A vegan café in downtown South San Francisco is hosting an ongoing performance series exploring the state of the Asian-American jazz movement. The series, curated by bass guitarist and composer Chris Trinidad, features various Asian-American and Canadian improvisors. The latest performance, titled 'Kulintang Kollaborations II', showcased a quartet playing Wayne Shorter's 'Footprints'.
A vegan café in downtown South San Francisco isn’t the first (or second) place I’d expect to find an ongoing performance series exploring the state of the Asian-American jazz movement, but after checking it out last weekend it all made perfect sense. A note from Pinole-based, British Columbia-born bass guitarist and composer Chris Trinidad about the series he’s curating, “Directions In Music Making By Asian American (and One Canadian) Improvisors II,” got me out of the house last Saturday.
Arriving just after noon at Sky Café’s inviting Grand Avenue storefront I followed the sound of the music through the front room to an enclosed, wood-paneled side patio where I found four musicians set up on a low wooden bandstand. Billed as “Kulintang Kollaborations II” the quartet featuring Trinidad, Conrad Benedicto on the traditional Philippine brass gong kulintang, Carie Jahde on drums, and Francis Wong on soprano sax was deep into Wayne Shorter’s “Footprints,” taking the standard into a shimmering vorte
Vegan Café South San Francisco Asian-American Jazz Performance Series Chris Trinidad Improvisors Kulintang Kollaborations II Wayne Shorter
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