Craig Davis Trio with special guest Darmon Meader at Birdland Theater

CRAIG DAVIS, with Trio, is on a mission to raise Michael Dodo Mamarosas profile in the Jazz consciousness. Davis pays tribute to this Jazz Piano master who worked in bands led by major swing-era bandleaders like Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, and Artie Shaw and recorded with Charlie Parker. Craig also worked with greats like Lester Young. Davis recognizes parallels to his own approach to the piano in that of Mamarosas.Both blend classical influences with a taste for progressive Jazz and a spiritedlyricism of the 40s . He has a new CD, Tone Paintings with John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton, released by Manchester Craftmens Guild in Pittsburgh, the same city of which both Davis and Mamarosa are natives and where Davis is an active, in-demand member of the Pittsburgh Jazz scene...

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CRAIG DAVIS, with Trio, is on a mission to raise Michael Dodo Mamarosas profile in the Jazz consciousness. Davis pays tribute to this Jazz Piano master who worked in bands led by major swing-era bandleaders like Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, and Artie Shaw and recorded with Charlie Parker. Craig also worked with greats like Lester Young. Davis recognizes parallels to his own approach to the piano in that of Mamarosas.Both blend classical influences with a taste for progressive Jazz and a spiritedlyricism of the 40s . He has a new CD, Tone Paintings with John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton, released by Manchester Craftmens Guild in Pittsburgh, the same city of which both Davis and Mamarosa are natives and where Davis is an active, in-demand member of the Pittsburgh Jazz scene. A warm welcome to Craig Davis debut at Birdland a very creative, interesting Jazz Pianist paying tribute to his hero Michael Dodo Mamarosa, Presented by Pat Philips.

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