Date and Time
- Friday, May 17, 2024 5:30pm
Location
Rudy's Jazz Room
809 Gleaves St
Details
Danny Jonokuchi is a jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and composer based in New York City and Los Angeles. He has been recognized for his performance on two GRAMMY Award-Winning projects, and you can hear his compositions and “world-class arrangements” (Broadway World) in renowned jazz clubs, listen to albums he has arranged and produced for small groups and big bands. He will be performing his original music and new arrangements with his quintet.
His recently released big band album, Voices (Outside in Music), features 11 jazz vocalists from New York City. He is also a recipient of several awards including the 2024 ISJAC Wayne Shorter Jazz Arranging Prize, the 2020 ASCAP Foundation Louis Armstrong Award, and he was unanimously named the winner of the 2020 Count Basie Great American Swing Contest. DownBeat Magazine remarked, “The music is expertly executed and offers an infectious, kinetic quality.”