The Vince Lateano Trio plays jazz in the bookshop on the third Sunday of every month. Make it a habit! You never know who’s going to drop in!

Drummer Vince Lateano has been a mainstay of the San Francisco jazz scene since the mid-1960s, and also toured in those early years with Woody Herman, Vince Guaraldi and Cal Tjader. His trio with bassist Peter Bashay and pianist Ben Stolorow makes beautiful music at Bird & Beckett on the third Sunday of every month, and on the last Sunday of the month, they’re here hosting one of the City’s great jam sessions.

On his third-Sunday trio dates, Vince usually invites a great established player or a new special talent to share the bandstand, and today’s engagement is no exception. Guitarist Tri (pronounced “tree”) Pham will join the fun.

Tri Pham is a young and passionate jazz guitarist, composer and educator from Saigon, Vietnam, now based in San Francisco where he’s studying Jazz Guitar at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM).

And at the other end of the experience spectrum, the trio and Tri were joined on stage for a couple of tunes about 28 minutes into the first set by a Bird & Beckett neighbor, the great Bobby McFerrin.