Fri 6/26 @ 8PM
Sun 6/28 @ 7PM
Versatile Detroit-born jazz pianist/composer Chris Bakriges, now working out of Boston, likes to shake things up, musically speaking. His program, fiddleFunk, throws a bunch of appealing sounds into the pot: the Great American Songbook’s accessible melodicism, bebop’s exploratory rhythms and harmonics, Brazilian music’s slinky melodies and swaying rhythms, and even a dash of the blues.
Pennsylvania-based, violinst Stanley Chepaitis and local musicians, bassist Dave Morgan and drummer Ricky Exton, will be joining him when he performs this music at Blu Jazz in Akron on Friday and the Bop Stop in Cleveland on Sunday.
Tickets for either performance are $12.
themusicsettlement.org/fiddlefunk-bop-stop
Akron, OH 44308
Cleveland, OH 44113