Jazz Club Performances 2011 – present (highlights)
International (non festivals)
Moods – Zurich, Switzerland
Unterfahrt – Munich, Germany
Sunset – Paris, France
DeRoma – Antwerp, Belgium
Axes Jazz Power – Eindhoven, Netherlands
Rote Fabrik – Zurich, Switzerland
AMR – Geneva, Swizerland
Bird’s Eye – Basel, Switzerland
Jazz Club Singen – Singen, Germany
Jazz Club Nurnberg – Nurnberg, Germany
AB Jazz Club – Brussels, Belgium
Archiduc – Brussels, Belgium
Mullbau – Luzern, Switzerland
Vrijstaat O Oostende – Oostende, Belgium
KreuzKultur – Solothurn, Switzerland
Jazz in Winterthur – Winterthur, Switzerland
The Rex – Toronto, Canada
Cellar Jazz Club – Vancouver, Canada
Yarbird Suite – Edmonton, Canada
Beat Niq – Calgary, Canada
USA
New York, NY
Roulette (Brooklyn)
Jazz Gallery
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
Le Poisson Rouge
The Stone
Joe’s Pub
Cornelia St. Café
Seeds (Brooklyn)
Shapeshifter Lab (Brooklyn)
Korzo (Brooklyn)
Di Capo Opera House
Barbez (Brooklyn)
Café Carlyle
IBeam (Brooklyn)
NY (continued)
Subculture
Somethin’ Jazz Club
Milwaukee, WI
Jazz Estate
Blu (Top of the Pfister Hotel)
Jazz Gallery
Sugar Maple
Woodland Pattern Bookstore
Company Brewing
West End Conservatory of Music
Hotel Metro
Chicago, IL
Jazz Showcase
Green Mill Jazz Club
Andy’s Jazz Club
Constellation
City Winery
Hideout
Elastic Gallery
Space (Evanston)
Experimental Sound Studio
Hungry Brain
Skylark
Room 43
Whistler
The Owl
Fulton Street Collective
Others
Firehouse 12 – New Haven, Connecticut
Tula’s – Seattle, Washington
Cliff Bells – Detroit, Michigan
Merriman’s Playhouse – South Bend, Indiana
Ice House – Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Fountain – Madison, Wisconsin
Café Luna – De Pere, Wisconsin
The Falcon – Marlboro, NY
Jazz Festival Performances (summer 2011-present)
2011
June 25 Sudtirol Jazz Festival – Bolzano, Italy with Jamie Baum Septet
June 27 Jazz Lent Festival – Maribor, Slovenia with Jamie Baum Septet
September 23 Dewey Beach Music Festival – Rhode Island with Rachael Sage
October 21 CMJ Music Festival – New York, NY with Rachael Sage
*November 25 Unerhort Jazz Festival – Zurich, Switzerland with Russ Johnson/Co Streiff/Gerry Hemingway
December 28-31 Merce Cunningham Dance Company Final Performances – Park Avenue Armory – New York, NY
2012
*August 25 East Side Jazz Festival – Milwaukee, WI with Russ Johnson’s “Meeting Point”
September 1st Chicago Jazz Festival – Millennium Park – Chicago, IL with Jason Stein Quartet
2013
March 19 Banlieues Bleues Festival – Paris, France with Robin Verheyen’s NY Quartet
March 21 Leuven Jazz Festival – Leuven, Belgium with Robin Verheyen’s NY Quartet
March 24 Budapest Jazz Festival – Budapest, Hungary with Robin Verheyen’s NY Quartet
*May 5 Unrehearsed Festival – Milwaukee, WI Russ Johnson/Devin Drobka
June 14 North by North East – (NXNE) Toronto, Canada with Rachael Sage
*September 12 Summerfest Big Band Camp – Milwaukee, WI with Russ Johnson Quartet
*November 9 Umbrella Fest – Chicago, IL with Russ Johnson’s “Meeting Point”
2014
*March 23 Bergamo Jazz Festival – Bergamo, Italy with Russ Johnson/Ken Vandermark/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Tim Daisy
*March 24 Dialoghi Per Due – Pavia, Italy with Russ Johnson/KenVandermark
*May 31 & June 1 Eric Dolphy: Freedom of Sound Celebration – Montclair, NJ with Russ Johnson’s “Still Out to Lunch”
July 11 North Sea Jazz Festival – Rotterdam, Netherlands with Jamie Baum Septet
August 5 MA Festival – Concertgebouw Bruges, Belgium with Robin Verheyen’s “Guillaume de Machaut” project
August 20 Jazz at Five – Madison, WI with Johannes Wallmann’s “Sweet Minute Big Band”
*August 29 Chicago Jazz Festival – Millennium Park – Chicago, IL with Russ Johnson’s “Meeting Point”
August 31 Chicago Jazz Festival – Millennium Park – Chicago, IL with Chicago Yestet
September 27 Hyde Park Jazz Festival – Chicago, IL with Dana Hall’s “Black Ark Movement”
*October 17 EdgeFest – Ann Arbor, MI with Russ Johnson’s “Still Out to Lunch”
2015
*January 9 Winter JazzFest – New York, NY with Russ Johnson’s “Still Out to Lunch”
March 6 Chi Town Jazz Festival – Chicago, IL with Matt Ulery’s “Loom”
April 18 Woody Herman Jazz Festival – UW Milwaukee, WI with the Woody Herman Orchestra
*June 5 BayView Jazz Fest – Milwaukee, WI with Russ Johnson’s “Headlands”
June 6 OKKA Fest – Milwaukee, WI with Jeb Bishop Quartet
June 19 Isthmus Jazz Festival – Madison, WI with with Johannes Wallmann’s “Sweet Minute Big Band”
August 7 Litchfield Jazz Festival – Goshen, CT wit Litchfield Jazz Orchestra
August 9 Litchfield Jazz Festival – Goshen, CT with Matt Wilson’s “Tribute to Charli Persip”
August 30 Saalfelden Jazz Festival – Saalfelden, Austria with Ken Thomson’s “Slow/Fast”
September 5 Fox Valley Jazz Festival – Menasha, WI with Chicago Yestet
September 5 Stevens Point Jazz Festival – Stevens Point, WI with Chicago Yestet
*September 25 Hyde Park Jazz Festival – Chicago, IL with Russ Johnson’s “Headlands”
October 17 Earshot Jazz Festival – Seattle, WA with Mark Taylor and Dawn Clement’s “Line-up”
2016
January 16 Winter JazzFest – New York, NY with Ohad Talmor’s “Grand Ensemble”
April 9 Woody Herman Jazz Festival – UW Milwaukee, WI with the Woody Herman Orchestra
May 12 Jazz A Liege Festival – Liege, Belgium with Robin Verheyen’s NY Quartet
June 17 Isthmus Jazz Festival – Madison, WI with Chicago Yestet
September 24 Hyde Park Jazz Festival – Chicago, IL with Matt Ulery’s “Loom”
September 24 Hyde Park Jazz Festival – Chicago, IL with Greg Ward’s “Ten Tongues”
*denotes groups under my leadership
Colleges & Universities
Performance and/or masterclass
Western Michigan University (10/25/12, 3/5/15, 11/12-13/15)
Oberlin Conservatory of Music (10/11/13)
DePaul University (11/11/13)
Loyola University – Chicago (2/5/16)
Shenandoah Conservatory of Music (10/9/14)
Vermont College of Fine Arts (8/1-5/16)
University of Wisconsin Madison (9/9/11, 10/27/11, 2/24/12, 2/22/13, 11/1/13, 11/6/13, 2/13/15, 10/29/15)
UW Madison Jazz Orchestra…Guest Soloist (2/27/13)
UW Madison Faculty Concert Series (3/5/13)
Bowling Green State University (11/26/12) (10/5/16)
University of Chicago (4/7/14)
Ripon College (9/27/13)
Northern Illinois University (8/28/14)
University of Wisconsin Whitewater (10/4/14)
Silver Lake College (9/19/15)
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (4/5/14)
Victoria Island University (Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada (3/26/12)
Other Notable Performances
Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNow Series at Harris Theater Millennium Park 6/1/2015 with composer Myra Melford
Made in Chicago World Class Jazz Series at Millennium Park – Pritzker Auditorium Chicago, IL 8/13/2015 with Greg Ward (composer) & Onye Ozuzu (choreographer) interpreting Charles Mingus’ “Black Saint”
Made in Chicago World Class Jazz Series at Millennium Park – Pritzker Auditorium Chicago, IL 8/15/2013 with Dana Hall’s “Black Fire”
Detroit Institute of the Arts 12/9/2011 and 10/3/14 with Ken Thomson’s “Slow/Fast”
US ARMY Jazz Knights (guest artist) West Point, NY 6/16/2012
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL 9/21/2013 with trumpeters Steven Burns, Marquis Hill, Corey Wilkes, josh Abrams and Russ Johnson
Door County Concerts Chamber Music Series 4/10/2015 with Johannes Wallmann Quartet
Chamber Music America Bryant Park NY, NY 5/25/2015 with Robin Verheyen’s “NY Quartet”
Tribute to Gunther Schuller at Shapeshifter Lab Brooklyn, NY 12/12/2015 with George Schuller
LaFontsee Galleries Grand Rapids MI 3/20/2016 with Matt Ulery’s “Loom”
Chicago Cultural Center Chicago, IL 5/17/2016 with James Falzone & Katie Ernst
LaFontsee Galleries Grand Rapids MI 3/22/2105 with Charlie Kohlhase’s “Chicago Explorers Club”