A long-time force on the Bay Area jazz/hip hop/afro-funk music scene, David Boyce is revered for his work since the mid-1990s as a founding member of the Broun Fellinis as much as for his connection with the soprano saxophone genius of New Orleans jazz pioneer Sydney Bechet, aand so many points along the jazz journey. He’s one of the towering intellects of the music, graced with ample good humor and kindness. We’re always honored and pleased when David comes to play, and floored by the music, by turns titanic and lovely, that pours from his horn.     Help us help David meet the bills in this time of few gigs and short bread! If you find $10 a stretch, then contribute $5. Consider it your cover charge, please. There’s no audience in the house, so it’s up to you in your house! Here’s where to donate: BEWARE OF SCAMMERS…

Come to Bird & Beckett via our live stream to celebrate with Nashville Honeymoon. Lynne Maes and Hank Maninger are the Tammy Wynette and George Jones of our time and place, though with much less alcohol. Two voices, two guitars, two songwriters. Cohabitating and so contagious! Remember while you’re here to pay the cover charge, unless you’re broke, as may well be the case! And if that is the case, we sympathize and consider you our guest! But if you’re doing ok, don’t stint! Should musicians play for free? We don’t think so, and we know our patrons don’t think so either. The live stream shows are all about getting the musicians some funds in a time of no gigs and short bread. When 7:30 Sunday evening rolls around, click on the links below to attend the show and pay your cover charge! View/Listen             …

Pianist / improviser composer / producer Walter Earl The music flows from Walter’s huge heart through his hands and the instrument to create a soulful experience you won’t be able to, and won’t want to shake.     Help us help Walter meet the bills in this time of few gigs and short bread! If you find $10 a stretch, then contribute $5. Consider it your cover charge, please. There’s no audience in the house, so it’s up to you in your house! Here’s where to donate: https://tinyurl.com/Donate-B-and-B Give $20 if you’re able, more if you’re flush! The first $200 goes to Walter (that’s our guarantee to him), the next $100 goes to the organization, and any donations beyond that go to Walter. If you love him, help him out! If you just think musicians shouldn’t work for peanuts, then have the courage of your convictions and help him out.…

Few are better suited to a solo outing than guitarist Jeffrey Burr. Widely acknowledged as among the very top jazz guitarists in the Bay Area, he ranks with the best anywhere in contemporary jazz. Come to Bird & Beckett via our live stream this Friday evening, 5:30 to 8:00 pm for two sets of gorgeous music, and remember while you’re here to pay the cover charge unless you’re broke. Should musicians play for free? We don’t think so, and we know that our patrons don’t think so either. When 5:30 Friday evening rolls around, click on the links below to attend the show and pay your cover charge! View/Listen                 Donate $20 suggested donation ~~sliding scale $2 to $200~~ no one turned away for lack of funds Read a review of Jeff’s solo album, All By Myself, at this link

John Calloway – flute, piano & percussion Angela Doctor – vocals & percussion Oliver Paddock – piano, guitar, bass & vocals Three great musicians join forces to bring you an eclectic performance reflecting the wide variety of musical styles and tastes that go on under their own shared roof! click on these links: View/Listen                 Donate                  Subscribe $20 suggested donation! But no one should avert their eyes & ears for lack of funds. If you need your dough for the basics, then use it wisely and take in this live stream with our compliments! Feed your soul with art & music We need you to be healthy! But if you can afford to throw in $5 or $10 or $20 or $50 or $100 and you value these wonderful musicians, then don’t stint! This is a…

Walker Talks on the last Sunday of each month, this time on Ezra Pound, in his end years at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Live streamed at 2:30 pm on Bird & Beckett’s facebook page.      

Jerry Ferraz plumbs the duende Sunday mornings, with his half-sized guitar and head full of songs. He’s grew from Eureka Valley soil in the ’50s and ’60s, with cosmic roots in medieval traditions. “Morning” can be a hazy concept in pandemic times, so we’ll call it 1pm today! Live streamed today on Bird & Beckett’s facebook page.      

Glen Park will always be a beautiful little neighborhood. Thanks for being part of it. The good times will roll again! Live streams from the bookshop stage today: 1pm – Jerry Ferraz, troubadour 2:30pm – Walker Talks, on Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeth’s 4:30pm – The JOA Trio

You know what we’ve said for years now– “Never a missed Friday since 2002!” It’s been true for well over 900 Fridays, and remains true to this day. Not so easy to keep to that with the pandemic shutting down so-called normal life, but “cohabitating musicians” Jon and Noah Frank, père et fils, step up this Friday to give you two sets of duo and solo jazz from the Bird & Beckett jazz lair on Chenery Street! Jazz Heroes for sure! Those of you who frequent San Francisco’s wonderful Ocean Ale House over in the Ingleside near City College, and especially their 1st and 3rd Wednesday jam sessions led by Noah, with Greg Jacobs, piano; Curtis Aikens, bass; and Jon Frank, drums,  know their work. Jon and Noah have have played together and in their own individual groups at Bird & Beckett many times through the years, and we’re overjoyed…

Co-housed musicians Stephens & Williams presented three sets of trad, swing & bop jazz your listening pleasure — straight from your living room away from home, Bird & Beckett, down on Chenery Street in San Francisco’s lovely Glen Park neighborhood.   No audiences are allowed in the shop these days, just the musicians and the proprietor, but thousands of you can listen & watch from home. If you do, and you’re not squeezing every dime, donate so that we can pay these musicians in a time when paying gigs are hard to come by! View/Listen                 Donate                  Subscribe If you’re “on facebook” you can stream the performance live from our Bird & Beckett facebook page (click  on the “videos” tab, and when the time comes there will be a little red rectangle that says “live” — always…

This Friday’s jazz party is a fundraiser for the Independent Musicians Alliance’s emergency grant program for jazz musicians in need. For many years, we’ve relied on Scott Foster to bring a wonderful evening of jazz to Bird & Beckett on the third Friday of each month, and he’ll be filling that role once again this month, keeping the jazz flowing at Bird & Beckett.  This is the first time we’ve asked him to do it solo, a social distancing precaution and a requirement of the current shelter-in-place reality. Scott has been a cornerstone of our Friday evening jazz programming since its beginnings, more than seventeen years ago. All along, he’s been our favorite jazz guitarist bar none, both for his technique and sensibilities and for his low key sincerity. Both are qualities that no doubt have stood him in good stead as a jazz educator as well. He’s promised a…

No in-store audiences are allowed during this pandemic, but click through to the full post (or scroll down if you’re already in it) for a live stream link, and to contribute to the musicians’ much needed payday.           Kaylah wrote and performed as a child with her father, jazz saxophonist Philip Marin. He instilled in her a love of music and dance rich within her Central American Garifuna roots. A powerful songwriter and vocalist, she has worked with Narada Michael Walden, and her single “Oh Baby Please” debuted at number 3 on the dance Billboard chart, maintaining a top ten spot for over a month. Kaylah performed for human rights activist Dolores Huerta’s  “Weaving Moments Together” benefit concert celebrating Huerta’s 80th birthday at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. She scored music for the award winning documentary “Texas Gold” and did the voice-over and score for…

Tenor saxophonist Phillip Greenlief plays two sets of Monk’s music, solo, streamed live in real time from Bird & Beckett via facebook. Saturday, April 11th, 7:30 and 8:45 pm. Some of the arrangements Phillip will perform this evening were featured on the release Monkwork by The Lost Trio (the cd was listed in NPR’s Top 10 releases of 2014). Both sets will feature medleys and stand-alone readings of classic and obscure Monk tunes, highlighting the craft of Monk’s iconoclast composition style. Since his emergence on the West Coast in the late 1970s, Evander Music founder and saxophonist Phillip Greenlief has achieved international critical acclaim for his recordings and performances with musicians and composers in the post-jazz continuum as well as new music innovators and virtuosic improvisers. He has performed and recorded with Wadada Leo Smith, Meredith Monk, Rashaun Mitchell and They Might Be Giants; albums include Lantskap Logic with Fred…

No in-store audience was allowed due to the pandemic, but folks found the live stream link below, and to contributed generously to the musicians’ much needed payday. Housemates in San Francisco’s nearby Excelsior district, pianist Javier Santiago and bassist Giulio Xaxier Cetto have been in high demand on the local jazz scene in recent years, each having arrived in San Francisco not long ago… First, Giulio, a Stockton native, and a bit later, Javi, with roots in Minneapolis. Before either made their way to San Francisco, the two had met in Cetto’s Stockton, where Javi was enrolled at the Brubeck Institute. This evening we’re pleased to be able to present them together in a program of duo performances interspersed with solo turns. Scoll to the bottom of this post for a link to the live stream and to find the “donate” button. Javi and Giulio are among the finest young…