BRATTLEBORO — Composer and pianist Eugene Uman and his Convergence Project returns for his seventh annual Vermont Jazz Center concert. The group will perform high-energy original jazz compositions based on traditional Colombian music on Saturday, June 6, at 8 p.m.
Other members of the Convergence Project joining Uman will be Michael Zsoldos on saxophone, Jeff Galindo on trombone, Stomu Takeishi on electric bass, Satoshi Takeishi on drums, and Adam O'Farrill on trumpet. O'Farrill was the third-place winner in this year's Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition.
“The intention when writing these pieces was to combine the vocabulary of jazz with the edge of rock and funk and the inspiration of Colombian folkloric rhythms such as pasillo, cumbia, currulao, puya and porro,” Uman said in a news release.
The Convergence Project will be playing material from their first two albums as well as debuting new compositions that Uman recently wrote.