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prince
Dan played with Danish violinist, Mads Tolling (2 time Grammy winner
from Turtle Island String Quartet), for the Prince and Princess
of Denmark at the Danish Embassy in Washington D.C. in June

Dan recently teamed up with amazing vibraphonist, Christian Tamburr,
for an awesome weekend atD'Vine Jazz and Wine in the San Jose area.
Come to theStudio Pink House show on Sunday, July 18 to
witness this group perform live again.

Dan's debut CD just got a TERRIFIC review in the East Bay Express paper:
Click HERE to read it.

The DEBUT ALBUM by the Quartet! Purchase the CD on CD Baby by clicking on the cover!

With a lot of hard work by Kenny Evans, engineer at Mesa Recording Studio, and bandmates, the Dan Zemelman Quartet celebrated the release of the album with a fabulous concert at Yoshi's - Oakland in February.

The Dan Zemelman Quartet is proud to announce that they have been chosen as an 'alternate' band for the Rhythm Road music abroad program (a cooperation between the US State Dept and Jazz at Lincoln Center). This means that if 1 of the 10 finalist bands cannot tour, then an alternate band will be selected. We'll keep our fingers crossed!

Festival Time

Dan has played at the Fillmore Jazz Festival, the Sonoma Jazz Festival, the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, the San Jose Jazz festival and the SF Jazz Festival with Adam Theis's Realistic Orchestra, Fred Randolph's Quintet and the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra.

In summer 2009, the Dan Zemelman Quartet performed as part of the SF Jazz Summerfest's outdoor concert series at Levi's Plaza.

Dan will once again be on the faculty of JazzCamp West this summer. What a spectacular week it will be!

Jazz camp is held every year near Pescadero (South of SF). Lots of classes offered daily with night-time concerts and jam sessions.

Next DZ Quartet show:
The Piedmont Piano Company
Friday, June 11, 2010 at 8pm
+ special guest: Christian Tamburr

"The Dan Zemelman Quartet brings some serious jazz chops and a bandleader who really knows his way around the 88s. Expect satisfyingly complicated bebop, tough yet silky."

Heya Swanhuyser, SF Weekly

"It has been a fantastic year. I played a concert with my newly formed quartet, played at the Fillmore, San Jose and SF Jazz Festivals, opened for Los Lobos with Will Bernard at the Montalvo Arts Center, played at Kuumbwa Jazz in Santa Cruz and the Jazzschool in Berkeley with Natasha Miller, toured Hawaii with Plum Crazy, played a bunch with the amazing Fred Randolph Quintet and taught 2 jazz piano classes at the Jazzschool this past summer! I'm looking forward to what 2009 has to bring!"

"I had a terrific time working in collaboration with the Ragged Wing Theater Ensemble, directed by Amy Sass. The piece that I worked on was 'The Serpent', an experimental theater piece written in the 60's by Jean Claude Van Itallie. I worked with the cast on musical aspects of the performance, including an arrangement of the Appalachian folk song 'Going Home'. The piece got great reviews from all the major papers and was subsequently sold out for many nights, several weekends in a row. I look forward to the next collaboration. Perhaps I'll act in a piece......"

"Hey! I just got back from Argentina not too long ago. We had a great time there. Lots of sun, lots of kind people, and we performed for 550+ folks for 3 separate nights (with the Zakiya Hooker band, Blues 4 U). It was quite an adventure! I got to see several good friends who live in Buenos Aires and meet lots of great musicians from the area. It looks promising that I will return someday...

See pictures from this visit. Click on the Picture Us Here link and scroll down to the Argentina picture. There is a link there to view more pictures."

See Dan on the COVER of a past issue of the famous "Onion" newspaper . Click on the logo: