Randy Tico jams on a recent night at The Grand | Credit: Ingrid BostromMann functions as creative nucleus to the club’s house band, The Grand Band. Or some genius 17-year-old violin prodigy from the Music Academy let everyone know he was also a top-flight jazz piano player. She would find it in Santa Barbara when her car happened to get stuck by Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden. By 16, he was playing in a Latin jazz band and performing in bars. Maybe one day, Berg ruminated, there might be philanthropic support for keeping cultural venues, such as a jazz club, open on State Street.