Hegarty, Zirkle and Zayas to launch trio with November 30 concert at SLCC-Forest Park

Electronic musician, pianist and composer James Hegarty sends word that he's launching a new jazz trio with a free concert at 7 p.m. on Friday, November 30 at the Mildred E. Bastian Performing Arts Center at St. Louis Community College - Forest Park.

Hegarty's co-conspirators in the as-yet-unnamed trio are bassist Luis-Michael Zayas, a Washington University music student who also performs with the Latin jazz ensemble Musica Slesa, and percussionist Tom Zirkle, also a member of Musica Slesa as well as the head of the music program at SLCC-Forest Park (where Hegarty taught before getting his current gig as director of the jazz program at Principia College). Hegarty describes the program as "a collection of original tunes that combine cool jazz harmonies with fusion and world music inspired rhythms in a post-bop style."