most events start at 7:30, doors at 7:20. byob. for reservations/information, call the shop at 415-586-3733. cover charge is typically $20 to $25 — cash, please! Saturday, Sept. 24 – 7:30pm jazz club goes roots reggae for one glorious night! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlW23PtWLB0 The Baytals Safaa Modir, guitar Connor Sablan, keyboards Russell Vazquez, bass Hafez Modirzadeh, tenor sax Keshav Batish, drums Sunday, Sept. 25 at 5pm – Rudi Mwongozi solo piano home on a visit to family, from NYC at 7pm – Vince Lateano’s Doggone Jazz Jam Session with Ben Stolorow & Peter Barshay _________________________ can’t make it down to the shop? you’re missing out on a good thing! but you can usually catch the livestream on our Facebook page and YouTube channel. Please donate to help us pay the musicians! A recurring monthly donation can give you unlimited guilt-free consumption of the stream and our sincere gratitude. Bird & Beckett guarantees…

Bob Kenmotsu, tenor sax Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Tony Johnson, drums Catch the show here:

Art Hirahara, piano John Wiitala, bass Tim Bulkley, drums $20 cover charge (cash at the door, please) Doors open at 7:45pm BYOB Reservations: 415-586-3733 Livestream on our Facebook page and YouTube channel. Please donate to help us pay the musicians! Art Hirahara is a jazz keyboardist and composer based in New York City. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Art moved to New York in 2002 to be challenged by its pool of world-class musicians. There he has honed his craft, performing in a wide range of musical situations ranging from straight ahead standards to time cycle-based progressive jazz to working with singer/songwriters. Art has had the privilege to perform with Don Braden, Stacey Kent, Freddy Cole, Akira Tana, Rufus Reid, royal hartigan and many others. He has performed around the world in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, the Middle East and extensively around the United States. As a bandleader, he has released seven recordings…

Poets converge at Bird & Beckett tonight, 9/21, to honor Gregory Corso, reading from The Golden Dot: Last Poems, 1997-2000, edited by Raymond Foye and George Scrivani, is newly published by Lithic Press. Co-editor Scrivani will join Scott Bird, Neeli Cherkovski, Agneta Falk, Sarah Menefee and Tate Swindell to read from the book, and to contribute poems of their own in tribute to this key figure in modern American poetry. Nothing can rival the experience of being at the reading with poets that knew Corso as a friend and colleague. But if you simply can’t, we encourage you to take in tonight’s reading in the live stream that’s to be found at 7pm on our Facebook page and YouTube channel. If you like what you hear in the stream, and value what Bird & Beckett puts on offer there, please donate to help us pay an honorarium to the participating…

intimate conversations in jazz Mas Koga, saxophones & flutes Frank Martin, piano Peter Barshay, bass Bryan Bowman, drums $20 cover charge (cash at the door, please) Doors open at 7:20pm 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!

No charge. Donations appreciated! Live in the shop! The live stream can be found on our Facebook page or YouTube channel The Oaktown Jazz Workshops at Jack London Square have been cultivating and training young talent for three decades now. Recent alumni of the program come to Bird & Beckett on Sunday, October 2nd at 5pm to perform as the Oaktown Jazz Workshops’ Youth Mentors. At right, OJW Youth Mentors Jordon Dabney – tenor saxophone Maximilian Ehrhardt – trumpet Anthony Mills-Branch – bass Pepe Tekpa – drums This quartet shows how early training, talent, intense study and a strong community-based environment like the OJW can combine to produce the next generation of jazz giants. Oaktown Jazz Workshops employs a cascading mentorship model, where “near-peers” comprised of OJW alumni serve as inspiring Youth Mentors for the incoming, younger musicians.  Visit the Oaktown Jazz Workshops website at this link.      …

LEVITATOR textured & ferocious music Safa Shokrai, bass Kjell Nordeson, drums Darren Johnston, trumpet $20 cover charge (cash at the door, please) Doors open at 7:20pm 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!

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…