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Wednesday, March 2, 2022
7:30 PM
The series concludes on March 2 with another local debut by the Oscar Peñas Quartet, featuring Oscar Peñas on guitar, Sara Caswell on violin, Motohito Fukushima on electric bass, and Richie Barshay on drums. Barcelona-native Peñas has released four jazz albums with Grammy winners Esperanza Spalding, Gil Goldstein, and Paquito D’Rivera. His latest recording, yet to be released, features legendary bassist Ron Carter. Downbeat wrote, “Oscar Peñas is a poet,” celebrating his “ability to bring together the strands of a broad cultural education—one encompassing classical studies as a teenager in Barcelona and jazz degrees at both Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory—in a seamless synthesis of musical idioms.” Esperanza Spalding commented, “Oscar is a beautiful player with a totally unique sense of sound and color in his writing.” And Gil Goldstein wrote, “Oscar Peñas has found a way to merge traditional Spanish music with jazz in a way that seems totally natural and fresh.” This concert is made possible with the support of Jazz Road, a national initiative of South Arts, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The concerts will be in person at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. There are no physical tickets for these events. Your name will be on an attendee list at the front door. Doors open at 7 p.m. Seating is first-come; first-served. These events will be presented in compliance with State of California and County of San Diego health regulations as applicable at the time of each concert. Face coverings are required for attendees, regardless of vaccination status. Proof of vaccination or negative test within 48 hours of the event is required. Event capacity is limited to 70% for now.