Live Jazz Tonight!

This and every Friday, Which Way West presents:

Jazz in The Bookshop

Friday March 6th, 8:30 pm

Don Prell's Sea Bop Ensemble

with Danny Brown on tenor sax,

Scott Foster on guitar,

and Art Lewis on drums

See you there!

Book Club Tonight, Jazz Friday

Book Club tonight- Wednesday, March 4th, 7 pm
The Bird & Beckett Book Club discusses The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

Then on Friday-
Jazz in the Bookshop
Every Friday - 5:30-8:00 pm
This Friday, March 6th-
Bassist Don Prell's Seabop Ensemble
with Danny Brown, tenor sax
Scott Foster, guitar
Art Lewis, drums

Bird and Beckett in Paris!

Thanks to Oceane for sending this picture!  If you have a photo of yourself, your friends or your family in a Bird & Beckett shirt, send it to birdandbeckett@gmail.com and we will post it!

Live Performances TODAY!

Today! Sunday, Jan. 25th at 4:30
Which Way West? Presents
Passage to India Live Jazz!
Prasant Radhakrishnan, sax
Bishu Chatterjee, bass
Ralph Granich, drums
Vivek Anand, vocal

AND EARLIER THE SAME DAY
(January 25th)

1:00 pm: a presentation by Alex Hatch of her new book "Cracks in the Asphalt" about SF's community gardens with co-presenters Mike Jacob, coordinator of the Arlington Street Garden, and Susan Leeds, coordinator of the Park Street Garden

2:30 pm: Walker Brents gives another in his series of monthly talks, this time on
the work and insights of the Romanian historian of mythology, ritual & religion- Mircea Eliade

Live Jazz Tonight!

LIVE JAZZ TONIGHT!
5:30 to 8:00 pm
Don Prell's SeaBop Ensemble
Jerry Logas, tenor saxophone
Michael Parsons, piano
Don Prell, bass
Chris Bjorkbom, drums
JAZZ IN THE BOOKSHOP EVERY FRIDAY EVENING
A neighborhood tradition since 2002!

Live Music Today!

Today at 4:30 pm
Middle Eastern music by master Egyptian percussionist Faisal Zaidan with oud player Rachel Valfer

Preceded at 3:30 pm by a talk on Arab influences in American music by Jonathan Curiel SF Chronicle writer and author of Al' America: Travels through America's Arab & Islamic Roots

LIVE JAZZ TONIGHT!!!

TONIGHT!
JAZZ IN THE BOOKSHOP
5:30 TO 8:00 PM
A neighborhood tradition since 2002!

DOUBLE BILL!

First, from 5:30 to 8:00 pm
The Jimmy Ryan Quintet
Rick Elmore, trombone
Fil Lorenz, tenor saxophone
Scott Foster, guitar
Bishu Chatterjee, bass
Jimmy Ryan, drums

Followed at 9 pm by
SYNTHESIS
original compositions, electronica & jazz standards
featuring Noah Frank, trumpet, Fender Rhodes & laptop
Natalie Cressman, trombone
Imanuel Junaedy, piano
Adam Nash, bass
Alex Nash, drums
a special late date before Noah returns to school at Berklee School of Music.

Book Release Party

Today- a book release party for Sharon Doubiago's Love on the Streets: Selected and New Poems
Click Here

Le Petit Nicholas and a Tribute to Henry Irvin

TODAY!!! SUNDAY MORNING at 11:00 AM
Join us for
The Nicholas Club!
Bring your youngsters(age 6-9 recommended) to hear the stories from the classic books by Rene Goscinny illustrated by Jean Jaques Sempe about the impish young boy beloved by French children since the 1950s.
We'll have sheets to color, plus stickers and pins. We are serving FREE hot chocolate & croissants all morning!!!


Then, this afternoon,
The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project presents Which Way West? 4:30 to 6:30
Jazz musicians pay tribute to Henry Irvin who passed away shortly after Thanksgiving
and is sorely missed!
The celebration jam will continue at Velma's Sunday Blues & Jazz Club 2246 Jerrold Avenue (824-4606) from 7:00 'til 10:00 pm.
Click HERE to go to Henry's memorial website.

Live Jazz Tonight and Sunday! A Tribute to Henry Irvin

JAZZ IN THE BOOKSHOP
EVERY FRIDAY EVENING
5:30 TO 8:00 PM
A neighborhood tradition
since 2002!

TONIGHT! Friday, January 2nd:
Don Prell's SeaBop Ensemble

This Sunday, Jan. 4th -- 4:30 to 6:30 in the bookshop:
Jazz musicians
pay tribute to
Henry Irvin
who passed away
shortly after Thanksgiving
and is sorely missed!
The celebration jam will continue at
Velma's Sunday Blues & Jazz Club
2246 Jerrold Avenue (824-4606)
from 7:00 'til 10:00 pm

Freddie Hubbard, R.I.P.

The great jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard died Monday at the age of 70. Here he is, playing with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.

Friday Jazz

Don't Forget! Every Friday Evening, Bird & Beckett Books presents: JAZZ IN THE BOOKSHOP from 5:30 TO 8:00 PM. A neighborhood tradition
since 2002!

This Friday, January 2nd-
Don Prell's SeaBop Ensemble

Blues in the Bookshop

Today, Sunday, Dec. 28th at 4:30 pm-
In honor of Rosetta Records' mission
to keep the recordings of
blues women of the 1920s alive
Which Way West? presents
a live set of
blues and rhythm & blues by

THE TIDBITS
Local gal Patricia Wilder
on guitar and vocal
and Brooklyn's
Rocki Shore on bass!

Beckett Down Bottom

The Classical Theatre of Harlem has staged a performance of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" in the Katrina ravaged Lower Ninth Ward. Check out the article in the New York Times.

New Store Open Now!!!

Bird and Beckett is now bigger and better, beatin' and boppin' at our new store. Come see us at 653 Chenery in Glen Park.
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New Location!

A Glen Park institution since 1999, Bird & Beckett is proud to announce the opening of our new location, just around the corner from our place of birth. The new store is located at 653 Chenery Street, between Diamond and Castro. Come help us move this weekend, September 22nd and 23rd and get a sneak peek at our new digs.

Bird Lives

This is a clip taken from the only known footage of Charlie "Bird" Parker actually playing live, not miming for the camera.

Beckett's "all seeing eye"

Buster Keaton tries to evade the all seeing eye in Samuel Beckett's "Film" (1965).