Back by popular demand. Taos Jazz Bebop Society and Harwood Museum of Art bring you the John Rangel Sextet!
Known for his very original and swinging style at the piano, John Rangel brings a wide range of experience and intention to every composition and performance. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and educator, Rangel is currently Music Chairman for the New Mexico School for the Arts which gives him a direct line to emerging jazz talent. One of his great passions is playing music with brilliant young musicians.
The John Rangel Sextet features exciting young players from the Santa Fe area, several of whom have been Rangel’s students. All have bright futures in jazz. Under Rangel’s leadership, they explore a tremendous range of jazz styles and creative arrangements from hard swinging bebop to beautiful ballads and soulful original compositions by band members.
Ash Mattia, the youngest member of the band and a current student of Rangel’s, is a founding member of Zaphica, which won 2024 Best Arrangement of an Original Recording from the New Mexico Music Awards. Saxophonist Dominic Martinez studied with Rangel before graduating from California Institute of the Arts. Trumpeter Robby Beasley teaches at UNM and alongside Rangel at New Mexico School of the Arts, and has become the most in demand trumpet player in New Mexico. Bassist Cyrus Campbell, a Santa Fe native, excelled at the Berklee College of Music where he studied performance and composition, and is now one of the premier jazz bassists in New Mexico. Drummer Jonah Minkus, at 22, has already made a name for himself in the jazz and indie music scene around the Southwest and beyond.
