Smooth Riders Jazz Quartet~ Music on MainStreet

Raton MainStreet presents Smooth Riders Jazz Quartet at Ripley Park on Sunday, June 28th, 4 pm – 6 pm. Music on MainStreet Concert Series is a free community event that is funded by the Whited Foundation. Members of the jazz quartet are Bruce Holmes, saxes and flute; Kevin Zoernig, keyboards; Ed Harrington, bass and Ralph Marquez, percussion. 

Wielding sticks and brushes, Ralph Marquez lays down the law, daring the wicked to cross that line of flawless time. The trapper on his skins riff the streets, making the feet of the good, bad, and ugly dance. Bruce Holmes carries a sax shooter on his hip, and exacts melodic justice faster than a speeding bullet. Kevin Zoernig gavels with ebony and ivory, judging the dissonant and consonant, phrasing them to life, executing them without mercy. Edward Harrington lays out the foundation on a wooden scaffold, where four ropes swing in the high desert breeze. Together, the Smooth Riders have banded together to produce reverberations that can mollify the prickliest of apprehensions, or revive the gloomiest psyche. Their law is real jazz, and they live by it.​