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This week, Peck Allmond comes back for visit.

He’s a native son of Berkeley, a graduate in the late 1970s of the storied Berkeley High jazz program that gave the jazz world the likes of Will Bernard, Craig Handy, Benny Green, Peter Apfelbaum. 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, Rickie Lee Jones, & Ray Lamontagne. Jazz great Jackie McLean featured Peck’s music in his late ’90’s 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 still in kneepants — 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 Enricos and El Matador and others scattered all over town, jumping out to tour with Woody Herman and Earl Hines, then settling in at Pearls, 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: https://peckallmond.bandcamp.com/album/inas-sentimental-mood