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Mike Casey (7)

“A lovely jazz performance that soothes the soul” — 6x NBA champion, basketball legend & jazz fan Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “The Los Angeles saxophonist uses a jazz framework to explore expansive multi-genre, multicultural sonic pathways.” —Bandcamp “The music is pushing against unseen boundaries” — JazzTimes Selected by the GRAMMYs for their “NEXT” Class of 2023 & featured in Spotify’s “Best Jazz of 2020-2024" + Amazon Music “Best Jazz of 2022-23'“, Mike Casey is an internationally celebrated jazz artist based in Los Angeles who balances an avant-garde creative spirit with relatable, poetic melodic sensibilities and a focus on cinematic ideation, resulting in a distinguished artistic voice. Bringing the joy of jazz across genre lines to a diverse audience around the world across 9 EPs/albums reaching over 60 million streams to date, Mike's music has had widespread support from the BBC, Triple J, HuffPost, NPR Morning Edition + Jazz Night in America, Downbeat, KCRW, Dublab and more. In 2020, his trio was 1 of 5 global finalists in the largest ensemble based competition in jazz: the DC Jazz Festival's "DC Jazz Prix" and he's brought his live show to notable stages including the Kennedy Center, BRIC Jazz Fest, Philadelphia Museum of Art, APAP, Future Music Forum, World Cafe Live, Catalina’s & Madrid’s Auditori Nacional among others.