Melissa Aldana Quartet | Farrell Family Athenaeum Jazz
Saturday, June 21, 2025
7:30 PM
*AT THE ATHENAEUM MUSIC & ARTS LIBRARY*
The series concludes on June 21 with the return of the Melissa Aldana Quartet, with Aldana on tenor sax, Glenn Zaleski on piano, Pablo Menares on bass, and Kush Abadey on drums. Aldana’s last Athenaeum performance was in March 2020, when she played music from her album Visions for Frida Kahlo, which earned her a first-ever GRAMMY nomination for Best Improvised Jazz Solo. Her program this June will feature music from her 2024 release on Blue Note Records, Echoes of the Inner Prophet. A native of Chile, Aldana moved to the United States to attend Berklee College of Music. In 2013, at age 24, she became the first female instrumentalist and the first South American musician to win the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition.


























