Michaels_Ballou_Palumbo_Martucci

Recorded on 7/10/22

 This is a first-ever convergence featuring four of the Mid-Atlantic area's most adventurous, creative, and prolific improvising musicians. Life affirming music of the moment. Nothing more, nothing less.

Derrick Michaels, tenor saxophone
Dave Ballou, trumpet
Savino Palumbo, piano
Tony Martucci, drums

Baltimore-native Derrick Michaels is a saxophonist | composer | bandleader and an audacious force in the creative music community. As an instrumentalist, he boasts a sonorous tone, a rich expressive palette, and a propensity for dynamic improvised performances. As a bandleader, he invites a wide array of brilliant musicians into the creative fold, engaging with an expressive continuum that spans the history of written and improvised music. 

With deep roots in straight-ahead jazz, along with decades of experience collaborating in indie-rock, pop, and other eclectic music scenes, his expressive gamut reflects a love for the universal expression of human nature through musical vibrations. Over the years, many important musical relationships have developed with the likes of Ellery Eskelin, Susan Alcorn, Michael Formanek, Dave Ballou, John Dierker, Tony Martucci, Eric Kennedy, Zach Swanson, Mike Kuhl, Savino Palumbo, Jon Seligman, Theljon Allen, Alex Weber, Jeff Reed, Phil Cunneff, Ben Frock, Chris Pumphrey, and a growing list of respected names within the broader community.

daveballou.com
savinopalumbo.com
https://arts.vcu/tony-martucci/
baltimoresaxophone.com

Streaming Cost: $15
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Donations welcome