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The Annie Booth Trio
Longtime friends and musical conspirators, Annie Booth (piano), Patrick McDevitt (bass), and Alejandro Castaño (drums) formed the Annie Booth Trio in 2010 as undergraduate students at the University of Colorado. In the decade-plus since the trio was established, the group has performed across the U.S. and made several recordings including Festive! (2016), The Annie Booth Trio with Max Wellman (2018) and on Seattle-based saxophonist Steve Treseler’s Snow Line Suite (2020). The Annie Booth Trio has performed at SXSW (Austin, TX), the Telluride Jazz Festival, The Boulder Theater, and jazz clubs across the pacific northwest and midwest. At home in Denver, the group was proud to be the first artist-in-residence at Denver’s Nocturne Jazz Club and holds an annual holiday residency at Dazzle Jazz. Drawing from a vast book of Booth’s original music, pop covers, and intricate arrangements, the group’s lengthy musical collaboration and shared love of the music results in deep, synergetic, and joyful performances and a delightful stage presence. The Annie Booth Trio is also the core group for the Annie Booth Sextet (Abundance: Live at Mighty Fine, 2017) and the Annie Booth Big Band, established in 2019 and in residency at the Mercury Cafe in Denver, CO.
Annie Booth is a versatile and award-winning composer and jazz pianist based in Denver, CO. She has established herself as an active force on the local and national scene as a composer and leader-performer of her many projects (the Annie Booth Trio, Annie Booth Sextet, and Annie Booth Big Band) and as a busy side-musician. Booth holds a Bachelors of Music Performance (summa cum laude, 2011) and a Masters of Music in Jazz Performance and Pedagogy (summa cum laude, 2020) from the Thompson Jazz Studies Program at the University of Colorado. Her master’s thesis, entitled, The SheBop Young Women In Jazz Workshop: An Educational Model for Encouraging the Connection, Expression, and Empowerment of Young Female Musicians Learning a Male-Dominated Art Form, delves into the jazz camp she created for young womxn through the Denver-based non-profit, the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts (CCJA) in 2017. When Annie is not performing, traveling or composing, she is an in-demand educator, on faculty at the CCJA and maintaining an active schedule as a guest clinician, artist, and adjudicator at jazz festivals and high school and university programs across the U.S. and Canada. She is currently on adjunct faculty at the University of Northern Colorado, teaching jazz piano and jazz arranging.
From Parker, CO Patrick McDevitt, grew up participating heavily in the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts and attended high school at the Denver School for the Arts. After high school, Patrick studied at the University of Colorado in Boulder and graduated in 2013 with a BM in Jazz Studies. Following graduation, Patrick moved to New Orleans and spent the next year and a half touring the country with the Mike Dillon Band. In 2017 Patrick received his M.M in Jazz Performance from the University of Denver. He is an in demand bassist and educator in Denver and stays busy performing with Annie Booth and many of Denver's top musicians.
Alejandro Castaño is a drummer, composer and educator in the Denver area. Castaño has had the great opportunity to perform with some incredible musicians nationally and internationally including: Annie Booth, Ron Miles, Art Lande, Eric Gunnison, Steve Turre, Ken Walker, Josh Quinlan, John Gunther, and Bob Montgomery. He is an active teacher working with great organizations including the Colorado Conservatory of the Jazz Arts, The Gift of Jazz, and Denver School of the Arts.