Education
B.A. in Jazz Performance (Saxophone), Rutgers University; M.M. in Jazz Performance, New Jersey City University
Biography
Baritone Saxophonist and Chicago native Dave Schumacher has been active on the New York scene for more than 40 years. He has toured and recorded with world renowned artists such as Lionel Hampton (5 years), Harry Connick, Jr. (19 years), T.S. Monk on Monk, Tom Harrell Octet and Big Band, Art Blakey Big Band, Mel Torme and many more. Dave has performed in over 460 cies in 41 countries on 5 continents on the live stage and on countless major television broadcasts. Currently Dave is leading Cubeye, a Jazz and Afro-Cuban septet based in the New York area. Dave is also active passing on his love of this music to younger generations as the Director of the Jazz Workshop for the New Jersey Youth Symphony/Wharton Arts as well as maintaining a studio of private students teach saxophone, clarinet and Jazz Improvisation (all instruments).