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  • Mitch Polzak & the Royal Deuces

    Mitch Polzak & the Royal Deuces
    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Get ready as Bird & Beckett Books and Records welcomes the "Real Deal" himself, Mitch Polzak. Whether he’s flat-picking a guitar or tearing through a banjo solo, Polzak brings a circus-sized energy (literally—he’s a Ringling Bros. descendant) to the most intimate bookstore stage in San Francisco. The Performance The Music: Mitch Polzak and the Royal Deuces are a powerhouse trio that blurs the lines between Rockabilly, Western Swing, and high-energy Bluegrass. Polzak, a 2024 Western Swing Hall of Fame inductee, is a virtuoso who performs with the "religious fervor" of Jerry Lee Lewis and the storytelling sincerity of Merle Haggard. Special […]

    $25

  • Chris Trinidad’s Chroma Tonic

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Chris Trinidad's Chroma Tonic at Bird & Beckett brings the Filipino-Canadian bassist, composer and educator's newest project to Glen Park, a band assembled from players of wildly divergent backgrounds. Trinidad moved from Vancouver to the Bay Area in 2009 and has built an eclectic catalogue on Iridium Records, including Chant Triptych II, which set Gregorian chant melodies against Indian and Balkan instruments, and Chris Trinidad y Con Todo, made with Pacific Mambo Orchestra co-leader Christian Tumalan; he also co-presents an Asian-American jazz showcase at South San Francisco's Sky Cafe with saxophonist Francis Wong. Chroma Tonic draws on ambient pioneers Brian Eno […]

    $25

  • Next Gen Jam w/ Lick-Wilmerding High School Jazz Ensemble

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Next Gen Jam at Bird & Beckett is the bookshop’s recurring Sunday-afternoon jam session, held the first Sunday of every month: a local youth band plays a set, then hosts a student-centred jam session open to their peers. November’s host is the Lick-Wilmerding High School Jazz Ensemble — Lucas Yan on trumpet, Imane Moosa on tenor saxophone, Lyla Shapiro on alto saxophone, Oliver Save de Beaurecueil on electric violin, Armaan Mishra on piano, Saya Dominy on electric bass and Coleton Namie on drums. The bands are often fielded from Bay Area college and high school music programs; earlier editions have been […]

    Free

  • Hillbillies on Halloween

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Hillbillies on Halloween at Bird & Beckett puts the Potrero Hillbillies on stage dressed as their favorite bands. The San Francisco trio takes its name from the Kinks' Muswell Hillbillies and writes what the bookshop calls songs of ramshackle urban disjuncture — de-industrialization, rural life, and in Joe Cunningham's suite “Michigan Winter,” his native Flint. Cunningham, in San Francisco since 1993, is also a nationally collected art quilter and the author of twelve books; Joshua Raoul Brody is a pianist, arranger and music director for BATS Improv who has played in the Club Foot Orchestra and Tango No. 9 and worked […]

    $20

  • Kazemde George / Kai Lyons Duo

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Kazemde George and Kai Lyons at Bird & Beckett debut a new duo built around Brazilian songs and original material. George, a tenor saxophonist raised in Berkeley and now based in Brooklyn, holds a neurobiology degree from Harvard and a master's in jazz composition from the New England Conservatory, released his debut I Insist on Greenleaf Music in 2021, and has worked with David Murray, Jason Moran and Solange; he last played the bookshop with a quintet in 2022. Lyons, a San Francisco guitarist who also plays Cuban tres and won best tresero at the 2022 Changüí Festival in Guantánamo, teaches […]

    $15

  • Monthly Morning Ragas

    Swati Jhaveri: Monthly Morning Ragas
    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Kick off your Sunday morning with the rare, transformative beauty of a live Morning Raga. In the Indian classical tradition, ragas are intimate expressions aligned with specific times of day—a concept known as samay raga. Because most modern concerts take place in the evening, hearing morning ragas performed live during their intended hours is an...

    $20

  • Pickpocket Ensemble

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Pickpocket Ensemble at Bird & Beckett brings a Northern California group that has been playing what it calls contemporary chamber café music since 1998 — acoustic, instrumental, and shaped by Middle Eastern and Romani melody. Accordionist and pianist Rick Corrigan writes the material, and the ensemble has seven albums to its name, among them Schrödinger's...

    $25

  • Kurt Ribak Trio

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Kurt Ribak Trio at Bird & Beckett features the Berkeley bassist and composer, a Berklee graduate who sang with the San Francisco Boys' Chorus before he found the bass and has four albums as a leader, most recently Onward. In 2012 a driver ran a stop sign and shattered Ribak's left arm, costing him roughly...

    $20

  • Tony Johnson Quartet

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Tony Johnson Quartet at Bird & Beckett features veteran San Francisco drummer Tony Johnson alongside Charlie McCarthy on saxophone, Sam Cady on piano, and Chuck Bennett on bass for the bookshop’s Sunday Happy Hour on October 18. A longtime presence on the city’s jazz scene and a resident bandleader at Bird & Beckett, Johnson brings...

    $20

  • Standard Issue – Johnston / Lyons / Shelby / Hart – CD release

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Standard Issue at Bird & Beckett celebrates the release of the band's self-titled debut, a seven-track set recorded at Oakland's 25th Street Studios that runs from Monk and McCoy Tyner to Sun Ra and Víctor Jara's protest anthem “El Derecho de Vivir en Paz.” Trumpeter Darren Johnston — billed here on “peace cannon” — made...

    $20

  • Jeffrey Burr Trio with Noel Jewkes

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Jeffrey Burr Trio with Noel Jewkes at Bird & Beckett pairs the guitarist — who played with Dizzy Gillespie at sixteen and worked with Norah Jones before she was famous — with one of the Bay Area's most durable reed players. Burr, the son of two classical bassists and a William Paterson graduate, has two...

    $20

  • Postponed-Deep Thicket Dwellers

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Deep Thicket Dwellers at Bird & Beckett bring an Oakland string band whose members came west from Alaska and Virginia, playing what they call Hillbilly Jazz — bluegrass and old-time fiddle tunes crossed with gypsy jazz and a streak of John Hartford's playfulness. Forrest Allen sings and plays fiddle and mandolin, Iggy sings and plays...

    $20

  • Cantos de mi Tierra

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Cantos de mi Tierra at Bird & Beckett is an all-Spanish-language Latin cabaret that works as a collective rather than a fixed band, rotating singers and arrangements around a core of Bay Area players. Formed in the summer of 2023 and launched with three sold-out nights at Martuni's, the group draws on traditional and folk...

    $25

  • Larry Vann Quartet

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Larry Vann Quartet at Bird & Beckett features the veteran Bay Area drummer and vocalist, a professional since he was fifteen, whose touring and recording credits run through Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions, Martha Reeves, Charles Brown, Elvin Bishop, Merl Saunders and Charlie Musselwhite. Named Blues Drummer of the Year by the West Coast Blues...

    $20

  • Dennis Mitcheltree Trio

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Dennis Mitcheltree Trio at Bird & Beckett brings the Los Angeles tenor saxophonist and composer to Glen Park days after the release of Seeing Red, his eighth album as a leader. Mitcheltree spent two decades in New York and studied at Berklee with Joe Lovano, Billy Pierce and George Garzone; he has recorded or performed...

    $20

  • Haymaker – a Ben Goldberg joint

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Haymaker at Bird & Beckett is a new project from clarinetist Ben Goldberg, the Bay Area improviser who founded the New Klezmer Trio in 1992 — a group the San Francisco Chronicle credited with kicking open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi roots music — and has since made more than forty albums with...

    $20

  • Next Gen Jam

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

      Next Gen Jam at Bird & Beckett is the bookshop's recurring Sunday-afternoon jam session, pitched at student jazz players but open to anyone who wants to sit in. October's host band is the Walter Arron Quartet, four current Bay Area high school students: bassist and bandleader Walter Arron of the Nueva School, alto saxophonist Jairo...

    Free

  • Hard Bop Collective

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Hard Bop Collective at Bird & Beckett marks the centenary of Jimmy Heath — born October 25, 1926 — with a program of tunes written by rhythm-section players. The Bay Area quartet, founded in 2011 and steeped in Art Blakey, Horace Silver and Cannonball Adderley, is fronted here by tenor saxophonist Bob Kenmotsu, who backed...

    $20

  • Alchemist Quintet

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Alchemist Quintet at Bird & Beckett features a Bay Area band built around violinist Michele Walther and saxophonist Michael Gold, playing mostly original music that draws on bebop, Indian classical music, Eastern European harmony and even medieval English dance. Walther, a San Francisco violinist with a master's from the Basel Conservatory and a jazz performance...

    $25

  • Easley / Duplantis Trio

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Easley / Duplantis Trio at Bird & Beckett features pedal steel guitarist Dave Easley, who has worked with Brian Blade, Joni Mitchell, Peter Rowan and Ruthie Foster, alongside bassist Smitti Supab and drummer Kirk Duplantis. Easley carries the pedal steel, an instrument rooted in country music, into jazz and improvised settings; NPR featured his track...

    $20

  • Monthly Morning Ragas

    Swati Jhaveri: Monthly Morning Ragas
    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Kick off your Sunday morning with the rare, transformative beauty of a live Morning Raga. In the Indian classical tradition, ragas are intimate expressions aligned with specific times of day—a concept known as samay raga. Because most modern concerts take place in the evening, hearing morning ragas performed live during their intended hours is an...

    $20

  • Devin Gray Quartet

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Devin Gray Quartet at Bird & Beckett brings Brooklyn- and Berlin-based drummer and composer Devin Gray to Glen Park with a set of his own compositions. Gray has worked with David Liebman, Tim Berne, Kris Davis, Michael Formanek and Ralph Alessi, and releases his music on his own Rataplan Records, including Dirigo Rataplan, RelativE ResonancE...

    $20

  • Garotas da Lua

    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Garotas da Lua at Bird & Beckett is a new three-voice Brazilian harmony group singing MPB, samba and bossa nova, built on fresh arrangements of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chico Buarque, Ary Barroso and Dori Caymmi. The trio pairs San Francisco vocalist Sandy Cressman, who leads the long-running Brazilian ensemble Homenagem Brasileira and has appeared at...

    $25

  • Vince Lateano Trio

    Vince Lateano Trio
    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Ben Stolorow, piano; Peter Barshay, bass; Vince Lateano, drums. Part of the Bird & Beckett Jazz in the Bookshop (Sundays 5–7pm). Seating is limited — reservations recommended: 415-586-3733. Suggested contribution: $20–30; students $10–15; younger kids free.

    $20

  • Scott Foster Quartet

    Scott Foster Quartet
    Bird & Beckett 653 Cheney St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    The Scott Foster Quartet is a jazz ensemble led by San Francisco-based guitarist and educator Scott Foster. Jim Peterson, saxophone; Scott Foster, guitar; Dan Seamans, bass; Tom Hasset, drums

    $20
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