Mario Wellman Trio

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Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Mario Wellman Trio! Mario Wellmann — Guitar Guillermo López — Bass Daniel Dufour — Drums Ecos del Sur (“Echoes of the South”) is Mario Wellmann’s debut album as a leader, to be recorded in August 2026 with Grammy-winning engineer Joseph Branciforte. Five original compositions conjure the cities and towns of Chile's central south — one of the most quietly breathtaking corners of the Americas — connected by solo guitar interludes born from the memory of long car rides through forests and rain. The music is rooted in the jazz tradition and shaped by South American rhythms, featuring a distinctly modern harmonic and melodic language. Mario Wellmann is a Chilean jazz guitarist and composer based in New York City and Austin. He has performed across the Americas and Europe at venues including The Django, Jazz Forum Arts, Soapbox Gallery, the Elkhart Jazz Festival, Sala Master at Radio Universidad de Chile, Thelonious Lugar de Jazz in Santiago, among others. He received two DownBeat Student Music Awards in 2023 and was awarded the Fondo de la Música — Chile’s equivalent of the National Endowment for the Arts — to record Ecos del Sur. He is joined by Guillermo López, a Juilliard-trained bassist who has performed at the Village Vanguard, The Django, and Dizzy’s Club, and by Austin’s own Daniel Dufour on drums. Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! Doors at 7:15pm, Show at 7:30pm.