Chicago-based jazz trumpeter Emily Kuhn returns to her hometown with The Emily Kuhn Quintet. As part of a residency with the Charlottesville Jazz Society and WTJU, the group will perform a public concert featuring new original music and selections from Kuhn’s recent release, Ghosts of Us. Pulling on the threads of connection, stillness, grief, and hope, Kuhn and co. tease out a sound borne of the natural world, science fiction, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on a foundation of musical familiarity and reliability, the five-piece ensemble expertly weaves a sonic tapestry of jazz, rock, chamber music, and Americana.
Saturday 10/12. $18–25, 8pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. cvillejazz.org