On the first Sunday of each month, with donor support and the help of a small but avid audience, Bird & Beckett pays a modest stipend to young players still deeply in the process of acquiring an education in jazz. They may be young and they may be still learning the ropes, but their skills and talents can be, and most often are, extraordinary.

This month, the bassist Yoav Konig, entering his senior year at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts overlooking Glen Canyon Park, brings a sextet in which he’s joined by five of his peers, alto saxophonist Harry Jo, trombonist Nate Gilbreath, vibraphonist Spencer Tantameng, pianist Elena Weng and drummer Flora Sullivan. They’ll deliver a 45 minute set that will knock your socks off, and then will conduct a jam session particularly attuned to the talents of student jazz musicians at the high school and college level from throughout the Bay Area.

Want to attend? Bring a twenty to help defray the cost of hiring the musicians. One of the beneficiaries of the “big, beautiful” bill? Consider stepping up with an annual or monthly donation to cover the student musicians’ very modest guarantees, which in this instance, with six players, will run $300. A $4,000 annual donation would be ample to cover the series, and is an excellent investment in the future of jazz in San Francisco and the region. Are you the one who can make that happen? You’ll be well rewarded knowing what you’ve done for the youth and the culture.