Marco Benevento and his trio will play four West Coast shows next week. The keyboardist’s brief tour will kick off in Seattle on October 28 and come to a close on October 31 at San Francisco’s San Francisco Jazz Festival. In addition, Benevento will lead a clinic at Berkeley, CA’s The Jazz School on November 1.

Benevento’s band will consist of bassist Reed Mathis (Tea Leaf Green) and drummer Jeremy Black (Apollo Sunshine) from October 28-30 and Mathis and Andrew Barr (The Slip) on October 31. Benevento, Mathis and Barr will also enter producer Bryce Goggin’s Brooklyn studio to begin work on their third studio album in the coming weeks.

The Marco Benevento Trio’s upcoming shows include:

October 28 Seattle, WA—Earshot Jazz Festival
October 29 Portland, OR—The Goodfoot Lounge
October 30 Arcata, CA—Jambalaya
October 31 San Francisco, CA—San Francisco Jazz Festival
November 1 Berkeley, CA—The Jazz School(clinic)