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Saturday Mainstream Jazz with Chris Peña Trio at The Nash
Courtesy of Lorene Ely | Posted on July 30, 2013
When
Sat, August 10, 2013
7:30-10 pm
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About
Chris Peña-piano, Dwight Kilian-bass, Ryan Anthony-drums
Pianist Chris Peña, in 2010, was a winner of DownBeat Magazine’s prestigious 33rd Annual Student Music Awards, recognized for his collaborative arrangement of Bebel Gilberto’s “Um Segundo.”
Peña’s love of melody and lyricism was instilled in him as he grew up listening to baroque, classical and romantic music. But when he happened to attend a program sponsored by the Tucson Jazz Institute, his life was changed forever.
“I fell in love with America's first form of intellectual improvisatory music, which is jazz," he said...