Celebrating Asian American Jazz: Ryan Ancheta Quartet + Chris Trinidad’s Chroma Tonic

RYAN ANCHETA QUARTETRyan Ancheta, trumpet Kevin Person, piano Tonko, bass Jaeden Baclay, drums CHRIS TRINIDAD’S CHROMA TONIC Naima Shahoub, voice/keys Scott Oshiro, flute, quantum electronics Alex Heigl, guitar/effects Chris Trinidad, bass guitar/synth bass Cy Thompson, drum set/percussion Double bill – An evening of expansive and energetic jazz by two generations of Bay Area Filipino bandleaders! Twenty-year-old trumpet player and composer Ryan Ancheta, a student at UC Berkeley, has moved through the ranks of all the Bay Area’s elite jazz training programs, and is an alumnus of the SFJazz High School All-Stars, Marcus Shelby’s Teen Jazz Orchestra at the Community Music Center, the Jazzschool’s Advanced High School Combo, and Stanford Jazz Workshop’s Miles Ahead Big Band. His music combines classic and modern jazz, R&B, funk, soul, hip-hop, and fusion.  Electric bassist Chris Trinidad’s latest project Chroma Tonic brings together musicians from wildly divergent backgrounds to concoct intriguing groove music inspired by ambient music pioneers Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, the early avant-garde space psychedelia of Pink Floyd, and the adventurous electric hybrid experimentations of early seventies Miles Davis. Album release celebration! This May, in honor of Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, the Jazzschool celebrates the contributions of Asians in Bay Area jazz through a series of salons and concerts organized in collaboration with artists in the AAPI community. Pre-concert talk at 7:30pm Concert series programmed by pianist/composer Erika Oba.