Chase Morrin Trio to play at the Encinitas Library
The Chase Morrin Trio will perform everything from jazz classics to original compositions at the Encinitas Library on Sunday, January 8 at 2 p.m.
“It’s a very special opportunity for us to come together and play music as a trio,” said Chase Morrin, an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music and a Carmel Valley native. “Some of the songs we’ll be playing will be original music that we’ve never performed before and that have never been recorded that I’ll be recording next year. So we’ll be premiering some new material that’s never been performed publicly before.”
He added, “It’s just special to come home with friends, family, and see what’s happening in the music scene in San Diego.”
Morrin fell in love with music when he was 8, after his parents bought him a keyboard from Costco. Since then, he graduated from Canyon Crest Academy in 2011 and attended Harvard, the New England Conservatory and the Global Jazz Institute at Berklee.
The Chase Morrin Trio consists of Morrin on piano, Naseem Alatrash on cello and George Lernis on percussion. The band came together in 2019 and played in several venues throughout Boston.
Morrin has played a lot in Encinitas over the years, and said the library offers “a great atmosphere” for next month’s show, which will pay tribute to jazz greats like Bud Powell, Thelonius Monk, in addition to the band’s original work.
“It’s going to be a mix of half and half,” Morrin said. “Half jazz standards, some of the traditional repertoire, and then half original compositions that present my new music and music that represents global jazz, which is a kind of movement and program that I was involved with back in Boston that respects the jazz tradition but bringing influences from around the world.”
The Chase Morrin Trio will also record their first album next month.
“This will be the first album I’ve released in five years, so I’m very excited about it,” Morrin said. “It’s going to feature a bunch of people from all over the world who come from different traditions, not just the jazz tradition, but others like the Arabic traditions and Greek traditions, a lot of different things.”
Morrin said he is also driven by music’s potential for social activism. Panamanian pianist and composer Danilo Pérez was one of his role models in this regard.
“I saw it in action with what he did in Panama and other places, and I want to continue this kind of thing with projects that try to help children through education and bring music to places that could really benefit from it,” Morrin said.
The Encinitas Library is located at 540 Cornish Drive. For more information, visit encinitaslibfriends.org.
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