Harry Drabkin & Dave Hanson (duo) at Dazzle Jazz Club

Musical Style: Classic Jazz from the gentle side of John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner, as well as the music of Monk, Ellington and other greats. HARRY DRABKIN, MDHarry Drabkin was a student and faculty member at the Berklee College of Music in the late ‘60s, then traded his horns for a medical career. After 30+ years, with family encouragement, especially musician son Rob, he managed to dust off the cases and make a comeback, while continuing to practice Oncology part-time. As a leader, he’s performed at Dazzle, Nocturne, KUVO, the Five Points Jazz Festival and other venues in Denver and Boulder...

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Musical Style: Classic Jazz from the gentle side of John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner, as well as the music of Monk, Ellington and other greats. HARRY DRABKIN, MDHarry Drabkin was a student and faculty member at the Berklee College of Music in the late ‘60s, then traded his horns for a medical career. After 30+ years, with family encouragement, especially musician son Rob, he managed to dust off the cases and make a comeback, while continuing to practice Oncology part-time. As a leader, he’s performed at Dazzle, Nocturne, KUVO, the Five Points Jazz Festival and other venues in Denver and Boulder. His latest CD, released at Dazzle October 17th, is entitled “Reincarnation of a Lovebird”. DAVE HANSONDave Hanson is an arranger, composer, and pianist who has written for a diverse range of artists and ensembles, including Paul Winter with the Boston Pops, Pops Orchestra concerts with the Pittsburg, Houston, Milwaukee, Colorado, and New Jersey Symphony Orchestras, Denver Brass, and Boulder Brass, and is the Pianist/Co-leader and Arranger/Composer of the H2 Big Band, doing all the arrangements for the “You’re It” and “It Could Happen” recordings, as well as Al Hood’s Chamber Orchestra “Just a Little Taste, and “Jazz Muses” recordings.“Pulls out all the stops and is surely one of the most exhilarating big bands in recent history”: from an International Trumpet Guild review. The H2 Big Band has soared in the Jazz Radio charts with a series of recordings, and has been featured in supportive and collaborative roles with Darius Rucker, Veronica Swift, Rene Marie, Take 6, Jon Faddis, Kevin Mahogany, Curtis Stigers, Clint Holmes, and Allan Harris.Dave is recently retired from thirty-six years of teaching in the Jazz and Commercial Music Department at the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver.  His music is published by Kakeda Music Publishing/ASCAP, Denver Brass Publications, and Boulder Brass Publications.

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