Wildly exciting big band jazz.
Tommy Igoe Groove Conspiracy
Wildly exciting big band jazz.
The Tommy Igoe Groove Conspiracy is the mighty 15-piece powerhouse that unites players from bands such as Tower of Power, the Doobie Brothers, and Steely Dan and unleashes them on fabulous charts with reckless abandon. Tommy, long-time leader of New York’s thrilling Birdland band and Broadway drum guru – he wrote the drum book and shared conducting chores for Broadway’s The Lion King – reinvented the big band for his new SF musical home. Like the Buddy Rich juggernaut of the ’60s, TIGC channels your favorites — songs by Joe Zawinul, Joshua Redman, Arturo Sandoval, and Snarky Puppy — through a superstar brass line-up that manages to be scarily precise and wildly anarchic all at once. Only a studio and stage heavyweight like Tommy could wrangle the monsters assembled here.
Special guest artist: Carlos Reyes, violin and harp
Tommy Igoe, drums
Dewayne Pate, bass
Colin Hogan, piano
Drew Zingg, guitar
Benny Torres, alto saxophone
Steve Steinberg, tenor saxophone
Aaron Lington, baritone saxophone
Louis Fasman, trumpet
Steffen Kuehn, trumpet
Dave Len Scott, trumpet
John Gove, trombone
Jeanne Geiger, trombone
Richard Lee, trombone
Saturday, July 11
8 p.m.
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
$15/$42/$55