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Joey Alexander Trio at Kuumbwa Jazz Center

Where

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
320-2 Cedar Street
Santa Cruz, CA
Map
831-427-2227

When

Thu, June 9, 2016
7:00 pm

Get Ticket

$30

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Musicians

About

Pianist Joey Alexander elicits more than a lifetime of soulfulness at the ripe old age of thirteen. At age six, he began plucking out well-known jazz melodies on the keyboard without any formal instruction, thanks to plenty of listening to his father’s record collection. Joey’s precocious start was encouraged by his parents and he progressed rapidly, displaying an empathy for nuance and harmonic sophistication far beyond his years. The influences of Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, and John Coltrane are all evident in his adventurous spirit—not many adult musicians can tackle the harmonic complexity of Coltrane’s Giant Steps, or the quirkiness of Monk’s Well, You Needn’t, with Joey’s adroitness...

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