Chilean-born saxophonist Melissa Aldana, 34, who has forged a sizzling career on her terms, heads to 4 Bay Area venues beginning Feb. 2
Award-winning saxophonist Melissa Aldana is headed to the Bay Area for four concerts beginning Feb. 2.By necessity and inclination, many of jazz’s leading musicians have embraced multi-tasking, simultaneously pursuing several projects at once.
Aldana’s quartet plays a series of high profile concerts this week, including Feb. 2 at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage and Feb. 3 at San Jose’s intimate Hammer4 Studio as part of the Hammer Theatre Center’s Black Cab Jazz series. “He’s one of my favorite musicians,” she said. “That he’s also Chilean and we can speak Spanish together is very lucky.”
Menares and Abadey are featured on her sixth and latest album, “12 Stars,” which marked her debut on the venerable label Blue Note. Released last March, the album was shaped both by the experience of the pandemic and the massive “Estallido Social” protests that shook Chile in 2019. The protesters were met with brutal repression, including “non-lethal” projectiles that left hundreds of people blinded, which inspired her skittering tune “Los Ojos de Chile.
In her mid-20s she seized the opportunity to tour and record, and if she missed the extended apprenticeships that can provide invaluable seasoning she embraced the responsibilities of building an ensemble.
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