The Dikeou Collection’s eighth installment of the ‘Fresh Jazz and Crisp Vinyl Series’ will feature a special performance by The Josh Trinidad Trio featuring Gordon Koch & AJ Salas on Friday, September 19, from 7:00pm to 10:00pm. Dave Ashton, Program Manager for KGNU Denver 88.5 FM and member of local hip hop group Council of Word is the guest DJ and will spin rare & classic records from the Collection’s extensive Vinyl Archive. Trinidad and his band will play at 8:00 pm. This event will take place at Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax, 312 East Colfax Avenue, and is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.
Josh Trinidad is an accomplished trumpet player who was born and raised in Colorado and has performed and recorded with musicians like Sage Francis and Wheelchair Sports Camp. While proficient in various styles, jazz is at the core of his musical influence. He studied music and education at The University of Colorado, Boulder, and currently runs the Jazz Odyssey program on KUVO 89.3 FM. Drummer Gordon Koch also studied jazz at CU-Boulder for six years, and tours nationally and releases albums with the Denver hardcore/metal act Call of the Void on Relapse Records. Pianist AJ Salas is a session musician in the Denver Soul/Funk/electro scene playing in The Hypertextuals with Venus Cruz and DJ Check One and other sessions with Cory Baker. He has shared the stage with Stanley Turrentine and Ike Turner, and has performed live on FM 103.5 the Fox’s Radio show Strictly Blues. The musically diverse trio will perform an improvised set of triphop/metal/fusion influenced free jazz.
The ‘Fresh Jazz and Crisp Vinyl Series’ focuses on jazz musicians living and working today, whose names are not yet embossed into history, but whose energy, wisdom, well worn instruments, and presence in the jazz scene are further defining our admiration for this life form called Jazz music. Selections from the vinyl archive will thus serve as a remembrance to all the jazz greats who came before the jazz musicians invited to play at this bi-monthly series.