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After Midnight

Active since: 1999

After Midnight isn’t just a swing band — we’re a living, breathing celebration of America’s greatest musical era. Our repertoire spans the full spectrum of classic swing and small‑group jazz, drawing from the legendary catalogs of Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Lionel Hampton, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and more. These are the songs that defined a generation, and we bring them roaring back to life with authenticity, fire, and finesse.

But our story doesn’t stop with the classics. We also embrace the modern swing revival, performing the irresistible hits made famous by Diana Krall, Michael Bublé, and Harry Connick Jr. And because After Midnight has carved out its own place in the jazz world, we proudly feature original compositions and even custom‑written works created specifically for our band — music you won’t hear anywhere else.

Ayumi Kobayashi

Vince Scuderi

Anthony Rodriguez ARodReeds

Born: June, 1991

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, Anthony Rodriguez has been making music since he was 16, when he first picked up the saxophone and began his classical training. Early on, he performed with the ISO Symphonic Band and Orchestra at venues like Carnegie Hall and Symphony Space, and later represented Xaverian High School internationally as lead Alto Saxophonist at the 2007 Cherry Blossom Festival in Kyoto, Japan.

Anthony’s path has always blended classical roots with versatility. After high school, he studied Music Performance at Brooklyn College, learning from respected mentors Bernard Goldberg (Flute), Edino Biaggi (Oboe), and Paul Cohen (Saxophone). Along the way, he spent several summers at French Woods Festival, performing in concert bands, symphony, and up to a dozen musicals each season—eventually joining the woodwind staff.

Davide Sgarra

Born: October 31, 2000

Davide Sgarra is an Italian jazz clarinetist and saxophonist based in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Varese in 2000, he began performing publicly as a teenager in the Lombardy region, winning first place at national music competitions before pursuing conservatory studies at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in the Netherlands and a Master of Music degree at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.

Since arriving in the United States, Sgarra has become a sought-after presence on the New York jazz scene, performing with David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band at Birdland Jazz Club, Terry Waldo's Gotham City Band at Arthur's Tavern, and Gordon Webster's ensemble at swing festivals across North America. He has appeared at Dizzy's Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Perelman Performing Arts Center, and on four U.S. national tours with the Fabulous Equinox Orchestra. In Europe, he performed as a featured soloist with the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, alongside pianist Rob van Bavel at the Hague Marriott Hotel, and toured internationally with the Roaring Cats Jazz Band across the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, and Romania.

David M. Brown

Annette Maye

Annette Maye was born in Flensburg. After graduating from high school, she first completed a course in Eastern European history, musicology and Russian at the University of Freiburg. In 2000 she completed her contact studies in popular music (pop course) at the Hamburg University of Music. She then studied jazz clarinet and bass clarinet at the music academies in Cologne and Paris (2001-2005) with Frank Gratkowski, Claudio Puntin and Riccardo del Fra. She graduated from jazz in 2005 with a diploma.

Awards: In the year 2016 Annette Maye was awarded the NRW Female Prize by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in cooperation with the WDR Jazz Prize. Before, he had won the SWR world music award “querBeet” with ensemble FisFüz in 1998, and in 2006 she had received the Torneo Internazionale di Musica (TIM) award in Rome in the jazz category.

Nathan Tokunaga

Born: December, 2006

Nathan Tokunaga is a clarinetist and saxophonist from the San Francisco Bay Area, now studying and performing in New York City. Inspired by early jazz and continually exploring new musical boundaries, his music engages audiences across generations, bringing the joy and spirit of swing to today’s listeners. Tokunaga has performed hundreds of concerts at clubs, swing dances, festivals, and concert halls, and was named a 2026 YoungArts winner in jazz clarinet.

Martí Mitjavila

Born: September 1, 2000

Martí Mitjavila, born in Barcelona in 2000, is a young jazz clarinetist and saxophonist currently based in Amsterdam. He began exploring jazz at an early age, inspired by his father's record collection. Martí holds a Bachelor and a Masters Degree from the Conservatory of Amsterdam. He has studied with renowned musicians such as Ben van Gelder, Simon Rigter, Joris Roelofs, Jasper Blom, George Coleman, Dick Oatts and Reggie Workman.

Throughout his career, Martí has performed across Europe at notable events, including the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam, the Bimhuis Rough Diamonds Series, and jazz festivals in Breda, Heerde, and Vic.

Larry Stabbins

Born: September 9, 1949

Larry Stabbins was born in Bristol where he started learning clarinet at the age of eight then soprano saxophone at nine and graduating to tenor sax at ten. He did his first paid gig in his father's dance band at twelve and started a long association with pianist Keith Tippett when he was sixteen and Keith eighteen at the legendary Dugout Club in Bristol. At the same time he served his musical apprenticeship in local dancehall resident bands and countless soul bands.  He later contributed to many of Tippett's projects such as Centipede, Ark, Tapestry and the Septet. In addition to occasional duo performances, in the mid-eighties they also worked for a several years  as a trio  with percussionist Louis Moholo recording the album "Tern" on FMP, while Tippett was himself involved in various Working Week and Weekend activities and Keith's wife Julie sang on the fourth Working Week album.