Artist description 5-piece jazz quintet, with sax, trumpet, piano, bass, and drums. The band features original music and is co-led by sax player and trumpet player.

Music Style Jazz

Musical Influences Everything from Louie Armstrong to Stan Getz to Oscar Peterson to Sonny Rollins to Ellington to late 60's Miles Quintet to Tom Harrell to Kieth Jarrett to younger cats today like Kurt Rosenwinkle, Chris Potter, Nicholas Payton, Mark Turner, Seamus Blake,

Similar Artists This is hard, with jazz being such a huge genre... I would say that individually, we have our influences, but as a group, we're like the late 60s Miles Quintet crossed with life in New York today.

Artist History Formed in the late summer of '99, plying gigs in NYC since then. Building a reputation. Touring New Orleans March 30th - April 3rd.

Group Members Dan Pratt: tenor saxophone; Erik Jekabson: trumpet; Andrew Adair: piano; Matt Pavolka: acoustic bass; Scott McLemore: drums. We have all had extensive professional experience diong our own projects, as well as performing with people like Illinois Jaquet, the Village Vanguard Orchestra, Mark Turner, Wes Anderson, Donald Harrison, James Spaulding, and many others.

Instruments saxophone, trumpet, piano, acoustic bass, and drums

Albums Self-produced debut album entitled "The Arrival"

Press Reviews None yet, due to the fact that the band is so new and that we just recieved the finished CD in late Jan. However, the New Orleans tour (3/30-4/3) will definitely yield a fair amount of press.

Additional Info The album looks great, sounds great, and we're really into doing all we can to ge ourselves out there. Note: I tried to enter our website, but my browser kept coming back telling me that I entered t wrong, so I'll put it here instead: www.vistaquintet.com

Location New York, New York - USA

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