Laura Dreyer – saxophone and flute
Marcos Silva – piano
Richard Lindsey- bass
Zach Mondlick – drums

$20 cover charge; byob.
Reservations: 415-586-3733

Saxophonist, flutist and composer Laura Dreyer is a vibrant and widely acclaimed voice in the New York and global jazz scene. Her compositions combine lyrical melodies with jazz, Brazilian rhythms, funk and rock, and she’s been called to work for Dr. Billy Taylor, Dom Salvador, Helcio Milito, Portinho, Walter Bishop Jr., Mel Lewis, Robert Palmer, Nnenna Freelon, James McBride, The Diva Jazz Orchestra and many others.

Laura has headlined at the Kennedy Center’s “Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival,” and The Syracuse Jazz Festival, as well as many NYC venues including The Blue Note, Ornithology, Sweet Rhythm, Birdland, The Zinc Bar, The Roxy Hotel, and many others. She’s released four CDs as a leader/producer, including Mysterious Encounter (Lavasphere), Free Flying Bird (Sony/Piloo), Sax in the City (Apria) and Vida. Arte. Amor (Mayimba), which was recorded in Rio de Janeiro. She is also featured on acclaimed Brazilian pianist Dom Salvador’s release, The Art of Samba Jazz, which received a Premio da Musica Brasileira award for Best Instrumental CD. Laura attended The Berklee College of Music in Boston, and has studied with saxophonists Joe Henderson and Joe Lovano, and composers Lyle Mays and Jim McNeely.

“Every once and awhile an artist comes around to surprise everyone with the proficiency in an idiom naturally foreign to him or her. The saxophonist and flutist Laura Dreyer is one such artist. The Portuguese idiom of Brasil comes so naturally to her that she could almost fool even the most astute listener into believing that she is Brasilian.” – Raul da Gama, Latin Jazz Network

Laura belies the notion that top flight jazzwomen are in short supply. Nonetheless, few jazz players are as talented as she.