Scott Foster Meets the Masters… Buethe/Wiitala/Lateano

Scott Foster Meets the Masters… Buethe/Wiitala/Lateano at Bird & Beckett Books. Guitarist Scott Foster performs with an ever-evolving cast of collaborators on the 3rd Friday of every month at Bird & Beckett. Lately, he’s been focused on bringing to our bandstand some of the great jazz players who have contributed so much to the depth and beauty of the San Francisco jazz landscape over the past seven decades. Tonight, Scott has invited guitarist Brad Buethe, bassist John Wiitala and drummer Vince Lateano to join him in two sets of music. For 24 years and counting now, Scott has been a consistent and wonderful presence at Bird & Beckett. In late 2002, veteran tenor sax player Chuck Peterson invited Scott to join Chuck’s weekly “Jazz in the Bookshop” gig in a combo that featured three jazz veterans, saxophonist/arranger Bill Perkins, bassist Don Prell and drummer Jimmy Ryan. At the time, Scott was still in his early twenties and had only recently returned to the Bay Area, fresh out of Berklee College of Music in Boston. He’s been on our stage virtually every month since 2002, and has led his own date here each month for the past dozen years. Vince Lateano, a Sacramento kid, got his start on the local scene in his early twenties under the mentorship of the late drummer John Markham, when Vince rousted out of the Army in the mid-1960s, playing all the jazz clubs of the era, touring, leading the house band at Jazz at Pearl’s, leading notorious jam sessions at Pier 23, the Dogpatch Saloon, the Seven Mile, Sweeties, Bird & Beckett… never pausing, always happy t