Click on the links here to view our recording of this show on our YouTube channel or Facebook page. Drummer/percussionist/composer/bandleader/educator Annette A. Aguilar, born and raised in San Francisco, has been a force on the New York scene for decades, notably with her band StringBeans. Here in San Francisco, you can often catch her performing at Bird & Beckett and around town with her Beans on the Left! She returns home to San Francisco several times a year to be with family and play with favorite local associates including, tonight, pianist Murray Low and bassist Mike Arnold. Annette’s current association in NYC with BronXBandA, led by pianist/composer Arturo O’Farrill, has produced a rich array of concerts and recordings. O’Farrill’s own associations in Latin jazz start with his father Chico O’Farrill, his work with the Fort Apache Band (whose co-founder Jerry Gonzalez is a key mentor to Annette), and as music…

Kim Shuck invites you to the twice-monthly Poets!Zoom. Every 2nd and 4th Monday evening. The 4th Monday is always All Open Mic. Kim reminds you that you don’t have to get rained on to participate. Use the Zoom link below, or the Facebook Live link following that. Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84350265713?pwd=eE84V3BYdWxiSFBHNHhmdUt1WTUzdz09Meeting ID: 843 5026 5713Passcode: 244211One tap mobile+16699006833,,84350265713#,,,,*244211# US (San Jose)+13462487799,,84350265713#,,,,*244211# US (Houston)Dial by your location        +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)        +1 929 436 2866 US (New York)        +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)Meeting ID: 843 5026 5713Passcode: 244211Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keiLsfdeVg   Facebook Link: B&B Online Open Mic! 12/27/21 @ 7pm Contact Brett Benson for technical details if they arise: [email protected]

Duncan James, guitar Larry Chinn, piano Jim Kerwin, bass Bob Blankenship, drums Swing straight ahead into 2022… no time like the present, and no time like swing time! Sign up for our emails Doors open ten minutes before showtime. Reservations encouraged, as the room does fill up for many shows. To reserve, call 415-586-3733 prior to the day of the show if possible. Reservations must be claimed by showtime. Once the show starts, we allow anyone waiting for a seat to take what’s available. Please bring proof of vaccination and a mask, plus cash for the $20 cover charge; BYOB. Can’t get to the shop for the show? Or just can’t get in due to the throng? Catch the live streams on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel or Facebook page.

Ben Stolorow, piano; Al Obidinski, bass; and Vince Lateano, drums pay tribute to a long-time friend, colleague and jazz legend, the late Dottie Dodgion, with a cameo by Dot’s good friend Sonny Buxton sharing some thoughts on Dot, her swing & her legacy. Vince, Al and Sonny are all contemporaries of Dottie’s and knew her well from the 1950s/early 1960s onward, and Ben was a regular member of her trio on a weekly date in Pebble Beach over the past several years. Their fondness for Dottie will be on full display in this nod to one of the great, swingin’ drummers of jazz. Sonny Buxton, a long-time friend of Dottie’s, would have been on hand for this date, but wisely decided to heed his doctor’s advice to stay away from the shop in light of possibility vulnerability to the Covid virus. We wish him well! Fortunately, he was able to…

Dan’s back, and we’re pleased to have him. Dan Neville Trio, with Ayla Davila, bass & Brian Andres, drums. $20 cash cover charge. byob. proof of vax, masks required. Reservations, call 586-3733 during store hours (12-6 Tues-Sun). Doors open 7:20. Show at 7:30. Click here or on the picture above to hear Dan’s quartet date here in February 2021.

Trombonist Mara Fox has amazed audiences all over the world for more than two decades, working in jazz, R&B, Latin and classical contexts. She’s recorded and toured internationally with Conjunto Cespedes, and with the Klezmorim. Locally, she plays with the Pacific Mambo Orchestra (2013 Grammy Award Winner for “Tropical Island” as Best Latin Album), the Montclair Women’s Big Band, The Purple Ones, Paula Harris and the Beasts of Blues. She’s also played with the Berkeley Symphony, the San Francisco Sinfonietta, the Mike Vax Big Band and countless other ensembles. Tonight, she brings the fire to the Bird & Beckett bandstand with a quartet assembled by Scott Foster, Bird & Beckett’s favorite guitarist bar none since he first crossed our stage right after the turn of the century. Scott has been a regular feature of our programming from the start. Says Scott, “It will be a fun trip down memory lane…

Two San Francisco music legends, booked to play as a duo tonight, had to postpone their performance due to illness. Watch for a rescheduled date. reservations are always advisedcall 415-586-3733 during regular store hoursand speak to a human to put your name on the list.~~capacity is limited~~Please bring $20 cash for the cover charge, and byob proof of vaccination & masks required Can’t get to the shop for the show? Or just can’t get in due to the throng? Catch the live streams on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel or Facebook page.Will Bernard, guitar                Beth Custer, clarinetThursday, 12/16, 7:30pm

For decades now, Grant Levin has been one of the best kept secrets in jazz, and Bird & Beckett has been proud to present him literally hundreds of times since he arrived in the Bay Area in 2010. The performance documented here was the last of the live-stream only pandemic concerts we presented between March 2020 and June 2021. The very next week, on Friday June 18, 2021, we once again began to welcome live audiences into the shop. Grant will be back before an audience here on Saturday, July 17, 2021 in a stellar trio with bassist Peter Barshay and drummer Hamir Atwal. Meanwhile, you can catch him solo at the Hotel Nikko’s Kanpai Lounge and Anzu Restaurant two or three times a week. Good reason to fly into SFO and take BART to the Powell Street station, then wheel your suitcase over to the Nikko and take a…

The Seducers close out their 2021 billings at Bird & Beckett this Sunday, 12/12, 5:00-8:00pm.  It’s never anything but super great. Nor are you! All pure pleasure! B&B asks that you bring proof of vaccination and wear a mask, although the band may not be masked on stage.  We also request that you bring a twenty for the band and your own bottle for yourself! Thanks! We look forward to seeing everyone again to start to close out 2021! The Seducers are back 1/9/22! Mark your calendar! reservations, please call the shop at 415-586-3733 $20 cash cover charge, byob; proof of vaccination and masks, please also live on YouTube and Facebook .

  For your browsing pleasure, SUPER GREAT performs while you poke around the shop!This holiday season, keep in mind: YOU AREN’T A DISAPPOINTMENT. You are SUPER GREAT and if people get down on you for not being perfect all the time then bite their faces off. You are SUPER GREAT and faces are high in protein. SUPER GREAT! Watching in the stream? Please donate online. Find the stream on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel or Facebook page. SUPER GREAT is the duo of Angie Bennett & Kendra O’Dwyer, going there for you! Kendra’s past includes playing drums in Dogbreath and guitar & vocals in Go!Commando! Angie is known as the instigator & chief lyricist of the vocal trio Bad Mommies and similar roles in the quartet The Maraca Incident. She’s also Bird & Beckett’s sound guy, and before that, the shop’s photographer and PR person. The present is beyond description.…

San Francisco columnist Denise Sullivan conducts a monthly series of conversations (the second Sunday of each month from 10-11 a.m.) with The City’s activists, educators, arts and cultural leaders, as well as lesser-known workers, the everyday people who help make this place we call home, live streamed from Bird & Beckett Books in Glen Park. Find the stream on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel or Facebook page. Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) is a formerly unhoused, incarcerated poverty scholar, journalist, poet, visionary, teacher and mama of Tiburcio, daughter of a houseless, disabled, indigenous mama Dee, and the co–founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. She is also the author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America, When Mama and Me Lived Outside, El Trabajador and her new anthology and glossary, The Sidewalk Motel: Poetry from a Poverty Skola and PoShunary. She is also co-author of Poverty Scholarship, Covid 19 & Virus of Poverty and How to Not Call…

Noel Jewkes, saxophone Charlie McCarthy, saxophone Sam Cady, piano Joe McKinley, bass Akira Tana, drums arrangements by Jeffrey Gaeto reservations, please call the shop at 415-586-3733. $25 cash cover charge, byob; proof of vaccination and masks, please! also live on YouTube and Facebook . thanks!

John Calloway, flute and percussion Ken Cook, piano Marcus Shelby, bass Brian Andres, drums* with guest vocalist Angie Doctor reservations, please call the shop at 415-586-3733. $20 cash cover charge, byob; proof of vaccination and masks, please! also live on YouTube and Facebook . thanks for joining us! * Brian Andres is subbing for Sylvia Cuenca tonight.

At 5pm, a seven-piece jazz combo from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music leads off with a set, and then the Terrence Brewer Trio takes the stage, opening with a short trio set leading into a jam session for student players welcomed from anywhere in the Bay Area. If you’re an aspiring jazz musician with a grasp of your instrument and a passion for the art form, please come out! Proof of vaccination and masks required. The December 5th evening was streamed live on YouTube and Facebook and can be seen there. Donations appreciated, with instructions on the screen.     ______________________ The student combo opening the evening is from the SFCM jazz ensemble class taught by saxophonist Kristen Strom. Amanda Jane Ross – vocals Aidan Siemann – saxophone Nate Gilbreath – trombone Junhong Jung – guitar Julian Esparza – bass Reece Cogswell & JC Grady – drums Serious students of…

George Cotsirilos, guitar Keith Saunders, piano Robb Fisher, bass Ron Marabuto, drums Tonight, the George Cotsirilos Quartet highlights its just-completed recording project, due for release on CD in a matter of weeks. A group of highly accomplished jazz veterans boasting years of close collaboration, the quartet released the widely acclaimed album Mostly In Blue in early 2018. The album debuted to excellent notices and spent over three months on the national Jazz Weekly radio top 50 charts, rising to number 15. In its December 2018 issue, Downbeat Magazine listed the CD as one of the best of the year. The quartet performs primarily original modern jazz compositions along with gems from the jazz canon. Read more on George and his colleagues in the quartet at https://www.georgecotsirilos.com/ Call the bookshop at 415-586-3733 to reserve a seat, as space is limited. Reservations must be claimed by showtime. Doors open at 7:20 for the 7:30…