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Dan Moretti Quartet

January 5th 1st Sunday Jazz Returns for a new 2020 season.
Doors 5:00, Show 6:00
$15

The Dan Moretti Quartet featuring:
Dan Moretti-Sax Dan has 18 CDs to his credit and in an inductee into the RI Music Hall of Fame. Some of performers Dan has had the opportunity to play with include:
Sweets Edison, Nat Adderley, James Moody, Jimmy Cobb, Ernie Watts, Paquito D'Rivera, Mike Stern, Mark Egan, Dave Liebman, Marvin Stamm, Ernie Watts, Don Braden, Wayne Henderson, Bernard Purdie, Omar Hakim, Nile Rodgers, Ben E. King, Solomon Burke, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Little Anthony and the Imperials, George Duke, Cornell Dupree, Jerry Jemmott, Less McCann, Buddy Williams, Dr. John, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin.
www.danmoretti.com

Dave Zinno Bass
Zinno has performed with jazz greats Julian Priester, Hadley Caliman, Frank Clayton and studied for a short time with Gary Peacock during his time on the West Coast. From there he moved on to New York City where he studied with bassist Walter Booker Jr. and performed with many jazz greats including Jimmy Cobb, Junior Cook, Jimmy Heath, John Hicks, John Medeski, Larry Willis and many others. He began regular tours in Europe, South America, North Africa and throughout the United States and was faculty at the Toulon Jazz Festival Workshop in France for 11 years.

Marty Richards Drums
Drummer Marty Richards is nationally known as a go-to player for any setting. His innate sense of swing and unerring sense of time have graced dozens of recordings and thousands of stages behind a list of performers which reads like a whos who of American popular music.
To name just a few, he has recorded and/or performed with The Peter Malick Group featuring Norah Jones, The Gary Burton Quintet, Duke Robillard, James Montgomery, James Cotton, Jimmy Witherspoon, Peter Wolf, Garth Hudson, Al Kooper, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter, and Tommy Flanagan. He is a member of The Joe Perry Project led by Aerosmiths lead guitarist.

Matt DeChamplain - Piano
Matt has performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, Berks Jazz Festival, New Yorks JVC Jazz Festival, the Berklee Jazz Festival, the Kennedy Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center and renowned jazz clubs such as the Regatta Bar, Smalls and Yoshis. In 2008, Matt was selected for the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program where he engaged in a two week intensive composition and performance workshop under the instruction of jazz luminaries Dr. Billy Taylor, Nathan Davis and Curtis Fuller