David Weiss Sextet with Myron Walden, Ben Solomon, David Bryant, Eric Wheeler & E.J. Strickland

David Weiss (trumpet), Myron Walden (alto saxophone), Ben Solomon (tenor saxophone), David Bryant (piano), Eric Wheeler (bass), E.J. Strickland (drums)

In a jazz climate that rewards neo-conservative tributes and far-flung exercises in deconstruction, David Weiss has distinguished himself another way: through finding flexibility and innovation in music that has its roots in the mainstream. The trumpeter, composer, and arranger has had the opportunity to learn from some of the music’s quintessential figures by touring and/or recording with the likes of Freddie Hubbard, Charles Tolliver, Billy Harper, Bobby Hutcherson, Slide Hampton, James Moody, Muhal Richard Abrams, Randy Weston and Christian McBride, among many others. Weiss has been a major catalyst and creator of some of the most critically acclaimed and respected jazz to have been released over the years. In his varous roles of trumpeter, composer, arranger, producer, talent-scout, historian and bandleader it is certainly not an exaggeration to call Wei…