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Saturday Mainstream Jazz with Chris Peña Trio at The Nash
Courtesy of Lorene Ely | Posted on July 15, 2013
When
Sat, July 20, 2013
7:30-10 pm
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About
Pianist Chris Peña, originally from Tucson, was the recipient of the Provost Scholarship and an ASU JazzBird Scholarship. In 2010, Peña was a winner of DownBeat Magazine’s prestigious 33rd Annual Student Music Awards. Peña won 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...