The Dikeou Collection’s eleventh installment of the ‘Fresh Jazz and Crisp Vinyl Series’ will feature a performance by The Annie Booth Trio on Friday, February 20, from 7:00 to 10:0pm at the Dikeou Collection, 1615 California St, Suite 515. Musician John A. Díaz-Cortés will compose a special DJ set inspired by Dikeou Collection artist Giasco Bertoli’s vinyl-themed artwork. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.
Annie Booth is a pianist and composer based in Denver, CO. She studied music at the collegiate level, earning a BM in jazz piano performance from the Thompson Jazz Studies Program at the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2011. Booth is an active performer on the Denver jazz scene both as a sideman with several projects and as a bandleader of her own. The Annie Booth Trio includes Patrick McDevitt on bass and Alejandro Castaño on drums, and they will perform original compositions and arrangements from Booth’s debut album, Wanderlust.
John A. Díaz-Cortés is an American saxophonist, composer and educator who has previously performed at the Fresh Jazz and Crisp Vinyl Series with his band, The Folklorika Arkestra. This time he will be manning the turntables, and will present a special set composed of vinyl albums from Giasco Bertoli’s photo titled ‘I went to see a friend of mine who turned thirty-three years old, in his room I found a pile of 33 lp’s with the word blue on each cover title, I compiled them in alphabetical order.’ The tracks selected from these records will cross many genres, from jazz, classical and country, to pop, rock and trip hop.
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 the life form, 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.