World Wednesdays at Ryles Jazz Club

Every Wednesday at Ryles Jazz Club (map), the jazz bar features international musicians from around the world in the unique two-floor setting. Tonight, Ryles Jazz Club is featuring a prominent jazz trio from the Latin American jazz scene; the Juancho Herrera Trio.

Juancho Herrera has recorded several CDs and has played in several famous venues such as The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Shibuya Koukaido in Tokyo, Centro Cultural La Estancia in Caracas, and Carnegie Hall in New York. He has also performed extensively in 28 different countries and collaborated with other celebrated world musicians such as Lila Downs, Claudia Acuña, Marta Gomez, Sofia Koutsovitis, Nestor Torres, and many more.

Starting his musical journey in Venezuela, Juancho Herrera enrolled at Ars Nova School of Music in Caracas, and worked as a guitarist and vocalist in many bands before traveling to the U.S. to further pursue his musical career and studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Juancho is very well respected in the Latin-American jazz scene. There are few artists pushing the boundaries of Latin jazz the way that Juancho is doing it today.  Tapping into every little corner of the Latin-American vast musical history, his fusion grooves will give you a taste of how Latin music continues to grow as an important foundation of the jazz standard.

Check out a YouTube video of the Juancho Herrera Trio here:

Details:

Who: the Juancho Herrera Trio

What: jazz, world music, experimentalist, electroacoustic, funk, tropical

Where: Mainstage at Ryles Jazz Club, 212 Hampshire St., Cambridge, MA

When: tonight (August 25, 2010) at 9:00pm

Tickets: $10 per person

Buy your tickets here.

Photo credits: Tim Bean