Bands

Satin Samba Band

4 piece Funk & Latin/Jazz Band

The Satin Samba Band is based out of New York. With its unique arrangements of jazz and latin/jazz standards, The Satin Samba Band is the perfect entertainment for cocktail hours, birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, or simply an evening of great music and fun. Looking for even more excitement, you say? The Satin Samba Band is also a funk jam band! The combo features Gaspare Maniscalco on Alto Saxophone, Kawanna Holman on Piano/Keyboard, Mozard Pierre-Jacques on Bass Guitar, and Mel Funk on Drums. All members are college-trained musicians and have been performing together since 2006.

The Long Island Jazz Orchestra

16 Piece Swing/Jazz Orchestra

The Long Island Jazz Orchestra, unlike other big bands of today,
specializes in performing the original distinctive arrangements of the big
band jazz and swing orchestras of the 40's to the present, along with
original contemporary arrangements and premier compositions. Performances
have featured The LIJO in concert settings, cabaret settings, clinics for
students of jazz as well as social settings such as weddings, birthdays,
swing dances and cocktail parties. Each musician is a conservatory trained
music specialist.

The Long Island Jazz Orchestra is already recognized as one of the most
exciting and versatile 16 piece jazz big bands in the New York
Metropolitan area. It was formed with some of the area's finest and most
accomplished jazz musicians.

Mike Ficco Jazz Quartet/trio

3/4 Piece Jazz Ensemble

Mike has been involved in all levels of public and private music education
for more the 3 decades. Throughout the years, he has arranged and composed
various types of music for local performing groups, nationally known
artists and major music publishers. Many of his arrangements for school
stage bands, concert bands, and orchestras are used by educators
nationwide.

Mike is best known for his work as a jazz saxophonist, jazz ensemble
clinician, NYSSMA jazz adjudicator/All County Jazz Ensemble Director,
and recording musician. After a two year stint as stage band director
and professor of jazz studies at Five Towns College, Mike went on to
become jazz ensemble director at Suffolk Community College. He continues
to remain busy performing in his jazz groups, The Mike Ficco Jazz Quartet
and The Mike Ficco Jazz Trio.

The RF Trio/Quartet

3 – 4 piece Jazz Ensemble

The RF Trio performs all the Jazz standards and perfect for your cocktail hour or private party.

The Blur Division

3-Piece Jazz Band

Since 1996, The Blur Division has emerged as a strikingly resourceful and multi-faceted group if musicians merely by virtue of their willingness to disregard style or genre in their individual and collective pursuit of creative experimentation. The group has steadily gained prominence in the music community, recording their independently released CD, playing a wide variety of gigs, opening for such internationally prestigious jazz acts as Christian McBride and Larry Coryell, receiving international radio play and national television exposure, and eliciting unanimous praise from the critics. Based on the strength of their live performances, the band¢s energetic and positive spirit has particularly allowed them to indulge their naturally exploratory approach to music-making, and likewise communicate effectively with each other and the audience.

Although the influences evident in the music of The Blur Division are wide reaching and diverse, their surface characteristics remain secondary to the most significant thread which ties it all together: the band members¢ mind set of inclusiveness which has enabled them to reconcile their own natural impulses with the vast wealth of information and technologies now instantly available to them. The band¢s ultimate goal has been to make stimulating discoveries concerning their own individual approach to the world of sound, and in the process make their own singular contribution toward bridging the already narrowing gaps between the disparate segments of the global community. And of course, to enlighten and uplift their listeners while doing so.