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This week, Peck Allmond comes back for visit.

Born in Rochester, NY, Peck was raised in Berkeley, a 1980 graduate of the storied Berkeley High jazz program that gave the jazz world the likes of David Murray, Will Bernard, Craig Handy, Benny Green, Peter Apfelbaum, Joshua Redman. Now, he’s a New York guy who’s performed with Oliver Lake, Meshell NdegeOcello, Peter Apfelbaum, Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Joe Lovano, James Carter, Jimmy Smith, Benny Green, Richie Cole & Tom Harrell. And with James Brown, Rufus Wainwright and Rickie Lee Jones. Jazz great Jackie McLean featured Peck’s music in his late ’90s quintet. We’re pleased to have him back for a minute.

It’s been eight years, though it seems like yesterday. Scroll down to hear the recording of that 2018 encounter with Vince Lateano and his trio.

Vince Lateano hosts our happy hour show with his trio on the third Sunday every other month. He became a mainstay of the San Francisco jazz scene in the mid-1960s, while Peck was just a tyke — playing in all the North Beach clubs that were holding the fort against the rock explosion, from the Jazz Workshop and the Hungry i to Enrico’s and El Matador and others scattered all over town, jumping out to tour with Woody Herman and Earl Hines, then settling in at Pearl’s, first in its basement location in Chinatown and then on Columbus at Broadway, always swingin’.

Vince’s trio holds forth with a guest player on the third Sunday every other month.

Then, on the last Sunday of every month, he brings the trio to host one of San Francisco’s greatest little jam sessions!

You can hear Peck with Vince’s trio in a 2018 date at the bookshop at this link:

Ina’s Sentimental Mood – The Peck Allmond California Quartet 2018 at Bird & Beckett