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Jazz Trio with Yuto Kanazawa, Brett Benteler and Alex Wyatt

January 10, 2020 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

$30 – $45

Musick and Merriment concert for the month of January. 

Join us for an evening of acoustic jazz guitar, bass and drums played by Yuto Kanazawa, Brett Benteler and Alex Wyatt, offering a selection of music inspired by American, Asian and South American sounds. The trio will premier Yuto’s Latin jazz arrangement of Japanese folk songs, flamenco-infused jazz standards, original compositions, music of Thelonious Monk, Norah Jones, Oasis and more. 
To celebrate the first Musick and Merriment concert of the New Year champagne and light refreshments will be served. 

Tickets: $30 Members | $45 Non-members

Artist Bios

Yuto Kanazawa is a versatile Japanese guitarist/bassist who plays solo and well as ensemble jazz, funk, fusion, gospel, and latin music in NY and around the world.  Originally born in Tokyo, Yuto also grew up in Fukushima. He started playing guitar when he was 14 years old and he was performing with local rock bands throughout high school years. Yuto attended Koyo Conservatory Kobe and started playing jazz gigs. He moved to US in 2007 and later he graduated from Berklee College of Music.  In 2013, he released first album Earthwards featuring Grammy winning singer Kurt Elling from Interrobang Records and moved to NY. Yuto was a winner in jazz category of International Songwriting Competition that same year. For over a decade Yuto has played and toured with jazz musicians and ensembles around the world.  In 2019, Yuto formed the band MicroCorgi with a drummer Ilya Dynov and a pianist Andrew McGowan. MicroCorgi toured Texas and New Orleans in June with saxophonist Luis Sigüenza.  He also worked with Spanish bagpipe player Carlos Casado’s band Slum Suit, beatbox world champion Kaila Mullady, Brooklyn based funk band Shareef Keyes & the Groove, Gary Brocks a former trombonist of The O’Jays and many others.

Classically trained on the Double Bass, Brett Benteler’s musical background expands from Afro Cuban to Brazilian, and Jazz. He has traveled throughout North and South America, as well as the Caribbean and Europe, as a bilingual performer and educator. A native of Chicago, Brett worked alongside many of the city’s finest musicians of all disciplines, including international touring artists, such as Grammy nominated Afro Rican Jazz innovator William Cepeda, Cuban pianist Chuchito Valdes, Haitian singer/ actress Carole Demesmin, Japanese Jazz vocalist Iku Mori, and world-renowned vocalists/ composers Grazyna Auguszik and Paulinho Garcia.  Since 2008, as a teacher and ensemble director with the People’s Music School Youth Orchestras, Chicago’s first inner-city youth outreach program modeled after Venezuela’s “El Sistema”, Brett has played a vital role in the organization’s growth and its outstanding accomplishments.

Alex Wyatt is a New York based drummer and composer hailing from Denver, Colorado. Recognitions include winning the drum chair in the Colorado All-State Jazz Band three years in a row, receiving scholarship to attend the New School for Jazz in New York, graduating from the New School for Jazz Signa Cum Laude with a B.F.A., and being a finalist for the Thelonious Monk Institute for Jazz.  Current work includes performing and touring with Eugenia Choe Trio, performing and releasing a new album with Common Quartet, continuing to tour with The Midtown Men, performing as a house band member of Duane Park Jazz and Burlesque Club, and performing around New York City with the indie-pop band WYATT.  Alex is also a dedicated private drum instructor who has been teaching professionally since 2005.