Upcoming Events
Check out our calendar!
Ok, we promise that for 2024, we’ll do a B&B wall calendar again! Some will remember the spectacular calendars featuring store photog Angie Bennett’s concert pix produced for three years running in the late ’00s… But this here post is just to encourage you to check our “Events Calendar” linked in the navigation bar above,…
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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 public have 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 & more live in the shop and live streamed Come to 653 Chenery if you’re in town! Doors open at 7:20 for…
Read MoreO Pioneers of the Cosmostream! We’ve been vaccinating you against the plague of boredom and the scourge of demagoguery with live streamed events twice a week and more since March 2020, when it all came down!
Hungry to hear some of Bird & Beckett’s past live streams? On the home page you can scroll down to read the individual posts for the shows we’ve mounted in the past several months, a hint of what’s gone down since the pandemic lock-down began. In more amazing times, it would take you right back…
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Friday, December 1st – 6-8pm
Noel Jewkes Quartet
Noel Jewkes, reeds Randy Vincent, guitar Chris Amberger, bass Josh Setala, drums $20 adult cover charge Under 12 free Teens and music students, $5-10 sliding scale read an insightful article on Noel from SF Classical Voice at this link. Noel Jewkes has long been known as Dr. Legato by his legion of admirers and praised…
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Saturday, November 11th – 7:30-9:30pm
Trevor Watts + Jamie Harris
with Karl Evangelista and Lisa Mezzacappa
Trevor Watts, saxophone Karl Evangelista, guitar Lisa Mezzacappa, bass Jamie Watts, percussion $20 cover charge (cash or venmo at the door, please). BYOB Reservations, call 415-586-3733 Legendary English saxophonist Trevor Watts (Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Amalgam, Moiré Music) and his frequent collaborator, percussionist Jamie Harris, visit the Bay Area for a special evening of free improvisation…
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Sunday, November 5th – 5-8pm
Urban School Bebop Combo + Student Jam Session
Scott Foster sends in the terrific Urban School Bebop Combo to show what they’re made of. The ensemble will play a 45-minute set and then take part in a jam session hosted by the Keith Saunders Trio (Ollie Dudek, bass, and Tony Johnson, drums). The jam session is open to students coming from all directions,…
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