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!

Saturday, June 26 – 7:30pm
live in the shop and in the cyberstream
Lost Shapes

$20 cover charge, cash at the door; byob.     $10 online donation requested for the live stream – youtube / fb

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Saturday, June 19 – 7:30pm
Ben Esposito Quartet
featuring Mike Olmos
jazz! live in the shop and live-streamed!

Mike Olmos, trumpet Javier Santiago, piano Giulio Xavier Cetto, bass Ben Esposito, drums Mike Olmos is one of the towering legends of San Francisco jazz! Javier Santiago and Giulio Xavier Cetto are two of its top players! And young Ben Esposito is coming on strong. Drummer Ben Esposito is a Bay Area native, born and…

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Friday, June 18 – 7:30pm
Scott Foster Quintet
jazz with Scott!
live-streamed from the bookshop
third Friday of every month

Milestones! Bird & Beckett: 21 years in business The Proprietor: 65 years on the planet The Concert! (catch it in our live stream) THE SCOTT FOSTER QUINTET Scott Foster, guitar Mike Olmos, trumpet Joe Cohen, tenor saxophone Charles Thomas, bass Jeff Marrs, drums View our live streams on our YouTube channel and our Facebook page. No audiences…

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Denise Sullivan’s SF Lives
2nd Sunday mornings: live streamed chats in the bookshop

Sunday, June 13 – 10am
A conversation with
artist/networker Anna Lisa Escobedo

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. This morning, Denise will engage artist…

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Saturday, June 12 – 7:30pm
Grant Levin Quartet
feat. Dawan Muhammad, saxophone
jazz! live-streamed from the bookshop every Saturday night

Click here to view & hear the Grant Levin Quartet at Bird & Beckett, June 12, 2021 Grant’s back! Grant Levin, a uniquely talented jazz pianist, has  been in as a sideman a couple of times in the past few months, but those have been rare opportunities to catch him here since the pandemic kicked…

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Friday, June 11 – 7:30pm
Michael Zilber Quartet
jazz!
live-streamed from the bookshop
every Friday evening

As we begin to emerge from the pandemic, we once again are pleased to present the Michael Zilber Quartet! Four major talents on one bookshop stage. Michael Zilber, saxophone Matt Clark, piano Peter Barshay, bass Jeff Marrs, drums ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ It was Michael’s appearance on our stage for an audience…

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Saturday, June 5 – 7:30pm
Todd Swenson’s This Side Up
featuring Derek Evans
live music streamed from the bookshop every Saturday night

Join us in funky soulville this Saturday night! Todd Swenson, guitar Derek Evans, vocals Ian Ratzer, piano Paul Olguin, bass Larry Vann, drums Here’s a little something that Derek & Todd were just cooking up for Saturday. Click here for This Side Up at Club Deluxe in June 2019, with Ken Owen on drums. And…

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Friday, June 4 – 7:30pm
Tongo Eisen-Martin
+ Ahkeel Mestayer
jazz! live-streamed from the bookshop every Friday evening
is this not jazz? listen and discover!

San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin plus percussionist Ahkeel Mestayer ~~Two sets of poetry & percussion~~ Crucial words and beats for our times ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ We encourage you to read more about our poet laureate at this link and to seek out his works, his readings and his books https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tongo-eisen-martin…

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Sunday, May 30 – 7:30pm
Annette A. Aguilar’s
StringBeans Left Coast Quintet
plays Brazilian Latin Jazz

    San Francisco native daughter Annette A Aguilar is flying home from NYC for a family visit, and brings together a passel of great musicians from around the Bay including her brother Ricky Aguilar plus Anthony Blea, Murray Low, Gary Brown and a couple special guests for two special sets of music streamed live…

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Saturday, May 29 @ 7:30pm
Sifter: Ewing – Schenck – Mezzacappa – Glenn
jazz! streamed live on Saturday nights!

Rob Ewing, trombone Beth Schenck, saxophone Lisa Mezzacappa, bass Jordan Glenn, drums Avant garde jazz music from four major improvisers/composers/players who cover the Bay Area jazz waterfront. Sifter has been heard most steadily at Woods Bar in Oakland, but pops up here and there including recent dates in parking spots around the Bay from Omar…

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