Jazz Articles about Thomas Manuel

About Thomas Manuel

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Jazz Dispatch Series / Simons Summer Concert Series: Tom Manuel, Champian Fulton, Dean Johnson and Dan Pugach

by Dan Bilawsky
August 12, 2025

A 5 p.m. performance on a Tuesday in a math and physics building on a college campus isn't exactly your garden variety jazz hit. But then again, what is?! In programming for The Jazz Loft's Dispatch Series stop at Stony Brook's Simons Center for Geometry and Physics--part of that institution's summer concert slate within its broader Arts and Outreach Program--trumpeter Tom Manuel put together a crack quartet featuring pianist/vocalist Champian Fulton, bassist Dean Johnson and drummer Dan Pugach. Presenting a ...

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Take Five with Thomas Manuel of The Jazz Loft

by AAJ Staff
August 17, 2021

Meet Thomas Manuel Jazz historian, music educator and cornet player Dr. Thomas Manuel holds the endowed Artist in Residence chair within the Jazz department at Stony Brook University. In addition to this he serves as a trustee to the Frank Melville Memorial Foundation, is a member of the Huntington Arts Council Decentralization Advisory Committee, and is the founder and President of The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook, N.Y., an innovative and creative space which joins jazz performance, jazz preservation and ...