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Mike Casey: Valencia

Read "Valencia" reviewed by Chris May


Saxophonist Mike Casey won a few hearts and minds among AAJ readers in 2017 with his Take Five profile, which we published round about the time of the self-release of his debut album, The Sound Of Surprise: Live At The Side Door. Refreshingly happy to express an opinion, Casey slammed jazz festivals for their short-term “band aid" policy of bringing in rock and pop acts to bolster income, rather than investing instead in the sort of outreach activity that would ...

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Take Five with Mike Casey

Read "Take Five with Mike Casey" reviewed by AAJ Staff


About Mike Casey Saxophonist, songwriter, and teaching artist Mike Casey has been a fixture on the Hartford jazz scene and beyond since 2011, when he began attending the acclaimed Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at the University of Hartford's Hartt School. In 2015, Mike was one of 24 young jazz composers worldwide chosen by Jason Moran to participate in the prestigious “Betty Carter Jazz Ahead" Program at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC where he studied with an ...

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Album Review

Mike Casey: The Sound of Surprise: Live at the Side Door

Read "The Sound of Surprise: Live at the Side Door" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Making his recording debut with much anticipation, saxophonist Mike Casey delivers an inspiring performance on The Sound of Surprise: Live at the Side Door featuring four re-imagined standards from the likes of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Kurt Weill and Jackie Mclean as well as three originals from the band. A graduate of the University of Hartford, Hartt School of Music, Casey, drummer Corey Garcia and bassist Matt Dwonszyk have been performing regularly for three years prior to this recording.


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