Thurs. Sept. 13 

The Boston area is flooded with good music, and, of course, for most of that you'll pay an admission price to see it. Fair enough. But there are also a fair amount of free concerts taking place in and around the city and Berklee College of Music puts on more than a few. They're doing so again with a Thursday series that wraps up today Sept. 13 at noon. It's the third annual Kendall Square Concert Series,  put on by Jazz Revelation Records, the school's student-run jazz label. Artists include Berklee student and alumni jazz, world, Latin, and r&b musicians, some of whom are featured on the new Jazz Revelation Records CD "The New Old School."  The finat act in this stretch is Juan Ospina.
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Tantanakuy: This group  is led by Argentinean composers Marcelo Woloski (percussion) and Andres Rotmistrofksy (bass), and features Italian vocalist Eleonora Bianchini. After playing with many folk artists in Argentina, Woloski and Rotmistrofsky came to Boston to attend Berklee. The duo has gained a reputation as a strong rhythm section able to communicate the depth of rhythms from South America. Their music blends Argentinean, Brazilian, Afro Cuban, Afro Peruvian, and Uruguayan rhythms with jazz harmonies. Tantanakuy's versatility has placed them in high demand on and off campus. Woloski's composition "Mundo Por Conocer" appears on the Jazz Revelation Records CD "The New Old School."

The Alex Terrier Quartet:  Saxophonist Alex Terrier is a native of Paris, France. Terrier graduated from the Lycee de Sevres and studied at the National School of Music before earning a scholarship to attend Berklee, where he was awarded the Joseph Viola Scholarship and the Herb Pomeroy Award. He performed with, and composed for, three of the best jazz bands at the college: the Concert Jazz Orchestra, the Rainbow Big Band, and the Rainbow All Stars. Terrier toured Costa Rica last year and recorded Stop Requested for Aphrodite Records, his first album as a leader.  Terrier's "Stop Requested" also appears on "The New Old School."

Pianist Juan A. Ospina was born in Bogotá, Colombia. In 1998, he began his formal musical studies at Bogotá's Universidad Javeriana, and after two years moved to Barcelona, Spain, to continue his jazz and classical studies. In 2004, he returned to Bogotá for a year before moving to Boston, where he is currently majoring in jazz composition at Berklee. In the spring of 2006, Ospina received a Jazz Performance Award from the Piano Department, and was the 2007 recipient of the prestigious Herb Pomeroy Award, given by the Jazz Composition Department. And, yes, Ospina also appears on "The New Old School."