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!
Saturday, December 5 – 7:30pm – live streamed on YouTube and Facebook
A Sublimely Jazzy Season of Love
Vocalist Kalil Amar Wilson and pianist Javier Santiago
Join us for a celebration of this Season of Love, with two wonderful musicians in close collaboration on the bookshop stage. Share an evening with vocalist Kalil Amar Wilson and pianist Javier Santiago, two master musicians joining together to present a Holiday program wrapped up just for lovers. Children of all ages are invited to…
Friday, December 4 – 7:30pm, live streamed on YouTube and Facebook
Simon Rowe Organ Trio
We’re excited tonight to present a blazing and soulful 90-minute preview of the shape of Glen Park jazz to come, as the Simon Rowe Organ Trio, with Dave Mac Nab on guitar and Tony Johnson on drums, holds forth from the bookshop stage! The trio draws on the work of organ legends Melvin Rhyne and…
Live streams coming up this weekend…
full details in the posts below!
Simon Rowe Organ Trio on Friday, 12/4
Kalil Amar Wilson / Javier Santiago Duo on Saturday, 12/5
Fabulous music time and again at Bird & Beckett. It’s a time of few gigs and little gig income, so please help us pay the Bay Area’s treasured professional musicians! Enlist your friends in the effort to provide a decent paycheck on these outings. If you’re making a living in these times, help us see…
Saturday, November 28 – 7:30pm
New Squatoolas
jazz club! when lights are low…
every Saturday night at Bird & Beckett
Jim Peterson, saxophone Scott Foster, guitar Joe Kyle, Jr., bass Larry Vann, drums The New Squatoolas return to Bird & Beckett with their high spirited survey of the New Orleans jazz & funk scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Catch the show on Bird & Beckett’s Facebook page or YouTube channel. $20 suggested donation / pay what you can…
Friday, November 27 – 7:30pm
Jones Street Irregulars
jazz streamed from the bookshop,
every Friday after work
Tony Johnson — regular drummer for Bird & Beckett’s 4th Friday anchor group the 230 Jones Street Local 6 Literary Jazz Band (aka, the Chuck Peterson In Absentia Band) — leads the Jones Street Irregulars tonight through a tight & swinging 90-minute set of bebop & standards! Bob Kenmotsu, tenor saxophone Jeffrey Burr, guitar Eric…
Wednesday, November 25 – 7:30pm
Walker Talks! on the radical politics of Romantic Era visionary William Blak2
William Blake is a towering and somewhat mystifying figure of the 18th Century Romantic Era in England, well known if scarcely understood for his visionary and unfathomable etchings and poetry. In parallel with his great artistic expression is a political sensibility that is at once timeless and immediate. Walker Brents III, in another of his…
Miss your evenings in the bookshop?
Live streaming from Bird& Beckett Thursday and Friday evenings at 7:30pm
right in your living room, but more than six feet away!
The live streams from Bird & Beckett all started in mid-March on Friday the 13th, when the towering saxophonist Michael Zilber brought his trio (Jason Lewis on drums and Tyler Harlow on bass) into the shop before a scant audience in the face of the exploding novel coronavirus crisis. Angela Bennett pioneered our broadcasting foray…
Saturday, November 21 – 7:30pm
Andrew Speight Quartet
live streamed
Andrew Speight – alto sax Keith Saunders – piano Essiet Essiet – bass Sylvia Cuenca – drums Bebop & Standards Catch the show on Bird & Beckett’s Facebook page or YouTube channel. $20 suggested donation / pay what you can at this link you can also simply go to PayPal…
Friday, November 20 – 7:30pm
Scott Foster Trio with David Boyce
jazz streamed from the bookshop every Friday
Scott Foster, guitar David Boyce, saxophones Cairo McCockran, drums Guitarist Scott Foster has been a keystone of the Bird & Beckett jazz scene since it started in 2002. Every third Friday he puts together a fresh aggregation to explore and celebrate another rich vein in the jazz gold mine. Tonight, the trio promises…
Saturday, November 14 – 7:30pm
Erik Jekabson Quartet
streamed live from Bird & Beckett
Two sets of standards and originals from four premier Bay Area jazz talents Erik Jekabson, trumpet Dave Mac Nab, guitar John Wiitala, bass Hamir Atwal, drums Catch the show on Bird & Beckett’s  Facebook page or YouTube channel. $20 suggested donation ~~pay what you can ~~ at this link you can also simply go to PayPal and send…