Nick Mancini at Feinstein's At Vitello's

Vibraphonist and composer NICK MANCINI began his professional career as a drummer, at the age of 15. Later he graduated Manhattan School of Music’s master’s degree program in jazz performance and continued to live and work in NYC for 10 years

relocating to Los Angeles in 2006. He has performed and recorded with such diverse luminaries as Arturo Sandoval, Charles Fambrough, Harvey Mason, Marvin “Smitty” Smith, Poncho Sanchez, Kenny Werner, New York Voices and Jennifer Holliday and at notable venues such as The World Famous Apollo Theater Showtime at the Apollo, Birdland NYC, the Aspen Music Festival, Ford Amphitheater, Fasching Jazz Club (Stockholm), Angel City Jazz Festival, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Catalina Jazz Club, The Blue Whale, The Troubadour, Hotel Cafe and virtually every jazz venue in Los Angeles....

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Vibraphonist and composer NICK MANCINI began his professional career as a drummer, at the age of 15. Later he graduated Manhattan School of Music’s master’s degree program in jazz performance and continued to live and work in NYC for 10 years

relocating to Los Angeles in 2006. He has performed and recorded with such diverse luminaries as Arturo Sandoval, Charles Fambrough, Harvey Mason, Marvin “Smitty” Smith, Poncho Sanchez, Kenny Werner, New York Voices and Jennifer Holliday and at notable venues such as The World Famous Apollo Theater Showtime at the Apollo, Birdland NYC, the Aspen Music Festival, Ford Amphitheater, Fasching Jazz Club (Stockholm), Angel City Jazz Festival, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Catalina Jazz Club, The Blue Whale, The Troubadour, Hotel Cafe and virtually every jazz venue in Los Angeles.

In the summer of 2011, he was celebrated as the Honoree at the 18th annual Jazz Vibes Summit in Los Angeles and was invited to the faculty at California State University at Northridge and Long Beach. He is on the fore-most leading edge of the creative music scene in LA. In addition to a busy performing career he also curates a performance series called “elastic hour”, and produced, MC’d and recorded the 1 year anniversary/benefit concert festival at LA’s premier jazz venue, The Blue Whale. In the realm of production he has arranged and overseen the production of 4 records by vocalists and boasts six independently released records under his own name, the latest entitled – Psycho Babble, which he engineered, mixed and co-mastered.

When asked, “Where do you see yourself in terms of your career now and in the years to come?” He responds, “I consider myself merely at the beginning of what is sure to be a many splendored life in the music industry.” And he’ll tell you, “It’s based purely on my love and devotion to the exploration of creative music.”

More info: www.nickmancini.net

“From New York, vibist Mancini leads his ensemble to the Promised Land.”

– James E. Fowler, LA Times

“In from New York City is the Nick Mancini Collective, led by an exploratory young vibraphonist with two toes dipped in tradition who splashes gentle swing, understatedly bent shoogabooga and exotic undersea layerings of filtered light. Original and good.”

– Greg Burk, LA Weekly

“There is the sense of another era embedded in this music, yet it is not dated.”

– Cadence Magazine

Nick Mancini – vibes
Vardan Ovsepian – piano
Kaveh Rastegar – bass
Dan Schnelle – drums

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