MAR 27-30 | Trumpet Week
Mar 28, 2025
Joe Henderson Lab
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Original show description below.
A trumpeter and flugelhornist deeply versed in Latin American music, Rachel Therrien embodies the way jazz’s international reach enriches the entire scene.
Dividing her time between New York City and Montreal, the French-Canadian bandleader immersed herself in Cuban music, studying at Havana’s Instituto Supérior de Arte in the late aughts. She went on to record 2016’s Pensamiento: Proyecto Colombia, an album featuring a brilliant cast of Bogota musicians. Her recent albums showcase a similarly expansive array of New York Latin jazz masters, like 2023’s Mi Hogar (My Home).
She was featured on Arturo O’Farrill’s GRAMMY-nominated album The Ostara Project by the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, and she’s also a highly regarded figure in straight-ahead jazz circles, both in Montreal, where she maintains a working quartet, and across the Atlantic.
Her European Quartet has earned two nominations for Jazz Album of the Year at Quebec’s ADISQ and Canada’s Juno Awards.
Whatever context she plays in, Therrien is a fiery improviser with a plush, singing tone and a gift for melodic invention. Making her SFJAZZ debut, she’s ready to add San Francisco to her far-flung creative constellation.
"Among the most innovative artists operating at the intersection of jazz and world music” (DownBeat), the trumpeter plays material from her latest album, Mi Hogar.
Among the most innovative artists operating at the intersection of jazz and world music
DownBeat
Among the most innovative artists operating at the intersection of jazz and world music
DownBeat
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Rachel Therrien Latin Jazz Project
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Rachel Therrien Latin Jazz Project
Porcelanosa
Rachel Therrien Latin Jazz Project
Moment's Notice
Rachel Therrien Latin Jazz Project
Porcelanosa
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