Dan Zemelman Quartet

Dan Zemelman Quartet

Genres: jazz

About Dan Zemelman Quartet

Dan Zemelman began at age 5 as a classically trained pianist who then developed a passion for Jazz in his early adulthood. He studied jazz with Richard Davis at the UW Madison and received the 'Best Jazz Artist at UW Madison' award in 1996. In 1998, as part of the Kennedy Center’s prestigious Jazz Ambassadors program, Zemelman toured India and Sri Lanka sponsored by the U.S. State Department, representing America’s jazz tradition through teaching and performance. After moving from Chicago to the Bay Area in 2001, he was fortunate to contribute to John Lee Hooker’s studio album Face to Face and tour S. America with daughter Zakiya Hooker. Zemelman currently plays regularly with the bay area's great bassist/composer Marcus Shelby as well as his own quartet featuring Andrew Emer on bass (toured with Lee Konitz), Erik Jekabson on trumpet (toured with Jon Mayer) and Alan Hall (played w/Eddie Harris, Art Lande, Paul McCandless and Billy Childs) on drums, who have all recently accompanied him at Yoshi’s Oakland. The Quartet debuted at Yoshi's last February, 2009 with a very successful CD release party and has continued that trend by playing a concert for SF Jazz's Summerfest series as well as receiving an honorary position as an alternate band for Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rhythm Road 2010 music abroad program. Zemelman has been on the faculty at Jazzcamp West for 2 years and on the faculty of the well-respected Jazzschool of Berkeley for 4 years. http://www.danzemelman.com

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