Mike Camacho is an in demand drummer in New York City. The South Norwalk native has been playing drums since he was 10 years old, when he began lessons with his mentor, local drum teacher John Cutrone. After completing his studies at the Conservatory at SUNY Purchase and moving to NYC in 2015, Mike has […]
Melissa Newman , vocals Tony Lombardozzi, guitar Phil Bowler, bass Bobby Leonard, drums Join us for a warm evening of hot Jazz at Westport's own Jazz Inferno! Melissa is a natural talent, and really makes every song she sings her very own. With a band like this, the evening is sure to be way […]
Dan Pugach is a GRAMMY® Award-winning drummer and composer, a 5X GRAMMY® nominee, 2X ASCAP Foundation Jazz Composer Award winner, a recipient of the BMI Charlie Parker Composition Prize/Manny Albam Commission for Big Band and a participant at the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency Program at the Kennedy Center. He is a 2025 Chamber Music […]
Ed Bonoff is an unsung hero of the New York jazz scene. He experienced the bebop revolution at the original Birdland. He played drums with a variety of groups between the 1940s and 1960s. But he is more remembered for his compositions and arrangements. Drummer Greg Burrows, with the support of Bonoff, assembled a group […]
Grammy® Nominee Sara Caswell “is a brilliant world-class violinist...one of the very best of the present generation of emerging young jazz stars” according to the late David Baker, internationally-renowned jazz educator and Director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Rooted in an early exposure to a variety of musical genres, Sara’s technical facility intertwined with her gift for […]
Two-time Grammy Award winner pianist, composer and arranger Alan Broadbent is best best known for his work with artists such as Charlie Haden's Quartet West, Woody Herman, Chet Baker, Sheila Jordan, Natalie Cole, Warne Marsh, and Diane Krall among others. Broadbent, called "one of the greatest living jazz pianists" by the LA Times and "one of the most […]
Drummer and bandleader Adam Nussbaum has played with a virtual "Who's Who" in the jazz world. Longtime associates have included: John Abercrombie, Michael & Randy Brecker, Eliane Elias, Gil Evans, Stan Getz, Vic Juris, James Moody, John Scofield, Joe Sample, Ohad Talmor, ‘Toots' Thielemans, Kenny Wheeler & NHØP, as well as freelancing with prominent artists […]
Abena Koomson-Davis, vocals Steve Davis, trombone Greg Wall, saxophones Jeb Patton, piano Phil Bowler, bass Jason Tiemann, drums Abena Koomson-Davis is a performer, educator, and wordsmith. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, where she earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts, and also of Teachers College, Columbia University, where she earned a Masters […]
Mitch Schechter, pianist and composer, is truly a musical mystic. A former protege of the great Mike Longo (pianist and music director for Dizzy Gillespie) has enjoyed making music with some of the finest musicians in New York while raising a family in a log cabin on a lake in highlands of NJ’s Northwestern corner. […]
