Danny Weiss, M.M.

About

Danny Weiss is an active performer, band leader and educator, giving studio instruction in woodwind techniques and academic instruction in Jazz History, Music Theory, and Jazz Improvisation. He holds a Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies from Indiana University-Bloomington and has regularly taught in the Department of Music at Purdue University-West Lafayette, where he recently won their outstanding Senior Lecturer teaching award.

Weiss has performed with the avant-rock band DaDaDah, the brass jazz band NoNoNonet, Latin jazz bands, the klezmer band Yid Vicious, Broadway show bands, and with New York dance choreographers. Weiss has also performed with such jazz notables as Rashied Ali, Tom Varner, Joe Williams, Chris Washburne, Michael Sarin, Lynn Arriel, Clyde Stubblefield, and Don Braden at venues including the Jazz Showcase, Birdland, CBGBs, the West End Gate, PS 122, Jay's, the Knitting Factory, and the Bitter End. One of his current groups – à gauche – has recently released its first recording on the Pow! Records label called "Into the Ooze."

Degrees

MM, Indiana University Bloomington

BA, University of Northern Colorado