CCJS members will be admitted FREE with membership card and the public is welcome for $25 per person.
All directors; middle, high & college students will be given a FREE PASS for any CCJS concert. Stop by the membership desk with your ID for your FREE PASS.
Doors open at 6:30 and concerts begin at 7:00 pm.
For more information call our CCJS hot line 941-766-9422.
Lew Del Gatto has been a dynamic figure in the New York music scene for over forty years. His stellar career encompassed jingles, films, jazz and television. He was a saxophonist with the Saturday Night Live Band from the show’s beginning in 1975 to 1979. He continued back on the show from 1985 until 2005. Lew was also involved as an arranger and contractor....
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CCJS members will be admitted FREE with membership card and the public is welcome for $25 per person.
All directors; middle, high & college students will be given a FREE PASS for any CCJS concert. Stop by the membership desk with your ID for your FREE PASS.
Doors open at 6:30 and concerts begin at 7:00 pm.
For more information call our CCJS hot line 941-766-9422.
Lew Del Gatto has been a dynamic figure in the New York music scene for over forty years. His stellar career encompassed jingles, films, jazz and television. He was a saxophonist with the Saturday Night Live Band from the show’s beginning in 1975 to 1979. He continued back on the show from 1985 until 2005. Lew was also involved as an arranger and contractor.
Lew's film credits include: The Blues Brothers, My Blue Heaven, Naked Gun 2 1/2 and others. TV show credits include the Grammy Awards, the Emmy Awards, the New Show and Steve Martin’s Best Show Ever. He is on numerous recordings for such artists as Tony Bennett, Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin, John Lennon, Bette Midler, Cal Tjader, the Brecker Brothers, Quincy Jones, Stanley Turrentine, Harry Connick,Jr., Buddy Guy, Mariah Carey, etc. He is a featured performer on the “G.E. Smith and the Saturday Night Live Band” CD, Phil Woods Big Band “Celebration”, and on George Young’s CD, “Old Times”.
Lew has appeared live with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Liza Minelli, Buddy Rich, Tony Bennett, Quincy Jones, Chuck Israel and The National Jazz Ensemble, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Band, Henry Mancini, Herbie Hancock, Phil Woods, Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton, to name a few. Lew has played jazz festivals in Europe as well as locally. He appeared at the Cancun Jazz Festival with his own trio, as well as with George Young and Friends. He performed annually for over a decade at the Delaware Water Gap Festival of the Arts. In the summer of 1998 and 2000 Lew toured Europe with Phil Woods and the Festival Orchestra.
Lew can be heard on his own CDs. “Katewalk” features Victor Lewis, Steve Turre, Randy Brecker, Chip Jackson, Joe Cohn and Ron Feuer. “You and the Night and the Music” is a romantic jazz CD recorded with Ron Feuer. “Heroes Vol I” is an homage to many of the saxophonists he has been inspired by. “To Al & Zoot…with Love” features Bob Keller, along with Tom Whaley, Tony Marino and Jesse Green all from the Gap area.
Len Pierro is a performer, composer, arranger, musical director, producer, and educator from the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts, he was an adjunct professor at Bucks County Community College teaching saxophone and woodwinds at their School of Music. Len has been arranging and composing for recordings and live performances for many years. He is the leader of the Len Pierro Jazz Orchestra which has released two CDs titled The Third Quarter (2020) and As I Was Saying (2024). Jack Bowers at All About Jazz said, “Few big-band albums in recent memory have been more pleasurable to hear and evaluate than The Third Quarter. With Pierro’s irrepressible charts setting the course and his masterful orchestra giving them life, the session fairly bristles with energy and enthusiasm, amplified by the dexterity and magnetism of Pierro’s creative power.” Len was formerly a participant in the internationally acclaimed BMI Jazz Composers Workshop where most of the compositions on the CDs were developed.
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