Danny Tobias is an old-fashioned jazz player in the best modern way, at home in any swinging jazz context. Like his heroes Buck Clayton and Ruby Braff, he loves melody, his improvisations have a beautiful shape, and he is always recognizably himself. Danny didn’t learn his jazz from a textbook but through experience -studying with Warren Vache and early gigs with Ed Metz Jr., Joe and Paul Midiri, and a fifteen-year musical apprenticeship with drummer Tony DiNicola and master clarinetist Kenny Davern. Danny’s quietly lyrical cornet can be heard at jazz clubs in NYC, and festivals across the United States and the world. www.DannyTobias.com

Doug Drewes is a freelance bassist, composer and educator in Philadelphia. He has over 20 album credits and his playing can be heard on tv shows for NBC, MTV, IFC and USA. Doug has performed throughout the US and Canada including performances at Carnegie Hall, CMJ Music Festival, and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. He has performed/recorded with Robert Randolph, Alexis Cole, Greg Hopkins, Peggy King, indie rock band Hurrah! A Bolt of LIght!, producer John Fields, and hip/hop producer IceRocks. Doug is the former Associate Director of Settlement Music School in Willow Grove, PA and a current faculty member at the New York Jazz Academy in New York City and Trenton Music Makers in Trenton NJ. Mr. Drewes received his bachelors of music at the State University of New York at Purchase College