Live in the shop and viewable as a live stream on YouTube or Facebook. This early evening into the twilight, Bird & Beckett is pleased to present a combo comprising students from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Roots, Jazz and American Music B.Mus. degree program. It’ll be a sextet, coached into being by Akira Tana, but set…

Eric Shifrin, piano Richard Chon, violin Ari Munkres, bass Mark Lee, drums Live in the shop and viewable as a live stream on YouTube or Facebook. Doors open at 7:20pm. Music at 7:30pm. $20 cash cover charge at the door. Call for reservations – 415-586-3733 during regular store hours, Tuesday to Sunday, noon to six pm. Proof of…

Making the swing to bop & the bossa nova, and making it count! Four pros plying their trade for the glory and a guaranteed fair wage! Charlie McCarthy, saxophone Glen Deardorff, guitar Al Obidinski, bass Tony Johnson, drums Live in the shop and viewable as a live stream on YouTube or Facebook. Doors open at 7:20pm. Music at…

The Isaac Schwartztet brings a fresh take and vibrant artistry to the jazz/black american music repertoire. Leading the Schwartztet from the drumset is Isaac Schwartz, joined by Henry Hung, trumpet; Sam Priven, alto saxophone; Joshua Thurston-Milgrom, bass. Live in the shop and viewable as a live stream on YouTube or Facebook. Isaac, an Oakland native, has honed his…

Scott Foster, guitar Matt Montgomery, bass Dan Foltz, drums Scott Foster concocts a new project or revisits and tweaks an old one every single time out, and has done so ever since we asked him to assume a monthly residency many, many years ago. First, though, he provided unassuming brilliance to Bird & Beckett’s legacy…

Christine No and Heather Bourbeau are featured to open the poetry session tonight. Christine has a new book coming out and Heather has recently been part of the Wall and Response project with Maw Shein Win and Megan Wilson of the Clarion Alley Mural Project. Kim Shuck, San Francisco’s 7th Poet Laureate, hosts Bird &…

Join San Francisco columnist Denise Sullivan for a series of morning discussions with The City’s arts and cultural leaders and lesser-known workers, the everyday people who help make this place we call home, every second Sunday at 10 am, live streamed from Bird & Beckett Books in Glen Park. Find the stream on Bird &…

TOGETHER AGAIN Betty Wong & Friends CD Release Concert & Bird & Beckett Pandemic Relief Party Live in the shop and viewable as a live stream on YouTube or Facebook! TOGETHER AGAIN was inspired by two musicians — during the Covid pandemic, a time of impending threat to survival — making music that draws energy…

Michael O’Neill, reeds Adam Shulman, piano Dan Feiszli, bass Jason Lewis, drums The Michael O’Neill Quartet has developed an avid following over nearly two decades. O’Neill’s latest album, And Then It Rained (Jazzmo Records, 2020), featuring bassist Dan Feiszli and drummer Jason Lewis alongside pianist Michael Bluestein, is his fourth, and the first to focus…

Simon Rowe leads a trio in two sets of straight ahead, bebop and latin inflected jazz. An Australian bitten by the jazz bug in Sydney at age 12, when his grandfather brought a Louis Armstrong lp into the house, Simon has traveled the American jazz byways ever since he packed off to Texas as a…