The Croton Jazz Trio returns to The Grand!

Drummer Bob Meyer: Born in 1945 in the New York metro area, Bob grew up in a musical family. He discovered jazz around 1950 and drums three years later. He has been playing professionally since 1961. Among those he has performed with are Mal Waldron, James Moody, Gary Peacock, Kirk Leitsey, Stanley Cowell, Diane Schuur, Art Davis, Andy Statman, Perry Robinson, Bert Wilson & Judi Silvano, Nina Sheldon, Ratzo Harris, Cameron Brown, Denman Maroney, John Hart, among many others. He has toured extensively with Joe Lovano & John Abercrombie. He is on Joe’s Blue Note CD, Viva Caruso. Jackalope, a band with John Abercrombie and Loren Stillman  on “Saltier Then Ever” on Challenge Records. Other CDs include Steven Frieder’s debut, “After Time”, the band alt.timers, Crispr (2017) and Martingale (2020) ,  Judi Silvano’s Lessons Learned [The Zephyr Band] released in 2019, “The Long and the Short of It”, Snap Dragon, the Duo Improvisations of Travis Sullivan and Bob Meyer (2020). 2021 to the present; Presenting Circular Jazz Trio/ Quartet and Quintet with Steve Frieder and Dan Blake, saxes, Luke Franco, guitar and Bryan Copeland, bass Both groups feature the music of the late, great Bert Wilson. Bob has taught drums for over 40 years both privately and as an adjunct at The New School and Lehman College in NYC. He lives in Cortlandt Manor, NY, USA with his wife Jody.

Guitarist Luke Franco grew up in Croton on Grand Street at a time when every kid in the neighborhood seemed to have a garage band. On his morning walks to school, he passed the town center music store and ogled the Fender guitars in the window and, one day, asked the store clerk about lessons. Music quickly developed into a not so mild obsession for him which later led to epic weekly jam sessions with drummer and mentor Bob Meyer and to study with his musical hero John Abercrombie, a legend living in Putnam Valley. These days, Franco continues to perform extensively in the Hudson Valley as both an in-demand sideman and a leader of his own guitar-forward trio, exploring the jazz cannon and his own original music.

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