Originally scheduled for the Outpost spring 2023 season but cancelled due to an illness, the New Mexico Jazz Festival is pleased to be able to present and close out the festival with this rescheduled concert. We ARE is the resurgence of the long-standing collaboration between pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Eric Harland, who, over the course of 25 years, have fine-tuned their individual sounds, which will be highlighted on their new release due out this year. “A widely acclaimed empathic unit,” the trio has left their mark on a generation of musicians, performing and recording consistently for the past two decades. One of the most compelling pianists in jazz today, both as a bandleader with a passion for swing, melody and groove, and as a collaborator with some of the foremost generation-spanning players in jazz, Aaron Goldberg garnered worldwide attention touring and recording with the Joshua Redman Quartet for four years as well as touring with bands led by Al Foster, Freddie Hubbard, Stefon Harris and Mark Turner and performing with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Madeleine Peyroux and Wynton Marsalis. Reuben Rogers is one of the most distinctive and in demand bassists in modern jazz, combining the calypso and reggae rhythms of his native Virgin Islands with the gospel sounds of the church and the freedom of jazz. He has performed with Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman, Tomasz Stanko, Roy Hargrove, Jackie McLean, and Dianne Reeves, among many others. Eric Harland has toured with everyone from vocal great Betty Carter to bassist John Patitucci and saxophonists Joe Henderson and Greg Osby and served as the Resident Artistic Director at the SFJAZZ Center’s 2014-2016 seasons as well as Artist in Resident at the Monterey Jazz Festival 2014.