$18 Cover @ the Door ($15 Students/Seniors) / Start 8pm / Doors 7:30pm / Seated Show
A South American “Quota” of creative musicians joining North America (Calif) and landing in Boston, for an Hispanic Improv-Free-Jazz journey.
Lead by Tatiana Castro Mejia, pianist, and poet who recently moved here, brings her personal and cultural improv and free Jazz to Boston with a group of young South American & A Calif musicians to also express their unique “hemispheric” language of improvisation through Free-Jazz.
Tatiana Castro Mejia (Colombia), piano, poetry
Alejandra Gomez (Uruguay), trumpet
Rosina Scampino (Argentina), drums
Anna Abondolo (California), bass
Tatiana Castro Mejía
“…from her creative need to express from the music and from the word: Find(ing) paths that explore beyond the song. Explore in narration, storyteller. Let the word recite next to the music. Play with it from improvisation, and let it interact with the sound. Music and text. Text and music”. And Castro Mejia carries it out from three different perspectives: compositions with music and words, instrumental (with the music suggesting poetic figures) and narrated (where the voice is expressed musically)”. - El Intruo
From a very young age she always had an interest, a curiosity for the creative, to assemble and disassemble, mostly from the sound, but at times touching other languages: dance, writing, dramaturgy. Today, more than 20 years after having decided to dedicate her life to music, she walks a path where improvisation plays a leading role and she seeks to cross lines with dance and theater, with writing and poetry. She studied at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia) where she graduated obtaining the title of "Master of Music with Emphasis in Jazz". Between 2005 and 2006 she studied with the Argentine pianist Ernesto Jodos in Buenos Aires, thanks to a scholarship granted by the Fernando Sor School of Music in Bogotá and the Buenos Aires School of Contemporary Music where she was a teacher (www.escuelademusica. org). Her professional artistic life began in Bogotá, but she has had a strong development in Buenos Aires, where she has lived for 15 years.
Tatiana Castro Mejía was born in Colombia. In 2004, she earned a scholarship to study with Ernesto Jodos and Rodrigo Domínguez. She played in Mair, Tekeye, Bogotaires and Proyecto de Música Contemporánea. She released Ciclos, her first album. She co-directs a music and dance collective improvisation project with dancer Aleema Curri. She leads a quintet that plays the music of Eric Dolphy.
Piano & Guitar (w/ Gonzalo Muruaga) (Buenos Aires, 2016): youtube.com/tcm1
January 2019, Voice & piano duo (Improv): youtube.com/tcm2
March 8, 2020, Piano solo (Sound intervention to a poem): youtube.com/tcm3
Alejandra Gómez
Alejandra Gómez is a trumpet player from Uruguay, South America. She has been playing trumpet since her early 20s and also plays guitar and percussion. She has been immersed in Uruguayan traditional music called Candombe, first as a dancer and then as a drummer. As a musician, Alejandra is looking to be able to transmit a message configured within each listener, and to make it happen, improvisation has been her main engine. Alejandra is interested in exploring the connection between different languages, rhythms, and traditions, searching for her voice. She constantly seeks to produce sound images that generate questing effects in the one listening.
Rosina Scampino
Drummer Rosina Scampino attended Berklee College of Music where she completed a bachelor’s degree in 2019, and a master’s degree through the Berklee Global Jazz Institute in 2020. A long-time student of the late great Bob Gullotti, Rosina’s musicality and highly sensitive touch on the drums are what characterize her playing. A native of Rosario, Argentina, she aims to create a sound that represents her South American musical roots in the context of contemporary jazz. To listen some of her music:
gimenezlopezbassuarezscampino.bandcamp.com
Anna Abondolo
Anna Abondolo is a bassist and composer from Los Angeles, California. She is currently based in Brooklyndeveloping an interdisciplinary collective entitled, “Rainbow Princess”. At New England Conservatory, Anna has studied under the instruction of Donald Palma, Frank Carlberg, and John Clayton. Also Anthony Coleman, Jason Moran, and John Mallia.
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