“DAKUM”: THE NEW ALBUM BY PRISCA DÁVILA - Spanish Tour

 

DAKUM

Musicians: Prisca Davila (piano, composer, vocal, bandleader); Luis Freites, Gonzalo Teppa (b); Heriberto Rojas, Nelson Echandia (b); Carlos "Nene" Quintero (perc); Adolfo Herrera, Abelardo Bolaño (drums); Diego "El Negro" Alvarez, Goyo Reyna (cajon flamenco); Manuel Rangel (maracas)

Released on Friday, April 26 on digital platforms, “Dakum” is the 8th album by the Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer Prisca Dávila, who will celebrate the launch with a tour in May through stages in Barcelona, ​​Valencia and Madrid. In them, he will present both the new songs from “Dakum” and a selection of pieces from his other seven albums, especially those where the connection with flamenco that he has had throughout his career is present.

In this album, the fusion between Venezuelan, academic and jazz music that characterizes Prisca Dávila's style is expanded with the incorporation of new rhythms such as funk. The repertoire of “Dakum” is made up of songs that Prisca recently composed, inspired by personal experiences such as motherhood, farewell, hope, mourning and reunion.

The musical production of the album was carried out by maestro Gerry Weil. In the five songs that the album contains, the piano, played by Prisca, is the protagonist, accompanied by her voice and by the bass, drums, and percussion, recorded from different parts of the world by Venezuelan musicians who have participated in concerts. and recordings of the pianist over the years.

The first single is titled, precisely, “Dakum”, and is born from the love of this artist for her son, who said that word to express his joy when he was barely walking. It features Luis Freites on double bass and Carlos “Nené” Quintero on percussion.

“Esperanza" follows, based on his belief that "Music is light and in the face of darkness we must give more light." Gonzalo Teppa is in charge of double bass; Adolfo Herrera, of drums; and Diego “El Negro” Álvarez , from the flamenco box.

Thirdly, there is “Despedida”, created from the feeling of separation from her sister Marieva Dávila when she emigrated to Canada. It is a “Funk-Jazz” starring Prisca's piano and voice, along with Heriberto Rojas on bass and Abelardo Bolaño on drums.

“Shanti,” which means “Peace” in Sanskrit, is a solo piano song, composed while deeply grieving the recent physical departure of loved ones.

Finally, “Joropo Moruno” symbolizes the meeting point of her passion for Venezuelan music and that of her sister Marieva for flamenco, since she as a pianist, composer and dancer transmitted to Prisca that love for gypsy art, which It motivated her to write songs based on Spanish harmonies and Venezuelan rhythms. Nelson Echandia recorded electric bass; Manuel Rangel, the maracas; and in the flamenco box, clapping and jaleos, is Goyo Reyna.

Spanish Tour

As part of the launch of her 8th album, Prisca Dávila will travel to Spain in May to present, on piano and voice, both the new songs from “Dakum” and a selection of pieces from the other seven albums. The tour will begin in Barcelona, ​​continue through Valencia and end in Madrid. The repertoire of each concert will be different and will feature Venezuelan guest musicians who are in different cities in Spain: Manuel Rangel (maracas), Gabriel Dávila (guitar), El ensamble de Cuatros de Barcelona, ​​Pancho Montañez (drums), Omar Acosta ( flute), Roberto Castillo (percussion) and the Andalusian flutist and saxophonist Latino Blanco.

Los conciertos de la gira son los siguientes:
 
Barcelona
Miércoles 22 de mayo, 20H
Llibreria Byron, Casanova, 32 08011

Viernes 24 de mayo, 20H
Espai-Pd, C / Espronceda 25-29

Valencia
 
Martes 28 de mayo, 20H
Sedajazz, Alquería Coca, 1

Madrid
 
Viernes 31 de mayo, 20H
Santana Art Gallery, P.º de la Castellana, 190, Chamartín, 28046

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The stars of Latin Jazz shone brighter at the International Jazz Day 2024

Claudia Acuña (Chile), Richard Bona (Cameroon), Romero Lubambo (Brazil) and other, with their quality, talent and feeling worthily represented Latin Jazz at the International Jazz Day 2024.

The 13th annual International Jazz Day came to a thrilling conclusion with an historic All-Star Global Concert from the new Palace of Arts and Culture of Tangier. Hosted by internationally acclaimed actor Jeremy Irons, the concert featured world-renowned artists including master Gnawa musician Abdellah El Gourd (Morocco) and jazz icon Herbie Hancock along with Claudia Acuña (Chile), Ambrose Akinmusire (USA), John Beasley (USA), Lakecia Benjamin (USA), Richard Bona (Cameroon), Dee Dee Bridgewater (USA), Moreira Chonguiça (Mozambique), Shemekia Copeland (USA), Kurt Elling (USA), Antonio Faraò (Italy), Melody Gardot (USA), Jazzmeia Horn (USA), JK Kim (Republic of Korea), Femi Kuti (Nigeria), Magnus Lindgren (Sweden), Romero Lubambo (Brazil), Marcus Miller (USA), Yasushi Nakamura (Japan), Tarek Yamani (Lebanon) and many others.

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April 30, 2024 International Jazz Day: All Star Global , Concert from Tangier Marocco

 

Legendary figures of jazz, latin jazz, blues and beyond to electrify the city of Tangier – and screens throughout the world

Taking place at the new Palace of Arts and Culture, the All-Star Global Concert will feature the aforementioned U.S. artists joining a lineup that includes Claudia Acuña (Chile), Ambrose Akinmusire (USA), Richard Bona (Cameroon), Moreira Chonguiça (Mozambique), Antonio Faraò (Italy), Melody Gardot and Jazzmeia Horn (both USA), JK Kim (Republic of Korea), Magnus Lindgren (Sweden), Romero Lubambo (Brazil), Yasushi Nakamura (Japan) and Tarek Yamani (Lebanon), among others. The concert will be broadcast via YouTube, Facebook, the United Nations and UNESCO to viewers in more than 190 countries.

A series of educational programs, highlighted by a presentation spotlighting the significance of Morocco’s Gnawa music and its connection with jazz, will round out the earlier portion of the four-day event preceding the global concert. Tangier’s rich jazz legacy includes such notables as jazz master Randy Weston, who lived in Tangier for many years and collaborated with Gnawa master Abdellah El Gourd to explore the roots of jazz and African music. Weston also subsequently founded the African Jazz Festival in the ‘70s. Josephine Baker, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Mann and Archie Shepp are also among the renowned jazz artists who performed and also spent time in Tangier.

The All-Star Global Concert from the beautiful, new Palace of Arts and Culture of Tangier, Morocco will be broadcast on April 30 via YouTube, Facebook, the United Nations and UNESCO to millions of viewers worldwide. 

 Tangier becomes the very first city in Africa to lead the international Jazz day -  will be broadcast via YouTube, Facebook, JazzDay.com, the United Nations and UNESCO to millions of viewers worldwide.

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The power of Colombia at the New Orleans Jazz Festival

The festival will take place between April 25 and May 5. Cimarrón, Grupo Niche, Bomba Estéreo, Los Cumbia Stars de Medellín, Lucio Feuillet, among others, are part of the list of Colombians at the festival in which Colombia is the guest country of honor.

In the cradle where Louis Armstrong was born, there will be an unprecedented cultural festival for Colombian musicians. The Cumbia Stars from Medellín, Lucio Feuillet from Pasto, Enkelé from Bucaramanga, Matachindé from Buenaventura, Cimarrón del Orinoco, among other groups, will represent the country at the event.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival pays tribute to musical heritages and Colombia is a cultural meeting point for the African diaspora. It should be remembered that the city of New Orleans is a melting pot where Spanish and French culture converge. It is said that it is a European city within the United States and that in its essence it also includes a bit of Latin America.

Mark Twain, in his book “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has as its central character the majestic Mississippi River that originates in Minnesota and extends 153 kilometers south to New Orleans, where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

That is why it is so relevant to bring Colombian cumbia, because from river to river the music will be connected. Representing the genre will be “Los Cumbia Stars” from Medellín: “We are honored and filled with happiness that the sounds of our cumbia come to fill the streets of New Orleans with joy and cadence in this edition of its Jazz Festival, it is a dream that we are building; make history in Cumbia and Colombian tropical music, that all the countries of our continent vibrate and feel in their blood the rhythm of a cumbia that unites us as Latin Americans and that identifies us throughout the world," says Cristina Escamilla, leading voice. of this group that is about to release the album “La cumbia une a Latinoamérica”.

Another river present is the Orinoco (Venezuela) and from the immense plain, Cimarrón will reaffirm why it is the most international Colombian group of its kind. “For Cimarrón, this festival represents the continuation of the Joropo World Tour, which has already visited eight countries since last summer and will end in December, adding 20 cities in Japan. It is one of the great stages in the United States that was already on our route. We recently went through the North Carolina Folk Festival, to name one, and we already had the New Orleans one on the agenda. The festival's team of curators knows our show, as well as our career, and they told us that they fell in love with the band. It will be a very special opportunity, because Cimarrón not only talks about Colombia in terms of celebration and joy, we are also interested in showing what is heartbreaking,” says Ana Veydó, leader of the group.

Regarding the curation or selection of artists, it is worth mentioning that it is thanks to the management and results of music markets such as Circulart and the Bogota Music Market (Bomm). The programmers of the New Orleans Jazz Festival Christine Baer White and Valérie Guillet were able to get closer to Colombian music and propose us as the guest country for the 2024 edition that brings a download of salsa, champeta, shawm, bagpipes and tons of flavor like those of Jacobo Vélez and La Mambanegra.

“Coming to the festival since independence and with the popular Cali narrative squeezed between the souls of each of the people that make up La Mamba is a wonderful dream, it is the opportunity to be able to tell our story from the Latin shearing that makes us up, it is giving free rein to two neighborhoods with African heritage that had a long conversation, a huge rumba that had to happen, Cali and New Orleans are the same party, but with different rivers,” says Vélez.

About 175 national artists will be performing on the festival's fourteen stages. The extensive program also includes daily parades in honor of Colombia, the presence of Afro and indigenous artisans and stoves that will be lit with traditional cuisine.

Added to the list of names present are Grupo Niche, Bomba Estéreo, Kombilesa Mi, Agrupación Changó and Lucio Feuillet, a son of the galeras volcano and a great reference for southern music. “Being at the New Orleans Jazz Fest is an immense gift for us. Let's go with all the murga, with Dayra Benavides and with all that inspiration that the little land, the south, Nariño, Carnival, Colombia, Latin America has given us and all these sound and experiential explorations that we have been doing for so many years in music. Getting here is a celebration, a commemoration and we are going to give everything so that Guaneña sounds beautiful and strong from one of the most important festivals in the world.”

It will undoubtedly be a great exchange of knowledge that has the support of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Knowledge, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Colombian Embassy in the United States.

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Benito Gonzalez, Gabriela Montero, Eliane Elias and Kenny Barron among the luminaries invited to the Gilmore Piano Festival 2024

 

Calendars For the 2024 Festival!
April 24—May 12, 2024

The 2024 Irving S. Gilmore International Piano Festival will feature the finest international pianists playing classical, jazz, and pop music. The piano will be center stage for Gilmore-commissioned world premieres, free community concerts, films, musical theatre, and so much more.

Benito Gonzalez Trio

event_noteTHURSDAY - MAY 09, 2024 | 12:00 PM

                   MAY  10, 2024

location_onCIVIC THEATRE AUDITORIUM, KALAMAZOO

Venezuelan jazz pianist, composer, and Steinway Artist Benito Gonzalez combines a lineage of American jazz tradition with rhythms from around the world. Nominated for two GrammyⓇ Awards and winner of the 2005 Great American Jazz Piano Competition, his sound is recognizable for the powerful rhythm and Afro-Latin patterns he prioritizes across his projects. The New York-based artist grew up playing traditional folk music with his family before being inspired by pianists Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, and Keith Jarrett, whose quartet he later joined. He played with saxophonist Azar Lawrence’s band and joined saxophone legend Pharoah Sanders as his pianist/musical director in 2019.

Gabriela Montero and the Calidore String Quartet

event_noteSUNDAY - MAY 05, 2024 | 2:00 PM

location_onDALTON CENTER RECITAL HALL, WMU

Gabriela Montero, piano
Calidore String Quartet: Jeffrey Myers, violin – Ryan Meehan, violin – Jeremy Berry, viola – Estelle Choi, cello

Venezuelan composer and pianist Gabriela Montero presents the world premiere of her new work for piano and strings, commissioned by The Gilmore, with the Calidore String Quartet. Also on the program: Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81. Montero’s visionary interpretations and unique compositions have garnered critical acclaim and a devoted following on the world stage. Born in Venezuela, the GrammyⓇ Award-winner studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras. Founded at LA’s Colburn School in 2010, The Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast repertory, from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated contemporary voices.

Kalamasoo, Michigan

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The multi-talented Eric Frazier invites to the release party of the CD "That Place"

 

THAT PLACE

Musicians: Eric Frazier (congas, vocals, percussion); Gene Ghee (tenor, soprano sax); Wayne Jeffrey (guitar), Mamiko Watanbe, Benito Gonzales (keyboard); Benito Gonzales, Isaac Ben Ayala (Keyboard), Nori Naraoka, Lonnie Plaxico (bass), Lonnie Plaxico   (bass); John Cooksey  (drums); Eric Frazier (solo background vocal parts on “Bean Song”), Salimah Karim, Aisha Rivers, Umahawa Rivers, Tracey Fuller (background vocals)

Tracks List: The Panther Woman; Everything You Got to Give; Fresh Money; Mucho Caliente; You Don’t Know; Chili Pepper; It Gets Back to You; Bean Song; Graduation; In The Same Place; Mi Corazon; Fu Man Shu 

Brooklyn-based percussionist, drummer, vocalist, composer and bandleader Eric Frazier’s new recording That Place, Featuring Return of The Panther Woman, is an impressive and infectious collection that moves and grooves in multiple musical genres.
 
Frazier’s mastery of the conga, the trap drum, the djembe, and a multitude of percussion instruments, give him a wide percussive palette that encapsulates the wide dimensions of the African musical diaspora, from Afro-Caribbean beats to jazz.
 
Frazier’s wide world of rhythms span those grooves of his new album, That Place, Featuring Return of The Panther Woman. 
 
Backed by an energetic ensemble that includes bassist and former Art Blakey Jazz Messenger Lonnie Plaxico and pianist Benito Gonzales, the CD’s 12 tracks range from the bluesy, straight-ahead swing of “The Panther Woman” and “In The Same Place,” and the Asian-aired “Fu Man Shu” to the Freddie Hubbard, “Little Sunflower” flow of Frazier’s “It Gets Back To You,” and the instrumental, salsa-syncopated jams, “Mi Corazon,” and “Mucho Caliente.” The leader’s distinct vocals provide the final sonic seasoning for his musical melting pot. 
 

Born in Harlem and raised in Brooklyn in a family of 8 children, Frazier ran track and road races for 27 years. He earned a B.A. degree in Africana Studies in three years at Southern Illinois University, and two Masters Degrees and a Doctoral ABD in Education Administration and Policy from Columbia University Teachers College.
Frazier worked for three decades as a principal and school administrator in the public’s school system. He also has written journal articles on education, is an accomplished poet and was the co-host of WLIU Jazz radio 88.1 FM in Brooklyn.
 
Frazier was turned to dance by his brother, Gary Ellis Frazier, a former member of the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, which led him to discover African dance, tap and percussion. He took djembe lessons from Ibrahim, the master teacher from The Dance Company of Senegal, and taught himself how to play various forms of percussion. 
 
Frazier has recorded or performed with many artists including Pharoah Sanders, Jack McDuff, Reggie Workman, Robin Kenyatta, Carlos Garnett, Stanley Banks, Danny Mixon, Dr Lonnie Smith, Jimmy McGriff, and Rueben Wilson. Frazier’s previous CD’s include: 
Live at Cecil’s Jazz Club, Vols. 1 and 2;, Live at Humphrey’s by The Bay; Count Your Blessings; Live at The Knitting Factory in NYC; In Your Own Time;  Find Yourself (Then Find Me) and Smile Inside Your Soul. 
 
Frazier’s new recording and his illustrious career revealed him to be a renaissance man in rhythm with art and life.

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Dave Schumacher and his superstar Cubeye celebrate the release of their album "Smoke in the Sky"

 

SMOKE IN THE SKY

Musicians:  Dave Schumacher (bandleader, baritone saxophone, composer); Peter Brainin (sax soprano, sax tenor) Josh Evans, Jesus Ricardo (trumpet); Manuel Valera (piano); Alex "Apolo" Ayala (bass); Mauricio Herrera (congas); Joel Mateo (drums)

Tracks List: Smoke in the Sky; You Know It’s Wrong; Caridad; (No More) Smoke In The Sky; El Dilema de Chegüi Metralla; Cal Massey; Walk Spirit Talk Spirit; Poinciana

CD RELEASE SHOW

Dave Schumacher & Cubeye
Celebrate The  Release Of Their New CD
Smoke In The Sky
Friday, April 19th 7:30 pm

Clements Place
15 Washington St
Newark, NJ 07102

While Schumacher has given listeners a taste of his command of the Latin Jazz language on his previous efforts, here for the first time, leading his current working band that he’s dubbed Cubeye, he offers a full album’s worth of songs that advance the genre with an exciting 21st Century sensibility. Assisting him in firing up the music on the disc by turns heated and warm, are likeminded “musically bilingual” players – trumpeters Josh Evans and Jesus Ricardo, tenor and soprano saxophonist Peter Brainin, pianist Manuel Valera, bassist Alex “Apolo” Ayala, drummer Joel Mateo and percussionist Mauricio Hererra – each one of whom is well known for being equally skilled in playing both jazz and Latin music as one can witness throughout. Drawing upon an aggregate of experience performing with the likes of Arturo O’Farrill, Hilton Ruiz, Papo Vazquez, Yosvany and Yunior Terry, Melvis Santa and the Mambo Legends Orchestra, their combined talents are instrumental in bringing Schumacher’s cross-cultural vision to fruition.

Schumacher freely admits that two of the biggest influences on Cubeye’s musical concept are Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. The saxophonist recalls traveling with the latter’s big band to Japan in 1987 to perform at the Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival as one of the greatest highlights of his lengthy career. From the very start of “Smoke In The Sky”, the impact of those iconic bands on the group is clearly evident with blasting horns hitting hard in the Messenger tradition on top of the pulsating percussion that hearkens to Fort Apache’s relentless rhythmatism. Dave notes, “I was hearing the melody and harmony of the date’s fourth track, my ballad “(No More) Smoke In The Sky”, over an up-tempo groove. Manuel created this dramatic re-imagination of the original song.”

Dave’s arrangement of “You Know It’s Wrong” by fellow Chicago saxophonist Eddie Harris has something of the pensive sophistication of the great Wayne Shorter in its engaging melody that is played over Herrera's traditional bata rhythms before he digs in with a soulful solo, followed by Ayala’s bass interlude leading into the incendiary conga solo over vamping that brings the melody back in. Dave remembers “I first heard Eddie play this, originally a 4/4 shuffle, at Sweet Basil in the mid 80’s. It always stuck in my mind and I reframed it in a 6/8 groove.”

Valera’s tour de force arrangement of the AfroCuba de Matanzas classic “Caridad” begins with Schumacher’s brawny baritone blowing mournfully, at first unaccompanied then backed by bata drums, before the band joins in with a slow fanfare that prefaces its recitation the enchanting melody and the incendiary soloing that follows. Dave recalls “I heard AfroCuba de Matanzas live in New York twice in the mid 90’s and they had a huge impact on me. “Caridad” is a composition that I really dug from their Raices Africanas album.”

Dave proves himself to be an authoritative balladeer on his brooding “(No More) Smoke In The Sky.” He recalls the distressing tale behind the emotive song’s title. “This ballad was inspired by an image that came to my mind while on tour in Los Angeles in 1992. It was on the fateful day that the verdict was released in the Rodney King case and the city started to ignite. As I saw smoke rising above the California sky, I had a flashback to a younger self and an image I had never thought about. I suddenly saw myself on the back porch of my childhood apartment in Chicago in 1968 looking at smoke rising in the sky above the West side of the city. As an 8 year old I had no understanding of the gravity of that day which was the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.”

“El Dilema de Chegüi Metralla” is Dave’s tribute to Hector Davila (aka Chegüi Metralla), his close friend and brother, the album’s co-producer and a talented musician, composer and arranger in his own right. It’s a straight ahead swinger in the Messenger tradition that features, as Blakey would say, “no one in particular,” showcasing each of the band member’s soloing strength.

The date’s three final tracks display Dave’s talents as an imaginative arranger, beginning with Stanley Cowell’s “Cal Massey,” the late pianist’s tribute to the largely unheralded Philadelphia trumpeter. He asserts, “One of my absolute favorite albums is Clifford Jordan’s Glass Bead Games on Strata East. I have spent countless hours listening to this record over the years and love many of the compositions on it. I was hearing “Cal Massey” in this groove for Cubeye and created the arrangement.”

Dave’s dynamic arrangement of McCoy Tyner’s “Walk Spirit Talk Spirit” gets started with an extended Ayala bass solo followed by a piano and percussion intro before the horns take off on the well known melody for an adventurous excursion. “I bought McCoy’s Enlightenment as a freshman in high school in 1974 and “Walk Spirit Talk Spirit” became an immediate favorite of mine,” he recalls. “I hadn’t thought about playing it for decades, but as I formed Cubeye it immediately came to mind. I wrote the arrangement and with the additional input from the cats in the band we came up with this rumba version.”

The undertaking of re-imagining the song “Poinciana” might be thought of as a fool’s journey, considering just how deeply embedded in the jazz psyche Ahmad Jamal’s interpretation of the Nat Simon composition, but Dave rises to the occasion. He admits, “Of course Ahmad Jamal’s classic version is the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of “Poinciana,” but I had also been listening to a killin’ live Sonny Rollins bootleg playing it in a different vibe. My arrangement is a confluence of influences; from Israel Cachao Lopez’s “Descarga Cubana” from Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature, Frank Emilio's “Gandinga, Mondongo y Sandunga” as well as the impact of the Sonny Rollins and Ahmad Jamal versions on me.”

Dave concludes “The vision for this group had its seed in my musical life’s experience and interests but this extremely talented group of cats have brought this vision to life. Without their high level of artistry, musical chemistry and in no small part their input to the overall settings of the music created, this musical vision that I call Cubeye would not live as it does!”

As a freelance Baritone Saxophonist, Chicago native Dave Schumacher has been active on the New York scene for more than the 30 years. As member of Lionel Hampton’s Orchestra from 1983 to 1987 he toured the Americas and Europe. He again toured with Hamp in 1988 and 1989. A highlight in Dave’s career was traveling with the Art Blakey Big Band to Japan in 1987 to perform at the Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival.

Dave was an original member of Harry Connick, Jr.’s Orchestra from its beginnings in 1990 until 2009. He has thrilled audiences touring with Harry in North America, Europe, Asia (Japan, China, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and South Korea) and Australia. His baritone sax can be heard on each of these Harry Connick, Jr., Columbia recordings: Oh My NOLA, Chanson du Vieux Carré, Only You, When My Heart Finds Christmas, Come By Me, Blue Light Red Light, Songs I Heard, Thou Shalt Not, What A Night and others.

As a freelance artist Dave was a touring member of the T.S. Monk On Monk Ensemble from 1999 to 2000 touring the U.S. and Europe, as well as touring Europe with the Tom Harrell Octet in 2000. Dave has also done freelance work with Nicholas Payton’s Louis Armstrong Tribute Big Band, Joe Lovano’s 52nd Street Themes Nonet, the groups of Jack McDuff, Eddie Gladden, Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, Chico O’Farrill’s Afro-Cuban Big Band, Tom Harrell Big Band, Lin Halliday and many others.

As a leader and composer/arranger, Dave has recorded 3 CD’s – Every Corner and from Another Life on the Amosaya Music label and Endangered Species on Summit Records. Dave has recorded as a sideman with Lionel Hampton, Harry Connick, Jr., Tom Harrell, Scott Whitfield, Jason Lindner, Mel Torme, Ben Wolfe and salsero Billy Carrion among others.

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