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Alexa Torres and Mario Wellman Quartet
Thu, Nov 20
|Takoma Station Tavern
This virtuoso jazz quartet bring their "Reconstruction Tour" to Takoma Station Tavern. The group blends jazz with Latin musical traditions.
Time & Location
Nov 20, 2025, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Takoma Station Tavern, 6914 4th St NW, Washington, DC 20012, USA
About the Event
The Alexa Torres & Mario Wellmann Quartet presents original music at Takoma Station that weaves contemporary jazz language with rhythmic ideas from Latin America.
This Fall 2025 tour frames the music around reconstruction — building sound worlds from fragments of melody and memory: Chile’s democratic rebuilding after the dictatorship, the post-earthquake/tsunami recovery of communities, the personal reweaving of lives shaped by exile and diaspora, among other themes.
The quartet is headed by Alexa Torres on violin and Mario Wellmann on guitar, with bassist Guillermo Lopez (Juilliard MM, performances with Helen Sung, Ted Nash, and Kurt Elling) and drummer Daniel Dufour (Randy Brecker, Delfeayo Marsalis, Seamus Blake) Together, they deliver contemporary jazz rooted in sophisticated harmonic textures and rhythmic interplay inspired by the bandmembers’ Latin heritage (Chile and Cuba).
Alexa Torres is a Latinx jazz violinist, composer, and ethnographic researcher based in Austin and New York. She has performed across the…