Upcoming Events

Jazz streamed live from the bookshop every Friday evening at 7:30 pm. Tonight, jazz veterans Tony Johnson (drums) and Glen Deardorff (guitar) — long known to Bird & Beckett regulars as members of the 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band — join forces tonight in a quartet date with reed player Charlie McCarthy…

  Phillip Greenlief – tenor saxophone Dan Seamans – bass Tom Hassett – drums The Lost Trio is now celebrating 25 years of exploring the boundaries of jazz  while redefining the term jazz standard.  They have presented live collaborations with some of the finest players on the West Coast: John Schott, Sasha Dobson, Adam Levy, Cory Wright, Darren Johnston,…

Collaborate to keep San Francisco safe, neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, household by household, shop by shop; for our part, we’ll operate chiefly at the door until the tragedies subside and the experts & authorities let us know that the tide has turned in our favor again. We’ll be allowing in just a few…

Scroll down to read the posts for the shows we’ve mounted in the past seven-plus months, since the pandemic lock-down began. Every time you see the “load more” button, go ahead. It’ll stop offering you that option once you arrived at the first show of the current period, back on March 12th. The March 12th…

Tonight, exuberant jazz from trad to bop with trumpeter Andrew Stephens, bassist Dexter Williams and drummer Carson Messer. Rooted in the Sacramento jazz scene, the three have long years in the music that belie their youth. Catch the show from the screen at the top of this website! That’s a brand new thing, so we’ll…

Just about now, we can all use an evening that takes us away from the pain of our times. Scott, Eric and Smith will give us that, and will attest to the promise of better times coming. Three fine musicians of long association, all familiar to Bird & Beckett audiences from countless jazz dates over…