Jam session on the last Sunday of each month from 5 to 7pm! All jazz players welcome. Audience, please donate to help us pay the Vince Lateano Trio to host the jam — Ben Stolorow, piano; Peter Barshay bass, Vince Lateano, drums.

Vince Lateano has been an invaluable part of the San Francisco scene since he came to the City in the mid-1960s. He quickly found his place in the local jazz scene, playing, recording and touring with Vince Guaraldi, subbing around town for Johnny Markham when Markham went on the road with Sinatra and other major acts, and working extensively with Cal Tjader, Eddie Duran, Chet Baker, Clare Fisher and a host of others through the years. Later, all through the 1990s ’til it closed as such in 2003, he was the house drummer at Jazz at Pearl’s in North Beach, playing with his own trio several nights a week and backing up any number of musicians appearing as headliners on the weekends.

He’s rolled on from there in that same vein all across the region, and has also been a great and charming session leader locally, running jazz jams at Pier 23 on the Embarcadero, the Dogpatch Saloon down on 3rd Street, the 7 Mile House on Bayshore near the Cow Palace, Sweeties near the wharf. On the last Sunday of the month, you’ll find him running a jam session here at Bird & Beckett with this trio — Peter on bass and Ben on piano — giving room and sage but light counsel to players from aspiring musicians to old hands.

The jam is great, but remember! The trio is the thing! Don’t miss their monthly residency in our humble house of jazz on the third Sunday of each month.

Your cover charge at the show helps us guarantee a fair wage to the musicians that work here. Individual donations from a great many generous members of the Bird & Beckett community are also necessary. If you can and haven’t, please join their number. Bird & Beckett will always be a work in progress… Thanks for being part of the solution with your dollars, ears, intellect and loyalty!