s music… Friday the 28th, there’s a 6-8pm show (The Tony Johnson Quartet returns! – $20 cover charge), then an 8:30-10pm show (The Aaron Germain Quartet – $20 cover charge). Saturday at 7:30, we…
Sunday, March 23rd – 8-10pm
Allan Harris – “The Poetry of Jazz”
with Freddie Bryant & Sylvia Cuenca
Allan Harris is on tour out of NYC, and meets up with fellow New Yorker/acclaimed guitarist Freddie Bryant and bi-coastal drummer Sylvia Cuenca–with the estimable Doug Miller on bass–for two sets of poetry inflected jazz and jazz inflected poetry… $30 cover charge; byob. Call the shop to reserve. Harris, long acclaimed for his vocalese, is…