Leni Stern Trio: Groove-Filled Jazz

Award-winning jazz guitarist Leni Stern leads her trio project featuring original compositions written with reverence to the rhythms and tonalities of Mali and Senegal. Stern’s performance celebrates her most recent release, 3, an authentic exploration of the interplay between traditional West African music and American jazz.
 
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ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Leni Stern is an unstoppable force of bottomless energy. Her long-time fans know her from a successful jazz career that saw her touring the globe on the stage of every major festival and legendary club, performing with some of the biggest heavyweights on the scene like Dennis Chambers, Paul Motian, and Bill Frisell to name a few. Everything changed when, in 2005, Stern was first invited to perform at the Festival au Desert in Timbuktu, Mali. It was there that she would meet Bassekou Kouyate and his wife, Ami Sacko. Embraced by their family and their bands, she dove headfirst into the traditions of West African guitar and later the n’goni, an African banjo. It was a natural path from jazz, a journey to where her playing and sound all began, a spiritual exploration coupled with devoted study and practice. Stern’s recent compositions pay humble homage to the drum patterns of traditional Senegalese folk songs. What emerges is a new repertoire of cross-pollinated ideas and reverence to jazz, blues, Africa, and folk music of today’s diaspora.

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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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