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SUMMARY:Dan Pugach Big Band w/Special Guest Nicole Zuraitis
DESCRIPTION: \nDan Pugach Big Band w/Special Guest Nicole Zuraitis\nByThe Side Door Jazz Club\nThe Side Door Old Lyme\, CT \n\n\nSaturday\, Feb 28 from 8 pm to 10:30 pm EST\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a special night of jazz the Dan Pugach Big Band and Nicole Zuraitis! \n\n\n\n\nDan Pugach is a GRAMMY® Award-winning drummer and composer\, a 5X GRAMMY® nominee\, 2X  ASCAP Foundation Jazz Composer Award winner\, a recipient of the BMI Charlie Parker Composition Prize/Manny Albam Commission for Big Band and a participant at the  Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency Program at the Kennedy Center. He is a 2025 Chamber Music America “New Jazz Works” Grantee. \nHis latest album\, Bianca Reimagined: Music for Paws and Persistence (2024)\, featuring Nicole Zuraitis\, won the 2025 GRAMMY® Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. Additionally\, he was the featured drummer on the 2024 GRAMMY® Award-winning album How Love Begins\, co-produced by Nicole Zuraitis and Christian McBride. His debut album\, Dan Pugach Nonet – Plus One (2018)\, reached the top 20 in Jazz radio and earned a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Arrangement\, Instruments and Vocal for “Jolene” alongside Zuraitis. \nThe Dan Pugach nonet and big band perform regularly and have headlined at Dizzy’s\, Deer Head Inn\, Birdland\, Blue Note\, Smalls\, the 55bar\, and the Red Sea Jazz Festival. \nBorn in Israel\, he served as the drummer for The Air Force Band in the IDF while attending the Rimon School of Jazz. After studying percussion in Rio de Janeiro\, he moved to the U.S. in 2006 to pursue a career in Jazz performance. Pugach holds a Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music (2008)\, where he studied with Terri Lynn Carrington and Joe Lovano\, and a Master of Arts from the City College of New York (2011)\, where he studied with Mike Holober\, Scott Reeves and John Patitucci. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation\n\n\n\nThe Side Door\n\n85 Lyme St \nOld Lyme\, CT 06371 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://jazzhaven.org/event/dan-pugach-big-band-w-special-guest-nicole-zuraitis/
LOCATION:The Side Door Jazz Club\, 85 Lyme St\, Old Lyme
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