Drummer Vince Lateano, an MVP of the San Francisco jazz scene for decades, hosts a jam session at Bird & Beckett on the last Sunday of each month with Ben Stolorow on piano and Peter Barshay on bass, each uniquely talented and at home on our stage. If you want to hear that lovely trio without all the folks sitting in, you’ll need to plan to be here on the third Sunday of each month for their ongoing residency. The jam session always occupies that sweet spot between wonderful and vastly amusing. It needs your financial support if you can afford to be generous, as most of the seats are filled with players from whom no financial contribution is required, though we’re adamant about paying the trio.

If you’ve been in the City thirty years (don’t call it Frisco!), you’ll remember Vince from Jazz at Pearl’s. Those with longer memories know he drove an iteration of the Woody Herman Herd from the drum chair for a stretch and was at the core of the Vince Guaraldi and Cal Tjader bands in the mid-1960s as well. Vince doesn’t deploy a lot of firepower to say his say. He left the Army for cooler climates. He’s a gem, and we’re awed that he’s part of our scene.