Jazz musicians, this one’s for you. Drummer Vince Lateano leads the session with Peter Barshay on bass and Ben Stolorow on piano. No fee to play. Audience, bring a $20 to help us pay the rhythm section. BYOB Find the live stream on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. Donate per the info…

Jessy Spino has toured through a couple of times in the past five years from Los Angeles with the band Girl Fry, playing  music she characterizes as melodic punk, centered on the guitar and charango, an Andean lute, plus bass guitar. Jessy is coming through solo this time to play with artist and musician Tasya…

This afternoon at Bird & Beckett, Patrick James Dunagan calls to assembly a beatific crew to celebrate a legendary and ’til now unpublished work by poet David Meltzer.  Julie Rogers, Marina Lazzara,  Micah Ballard, Garrett Caples, Neeli Cherkovski, Gene Berson, Agneta Falk Hirschman, Sarah Menefee and Genny Lim read on the occasion of the publication…

Always a good time when the In Crowd gathers at Bird & Beckett. Eric Shifrin, piano Rick Brown, trombone Chuck Bennett, bass Mark Lee, drums $20 cash cover charge; BYOB; proof of vaccination, a mask. Doors open at 7:20pm. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Can’t make it to the show? Check it out in…

Solid, swingin’, straight ahead jazz & hard bop. Tony Johnson leads our fourth Friday jazz dates in the bookshop, has for many years! But tonight, we’re subbing in the estimable Smith Dobson V for Tony since he took a major spill on that bike he still rides in his eighth decade. He’ll be mending for…

A neighborhood party just for the heck of it! Do come! Joe the Quilter & his confreres Joshua Raoul Brody and Christopher in the Potrero Hillbillies gotta do something on a Thursday night, like play some music, and Joe’s good friend Soo Emens just needs to walk across the street from her bizness called POD…

HowellDevine returns to the Bird & Beckett stage! If you’ve never heard them, and certainly if you’ve never heard them live, you’ll be blown away. Gale force blues in store for you! $20 cash cover charge; BYOB; proof of vaccination, a mask. Doors open at 4:45pm. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Can’t make it…

Greg Abate, saxophone & flute Ben Stolorow, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Michael Mitchell, drums $20 cash cover charge; doors at 7:20; show at 7:30. BYOB, proof of vaccination and masks, please. Reservations, call the store at 415-586-3733 during store hours (Tuesday to Sunday, noon to six) Can’t make it to the show? Check it out…

Reprising a trio that worked together 15 years ago, guitarist Scott Foster has invited bassist Marcus Shelby and trumpeter Darren Johnston to reunite for a concert offering songs of peace and and other compositions, including Ornette Coleman’s “The Blessing” and Joe Henderson’s “Serenity.” Doors open at 7:20; show at 7:30. No reservations. The concert will…

Pearl Ubungen dances in the intimate space of Bird & Beckett within the sound envelope of the San Francisco ensemble led by saxophonist Salim Washington — Scott Foster on guitar, Charles Thomas on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums. An opportunity to absorb Washington’s “new synoptic vision of what jazz can be and do,” as…