Salem State’s Center for Creative and Performing Arts presents the Joel LaRue Smith Trio, featuring Joel LaRue Smith, piano;  Yoron Israel, drums; John Lockwood, bass.  Joel’s music is a rich blend of Jazz and Afro-Caribbean rhythms and harmonies. He combines infectious Cuban dance forms such as timba mambo, songo, Mozambique, cha-cha and rhumba with compelling bebop, hard bop and swing melody lines. This music will ignite the passion for anyone to dance, and give each listener great melodies to sing and remember.