$10 Cover @ the Door / Start 7:30pm / Doors 7pm / Seated Show
The trio will be playing two sets, premiering several new compositions and interpretations of old favorites.
Mike Caudill is a Boston-based saxophonist, composer, and arranger who leads his own quartet, plays saxophone and electric wind instrument in the jazz-fusion group City of Four, and performs with the Interconnections Ensemble, led by Guggenheim Foundation Composition Fellow, Felipe Salles. Performing across the Northeast with several projects and collectives, Mike has played in historic venues, including Boston’s Symphony Hall, as well as in jazz venues like Birdland, Dizzy’s Club, The Jazz Gallery, and National Sawdust in New York City.
As a composer, Mike has recently been recognized by Jâca as one of their 2021 Emerging Composers for his piece, “The Wanderer,” and was winner of the 2019 Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble Composition Contest for his piece, “That Familiar Connection." Mike has also received a Herb Alpert Foundation Young Jazz Composer award from ASCAP for his composition, “Time to Go," and is a commissioned composer of jazz, chamber, and symphonic music.
Mike is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he earned a Master of Music in Jazz Arranging and Composition and bachelor’s degrees in Jazz and Afro-American Music as well as Acoustics. At UMass, Mike studied with Felipe Salles, Lynn Klock, Jeffrey W. Holmes, and Tom Giampietro. As a student, Mike has had the opportunity to perform on stage with iconic jazz figures like Sean Jones, Warren Wolf, Ambrose Akinmusire, Randy Brecker, Dick Oatts, Dave Liebman, Sheila Jordan, Chico Pinheiro, and Karrin Allyson, among others. Mike has also performed with groups in other genres, including with the acclaimed rock group 10,000 Maniacs.
Mike Caudill, saxophones
Max Ridley, bass
Dave Fox, drums
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