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!

Sunday, January 23 – 5pm
HowellDevine
rural blues masters

“With its intimations of primal sacred cries, HowellDevine embodies elemental blues and boogie like juke joint prophets. Featuring Eli’s Mile High Club-honed Joshua Howell on slide guitars, harmonica, and vocals, percussion expert Roll ’Em Pete Devine on drums and washboard, and the relentlessly propulsive Joe Kyle Jr. on bass, the combo taps into red clay…

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Saturday, January 22 – 7:30pm
Saúl Sierra Quartet

Marco Diaz – trumpet Charlie Gurke – saxes Julio Perez – percussion Saúl Sierra – bass. $20 cash cover charge; BYOB; proof of vaccination & masks, please. Doors open at  7:20 for the 7:30 show. Audience capacity – 20. Call for reservations (415) 586-3733. Also viewable live streamed on the Bird & Beckett Facebook page or YouTube…

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Friday, January 21 – 7:30pm
Scott Foster’s Jazz Spelunkers, featuring Bruce Ackley
live jazz in the bookshop and in the stream every Friday night

Come along on a journey to the center of the jazz, a deep dive into the dark caves of improvised music in search of the music’s inner light. The expedition has been conceived and rehearsed and is ready to descend. Come cheer them on as they don the requisite gear and visit a mysterious interior…

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Sunday, January 16 – 2:30pm
Thomas Antonic presents his book
Amongst Nazis: William S. Burroughs
in Vienna 1936/37

Publisher and researcher Tate Swindell hosts author Thomas Antonic, offering a presentation, with audio & visuals, from his book Amongst Nazis: William S. Burroughs in Vienna 1936/37. An onstage Q & A between Antonic and Swindell with audience participation will follow.  A live stream of this event can be found on the Bird & Beckett…

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Saturday, January 15 – 7:30pm
Jinx Jones Trio
jazz club
when lights are low

The Jinx Jones Trio, with Angeline Saris, bass & Ken Owen, drums. Two sets of instrumental exotica and jazz! One of America’s finest guitar stylists & an intrepid explorer, dedicated to the psychotropic extremes of rockabilly, surf and your more august & happy traditions. Live streamed and live in the shop to an audience of…

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Friday, January 14 – 7:30pm
Larry Vann Trio
jazz in the bookshop and live in the stream

Larry Vann has long been the Groove Merchant! He brings it again with his long-time working trio, with Michael Warren on bass and Tim Landis on guitar, for two sets of jazz, soul, blues and funk. Larry has performed with Curtis Mayfield, Elvis Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite, among a raft of superstars, and he’s played…

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Tuesday, January 11 – 7:30pm
Craig Handy / Essiet Essiet / Sylvia Cuenca Trio

Three New York-based jazz masters take the stage at Bird & Beckett Tuesday, January 11 at 7:30pm for two sets of jazz! $20 cash cover charge. BYOB. Vax. Masks. Audience capacity is just 20 seats. For a reservation, call 415-586-3733! Also streamed on the Bird & Beckett Facebook page and YouTube channel. Oakland-born tenor saxophonist…

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Postponed – Tutti Taygerly book event – Make Space to Lead – new date tba

Tutti Taygerly is a neighbor, a leadership coach, a writer and a surfer. As a design leader, she gained 22 years of experience building products and design cultures in the world’s largest organizations. Today, she’s a coach to entrepreneurs and technology leaders who make an undeniable impact on the world. Tutti has led teams at…

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Sunday, January 9, there woulda been some serious sin & celebration with the Seducers, but it’s gonna have to wait ’til March, due to “the current uncertainty.”
No worries! Mark your calendar now for March 13!

Want a taste right now of their fine elixer? Check out the December 12 show on our YouTube channel or Facebook page! We’d suggest you pick it up at the 14:48 mark, when the mix has settled in and the band is tooled up for pure honky tonk magic. Click through to the full post,…

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Saturday, January 8 – 7:30pm
4tet Apocalyptique
jazz club! when lights are low…

4tet Apocalyptique Filling a need for comfort music since 2020 R&B, jazz, samba, pop Sharman Duran (piano) Salvador Aguilera (saxophone) Rick Brown (trombone) Pepe Jacobo (drums) Reservations encouraged (call 415-586-3733), as audience capacity is limited to 20 during the present phase of our little apocalypse. Doors open at 7:20 for the 7:30 1st set and…

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