Michael Echaniz Trio: The Music of Wayne Shorter
About This Concert
Advance tickets for this performance are sold out. Walk-in patrons will be seated on a space-available basis after ticketholders are seated.
Pianist and keyboardist Michael Echaniz (CSMA faculty) and his trio present an acoustic-electric tribute to music of the late Wayne Shorter, one of most prolific, influential jazz composers and improvisers of the 20th and 21st century. This concert will highlight essential Shorter compositions from his early Blue Note records, time in the Miles Davis Quintet, Weather Report, notable sideman appearances, and beyond, illustrating Shorter’s singular musical conception and evolution as an innovator. The trio features Jeff Denson on acoustic and electric basses and voice and Dillon Vado on drum set. Prepare to experience a colorful, futuristic journey through the lush, improvisatory worlds of post-bop jazz and jazz fusion!
About the Artist
Michael Echaniz is one of the brightest musicians, composers, and artists emerging from the West Coast. A pianist since five, Michael has studied music at California Jazz Conservatory (B.M.), and CalArts (MFA). Michael is an avid performer, playing and recording alongside internationally renowned artists and pillars of the Bay Area music scene such as Jeff Denson, Paul Hanson, Romain Pilon, Wu Man, Gerald Cleaver, Paul McCandless, Scott Amendola, Ishmael Reed, Erik Jekabson, Dillon Vado, Alan Hall, Steve Lugerner, and Friction Quartet in venues such as Piedmont Piano Company, Black Cat, the Art Boutiki, Yoshi’s, Keys Jazz Bistro, The Jazz Station, Muse Performance Space, and Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, as well as Umbria, Montreux, San Jose, Fillmore, and Portola Vineyards jazz festivals. Michael has won numerous awards, including Honorable Mentions in the 2023 Unsigned Only and 2022 International Songwriting Competition, a New Music Workshop at the 2022 International Jazz Composers’ Symposium (ISJAC), and the prestigious 2021 ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award.
On September 8th, 2023, Michael released Seven Shades of Violet (Rebiralost), an ambitious, virtuosic, symmetrical concept album of original compositions and arrangements on Ridgeway Records, supported by InterMusic SF’s 2020 Musical Grant Program and New Music USA’s Creator Development Fund in 2022-23. The debut has received wide critical acclaim, including a coveted 4-star review in DownBeat, earning a place in the publication’s Best Albums of 2023 list. Michael’s forward-thinking original music embraces rhythmic complexity, haunting melodicism, fluidity between improvisation and through-composition, influence from disparate styles of classical, world, and pop music, and deep emotional connection.
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- This is a free community concert. Attendees are encouraged to reserve tickets using Eventbrite at the link above. Unticketed walk-ins are permitted based on availability, but ticketed patrons will be seated first. Unused seats will be released 5 minutes before the start time. Seats are unassigned.
- Performances and screenings in Tateuchi Hall are suitable for ages 7 and up. To ensure the best experience for all guests, children should be able to sit quietly during the performance (approx. one hour).
- CSMA’s Community Concert Series is supported by the Applied Materials Foundation and the Rotary Club of Los Altos. Thank you to our sponsors!
