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!
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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!
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…
postponed:
Author Jorge Argueta
My First Words in Nahuat
Jorge Argueta is in El Salvador at the moment and can’t be back in time for this reading, previously scheduled for March 23rd. We’ll announce a new date when he returns. My First Words in Nahuat is soon to be published; its author, Jorge Tetl Argueta is a celebrated Salvadoran poet and writer whose bi-lingual…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…