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Dave Schumacher

As a freelance Baritone Saxophonist, Chicago native Dave Schumacher has been active on the New York scene for more than the 30 years. As member of Lionel Hampton’s Orchestra from 1983 to 1987 he toured the Americas and Europe. He again toured with Hamp in 1988 and 1989. A highlight in Dave’s career was traveling with the Art Blakey Big Band to Japan in 1987 to perform at the Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival. Dave was an original member of Harry Connick, Jr.’s Orchestra from its beginnings in 1990 until 2009. He has thrilled audiences touring with Harry in North America, Europe, Asia (Japan, China, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and South Korea) and Australia

Smoke in the Sky

By Dave Schumacher

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Smoke in the Sky; You Know It’s Wrong; Caridad; (No More) Smoke in the Sky; El Dilemade Chegu Metralia; Cal Massey; Walk Spirit Talk Spirit; Poinciana.

Dave Schumacher & Cubeye: Smoke in the Sky

by Jack Bowers
February 7, 2025

Chicago-bred, New York-based baritone saxophonist Dave Schumacher leans heavily toward Latin melodies and rhythms on Smoke in the Sky, his recording of an able septet he has dubbed Cubeye. Contemporary jazz lies at the core of Schumacher's cross- cultural endeavor, one that his like-minded teammates take readily to heart while lending their insight and expertise to ...

Introducing Baritone Saxophonist Evan Gongora

by Sanford Josephson
May 1, 2024

Evan Gongora's father, Oscar, is a classical saxophonist and Founder and Director of The Vitral Saxophone Quartet. “So," recalled the 18-year-old Evan, “he put a saxophone in my mouth at a very early age." Evan “fell in love with the baritone saxophone. I loved the sound. I always listened for all the low sounds, songs built ...

A Bi-Coastal Christmas

By Scott Whitfield

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Winter Wonderland; This Christmas; We Three Kings; A Time for Christmas; Carol of the Drum (The Little Drummer Boy); A Christmas Love Song; O Little Town of Bethlehem; The Christmas Song; Christmas in July; Silent Night.

Endangered Species

By Dave Schumacher

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Too Tonal Free! Dumb!; Henry's Mad Crazy Blues; 398; Homage to Pharoh; On Being Judgemental; Sequito's Too Tonal Free!Drum!; 18th Hole; It's the Same Old Dream; Kickin' a Very Cold Foul; Arch's Nutty Variation; I Thin You Know...; Where's It Goin'?

Dave Schumacher: Endangered Species

by Dan McClenaghan
January 24, 2006

Back in the beginning there was Gerry Mulligan; or maybe it was Pepper Adams. We're talking baritone saxophone here, of course, especially as a lead instrument. It's still not a horn you often hear out front, regrettably. But with his Summit Records debut, Endangered Species, Dave Schumacher does his part to remedy the situation.Schmacher, ...