After Thursday evening’s blowout, we sweep up, and it’s back to jazz as usual! jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002, twenty years and counting… Scott’s been holding on the gig ever since we started. THE SCOTT FOSTER TRIO a cool vibe Scott Foster, guitar Sam Reider, accordion Daniel Fabricant, bass Scott has been on the job since jazz in the bookshop became a weekly thing at Bird & Beckett, way back in late 2002… next month we’ll mark twenty years of Friday shows! In all those years, we’ve only been without jazz on Friday evening twice. Come out tonight for a unique and very special trio date. And mark your calendar now to join us for Scott’s next date, October 21st, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of jazz in the bookshop. You can count on Scott to bring a whole new band and a whole new concept, at…

Celebrate Glen Park! Bird & Beckett throws a free party for the neighborhood on the Third Thursday of Every Third Month, and we always celebrate a local star who helps make Glen Park the charmed place that it is! This time out, the spotlight is on Marian Dalere. Marian’s mom, Glory, founded the oldest business in the neighborhood — Dalere’s Beauty Salon — which opened in 1968 and is still going strong under Marian’s steady hand. That’s Marian, her mom and Mayor London Breed in the “featured” photo above, when the Mayor came out to Glen Park in 2018 to celebrate the shop’s 50th anniversary. And here, at right, is Marian with the Mayor, flanked by her brothers Dave and Santos Glory is still doing well, and is well cared for by Marian and her brothers in Glory’s house on Chenery Street. Dalere’s Salon opened in the space that now…

Fisk is luminous and loud, lucid and soft, driven and wandering. Shuck takes no prisoners, but isn’t looking to take any anyway. That’s the way it is in poetlandia… Do zoom by. Kim hosts a zoom reading on Bird & Beckett’s behalf twice a month, 2nd and 4th Thursdays. The 2nd Thursday features two poets, typically, with an open mic following. The 4th Thursday is all open mic, every time out. As much fun as a body can have in front of a computer. It’s a fabulous community of poets that’s developed over the past couple of years. Do come! Brett Benson tirelessly helps make it happen, in zoom terms. We’ll post the appropriate links before the appointed hour.

Passing through from NYC, the unique vocalist/composter Akiko Pavolka brings a quartet to Bird & Beckett featuring multi-reed player Matt Renzi (who has one foot in San Francisco, another in NYC and a third in Rome). Bassist Matt Pavolka travels with Akiko for the date; drummer Mark Ferber was born in the Bay Area, but is based in Los Angeles and Brooklyn. Matt has been playing with Akiko in her groups for over 20 years, and hosts her here at Bird & Beckett for this performance. Matt can be heard on her trio album “Begin Again” with bassist Matt Pavolka, as well as on her House of Illusion album “Trust Aqua” in a larger group that includes guitar, synthesizer & keyboards, and percussion. Akiko Pavolka, vocals/piano Matt Renzi, sax/clarinet/double-reeds Matt Pavolka, bass Mark Ferber, drums $20 cash cover charge doors open at 7:20 for the 7:30 show byob reservations, call…

Dmitri Matheny, flugelhorn Dave Ellis, saxophones Matt Clark, piano Ruth Davies, bass Deszon X Claiborne, drums $25 cash cover charge Doors open at 7:20 for the 7:30pm show BYOB Reservations, call: 415-586-3733 Tonight’s show can also be found on our Facebook page and YouTube channel. If you like what you hear in the stream, and stick around for more, donate to help us pay the musicians! Dmitri’s coming, one of the road warriors, in a major way one of our own… Here, he’s playing with four top Bay Area-based jazz musicians — tonight at Bird & Beckett, tomorrow at the Sound Room and then a quick run down to Seaside near Monterey before jamming back up the road to a string of dates in the Pacific Northwest, where he’s made his home since 2015 in Centralia, Washington. Born on Christmas Day in 1965 in Nashville, Tennessee, raised in Columbus, Georgia…

Erik Jekabson, trumpet and flugelhorn Matt Zebley, alto saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Owen Clapp, bass Smith Dobson V, drums Two masterful horn players with a fabulous rhythm section. What’s not to like? Standards, bop, post bop, originals. Matt Zebley crosses the Bird & Beckett stage for the first time tonight, and we’re more than pleased to have him. The other players? Significant figures on the San Francisco jazz scene. A quintet to be reckoned with. This is jazz as it’s played in San Francisco and environs ca. 2022! $25 cash cover charge. BYOB. Doors open at 7:20pm for the 7:30pm show. Reservations: 415-586-3733 Also streamed live on Bird & Beckett’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. If you like what you hear in the stream, and stick around for more, donate to help us pay the musicians!  

Caroline Cabading, vocals Jonathan Bautista, saxophone Ben Luis, bass Harold Ohashi, drums Vince Khoe, keyboard Chris Planas, guitar $25 cover charge (cash at the door, please) Doors open at 7:20pm for the 7:30pm show. BYOB Reservations: Call 415-586-3733 Also streamed live on Bird & Beckett’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. If you like what you hear in the stream and stick around for more, donate to help us pay the musicians! The Autonomous Region plays kul jazz, putting a kulintang spin on jazz standards and original compositions. The group, led by vocalist Caroline Cabading, was founded in 2015 as the house band for the Club Mandalay, a pop-up jazz club in the International Hotel Manilatown Center on Kearny & Jackson Streets, just off Columbus Avenue, in San Francisco’s North Beach/Chinatown district. The Club Mandalay is a community-engagement project emphasizing family friendly and affordable live music, spoken word and dance presentations. …

Bird & Beckett features local poets with an open mic to follow on the first Thursday of every month. Jerry Ferraz and Michael Koch host. Fernando Martí is an Ecuadorian-born poet, printmaker, community architect, and activist based in San Francisco. He has been deeply involved in San Francisco’s struggles for affordable housing and the reclamation of the commons since the mid-90s, working with the Latinx immigrant diaspora of San Francisco’s Mission and Excelsior districts. His writing, illustrations, and altar ofrendas reflect his formal training in urbanism, his roots in rural Ecuador, and his current residence in the heart of Empire in an age of climate catastrophe. His work inhabits the space between ancestral traditions of place and the construction of a liberatory Latinx Futurism. He is a member of the Justseeds artists cooperative, and his writings have appeared in publications as varied as El Tecolote, Street Sheet, Geez Magazine, Milvia Street, and Shelterforce. _______________________________ Cyrus…

Drummer Vince Lateano leads the session with Peter Barshay on bass and Ben Stolorow on piano. A lot of great players have come out of San Francisco. Get in their number. Before the saints coming marching in! No fee to play. Audience, bring a $20 to help us pay the rhythm section. BYOB  

Also streamed live on Bird & Beckett’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. If you like what you hear in the stream, and stick around for more, donate!

Neil Adler is one of a handful of chromatic harmonica masters who have followed the great Toots Thielemans in the past six decades. A notoriously nuanced and difficult instrument, very few have invested their time and talents in taming the beast and making it sing as well as Neil. He’s been a guest harmonica artist in performances worldwide from Canada to Belgium and beyond, has received a standing ovation down in Half Moon Bay at the storied Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, is an endorser of Seydel Harmonicas. And yet, he’s an award-winning, Bay Area treasure known to just a lucky few…  You’ll be in their number tonight. Larry Dunlap is at the top of the heap of thousands upon thousands of talented pianists, with a storied career reaching back through the decades. Soloist, accompanist, composer, arranger, Larry’s profile is particularly high from his work with singers Bobbe Norris and…

Drummer Tony Johnson brings a fine quartet into Bird & Beckett on the fourth Friday of each month. He’s a 63-year veteran of the local jazz scene, still a supercharged, swinging dynamo behind the kit belying his 80+ years of age. Tony left his native Australia and arrived in San Francisco in 1959, and was immediately working the City’s fertile club scene in an era when crowds were jamming the the Hungry i, the Jazz Workshop, the Black Cat, El Matador and the Cellar in North Beach, the Black Hawk at Hyde & Turk in the Tenderloin, the Tradewinds out in the Richmond District, the Say When on Bush. Tony played locally in those years with the likes of guitarist Eddie Duran, bassist Ron Crotty, pianist Flip Nunez, sax player Pony Poindexter, vocalist Bev Kelly (and can be heard driving the quartet with Nunez and Poindexter on Kelly’s great lp…

Walker Brents is back from his summer rambles… to plumb the tale of the Johnson County Cattle War of 1892… live stream only… You can find the live stream on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel or Facebook page. Donate to support Walker and the stream.