Charged Particles Jazz Group at Claremont Village Wine Walk on September 12

After performing for almost 25 years around the nation and internationally, Charged Particles (www.chargedparticles.com) recently relocated its base of operations to northern California and will be offering an electrifying jazz concert at the Claremont Village Wine Walk on September 12, 2015 from 4:00pm to 8:00pm.

A band that includes two Stanford University faculty members, Charged Particles crosses stylistic boundaries and blends multiple traditions to create vital new sounds in the electric jazz arena. Murray Low is a keyboard wizard with dazzling Latin-jazz technique and imaginative improvisational skills. Aaron Germain is an inventive and sophisticated electric bassist. Along with fiery drummer Jon Krosnick, who performed recently with famed keyboardist Chick Corea, these players are creating electrifying jazz.

The trio’s repertoire blends jazz styles with elements from Latin music, classical music, funk, and more. The group’s original compositions are mixtures of elaborate orchestration and opportunities for creative improvised solos. And they bring a similar approach to playing arrangements of tunes by other jazz artists and traditional jazz standards, each played with a new twist.

Of the band, reviewers have said: “An electrifying, push-the-limits performance style... A tight and enormously talented trio.” (Jazz Times Magazine), “Charged Particles is definitely dazzling.” (Jazz and Blues Report), “Fresh, energized contemporary jazz that showcases the trio’s individual technical mastery as well as a cooperative, refined approach to the art form.” (Jazz News Magazine), and “Tight interplay was the watchword as the threesome took difficult fusion themes and applied its own twists with spark and personal flair.” (Los Angeles Times).

Recent appearances by Charged Particles include such prestigious jazz clubs as Yoshi’s in San Francisco, Vitello’s in Los Angeles, Café Cordiale in Sherman Oaks, and the historic Lighthouse in Redondo Beach. The group’s hundreds of other appearances include the Houston International Jazz Festival, the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Orange County Arts and Jazz Festival, the Midwest Jazz Heritage Festival, the Trenton Jazz Festival, the King Cobra Jazz Festival, and a tour of Sweden.